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Philosophy Gets Personal

Philosophy Gets Personal

por Susi Ferrarello

Temporada 3

Zsuzsanna Chapell: Philosophy Gets Personal with Medical Injustice

Final Episode: In this beautiful talk Zsuzsanna Chappell, a philosopher madwoman, discusses the intersection between mental illness, philosophy and social justice.

Englander Gets Personal with Empathy and Music

In this nice talk Magnus reflects on the notion of empathy, how it differs from compassion and sympathy. He finds in music a form of empathy and home.

Lin Gets Personal with Religion

In this beautiful interview Deena Lin guides us through her understanding of religion and spiritual growth through the themes of death, education, racial differences.

Grudin Gets Personal with Environment

In this episode prof. Gruin tells us a bit about his relationship with the environment and how philosophy helped him to look at it from the point of view of nature.

Jon Weidenbaum Gets Personal with Life Choices

This interview is built on Weidenbaum's beautiful article, 5 days, where he recounts the most difficult days in his life. During these days he had to decide whether to keep his wife alive through machines or unplug it. With candor and extreme honesty, Jon guides us through the emotional upheaval that accompanies choices of this sort. Reading of these cases on bioethics books remain instead often dry and detached.

Churchill gets personal with empathy

In this episode prof. Churchill tells us how got curious about empathy in animals and why he started this type of investigations.

Stone Gets Personal with Motherhood

In this beautiful talk with prof. Stone, she talks about her fondness for English female philosophers. In doing so, an implicit comparison leads us to examine her life as a female philosopher and to understand what motherhood had meant for her life and her career.

Baiasu Gets Personal with Mental Health

In this nice talk with Prof. Baiasu we touched upon different themes, such as mental health, death, philosophy of feminism. It was a beautiful exploration of her path to life and philosophy.

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Brencio gets personal with kindness

What is normality? How can we live a kind life with each other? What does impede us from being fully ourselves? In today's episode, Professor Susi Ferrarello is joined by Francesca Brencio. Francesca Brencio is an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the Research Group “Filosofía Aplicada: Sujeto, Sufrimiento, Sociedad” at the University of Seville. Today's insightful discussion dives into how personal experience shapes our reality, and questions on what love of philosophy means.

Yancy gets personal with critical race theory

'Mum, can we pray for the devil?' So Yancy's interview goes toward an exploration of the use of categories in society and race theory. In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. George Yancy, an American philosopher and Professor at Emory University. George Yancy has written extensively on African-American philosophy, critical race theory, and critical whiteness studies. This episode delves into the core of what propels George Yancy's philosophical studies and the metaphysics of race and the controversy surrounding these studies.

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