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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 mental health and madness • memory, trauma, forgiveness, identity • ethics of empathy, moralism, anger, shame • social equality, feminism, race, decolonising thought • democracy, public philosophy • philosophy–science relations, AI, technology shaping personal historiesThis podcast presents recorded public lectures that use philosophical tools to examine contemporary questions about mind, society, and value. Across the episodes, speakers address how we should understand mental health and “madness,” including debates about whether psychiatric disorder is best framed as dysfunction or as adaptive strategy, how diagnostic categories shape people’s lives, and what it means to treat patients as persons with developmental histories, social contexts, and self-understandings. Several talks connect mental distress to structural factors such as race, inequality, and coercive treatment, and explore practical and ethical issues in mental healthcare research, clinical communication (especially with young people), and the relationship between mental disorder and criminal responsibility. The series also takes up hard ethical topics around suicide and assisted dying.
A major thematic strand investigates remembering and forgetting: the nature and value of memory for personal identity and relationships, how stereotypes and social power can distort recollection, and how trauma-related memories can hinder or support recovery and post-traumatic growth. Other lectures consider public commemoration, how we frame the past, the ethics of forgiveness, and ways digital platforms and AI reshape personal records and collective memory.
Alongside these applied concerns, the podcast includes wide-ranging work in the history and methodology of philosophy—reflection on Wittgenstein’s influence, the development of feminist philosophy, the evolution of ideas about equality and democracy, and questions about whether philosophy is (or should be) a science and why the discipline has a distinctive relationship to its own history. Additional talks broaden the canon through decolonial, Africana, and Confucian perspectives, and explore moral psychology topics such as empathy, second-person relations, anger, shame, and hospitality.
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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 |