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.
The London Lecture Series
Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory; Presented by Marya Schechtman
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Season 3
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Episode 3
We all have treasured memories, but what, exactly, is it that makes them so valuable to us? In this talk, Marya Schechtman explores this question, proposing that one source of value is the role such memories can play in constituting and maintaining both personal identity and intimate social relationships. But what are the implications of this, ethical or otherwise, for our practices of remembering?
Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.