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London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-25 · Upcoming events

Insta-Worthy Memories and Filtered Truth: The Effects of Technology on Our Personal Histories and Records of the Past 

Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity of human memory in the age of social media and AI.

London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-25 · Upcoming events

On Being Emotionally Haunted by One’s Past 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by Matthew Ratcliffe, discussing the broader conception of human emotional experience through the lens of being haunted by one’s past.

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London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-25 · Upcoming events

Trauma, emotion, and memory 

Michael Brady explores how memory can contribute to post-traumatic growth, examining the role of emotional memories in recovery.

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London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-25 · Upcoming events

Remembering the dead 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by Kathleen Higgins, exploring how memories and new insights help us honor the dead and integrate their presence into our lives.

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Philosophy

Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism 

Causal closure arguments against interactionist dualism are currently popular amongst physicalists. Such an argument appeals to some principles of the causal closure of the physical, together with certain other premises, to conclude that at least some mental events are identical with physical events. However, it is crucial to the success of any such argument that the physical causal closure principle to which it appeals is neither too strong nor too weak by certain standards. In this paper, it is argued that various forms of naturalistic dualism, of an emergentist character, are consistent with the strongest physical causal closure principles that can plausibly be advocated

By E. J. LOWE
Think

What is phenomenology? 

Simon Glendinning explains the mysteries of phenomenology

By Simon Glendinning
Philosophy

Is There Anything it is Like to be a Bat? 

The concept of consciousness has been the source of much confusion over the past two decades. Current orthodoxy in ‘consciousness studies’ has it that the key to understanding the concept of consciousness is to grasp the idea of qualia. But the appearance of mystery here is the product of conceptual confusion. There is nothing to ‘the qualitative character of experience’ beyond the individual character of a specific experience and how the subject felt in undergoing it, and here there are no mysteries beyond empirical ignorance and conceptual mystification.

By P. M. S. Hacker
Philosophy

Wrongdoing and Forgiveness 

Joanna North explores the nature and value of forgiveness, arguing that it requires recognizing the wrongdoer's responsibility and involves a conscious effort by the one wronged to improve their relationship with the wrongdoer. She highlights that modern moral philosophers often overlook the moral significance of forgiveness outside a religious context and addresses the challenges in defining this complex moral response.

By Joanna North
Think

Behaviourism 

Behaviourists take the view that mental states are essentially behavioural: to be in pain, for example, is just to behave, or be disposed to behave, in certain ways (to writhe and go ‘Ow!’, and so on). Behavourism, if true, would neatly explain how mind and body are related.Nowadays behaviourism, as a philosophy of mind, is philosophically out of fashion. But here, Rowland Stout explains why he still believes it may be true.

By Rowland Stout
Think

Artificial Intelligence and Data Harvesting: An Interview with Carissa Véliz 

An exploration of the risks and benefits of AI, particular regarding privacy.

By Carissa Véliz and Stephen Law
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