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This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.

Apr 17, 2025

Dan Zahavi

Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition

Two footnotes to the podcast.

1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction (2020), an excellent companion to Zahavi's text that focuses on philosophical phenomenology.

2. Paul Møller's Psychosis risk...

One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.

Feb 16, 2025

Owen Flanagan

James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus

What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse

"A brilliant and unparalleled synthesis of the science, philosophy, and first-person phenomenology of addiction. Owen Flanagan is a distinguished...

Until now there were three schools of thought on how best to live one's life (Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). Agnes Callard proposes a fourth: Socratic.

Feb 11, 2025

Agnes Callard

Open Socrates

"[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life’s most important...

Wouter Kusters is a philosopher who suffered two psychotic breaks in his life. This book also at times degenerates into mad thinking. The reader's mind follows Kusters descent.philosophy), the book also attempts to go mad itself, to be a mad text.

Jan 11, 2025

Wouter Kusters

A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking

MIT...

outside! See https://CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint against this DMH facility in Fall River MA

Jan 9, 2025

See https/://CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint submitted to Mass DMV regarding alleged human rights violations in this Fall River, MA facility.

Corrigan IPU patients deserve a real, substantive right to access the outdoors.

It is gross really to see the Corrigan IPU patients staying inside day...