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Stijn Vanheule. Why psychosis is not so crazy

Nov 28 2024 47 mins  
Stijn Vanheule (approximate pronunciation "Stayin' VonHoil) Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers An expert’s guide to humanizing psychosis through communication offers key insights for family and friends to support loved ones during mental health crises. Are we all a little crazy? Roughly 15 percent of the population will hav

Peter Singer. Consider the turkey

Nov 10 2024 45 mins  
Peter Singer Consider the turkey Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast.

Maria Balaska. Anxiety and wonder

Oct 11 2024 49 mins  
Maria Balaska Anxiety and wonder On being human Description At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder and anxiety – what it means to prepare for them, what life may loo

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Liberalism

Oct 11 2024 51 mins  
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Liberalism By revealed preference, Prof. McCloskey is our favorite scholar to talk with. This is our third conversation with her. Today, we discuss two working papers on liberalism.

Sharon Patricia Holland. an other

May 20 2024 44 mins  
Sharon Patricia Holland an other In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to spotlight those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals. Drawing on writ

Stephanie Li. Ugly white people

May 04 2024 47 mins  
Stephanie Li Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white

Carol Gilligan. In a human voice

Apr 26 2024 51 mins  
Gilligan, Carol In a Human Voice Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Gilligan re

Merav Roth. A psychoanalytic perspective on reading literature: Reading the reader

Apr 20 2024 52 mins  
Merav Roth A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series) 1st Edition What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the un

William Egginton. Alejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and philosopher

Apr 07 2024 42 mins  
William Egginton Alejandro Jodorowsky Filmmaker and philosopher Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 95 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky's writings, theatr

Peter Singer. The Buddhist and the ethicist

Mar 05 2024 51 mins  
Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altrusism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world ABOUT THE BUDDHIST AND THE ETHICIST Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death pena