Life From Plato's Cave

We discuss Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson brought philosophy to the people - The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. Emily Herring is a writer based in Paris. She received her PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Leeds, and her writing has appeared in Aeon and the Times Literary Supplement. You can read the latest installment of my new series Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness here: https://futurebased.org/climate-madness/turning-to-stone-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-planet/ - the installment about Herald of a Restless World will appear here when it's online My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways: https://lifefromplatoscave.com/?page_id=77    I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We discuss Ginie Servant-Miklos' new book Pedagogies of Collapse. This urgent, and radically honest, open access book looks collapse in the face, acknowledges the temptation for denial and despair, but chooses hope. Pedagogies of Collapse makes a dire, fact-packed case for the urgency of action, but resists the urge to fall into the usual categories of environmental discourses. The ebook version will be available as open access. Ginie Servant-Miklos (https://www.clubofrome.org/member/miklos-ginie/) is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experience in education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research and education work focuses on developing innovative pedagogies for societal impact. She developed the Experimental Pedagogics educational design framework, co-founded the Bildung Climate School with Prof. Rutger Engels, and is the author of Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It. She is a Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network for educational innovators in the Netherlands. She is the founder and chair of the board of the FairFight Foundation, an organisation that provides girls and women from Zambia, Zimbabwe, and India with the mental and physical benefits of martial arts practice, as well as educational support. Ginie is a vocal activist for sustainability and gender equality, advocating for change through public engagements like TEDx talks, debates, podcasts, and other digital media outlets. You can read the latest installment of my new series Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness here: https://futurebased.org/climate-madness/sad-planets-makes-me-happy/  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways: https://lifefromplatoscave.com/?page_id=77    I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We discuss Chris Julien's new book Everyday Activism (Alledaags Activisme). Chris is an activist and researcher, he is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, where he works on ecological governance with an emphasis on new materialisms and decolonial ecology. He has an independent practice at the intersection of ecology and culture and is a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion in The Netherlands. You can order Alledaags Activisme here: https://uitgeverijpodium.nl/producten/alledaags-activisme-9789463812672  English language publications of Chris Julien: https://valiz.nl/publicaties/worlding-ecologies  You can read the introduction of my new series Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness here: https://futurebased.org/climate-madness/challenging-time-reading-against-climate-madness/  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We discuss Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud. Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of Environmental Studies and Geosciences at Lawrence University. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times and the author of Reading the Rocks, Timefulness, and Geopedia. Turning to Stone is available from Macmillan Publishers: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250875891/turningtostone  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dominic Pettman is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at the New School, and the author of numerous books on technology, humans, and other animals. We discussed his books Infinite Distraction and Peak Libido in episode 10. His book Telling the Bees comes out later this year. In this episode, we discuss Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker, which is available for order here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sad+Planets-p-9781509562374  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

dr.Petra Verdonk is an occupational and health psychologist and works as an associate professor at the department of Ethics, Justice and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her research and teaching she focuses on gender and diversity in health and care. She has long-term experience with research and projects in the field of gender (especially but not only women), labor and health (occupational health) of (health care) professionals. Petra has been active for Extinction Rebellion since 2019. Petra's opinion piece on Shell (Dutch): https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-shell-gaat-de-klimaatcrisis-niet-verhelpen-trap-niet-langer-in-hun-pr~b5f5a2f7/ Petra's opinion piece of climate and education: https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/studenten-staken-hun-studie-als-die-opleidt-voor-de-markt~beaa7e6d/  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dr. Zachary Stein is a founding team member at the Civilizational Research Institute. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought after and award winning speaker, and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development. Zak is the author of several books, such as Education in a Time Between Worlds. In this conversation we primarily discuss the new book he contributed to, together with Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber. It's called First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come. Find out more about Zak's work at https://www.zakstein.org/. My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Podcast theme created using Udio   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

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Stephen Porder is the Associate Provost for Sustainability and Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society at Brown University in the United States.  His research publications explore tropical rainforest ecology, the impacts of intensive agriculture on people and the environment, and the potential for large-scale tropical forest restoration. He also steers Brown University's Sustainability efforts, first and foremost the elimination of fossil fuel use and transition to 100% emissions-free energy sources. In addition to his 70+ scientific publications, Dr. Porder's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Folha de São Paulo and other popular outlets, and his book Elemental: How five elements changed Earth's past and will shape our future is available wherever you get your books. He is also the founder and scientific lead on the radioshow/podcast Possibly, a practical guide to the transition to a more sustainable future, which can be heard on public radio stations and is wherever you get your podcasts. My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

  My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/  Inez Schelfhout is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who specializes in the impact of war on next generations. So intergenerational effects and intergenerational trauma. Inez works at the ARQ Center '45 and the ARQ Knowledge Center for War, Persecution and Violence. The countless conversations in the therapy room made Inez aware that these conversations have to take place at a social level. Her mission is to to develop healthcare policy for descendants of war victims, while also promoting knowledge about intergenerational effects outside of healthcare and therapy. As we will discuss, Inez herself is a descendent of two grandparents who were held captive as children in Japanese concentration camps during the second world war in the former Dutch East Indies, which is now Indonesia. As their oldest granddaughter, she had questions about this past and the effects it has on her and her family. She even travelled to Japan to find out more. This ultimately led her to specialize in intergenerational effects after war. This past is something that Inez and I share, since my grandmother and her family went through similar experiences. Here is some of Inez' public work, mostly in Dutch: Essay Splijting en Integratie: https://arq.org/publicaties/splijting-en-integratie  Docu's over intergenerationeel trauma: https://www.2doc.nl/kijktips/2023/intergenerationeel-trauma.html  Inez is featured in the documentary 'Voices of postwar generations' ('Stemmen van naoorlogse generaties) https://hoezoindo.nl/documentaire-data-stemmen-van-naoorlogse-generaties/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dorita Sleur has been a spiritual teacher and guide for more than 20 years. She works with people tot become aware of the influence of Light in their lives. In her work, the Light creates balance in every area. If we learn to live from the light, the world will look different. We discuss Dorita's book The Soul's Task On Earth, which is available here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-souls-task-on-earth-dorita-sleur/1144279212 or here: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/the-soul-s-task-on-earth/9300000165358394/?bltgh=iSgJPR1VtpWlTcBWl0hBLA.2_6.7.ProductTitle . Dorita's podcast The Soul's Light is available on spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/7esVlMVCxLinwx2qh0fJ3M). In this podcast, she talks about our life on earth as souls and the importance of its presence to shift the dual consciousness into oneness, the essence of our soul. The best way to connect to Dorita and her work is through her facebook page Light Consciousness: https://www.facebook.com/light.consciousness11    My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dr Fabian E.Z. Ercan is a broadly interested (climate) biologist who does not shy away from broader discussions concerning natural sciences, philosophy, engineering and history. The dimension of time plays an important role in biology, ecology and climate and in the resulting science of paleoecology. Fabian combines these disciplines in his field of climate biology, but also to philosophise about a changing environment and societal issues. With a lot of fieldwork experience in the arctic, he is an outgoing adventurer with a passion for teaching. Fabian obtained his PhD on ‘Growing Season Changes over the Past Millenium in Northern High Latitudes' at Utrecht University.   Dutch interviews with Fabian: Radio – Nacht van de Wetenschap NTR: https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/de-nacht-van/72527/wat-zeggen-de-fossielen-van-plantencellen-over-ons-klimaat Atlas/SchoolTV: https://schooltv.nl/item/wat-kunnen-eeuwenoude-blaadjes-ons-vertellen-over-het-weer-onderzoek-naar-berkenblaadjes-uit-de-v Volkskrantartikel: https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/blaadjes-uit-de-vikingtijd-bieden-uniek-perspectief-op-noordpoolklimaat~bf544615/   My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Margarita Vossen is a medical doctor who has worked in several areas in medicine, both in the Netherlands and abroad (Zambia, Lesvos and Moldova). Currently she is working as a general practitioner in the south of the Netherlands. She is an ambassador for the 'Dutch Green Healthcare Alliance' (Groene Zorg Alliantie) and member of 'The Green General Practitioner' (De Groene Huisarts). In this role she tries to build a more sustainable (primary) healthcare and to reduce its environmental impacts. She is also part of Extinction Rebellion, specifically in the 'Healthcare workers' circle.    Sources: - Interview with Margarita (Dutch) on Lobke Faasen Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgVQM3PgeAA  - Article "Our Diffusion of Responsibility Problem: The climate crisis" : https://icenet.blog/2023/08/29/our-diffusion-of-responsibility-problem-the-climate-crisis/  - Article: De Activistische Zorgprofessional. Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde en Ethiek. https://www.tijdschrifttge.nl/art/50-7777_De-activistische-zorgprofessional-professionele-identiteit-in-tijden-van-klimaatcrisis    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

I interview Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy, available from MIT Press.   Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has taught philosophy at Colgate University (where he won the Fraternity and Sorority Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy), Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School (where he received the Dean's Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching). Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, he has also served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and as Associate Editor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.   Sources: This is the Covid graph Lee mentions: https://twitter.com/MarcRummy/status/1464178903224889345?lang=en  I wrote a piece on The Permanent Climate Disinformation Campaign and the Elections, incorporating insights from On Disinformation and the interview in this episode. Dutch version: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/de-klimaatdesinformatieverkiezingen  I also ran it through Google Translate for the English version: https://www-bnnvara-nl.translate.goog/joop/artikelen/de-klimaatdesinformatieverkiezingen?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Anne Kervers is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. She researches the political dimensions of money creation in relation to the climate finance gap. Previously she worked at Triodos Bank and completed studies in sustainability, economics, applied ethics and cultural analysis. Anne practices civil disobedience with Extinction Rebellion. https://twitter.com/unmutingmoney https://twitter.com/anne_kervers   This is Part 2, but you can listen to it as a standalone episode.   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Anne Kervers is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. She researches the political dimensions of money creation in relation to the climate finance gap. Previously she worked at Triodos Bank and completed studies in sustainability, economics, applied ethics and cultural analysis. Anne practices civil disobedience with Extinction Rebellion. https://twitter.com/unmutingmoney https://twitter.com/anne_kervers   This is Part 1, stay tuned for Part 2 about Money Creation in Episode 38B   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Sign up for the Bernard Stiegler Memorial Lecture, delivered online on 5th August by Daniel Ross: https://philosophyandtechnology.network/bernard-stiegler-memorial-lecture-2023/    Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download). He is also the co-director with David Barison of the feature documentary The Ister (rent or buy on Vimeo), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004, and which won awards in Montreal and Marseille. Through that film, he met the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and has subsequently published eleven volumes of translation of Stiegler's work, most recently The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Polity Press, 2019) and Nanjing Lectures 2016–2019 (Open Humanities Press, 2020 - free to download), along with the collective volume by Stiegler and the Internation Collective entitled Bifurcate: ‘There Is No Alternative' (Open Humanities Press, 2022 - free to download).   In this episode, our focus is on the fourth volume in Stieglers's Technics and Time series. Here's Dan's summary (approx. 10,000 words) of the unpublished manuscript of Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 4: Faculties and Functions of Noesis in the Post-Truth Age (approx. 100,000 words), which was written in 2017: https://www.academia.edu/84134776/A_Summary_of_Bernard_Stiegler_Technics_and_Time_4    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We discuss Michel Serres' 1990 book The Natural Contract. Our mountain guide through Plato's Cave and the philosophy of Michel Serres is Aldo Houterman. Aldo teaches Medical Ethics and Philosophy at the Amsterdam University Medical Center and is doing his PhD research at the ESPRIT center for sports, integrity and transition at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His book 'We are our body' is about the meaning of the body, sports and movement for human existence His area of research is the philosophy of the body: How is the body regarded in sports, in healthcare or in science? Which body images prevail in top sports and which ideas about the body are sustainable? In his work Aldo uses the interdisciplinary philosophy of Michel Serres. Aldo is also an avid cyclist and a member of the ethical committy of the cyclist union KNWU.   Sources: The Natural Contract: https://www.press.umich.edu/9725/natural_contract  ESPRIT: https://www.eur.nl/esphil/onderzoek/onderzoeksinstituten-centra-en-scholen/erasmus-center-sport-integrity-transition Wij zijn ons lichaam (Dutch): https://www.amboanthos.nl/boek/wij-zijn-ons-lichaam/ Interview with Aldo about sport (Dutch): https://www.human.nl/lees/2021/aug/aldo-houterman.html ‘De gymles van Michel Serres'  (Dutch): https://www.academia.edu/38127298/De_gymles_van_Michel_Serres Michel Serres Reading Guide: https://christopherwatkin.com/2020/02/27/so-you-want-to-read-michel-serres-start-here/   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Jessica den Outer has a Bachelor degree in international & European law and a Master degree in international environmental law. She has been advocating for the Rights of Nature and the interests of future generations since 2017 and received several awards for her work. In 2019, she was recognised as one of the youngest Earth-centered law experts within the United Nations Harmony with Nature network. In 2020, she was part of the top 100 most sustainable young pioneers. In 2022 Jessica was nominated as one of the 10 green voices on LinkedIn and as as one of the 35 up-and-coming professionals under the age of 35 in the field of peace and security. In 2023, Jessica published the book 'Rights for Nature'. It is a book full of examples and stories of Rights for Nature around the world. From Mother Earth in Ecuador to the Whanganui River in New Zealand. This book shows that anyone can get started with the Rights for Nature, not just lawyers.   Sources Jessica's website: https://www.jessicadenouter.com/en  Rechten voor de Natuur: https://lemniscaat.nl/boeken/rechten-voor-de-natuur  The article I mentioned in the beginning is H.O. Pörtner et al. (2023) Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4881    Sabine Winters interviewed me for her podcast Scientific Imagination: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7i2gCNFPQ82u5EeD9Tzrol?si=7VvmCWVOTNerEz-75zjP7w&dd=1  I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/  This is the Dutch column I refer to in the episode: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/is-een-vervroegd-pensioen-de-oplossing-voor-de-klimaatcrisis    This is an independent educational podcast.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dr.Aaron Thierry has a background ecological scientist, science communicator and environmental campaigner. He received his original PhD in Ecology from the University of Sheffield and went on to a position as a postdoc on a project researching climate feedbacks in the Arctic. Aaron subsequently left academia to focus his efforts on environmental activism and become a youth campaign coach working for a leading UK environmental charity. His past experiences have led him to become fascinated by the question of how to accurately convey scientific warnings of environmental risks in ways that help wake the public to action. To better understand this crucial conundrum, he has chosen to return to research and has begun a new PhD examining the interplay between reason and emotion in the communication strategies of organization's in the climate emergency movement.   Sources: Aaron's website: https://wiserd.ac.uk/people/aaron-thierry/  Scientists for Extinction Rebellion: https://www.scientistsforxr.earth/  Capstick, S., Thierry, A., Cox, E. et al. Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 773–774 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01461-y Gardner, C. J., Thierry, A., Rowlandson, W., & Steinberger, J. K. (2021). From Publications to Public Actions: The Role of Universities in Facilitating Academic Advocacy and Activism in the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Frontiers in Sustainability, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2021.679019    Sabine Winters interviewed me for her podcast Scientific Imagination: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7i2gCNFPQ82u5EeD9Tzrol?si=7VvmCWVOTNerEz-75zjP7w&dd=1  I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/  This is the Dutch column I refer to in the episode: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/moeten-wetenschappers-zich-wel-uitspreken-in-de-klimaatcrisis    This is an independent educational podcast.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Dr. Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Hendlin is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and core faculy of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as research associate in the Environmental Health Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin's research has been published in journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, MMWR, American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Ethics, Ambio, and Environmental Philosophy. The international press regularly features Hendlin's public health research. Hendlin's interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects tackle major questions in philosophy of biology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. Hendlin's epistemological inquiries into public health follow the via negativa of agnotology, comprehending the systemic transmission of ignorance. Hendlin earned a PhD in Philosophy (magna cum laude) at the University of Kiel, Germany in 2015; holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, and the London School of Economics; and held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Vienna and the University of California, San Francisco. Hendlin was designated a 2020 Brocher Foundation Fellow. Current research projects focus on the monographs Industrial Epidemics: Chronic Disease and the Corporate Determinants of Health and Interspecies Politics: Valuing Difference in the Biotic Community.   Sources: Yogi's website (and weblog!): https://yogihendlin.com/    I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/  For Dutch readers: I publish a column about climate madness on Joop: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/personen/V/mario-veen    This is an independent educational podcast.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Ernst-Jan Kuiper obtained his Master's degree in Climate Physics In 2014, after which he focused on research into the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet. After 5 years, including 6 weeks of fieldwork on the Greenland ice sheet, he obtained his doctorate (PhD) in 2019. Ernst-Jan currently works at Milieudefensie on the appeal against oil giant Shell. He also writes articles about climate change for the Dutch program Tegenlicht and gives lectures about climate change. He also spends time on climate activism, especially with Extinction Rebellion where he is part of the Scientist Rebellion group.   The day before we recorded this interview he was at an Extinction Rebellion protest with 80 other scientists, where he was arrested with about 700 other protestors. I asked him to explain the climate science that is so worrying that he takes to the streets to tell the truth about climate science. And also about the fact that he, as a scientist still has hope that we can do something against climate change. I also want to know why as a climate scientist he sees the court case of Milieudefensie against Shell as the most impactful thing that he could be working on right now.   Sources:  TED talk by Ernst-Jan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRLQ-WDlRw  Ernst-Jan asks the Minister of Climate if he believes the science and if so, when he is going to update the policies for reducing The Netherlands' emissions to reflect the science: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/rob-jetten    I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/  For Dutch readers: I publish a column about climate madness on Joop: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/personen/V/mario-veen    This is an independent educational podcast.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Lee McIntyre is a philosopher and a scholar of science denial. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. Lee is the author of many books for MIT Press, I will just mention three now.   In The Scientific Attitude (2019), Lee argues that we can best understand what is distinctive about science not by focusing on its method or achievements, but on those instances of failure to live up to one of its most basic values —”the scientific attitude”—which is caring about evidence and being willing to change our theories on the basis of evidence. In his upcoming book On Disinformation (2023) [I mistakenly refer to this as "Truth Killers" in my intro in the episode], Lee draws on over twenty years of science denial scholarship and takes readers through the history of strategic denialism to show how we arrived at this precarious political moment and identifies the creators, amplifiers, and believers of disinformation. In this episode we will focus a lot on his book How To Talk To A Science Denier (2021). The book offers tools and techniques for communicating the truth and values of science, emphasizing that the most important way to reach science deniers is to talk to them calmly and respectfully - to put ourselves out there, to meet them face to face.   Sources: Supran et al (2022) "Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063  New York Times, "Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Find" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/climate/exxon-mobil-global-warming-climate-change.html  Judge's verdict: "Royal Dutch Shell must reduce CO2 emissions" https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisatie/Rechtbanken/Rechtbank-Den-Haag/Nieuws/Paginas/Royal-Dutch-Shell-must-reduce-CO2-emissions.aspx    I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 12 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide: among many fields, she does research in Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York, Jeanne is advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy, leading her to recently produce her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography, drawing and painting works. She is currently working on articles at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology, and starting a new book project about contrasting feminist views on female sexual desire. Jeanne just moved to Santa Cruz, California, to teach as a lecturer for UCSC and to get involved with the Center for Public Philosophy.   Sources: https://jeanneproust.github.io/index.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-proust-74162b40/ https://www.instagram.com/can_you_phil_it_/?hl=fr Jeanne recently published an essay about FOMO in Nouma Magazine: https://www.noemamag.com/a-remedy-for-fomo/   I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Rani Lill Anjum is a philosopher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), working in philosophy of science and medicine. She leads the Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science (NMBU CAPS), together with Yevgeniya Tomkiv. Her expertise is in the philosophy of causality, complexity, probability and risk, and other philosophical biases in science that influence choice of theory, method, policy and practice. She uses Twitter for professional networking. She loves experimenting in her teaching and she made a syllabus in podcast episodes for her Introduction to Philosophy class, to reduce screen time when teaching went digital. She has written about her experience with teaching during the pandemic for Daily Nous.   Sources: We refer to this drawing of Plato's allegory I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Our guide through Plato's Cave and medical education is Lara Varpio. Dr. Lara Varpio is Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia and the Co-Director of Research in Medical Education at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She started these positions in 2022, after serving for 9 years at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Prior to that, She spent the first 6 years of her career at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Varpio's research investigates how individuals (e.g., clinicians, patients, researchers, etc.) collaborate and perform in teams and organizations; she is interested in how individuals can shape larger groups and how groups shape individuals. Dr. Varpio uses qualitative methodologies and methods, integrated with theories from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Her most recent work is related to: (i) interprofessional care teams (e.g., how interprofessional collaboration can meaningfully contribute to the landscape of practice); and (ii) health professions education scholarship units and scholars (e.g., the factors affecting the success of these units in Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand). Dr. Varpio mentors many individual health professions educators from several specialties (e.g., surgery, pediatrics, nursing, social work, etc.) and in a wide range of topics (e.g., experiences of shame in medical learning, professional identity formation, etc.). Dr. Varpio is internationally recognized for her expertise in qualitative research methods and methodologies, and with many different theories.   Sources: Lara's website: https://www.laravarpio.com/  Key Literature In Medical Education Podcast: https://keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/  Philosophy of Science series in medical education: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31876567/ Lara on twitter: https://twitter.com/laravarpio      This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Our mountain guide through Plato's Cave and the philosophy of Michel Serres is Aldo Houterman. Aldo teaches Medical Ethics and Philosophy at the Amsterdam University Medical Center and is doing his PhD research at the ESPRIT center for sports, integrity and transition at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His book 'We are our body' is about the meaning of the body, sports and movement for human existence His area of research is the philosophy of the body: How is the body regarded in sports, in healthcare or in science? Which body images prevail in top sports and which ideas about the body are sustainable? In his work Aldo uses the interdisciplinary philosophy of Michel Serres. Aldo is also an avid cyclist and a member of the ethical committy of the cyclist union KNWU.   Sources: ESPRIT: https://www.eur.nl/esphil/onderzoek/onderzoeksinstituten-centra-en-scholen/erasmus-center-sport-integrity-transition Wij zijn ons lichaam (Dutch): https://www.amboanthos.nl/boek/wij-zijn-ons-lichaam/ Interview with Aldo about sport (Dutch): https://www.human.nl/lees/2021/aug/aldo-houterman.html ‘De gymles van Michel Serres'  (Dutch): https://www.academia.edu/38127298/De_gymles_van_Michel_Serres Michel Serres Reading Guide: https://christopherwatkin.com/2020/02/27/so-you-want-to-read-michel-serres-start-here/   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Chris Julien mixes research and practice in the fields of public innovation, theory and culture, with a focus on ecology and epistemology. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Utrecht university that combines new materialisms and eco-thinking to constitute a field of so-called ‘ecological governance'. Furthermore, he is active in Extinction Rebellion and XR Nieuwsmedia and works on urban ecology and artistic research projects with Waag Futurelab, besides siting on various boards and committees. He holds cum laude masters degrees in Conflict Studies & Human Rights and in Cultural Analysis.   https://chrisjulien@kolektiva.social/@chrisjulien https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/CFJulien   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.   Sources:  Havelock, E.A. (1982) Preface to Plato. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674699069    I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Mike Huiskes is professor of Language and Social Interaction at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. His work focuses on social interaction as an embodied phenomenon in both mundane and professional settings. His studies topics like intersubjectivity, epistemics and action coordination. Currently, his work focuses on learning and teaching as action coordination in various professional settings. For instance, studying how surgeon supervisors and residents construct a learning environment.   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Hannah Prins is a climate activist and studies criminal law and international law in Amsterdam. She is active in the Extinction Rebellion Legal Circle and is passionate about protecting the right to demonstration.   Sources: Merchants of Doubt documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc  Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. (2010). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming The Smoke Filled Room Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5YwN4NW5o  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: https://www.ipcc.ch/    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

If the idea in society about how science works does not match how it actually works, how can society provide the optimal conditions for science?   Vincent Icke is Professor of theoretical Astrophysics at Leiden University, where he founded the Astronomy Theory Group, and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. His main research interests are cosmology, the relationship between dark matter and dark energy, the formation of structure in the Universe, and radiative hydrodynamics. Vincent takes an active interest in the popularization of science, participating in hundreds of productions on radio, fielm and television. He wrote many books in Dutch and English. For instance, Gravity Does Not Exist: A Puzzle For the 21st Century, about the relationship between relativity and quantum theory, and Reisbureau Einstein (Einstein's Travel Agency) about the quest for extraterrestrial life. His latest book (Dutch) is called Licht: Tussen waarheid en wetenschap (Light: Between truth and science). Vincent is also a visual artist, whose work covers a wide range of styles, media, applications and concepts. For instance, imagining what an alien spaceship might look like.   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

The book Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education by Megan Brown, Mario Veen and Gabrielle Finn considers the practical application of philosophical concepts to teaching, learning, and research, covers philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Practical Wisdom, and includes practice points for educators within each chapter of the book. *To skip to a specific presentation, scroll down to the end for all the times* In this episode (and if you're a regular listener of this podcast you may skip to another episode unless you are interested in this topic) some of the authors present their chapter. We invite you to our book launch conference on September 13th, 7pm-9pm BST. It's free and you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsH_0JJ0tu1Zy8b-DpNdvP9mvVixSFyBVHE21diIXElUalGQ/viewform  The book launch will be dedicated to discussion between attending authors and those who sign up. We've had fantastic interest from our contributing authors regarding attending the launch, so it looks set to be a rich and practical discussion regarding how we can "philosophize" health professions education.  The book is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3  If you are interested in philosophy and education after listening to this episode, I invite you to listen to Episode 22 of this podcast: World-Centered Education with Gert Biesta https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ios0v1c7SvA5Q3vLRSfMr?si=lz5FfBltQOS1CBz6muOEUw&utm_source=whatsapp&nd=1  If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us on twitter. After all, the only stupid question is the one you did not ask: Megan Brown: https://twitter.com/Megan_EL_Brown  Mario Veen: https://twitter.com/MarioVeen  Gabrielle finn: https://twitter.com/gabs_finn    Timecodes of the presentations in this episode: 2:58 Chapter 2 Philosophy of Education: Towards a Practical Philosophy of Educational Practice Wouter Pols, Joop Berding 9:55 Chapter 3 Subjectification in Health Professions Education: Why We Should Look Beyond the Idea of Professional Identity Formation Simon Verwer, Marije van Braak 17:55 Chapter 4 The Serious Healer: Developing an Ethic of Ambiguity Within Health Professions Education Mario Veen, Megan E. L. Brown 25:02 Chapter 5 Acknowledgement: The Antidote to Skillification (of Empathy) in Health Professions Education Anne de la Croix, Grace Peters, William F. Laughey 30:22 Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Social Justice: Lessons for Achieving Progress in Health Professions Education Through Meaningful Inclusion Angelique N. Dueñas, Marina Politis, Adam Danquah 33:16 Chapter 10 The Future of Healthcare is Feminist: Philosophical Feminism in Health Professions Education Lena Wånggren, Gabrielle Maria Finn 39:19 Chapter 12 “What Does It Mean to Be?”: Ontology and Responsibility in Health Professions Education Tasha R. Wyatt, Rola Ajjawi, Mario Veen 47:24 Chapter 15 Ethics Education in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 50:12 Chapter 23 Teaching Dignity in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 53:11 Chapter 16 Climate Change and Health Care Education Cristina Richie 58:41 Chapter 18 Philosophy as Therapy: Rebalancing Technology and Care in Health Professions Education Martina Ann Kelly, Tim Dornan, Tinu Ruparell 1:04:10 Chapter 20 Phronesis in Medical Practice: The Will and the Skill Needed to Do the Right Thing Margaret Plews-Ogan, Kenneth E. Sharpe 1:12:20 Chapter 21 In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education Sven Schaepkens, Camillo Coccia 1:18:04 Chapter 22 The Application of Stoicism to Health Professions Education Alexander MacLellan, Megan E. L. Brown, Tim LeBon, Neil Guha 1:25:18 Chapter 24 The Ambiguities of Humility: A Conceptual and Historical Exploration in the Context of Health Professions Education Barret Michalec, Frederic W. Hafferty, Nicole Piemonte, Jon C. Tilburt

We discuss World-Centered Education by Gert Biesta. Gert Biesta (gertbiesta.com/) is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is also deputy head of the Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Agder, Norway, and has recently completed a Visiting Professorship at Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland.  He is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education, and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education.   Gert has written many books about education. Some of these are Good Education in the Age of Measurement, The Beautiful Risk of Education, and The Rediscovery of Teaching. Gert has been involved in educational policy, for instance as From 2015 until 2018 I was an associate member of the 'Onderwijsraad' (the Education Council of the Netherlands), the main government advisory body on education from 2015 to 2018.  And in 2020 he was appointed by the Dutch government to the Scientific Curriculum Committee which is to provide advise about the final stages of the reform of the national framework for the curriculum for primary and secondary education.    World-Centered Education makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place.   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We discuss Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal. Mieke (www.miekebal.org) started as a literary scholar. Her commitment is to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural artifacts and their potential effects. She focuses on gender, migratory culture, psychoanalysis, and the critique of capitalism. Mieke published 45 books and curated many exhibitions. She directed films and documentaries, many of which are exhibited as video installations in museums over the world. Her books include a trilogy on political art: Endless Andness, Thinking in Film, and Of What One Cannot Speak. Mieke supervised 81 PhDs. She (co-)made documentaries on migratory culture, and films which she calls ‘theoretical fictions.' A Long History of Madness argues for a more humane treatment of psychosis, and was exhibited in a site-specific version, Saying It, in the Freud Museum in London. Madame B was combined with paintings by Edvard Munch in the Munch Museum in Oslo. Reasonable Doubt is about the philosopher René Descartes and explores the social aspects of thinking. The installation Don Quixote: tristes figuras is exhibited as a sixteen channel video work. Becoming Vera is a documentary about a girl who is "three years old. Living in three worlds". Her latest film, It's About Time! Reflections on Urgency was produced in Poland (2020), just before the corona pandemic. It's a short film and you can watch it in full on Mieke's website. She was recently was elected to the one-year chair “L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures”, founded as one of three “chaires annuelles” by the Collège de France. Image-Thinking proposes a new model of synthesis of creative and intellectual work. It merges theoretical and practical considerations in innovative and empowering ways, while clarifying difficult concepts through accounts of practice including trauma, agency, identity and affect. We also briefly discuss Mieke's influential idea of "travelling concepts", which she introduced in her 2002 book

Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton. Her research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain-building, and she combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. Marcia was named Outstanding Educator in 2011 by the Association of Women Geoscientists. She is the author of  Reading the Rocks:  The Autobiography of the Earth, Timefulness: How thinking like a geologist can help save the world and a contributing writer to The New Yorker's science and technology blog, “Elements”.  Her most recent book is called Geopedia: A Cabinet of Geologic Curiosities.   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 12 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide: among many fields, she does research in Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York, Jeanne is advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy, leading her to recently produce her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography, drawing and painting works. She is currently working on articles at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology, and starting a new book project about contrasting feminist views on female sexual desire.   https://jeanneproust.github.io/index.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-proust-74162b40/ https://www.instagram.com/can_you_phil_it_/?hl=fr Jeanne recently published an essay about FOMO in Nouma Magazine: https://www.noemamag.com/a-remedy-for-fomo/   Sources that came up in our conversation: Philosophical podcasts: LSD (French): https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/lsd-la-serie-documentaire  Philosophize This: https://www.philosophizethis.org/  BBC's In Our Time: Philosophy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr/episodes/downloads  Rani Lill Anjum's Introduction to Philosophy syllabus in podcast episodes: https://ranilillanjum.com/introduction-to-philosophy-syllabus-in-podcast-episodes/    Smellosophy: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983694 Invisible Demons documentary: https://mk2films.com/en/film/invisible-demons/  Virginie Despendes, "King Kong Theory" https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/king-kong-theory  Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: (translation of La Penseé et le Mouvement): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208057.The_Creative_Mind    This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Camillo is a medical doctor from South Africa. Currently he works as a senior house officer at Letterkenny University Hospital department of Hematology. He has a special interests in existentialist philosophy, German idealism and phenomenology. We published a paper together called "Because We Care: a philosophical investigation into the spirit of medical education". We discuss that paper at length in another podcast, [link will appear here when it is out]. Camillo also published a book chapter with Sven Schaepkens, called "In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into kairos and reflection in medical practice and health professions education"   This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. Sources: Camillo Coccia & Mario Veen (2022) Because We Care: A Philosophical Investigation into the Spirit of Medical Education, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2056744 Schaepkens, S.P.C., Coccia, C.Q.H. (2022). In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education. In: Brown, M.E.L., Veen, M., Finn, G.M. (eds) Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3_21  Veen, M., Skelton, J. & de la Croix, A. Knowledge, skills and beetles: respecting the privacy of private experiences in medical education. Perspect Med Educ 9, 111–116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00565-5  Hannah Arendt (2021) film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt_(film) I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Ian Partman (he/they) is a 19-year old student, writer, activist, and artist based in New York City. He is the founder of Ignite Collective, a national organization of young activists who work to resist police violence through mutual aid and direct action. He currently works at the Brennan Center for Justice in the Office of the President. Their academic research explores how histories of exclusion within everyday institutions shape contemporary forms of racial violence, especially within spaces of higher education. Ian is also working on a forthcoming monograph that explores Black childhood in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. You can find him, and more of his work, at ianpartman.com. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

We've been looking at what Plato's allegory means. But what happens when we examine what it does? We'll discuss political scientist Mark Reinhardt's article "The Cave of Images: Understanding Visual Politics in and through Plato's Republic" and what we can learn from it for the visual in contemporary politics, such as images of racism and violence. The article appears in the April issue of Theory & Event. What's YOUR interpretation of Plato's allegory? I would love to hear! Leave me a voicemail. It's really easy. You click the record button, speak, and hit send. I might play your message in a future episode and respond. Professor Mark Reinhardt teaches in both Political Science and American Studies.  His teaching interests range from ancient to contemporary political theory, as well as problems of democracy, public space, cultural analysis, race and slavery, and visual politics. His current research is shaped by a commitment to showing how political theory and political science can engage more fully with the visual domain.  Among the areas of particular interest are the ethics and politics of images and the place of visuality within the history of political thought (ancient and modern); a related strand of work concerns the relations between politics and aesthetics. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. Reinhardt, Mark. "The Cave of Images: Understanding Visual Politics in and Through Plato's Republic." Theory & Event, vol. 25 no. 2, 2022, p. 238-274. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/852385. I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

The returning soul in Plato's allegory of the Cave is not heard by the prisoners, who are too occupied with the shadows on the wall. In the most literal sense, Plato was probably speaking about how the people do not appreciate the philosophy of, for instance, his teacher Socrates, at the time when this philosopher is most needed. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. Which philosophers are not heard enough in our time? Today, we discuss the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Stiegler is known most for his magnus opus Technics and Time, but many of his works have not yet been translated into English, and the ones that have are not read enough. Daniel Ross, our guide through Stiegler's philosophy, is trying to change that. Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download). He is also the co-director with David Barison of the feature documentary The Ister (rent or buy on Vimeo), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004, and which won awards in Montreal and Marseille. Through that film, he met the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and has subsequently published eleven volumes of translation of Stiegler's work, most recently The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Polity Press, 2019) and Nanjing Lectures 2016–2019 (Open Humanities Press, 2020 - free to download), along with the collective volume by Stiegler and the Internation Collective entitled Bifurcate: ‘There Is No Alternative' (Open Humanities Press, 2022 - free to download). I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/      I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

What keeps Plato's prisoners chained in the cave? What keeps us grounded to our reality? Food is definitely one of those things. How can we develop a more conscious relationship to food, how can we turn our entire being (like Plato says) rather than just our intellect, and how can we integrate spiritual experiences in our daily life? Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave Our guide for this episode is Ilanta Sa. Ilanta is a beauty and wellness consultant, breath coach and business owner. She is passionate about sharing the benefits of conscious living and how it affects our physical, emotional and mental well-being. Ilanta started the first superfood company in Switzerland in 2007, she worked as a consultant in the superfood and supplements industry, and in various detox retreats. Now she has a natural skin care company called Radiant Beauty. She has been studying and working in the fields of holistic nutrition, detox protocols, superfoods and supplementation, and in her own life has focused on creating a sustainable way of living, natural beauty care and a plant-based lifestyle. Ilanta is a certified Breath Coach and she gives individual food coaching in which she works with you to find out which simple steps you can take for a more conscious relationship with food and a diet that supports your lifestyle. If you're interested in a wellness consultation, you can connect to Ilanta through her instagram https://www.instagram.com/ilanta_claudia/ or her website https://radiantbeauty.ch/   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Imagine you descended from the surface into Plato's Cave and told them "you're in Plato's Cave!" And they responded "No, YOU'RE in Plato's Cave!"   In this episode, we will speak about how to deal with science denial. To learn about science communication in general, we focus on one particular extreme case of science denial, which is the idea that we live on a Flat Earth.   Our guide is the creator of the youtube channel I Can Science That, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FH_YLAQjG4ZiKisRSK5iA I Can Science That engages in conversations with Flat Earthers and other types of science denial. Unlike other channels, he focuses on having discussions in which both parties listen to each other and try to understand each others' viewpoint, rather than debates in which each party tries to win.   Sources The Flat Earthers are a peculiar group. For an introduction, check out the 2008 Netflix documentary "Behind The Curve". We also discuss the book and documentary Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc  Some youtube links: Vsauce on "Is Earth Actually Flat?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs   Richard Feynman's talk on "Why?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA  And Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTTS-KMupo    I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/   

Welcome (or welcome Back) to Life From Plato's Cave. This is a course in interdisciplinary philosophy in which we look at life - the part of life that interests you - from a new perspective in every episode. In each of the other episodes, I will interview a guest about their intepretation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave: philosophers, artists, literary scholars, phycisists, actors, psychologists, geologists and many more. In this second part of this episode, I give an overview of the eleven episodes so far using the climate crisis as an example. I also speak about what's coming in 2022 and what you can do. One of those things is that I opened a Patreon account! Support Life From Plato's Cave at https://patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

Welcome (or welcome Back) to Life From Plato's Cave. This is a course in interdisciplinary philosophy in which we look at life - the part of life that interests you - from a new perspective in every episode. In each of the other episodes, I will interview a guest about their intepretation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave: philosophers, artists, literary scholars, phycisists, actors, psychologists, geologists and many more. In this first part of this episode, I'm speaking about how you could work with this podcast. I give a summary of Plato's allegory at the end. In the next part, I will give an overview of the eleven episodes so far and speak about what's coming in 2022. One of those things is that I opened a Patreon account! Support Life From Plato's Cave at https://patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

The prisoners in Plato's Cave have their eyes fixed on the the cave wall. Their attention is literally captured by the shadows. They cannot turn their head so they cannot see each other. Since they have been there all their lives that means they have never seen a human being!   In this conversation we will take a journey through Plato's Cave by following Pieter Lemmens' intellectual journey, his thinking path. We will start with in biology, that sees human beings as an organism. Then we discuss Heidegger's book Being and Time where he asks the question of being - what is the being of human being? Then we focus on the work of Bernard Stiegler, a philosopher of technology who thought about the relation between technology, biology and evolution. Finally, we focus on how technological evolution got us into the climate crisis and on Bernard Stiegler's idea of what needs to happen for us to turn the Anthropocene into what he calls the Neganthropocene. The Neganthropocene could be the next stage in human evolution - if we can get there.   About Pieter Lemmens Pieter Lemmens teaches philosophy and ethics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on themes in the philosophy of technology, innovation, digital technologies, cognitive enhancement, on the work of Martin Heidegger, Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler.   Sources Pieter has published widely on these topics, but some of the articles that I recommend in light of this episode are Thinking Technology Big Again(2020), Rethinking Technology in the Anthropocene (2021) and Other Turnings (2020). He is the co-author of the forthcoming book The Technical Condition: The Entanglement of Technology, Culture and Society (2022) which is an accessible introduction to philosophy of technology. The Ister (2004) - a philosophical road movie https://icarusfilms.com/if-ist  Bernard Stiegler (2017). Philosophizing by Accident: Interviews with Elie During Clive Hamilton (2017). Defiant Earth: the Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/   

"It's almost as if Plato saw Media Studies coming and invented this allegory for us to sort of set the stage from the beginning of western modernity. It's kind of uncanny how appropriate it remains. It's like it becomes more and more relevant as time passes." Today I speak with Dominic Pettman about social media, distraction and libido. About Dominic Pettman:  Dominic is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at The New School in New York, where he teaches courses on posthumanism, animal studies, critical theories of technology, environmental humanities, attention ecologies, popular media forms, and philosophies of desire. He is the author of numerous books, including a loose trilogy exploring the relationship between Eros and ecology - Sonic Intimacy, Creaturely Love, and Peak Libido. In this episode, we focus primarily on the last part of this trilogy and Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media. Dominic himself is also on social media: https://twitter.com/DominicPettman  I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

After the prisoner in Plato's cave has been released, and while they are climbing up to the surface, they no longer have the familiarity and comfort of their everyday life. But neither do they have the insight that comes with arriving at the surface. They are in between worlds, in between realities. They're in a state of profound confusion. And yet they must continue to climb upwards.   Today I speak with Vincent Icke for the second time. We discuss discovery in theoretical physics. How do you navigate when you don't have a map, when you don't have a frame of reference? Can mathematics guide us to answer the biggest question in physics of the 21st century? Or larger particle accelerators?   About Vincent Icke: Vincent Icke is Professor of theoretical Astrophysics at Leiden University, where he founded the Astronomy Theory Group, and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. His main research interests are cosmology, the relationship between dark matter and dark energy, the formation of structure in the Universe, and radiative hydrodynamics. Vincent takes an active interest in the popularization of science, participating in hundreds of productions on radio, fielm and television. He wrote many books in Dutch and English. For instance, Gravity Does Not Exist: A Puzzle For the 21st Century, about the relationship between relativity and quantum theory, and Reisbureau Einstein (Einstein's Travel Agency) about the quest for extraterrestrial life. His latest book (Dutch) is called Licht: Tussen waarheid en wetenschap (Light: Between truth and science) and at the end of our conversation we refer to The Force of Symmetry. Vincent is also a visual artist, whose work covers a wide range of styles, media, applications and concepts. For instance, imagining what an alien spaceship might look like.   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

The prisoners in Plato's Cave live in a world of projections. They think they see a cat, but it is actually a shadow of a statue of a cat. Is it the same for us? Do we live in a kind of illusion? And if so, what are ways to see through this illusion and lift the fog at least a little? We explore these questions with neuroscientist, Buddhist and ballet dancer Marieke van Vugt.    About Marieke:  Marieke is an assistant professor in the cognitive modeling group at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She obtained her PhD with Michael Kahana in the neuroscience program of the University of Pennsylvania, after having spent one year at Brandeis University. After that I did a postdoc with Jonathan Cohen at Princeton University. The main question that guides her research is: how do we think? In what ways do we mind-wander? What effects does that have on decisions? And how can we make our thinking more adaptive by means of contemplative practices such as mindfulness and meditation. She likes to use mathematical models and techniques to better understand those very complicated data. This model-based neuroscience approach allows us to think about the mechanism by which someone thinks, and make more detailed predictions than verbal models.   Resources Marieke's website, twitter and ballet-related pictures on her instagram.  Mind and Life Institute: https://www.mindandlife-europe.org  Evan Thompson: research on whether meditation makes you a better scientist https://evanthompson.me/ Jostein Gaarder (1991). Sophie's World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World Tamboukou M. Archival research: unravelling space/time/matter entanglements and fragments. Qualitative Research. 2014;14(5):617-633. doi:10.1177/1468794113490719 Jostein Gaarder, 1991. Sophie's World Film about neurobiologist Francisco Varela: Monte Grande: What is Life? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466070/ Balerinas by Night :http://ballerinasbynight.blogspot.com/ Navillera (Netflix series, 2021) Marieke van Vugt MK (2014) Ballet as a movement-based contemplative practice? Implications for neuroscientific studies. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:513. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00513 Dominic Pettman (2016) Infinite Distraction. Polity Books https://dominicpettman.com/books/infinite-distraction/ Ricard, Matthieu (1999). The Monk and the Philosopher. New York City: Schocken. https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Philosopher-Father-Discuss-Meaning/dp/0805211039  The Brain Facts Book (free download in many languages) https://www.brainfacts.org/the-brain-facts-book Social Psychology experiment on change blindness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg and https://youtu.be/VkrrVozZR2c?t=101   I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

When we look at the situation of the prisoners in Plato's cave, their world is only one tiny part of all there is. They think that all that exists is the shadows on the wall. They're unaware of the fire, the way upwards, and everything at the surface. Have you ever looked at the stars at night and wondered what else is out there?    Our guide today, astrophycisist Vincent Icke, writes: “There is nothing special about our Sun and the planets. [...] The matter that we consist of is the most common stuff in the Universe. All those planets, stars and galaxies were created from the same kinds of matter that we find in ourselves and around us. [...] The energy required for life is radiated by every star. The deep time required for biological evolution unfolds in every place." (translated from Reisbureau Einstein, 2017)   About Vincent Icke: Vincent Icke is Professor of theoretical Astrophysics at Leiden University, where he founded the Astronomy Theory Group, and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. His main research interests are cosmology, the relationship between dark matter and dark energy, the formation of structure in the Universe, and radiative hydrodynamics. Vincent takes an active interest in the popularization of science, participating in hundreds of productions on radio, fielm and television. He wrote many books in Dutch and English. In this episode, we mainly discuss his two most recent books: Gravity Does Not Exist: A Puzzle For the 21st Century, about the relationship between relativity and quantum theory, and Reisbureau Einstein (Einstein's Travel Agency) about the quest for extraterrestrial life. Vincent is also a visual artist, whose work covers a wide range of styles, media, applications and concepts. For instance, imagining what an alien spaceship might look like.   Sources Vincent's artwork that we discuss at the beginning of the episode can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQQ81NmAFcj/ Vincent's website (in Dutch): https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~icke/  Quantum Moves 2 (a game where you move quantum particles): https://www.scienceathome.org/games/quantum-moves-2/    I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

When the prisoner in Plato's cave is released and turns around, the light of the fire is painful and terrifying. Running back to their seat, it makes no sense at all and they have no language to even speak about it. When we experience something that does not fit in the framework within which we make sense of our reality, can we even call it "experience"? Ernst van Alphen calls trauma "failed experience". In this episode, we discuss the Holocaust in relation to trauma, experience, memory, archives and affect. We focus particularly on his essay Testimonies and the Limits of Representation, a chapter in his book Caught By History: Holocaust Effects In Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (Stanford U.P 1997). Ernst was so kind to make an older version of this chapter (Symptoms of Discursivity) available here.    About Ernst van Alphen:  Ernst van Alphen is professor of Literary Studies at Universiteit Leiden. His publications include Shame! And Masculinity (ed., Valiz 2020), Failed Images:Photography and Its Counter-Practices (Valiz 2018),  Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (Reaktion Books 2014), Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (University of Chicago Press 2005), Armando: Shaping Memory (NAi Publishers 2000), Francis Bacon and The Loss of Self (Harvard U.P 1995).   Let's support people who experienced trauma. Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/ 

Sometimes a cave is just a cave. Geologist Marcia Bjornerud will give us a guided tour of Plato's Cave. Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton. Her research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain-building, and she combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. Marcia was named Outstanding Educator in 2011 by the Association of Women Geoscientists. She is the author of  Reading the Rocks:  The Autobiography of the Earth, a contributing writer to The New Yorker's science and technology blog, “Elements”. Her most recent book is called Timefulness: How thinking like a geologist can help save the world. In 2022, she will publish Geopedia: A Cabinet of Geologic Curiosities. In Reading the Rocks, Marcia writes that "The only autobiography that was transcribed without any self-interest or self-consciousness is the life history of Earth, which has literally been written in the rocks. [It is] the only text that should be mandatory for every earthling. Because we are destroying the roof and destabilizing the heating system of our beautiful home - our only shelter - without having taken the trouble to study the construction details of this house."     Sources we mention in the podcast: -John Harte (2002), Toward a Synthesis of the Newtonian and Darwinian Worldviews. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1522164  -Sabine Hossenfelder (2018), Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (more on this book in a later episode)  - Livestream of the Icelandic volcano eruption (updated 11-Apr-21): https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/18/bein-utsending-fra-gosstodvunum-nyjar-sprungur-opnast    Videos that capture thinking on geologic timescales, provided by Marcia:  Nice illustration of how scale modeling with sand can allow us to see mountain-building processes too slow to experience directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9bKXY0OMxc   This one is not about rock deformation over time, but shows how geologists take 2D surface (map) information and convert it into 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHd6_cIT44   A recently released depiction of plate motions over the past 800 million years: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/tectonic-plates-continental-drift.html   A more detailed plate tectonics animation centered on the Mediterranean region over the past 200 millions years (it first goes backward in time, then forward again to the present): https://www.facebook.com/GeologyWay/videos/2576386299268336/   But Marcia's absolute favorite is this non-scientific animation:  "Das Rad/The Rocks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPwXNFU7oU   I hope you enjoy our discussion! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/    Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave  Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/