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What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophical lectures on mental health, psychiatry, race and injustice • memory, trauma, forgetting, commemoration, identity • ethics of empathy, forgiveness, pregnancy, suicide, law • global philosophy, decolonisation, spirituality, aesthetics, technology, climate financeThis podcast presents recorded philosophy lectures that use contemporary and historical philosophical tools to examine questions about human experience, social life, and public institutions. Across the talks, speakers explore how we understand minds and persons, including debates about what mental health is, how to make sense of madness and psychosis, and how psychiatric models shape diagnosis, treatment, and research. Ethical and political dimensions recur, such as structural racism in mental healthcare, agency in clinical communication, the relation between mental disorder and criminal responsibility, and the moral questions raised by suicide and assisted dying.
A second cluster of lectures focuses on remembering and forgetting. These sessions consider memory’s role in personal identity, intimate relationships, and justice, including public commemoration, conservation, and the moral harms that can arise when recollection is shaped by stereotypes or trauma. Several talks examine how emotions—grief, disappointment, anger, shame, forgiveness, and being “haunted” by the past—interact with ethical life and recovery, including post-traumatic growth. Technology also appears as a theme, with attention to how social media, digital records, and AI can alter personal histories, privacy, and what it means to preserve or revise the past.
Alongside applied topics, the podcast includes lectures in the history of philosophy and cross-cultural philosophy, addressing figures and traditions from Avicenna and Descartes to Buddhism, Confucian thought, the Yijing, and global aesthetics, as well as questions about decolonising philosophy and the changing role of the public philosopher. Overall, the content links abstract philosophical issues—selfhood, doubt, empathy, and second-person relations—to practical concerns in medicine, law, politics, culture, and everyday life.
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The You Turn, Naomi Eilan 2025-Nov-28 91 minutes |
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Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?, Rowan Williams 2025-Nov-21 90 minutes |
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Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt, Peter Adamson 2025-Nov-07 93 minutes |
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The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit, John Haldane 2025-Oct-31 95 minutes |
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Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy, Fiona Woollard 2025-Oct-24 88 minutes |
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What became of the public philosopher?, Regina Rini 2025-Oct-17 91 minutes |
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The Problematic and the Unproblematic, Nikhil Krishnan 2025-Oct-10 89 minutes |
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Choosing how we Represent the Past; Derek Matravers 2025-Jun-05 87 minutes |
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Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge; Tom Stern 2025-May-29 89 minutes |
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Who should we remember, and for how long? A theory of justice for public commemoration; James Wilson 2025-May-22 84 minutes |
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Can memories be unjust?; Katherine Puddifoot 2025-May-15 77 minutes |
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Remembering the dead; Kathleen Higgins 2025-May-08 87 minutes |
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Trauma, emotion, and memory; Michael Brady 2025-May-01 88 minutes |
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On Being Emotionally Haunted by One’s Past, Matthew Ratcliffe 2025-Apr-24 87 minutes |
Insta-Worthy Memories and Filtered Truth: The Effects of Technology on Our Personal Histories and Records of the Past2025-Apr-17 89 minutes |
Conservation as a Method of Remembering (and forgetting) - Erich Hatala Matthes2025-Mar-20 87 minutes |
Forgiveness: Do we need it? - Lucy Allais2025-Mar-12 88 minutes |
How We Remember and Forget Online; Alessandra Tanesini2025-Feb-24 88 minutes |
Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory; Presented by Marya Schechtman2025-Jan-15 88 minutes |
Trauma, Emotion, and Memory; Presented by James Dawes2024-Dec-06 85 minutes |
The Importance of Forgetting; Presented by Rima Basu2024-Nov-25 81 minutes |
Rethinking Disenchantment and the Immanent Frame; Presented by Camilia Kong2024-Jul-03 92 minutes |
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson2024-Jul-03 86 minutes |
Mad Knowledge and Relations; Presented by Jasna Russo and Erick Fabris2024-Jul-03 87 minutes |
Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress; Presented by Kam Bhui2024-Jul-03 91 minutes |
The Person in Psychiatry; Presented by Sanneke de Haan2024-Jul-03 86 minutes |
How Can we Make Progress in Mental Healthcare Research?; Presented by Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom2024-Jul-03 87 minutes |
Communicating to Increase Agency in Youth Mental Health; Presented by Rose McCabe, Lisa Bortolotti, and Michele Lim2024-Jul-03 68 minutes |
Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law; Presented by Claire Hogg2024-Jul-03 87 minutes |
Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine; Presented by Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham2024-Jul-03 85 minutes |
Who Gets to Call Whom Mad?; Presented by Richard Gipps2024-Jul-03 85 minutes |
Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying; Presented by Mona Gupta2024-Jul-03 86 minutes |
Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Presented by Lucy Johnstone and Mary Boyle2024-Jul-03 79 minutes |
A Flaw in the Great Diamond of the World; Presented by Louis Sass2024-Jul-03 74 minutes |
Against Speaking Up; Presented by Havi Carel and Dan Degerman2024-Jun-28 76 minutes |
Rendering Trauma Audible with María del Rosario Acosta López2022-Jul-01 83 minutes |
Fernando Pessoa: The Poet as Philosopher with Jonardon Ganeri2022-Jun-24 69 minutes |
A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking with Roger Ames2022-Jun-17 74 minutes |
Decolonising Philosophy with Lewis Gordon2022-Jun-10 86 minutes |
Culture and Value in Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk with Chike Jeffers2022-Jun-03 88 minutes |
Getting Good at Bad Emotions with Amy Olberding2022-May-27 77 minutes |
Mutual Guardianship and Hospitality with Tamara Albertini2022-May-20 79 minutes |
The Ethics of Anger and Shame with Owen Flanagan2022-May-13 70 minutes |
The Possibility of Global Aesthetics with Eileen John2022-May-06 70 minutes |
The First Person in Buddhism with Nilanjan Das2022-Apr-29 78 minutes |
Japanese Philosophers on Plato’s Ideas with Noburu Notomi2022-Apr-22 64 minutes |
How to Change Your Mind with Leah Kalmanson2022-Apr-15 70 minutes |
Philosophical Storytelling with Helen de Cruz2022-Apr-15 71 minutes |
The Philosophy of Green Finance with Joanna Burch-Brown2022-Apr-15 55 minutes |