The London Lecture Series
What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?
Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.
Podcasting since 2022 • 49 episodes
The London Lecture Series
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The You Turn, Naomi Eilan
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential link between second person awareness a...
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Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?, Rowan Williams
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we can hang on to a proper valuation of empathic understanding without sentimentality....
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Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt, Peter Adamson
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt” may actually be stronger than they seem.Part of TRIP's...
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The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit, John Haldane
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, arguing for a kind of philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago than i...
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Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy, Fiona Woollard
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant.Par...
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