The London Lecture Series

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.

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.

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, on Remembering and Forgetting.

Louis Sass examines the enigmatic nature of human subjectivity and its history from the European Renaissance, the status of psychology and related fields in conceptualising human existence, and whether we as humans have lost the ability to see ourselves in great works of art.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Mary Boyle & Lucy Johnstone examine the downfalls of the traditional methods of psychiatric diagnosis, and discuss the implications of their proposed Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Can assisted dying for persons with mental disorders be permitted on ethical grounds? What should the criteria be for allowing a person to make the choice to end their own life? 

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Richard Gipps discusses the question of who gets to call whom mad, and with what right, and confronts the idea that  the world of the 'mad' person is any less valid than that of the 'sane'.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham report results from a series of experimental philosophy studies which aimed to examine how people understand and deploy  concepts of health and disease, and the factors that influence their health-related judgments.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Claire Hogg discusses the theoretical basis for the defence of legal “insanity”.  She explorse a number of competing analyses by which the relevance of a defendant’s mental disorder to their criminal culpability may be understood, including counterfactual analyses and capacity models.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Rose Mcabe, Lisa Bortolotti, and Michele Lim examine video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency services, and describe communication that adopts an agential stance towards the young person.

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"

Many people suffer from psychiatric disorders and mental distress. But how are we to understand these problems, and how are we to treat them? Sanneke de Haan argues that we need to look at their developmental history, the social and cultural practices they take part in, and their existential (self)understanding. 

Part of the London Lecture Series 2023-24 | “Madness and Mental Health"