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Health and Well-Being Philosophy Talk

WEBAs we begin a third calendar year with COVID-19, it’s hard not to feel anxious and fatigued by the ever-evolving norms of life in a pandemic. So for this month’s playlist, we’re …

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Health Care – is it a right or a privilege Philosophy Talk

WEBYou have a right to get healthcare, in that you don’t have to pay for it up front, but you still have to pay for it, or at least be in debt for what you get. The big new …

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Athletics and the Philosophical Life Philosophy Talk

WEBJoshua Landy. 24 August 2018. The idea that athletics and philosophy are connected may sound strange at first, but is that just because we’re too attached to modern ideas about …

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Health Care: Right or Privilege

WEBRoving Philosophical Reporter (seek to 5:40): Zoe Corneli interviews someone who has neither the right nor the privilege of healthcare. Michael always felt …

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Culture and Mental Illness Philosophy Talk

WEBKoro is mental disorder, characterized by a debilitating fear that that one’s genitals are retracting into ones body and that once they are fully retracted you will die. …

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Philosophy of Sleep Philosophy Talk

WEBWhat Is It. "Blessed are the sleepy ones," writes Nietzsche, "for they shall soon drop off." Sleep is an extraordinarily, albeit profoundly odd, phenomenon, yet we …

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Aging and the Well-Lived Life Philosophy Talk

WEBLaura believes that aging is not necessarily a spiraling decline towards death, and that this predominant belief has been a barrier to much research in the …

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Mental Illness and Culture Philosophy Talk

WEBEthan acknowledges that there is a biological basis for mental illness, but the way we and those around us react to or interpret it is heavily influenced by our culture. …

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Philosophy as Therapy Philosophy Talk

WEBSo if philosophy can undermine those irrational beliefs, and thereby remove the anxiety, fear, and depression, we have philosophy as therapy. This doesn’t mean …

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The Athlete as Philosopher Philosophy Talk

WEBBut despite the health concerns and damage that sports can do to one’s body that Josh brings up, Ken holds that sports teach us about our own limits and force …

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Disorders of the Mind

WEBIn the old days, it included homosexuality as a “mental disorder.”. That was removed years ago. But in the current edition, the DSM-5, grief is now categorized as a “depressive …

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The Limits of Medical Consent Philosophy Talk

WEBKenneth Taylor. 08 May 2017. This week, we’re thinking about the Limits of Medical Consent. To get yourself in the right frame of mind begin by asking yourself whether it is …

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The Morality of Food Philosophy Talk

WEBMost of us are aware that there are many hungry people in the world, but Pollan explains that the problem is not a lack of food—there is enough food produced …

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The Right to Privacy Philosophy Talk

WEBThis is one of those times when we need to start by disentangling concepts. We use ‘private’ and ‘privacy’ in several different ways. Both words derive from ‘privus’ …

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What Is a “Vivid” Mental Image

WEBThe idea of “vividness” is sometimes traced back to the great British empiricist David Hume’s claim that our mental images have less “force and vivacity” than …

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Schizophrenia and the mind Philosophy Talk

WEBSchizophrenia affects about one out of two hundred people. It’s a serious mental disorder that typically involves distortions in perception, especially vivid auditory …

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