What is Creativity? -- David Bentley Hart
Spirituality, Technocracy, and the Illusion of Freedom
Medical Nihilism - Philosopher of Science Jacob Stegenga, and Saad Ismail (MBBS)
"Proper cures in medicine are not good business." ~ Jacob Stegenga
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Medical Nihilism - Philosopher of Science Jacob Stegenga and Saad Ismail (MBBS)
Medical Nihilism: The view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions.
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Philosopher of Medicine Jacob Stengenga and Saad Ismail (MBBS) discuss the varieties of skepticisms towards modern medicine, the place of alternative and indigenous medical traditions in postcolonial times, bias in medical research, the controversial nature of many psychiatric therapies, how agressive pharmaceutical interventions might be doing more harm than good, and what a gentler medicine might look like.
Jacob Stegenga is a Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on fundamental topics in reasoning and rationality and philosophical problems in medicine and biology. He previously taught in the United States and Canada, and he received his PhD from the University of California San Diego. He is the author of 'Medical Nihilism' and 'Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine', and he is currently writing a book on the sciences of sexual desire.
Ontological Racism & Our Human Future - a conversation between Philosopher Lewis Gordon and Hasan Azad, PhD
Lewis Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought.
