Sinopsis
Food for Thought, lets get radical for philosophy!
Episodios
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Constructing Death as a Form of Failure - Prof Beverley Clack
12/08/2022Constructing Death as a Form of Failure - Prof Beverley Clack discusses how neoliberal success is defined, what is it that makes it difficult to know quite what to do with death and death and loss.
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Sound and Climate - Kyla Brettle
01/07/2022Sound and Climate - Kyla Brettle discusses the difference between personal and collective climate action and why listening to nature has such a caring effect on people.
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Grief - Dr Becky Millar
10/06/2022Grief - Dr Becky Millar discusses how horror films are especially suited to portray and communicate the phenomenology of grief, the nature and role of grief and if grief is just a necessary evil in life.
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Matriarchy - Jenny Cameron
04/06/2022Matriarchy - Jenny Cameron discusses what initially got her interested in matrifocal communities and if it possible for our society to make the necessary shifts to adopt these lessons and ensure we survive the challenges being presented to us in our modern day.
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The Experience of Illness Part 2 - Professor Havi Carel
28/05/2022The Experience of Illness Part 2 - Professor Havi Carel discusses the aim of the Phenomenology of Illness, if illness is being-towards-death and if there epistemic injustice in healthcare.
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The Experience of Illness - Professor Havi Carel
21/05/2022The Experience of Illness - Professor Havi Carel discusses how a person changes when they become ill, if there is well being within illness and if people seem to be less accepting if an illness is not visible.
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Lesbian Separatism Part 2 - Amber-Lia Van Aurich
14/05/2022Lesbian Separatism Part 2 - Amber-Lia Van Aurich discusses the limitations, ethics and theoretical framework as well as the research design used for her study, and also the positives of lesbian separatism.
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Lesbian Separatism - Amber-Lia Van Aurich
07/05/2022Lesbian Separatism - Amber-Lia Van Aurich discusses lesbian identiy, how separation began and some examples of lesbian separatism during the late twentieth century.
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Women's Writing During Lockdown - Prof Sarah Pedersen
05/03/2022Women's Writing During Lockdown - Prof Sarah Pedersen discusses the AHRC project investigating women's writing during lockdown, what Mumsnet is and the benefits from documenting occurrences during lockdown.
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The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies - Dr. Julia Hermann
22/01/2022The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies -Dr. Julia Hermann discusses the ethical issues of how an artificial womb could be used in the future, If an artificial womb would change the concept of personhood and how it would effect the debate about abortion and reproductive rights.
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Human Extinction - Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
20/11/2021Human Extinction - Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Finneron-Burns discusses methods of population control, if these methods can be morally justified and reasons why we might consider human extinction to be wrong.
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Part 2 Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman
06/11/2021Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman provides a absorbing social history of women's health at The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne, what the nurse patient relationship was like and if things have changed
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Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman
30/10/2021Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman provides a absorbing social history of women's health at The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne from 1856-1996.
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Respect - Dr Kristi Giselsson
23/10/2021Respect - Dr Kristi Giselsson discusses the current questioning of the concept of universalism, marginalisation and oppression and the argument for the inclusion of non-human animals.
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Women's Food Matters - Dr Vicki A Swinbank
16/10/2021Women's Food Matters - Dr Vicki A Swinbank discusses the significance of the book title, why there was a need for this book and how feminists have often seen the kitchen as a site of women’s oppression.
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Anne Lister & Ann Walker - Lynn Pharaoh
09/10/2021Anne Lister & Ann Walker - Lynn Pharaoh discusses Anne Lister's lesbian relationship with Ann Walker, the many obstacles they had to overcome and their legacy for lesbians globally.
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Part 2 Empathy - Meline Papazian
02/10/2021Part 2 Empathy - Meline Papazian discusses the connection between empathy and morality, moral judgements and the value of empathy.
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Empathy - Meline Papazian
25/09/2021Empathy - Meline Papazian discusses the essential features of empathy, the history of the word empathy and emotional sharing..
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Philosophy for Children - Dr Laura D’Olimpio
18/09/2021Philosophy for Children - Dr Laura D’Olimpio discusses what parents can do to introduce their children to philosophy at an early age, the benefits of asking children philosophical questions and if philosophy prepares children for life.
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Mental Capacity - A/Prof Imogen Goold & Dr Cressida Auckland
21/08/2021Mental Capacity - A/Prof Imogen Goold & Dr Cressida Auckland discuss the indicators of a lack of mental capacity, the law's cliff-edge approach to mental capacity and the mental capacity Bill and human rights.