Radical Philosophy

Wonderfeel - Kathryn Williams discusses Wonderfeel, founded by Peter Siahna Wadham, including the differences in welcoming our full range of feeling and the deep richness this choice generally brings to our lives.

Brainwashing - Dr Alexandra Stein discusses if there are warning signs when someone is being brainwashed and if brainwashing just affects a certain personality type. 

Artificial Intelligence - Dr Paula Boddington discusses if there are cases where the code of ethics can make things worse and what the future holds for artificial intelligence and humans.

Artificial intelligence - Dr Paula Boddington discusses some of the ethical questions connected with artificial intelligence and how we gain moral knowledge.

Sappho - Professor Diane Rayor discusses Sappho's poetic output, who her poetry was written for and Sappho's philosophy on life.

Prof. Kate Rigby discusses Dr Val Plumwood, an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism, her life and how she survived an attack by a saltwater crocodile.

Jeannine Deckers, The Singing Nun - D.A. Chadwick discusses her book, The Singing Nun Story: The Life and Death of Soeur Sourire, and her important legacy.

Cognition - Dr Inês Hipólito discusses how cognitive development affects learning, why it is important to study cognition and the connection between memory and cognition.

  Influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement - Dr Caroline Norma discusses Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls.

Shame - Madeleine Shield discusses if there is a connection between shame and self-respect, whether it is possible to force someone to feel shame and if it's possible to overcome the emotion of Shame.

Vulnerability - Professor Marina McCoy discusses why it important to accept our vulnerability and what is the best way to respond to vulnerability also how vulnerability is central to the human experience.

Knowledge and Belief - Prof. Maria Rosa Antognazza discusses whether most people's belief system is based on knowledge and how knowledge and belief assist people in their everyday life.

Art - Dr Vanessa Brassey discusses the connection between philosophy and art, also why the philosophical prospective of art is important and if art could be a form of philosophy.

Animals in Research - Dr Jane Johnson discusses if there are grounds for extending human research principles to animals, also respect for persons (autonomy) and informed consent.

Hélène Metzger - Prof Cristina Chimisso discusses Hélène Metzger's early life, her thesis on the emergence of the science of crystals and why she is not as well-known as she should be.

Judgment - Dr Giulia Felappi discusses her paper on “On the Nature of Judgment” and if there are reasons to take the multiple relation theory as doomed.

Animal Welfare / Rights - Dr Elisa Galgut discusses some of the cultural practices that harm animals, the difference between racism and speciesism and how cannibalism is connected with eating animals.

 Constructing 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.

Sound 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.

Grief - 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.

Matriarchy - 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Lesbian 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.

Lesbian Separatism - Amber-Lia Van Aurich discusses lesbian identiy, how separation began and some examples of lesbian separatism during the late twentieth century.