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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):
➤ Philosophy lectures on mind and madness • ethics and empathy • political equality, democracy, feminism • science–philosophy relations, AI and nihilism • memory, trauma, identity, commemoration, forgiveness • decolonial and cross-cultural thoughtThis podcast presents recorded public lectures that use philosophical tools to examine contemporary questions in ethics, politics, mind, and culture. Across the series, speakers address what it means to understand mental health and “madness,” including debates about psychiatric diagnosis, alternative conceptual frameworks for mental disorder, the role of agency in clinical communication, and ethical and legal issues such as criminal responsibility, suicide, and assisted dying. Several talks also consider how race, ethnicity, and structural injustice shape experiences of mental distress and access to care, alongside broader reflections on spirituality, disability, and the social meaning of psychiatric categories.
A major theme is remembering and forgetting: how memory contributes to personal identity and relationships, how stereotypes can distort recollection and produce injustice, and how public commemoration raises questions of justice, framing, and whose lives are memorialized. The podcast also explores trauma and emotional memory, including how people interpret and integrate painful pasts and what it would mean to listen responsibly to traumatic testimony. Digital technology appears as a further pressure on memory and history, through social media, online records, and AI.
Alongside these applied topics, the lectures revisit foundational issues in philosophy and its self-understanding: the legacy of major figures, the relationship between philosophy and science, why philosophy has a distinctive history, and how moral and political ideals such as equality, democracy, empathy, forgiveness, and feminism have developed over time. There is also attention to cross-cultural and decolonial perspectives, drawing on non-Western traditions and critiques of colonized philosophy to broaden ethical and metaphysical imagination.
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Wittgenstein and his impact upon Anglophone philosophy, Peter Hacker 2026-Mar-06 90 minutes |
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Social Equality: Then And Now, Jonathan Wolff 2026-Feb-27 90 minutes |
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Imagining Democracy, Michele M. Moody-Adams 2026-Feb-20 104 minutes |
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Is Philosophy a Science?, Timothy Williamson 2026-Feb-13 92 minutes |
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Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism, Mazviita Chirimuuta 2026-Jan-30 89 minutes |
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Developments in Feminist Philosophy, Clare Chambers 2026-Jan-23 91 minutes |
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Why Does Philosophy Have a History?, Michael Rosen 2026-Jan-16 91 minutes |
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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 |