The London Lecture Series

Mar 20 2025 34 ep. 80 mins 26

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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?

Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.

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Conservation as a Method of Remembering (and forgetting) - Erich Hatala Matthes

Mar 20 2025 87 mins

In this episode, Erich Matthes navigates questions of conservation, and how some easily overlooked aspects of conservation can render its relationship with remembering more complex than it initially appears. Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.

Forgiveness: Do we need it? - Lucy Allais

Mar 12 2025 88 mins

In this lecture, Lucy Allais considers the reasons philosophers have given for thinking that forgiveness is puzzling, and argue that they are key to understanding why we need it – but also why we don’t always have to forgive. Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.

How We Remember and Forget Online; Alessandra Tanesini

Feb 24 2025 88 mins

In this talk Alessandra Tanesini explores how Social Networking Sites, especially Facebook, act as platforms where memories can be shared, individuals memorialised, and where at times some feel shunned and forgotten. Alessandra delves into the potential consequences of offloading one’s private memories onto public digital platforms . Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25,

Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory; Presented by Marya Schechtman

Jan 15 2025 88 mins

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 practice

Trauma, Emotion, and Memory; Presented by James Dawes

Dec 06 2024 85 mins

How does memory help some people grow after trauma? Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a term which has been extensively studied by psychologists for the past 30 years, but also represents a new version of an ancient idea present in theology, philosophy, and cultural narratives – namely, that great good can come from adversity and suffering. In his talk, James Dawes explores the role

The Importance of Forgetting; Presented by Rima Basu

Nov 25 2024 81 mins

Welcome to the London Lecture Series 2024-25! This year our talks focus on questions surrounding the theme of "Remembering and Forgetting." In this first talk of our latest series, Rima Bisu explores the important role forgetting plays in facilitating and protecting moral goods, such as forgiveness and privacy. Forgetting plays an indispensable role in our lives. Sometimes we want

Rethinking Disenchantment and the Immanent Frame; Presented by Camilia Kong

Jul 03 2024 92 mins

Why is it so tempting to understand spirituality / religion as counter to our conception of mental health, both in terms of its causality and its therapeutic restoration? Camilia Kong seeks to provide a philosophical diagnosis of the problem through Taylor’s discussion of the ‘immanent frame’ in Western modernity, and in so doing, provide the conceptual space for enriching un

Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson

Jul 03 2024 86 mins

Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm I call ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when something inside the person isn’t working as it should, or is ‘broken.’ In his previous work, Justin Garson has identified an alternate paradigm, which he calls ‘madness-as-strategy,’ which sees mental illness in terms of purpose,

Mad Knowledge and Relations; Presented by Jasna Russo and Erick Fabris

Jul 03 2024 87 mins

Is mad life possible? Constrained by everyday mentalism, and controlled by various forms of psychiatrization of our biographies, we ask – can we live the lives we dream rather than dreaming that we live? Jasna Russo looks at the processes of knowledge making on what is considered madness and our ability to address each other in the second person, as you and me. Erick Fabris revis

Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress; Presented by Kam Bhui

Jul 03 2024 91 mins

Over six decades of research confirm there are ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness. The reasons for these differences have been debated, some arguing they meet treatment needs, others say they are manifestations of structural racism. Kim Bhui shares his views on conceptual confusions, causes, and remedies by drawing on recent Lived Experienc