Elisabeth Schellekens
Author of Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? and Aesthetics and Morality, Elisabeth Schellekens teaches the Philosophy of Art, Emotion and Mind at the University of Durham.
Author of Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? and Aesthetics and Morality, Elisabeth Schellekens teaches the Philosophy of Art, Emotion and Mind at the University of Durham.
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Mind in the 21st Century
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The Evolution of Suicide
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Life On The Edge
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The Evolution of Consciousness
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Overcoming death
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The Edge of Reason
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Metaphors of the Mind
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Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution
Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?
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The Road to the Good Life
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Genes, Cells, and Brains
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A Paradigm of Health
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The Naked Truth
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Animal Reason
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Cyborg Future
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Inside the Mind’s Eye
The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Your Life in the Balance
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Documenting Death
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Catching Sight of Ourselves
Who looks back in the mirror?
Docs in the Dock
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The Philosopher’s Guide to Style
Why appearance matters
The Ego Trick
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Are Hospitals Bad For Us?
Social justice impacts our health more than medicine
Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
Neoliberalism makes for crude science
Morality, Hypocrisy and Health
Drugs and Western imperialism
Sex, Science, and Stereotypes
Why women have evolved differently from men
Sensuality and Deception
Who Looks Back in the Mirror
Are we any closer to understanding the self, and what makes each one of us who we are?
Outrageous Fortune
Fate in modern society
The Architecture of Being
Navigating our relationships
How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture
Designing Life
Entering the Unknown
What can we know of ourselves and the world?
Thinking Afresh
Is consistency consistent?
How to Live Forever
A future without morality
Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?
Meat, Metal, Code
Human and Superhuman
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The View From Outside
Should We Change Our Genes?
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The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?
Is Descartes Irrelevant?
Should we focus on modern philosophy?
Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?
Entering the Soul Niche
How a belief in it has kept humanity going
Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age
The freedom paradox
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The dawn of consciousness
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The return of eugenics?
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Science to the Rescue
How do we decide on the truth?
Consciousness and ChatGPT
Is ChatGPT conscious?
Beyond Us: Knowledge
Episode 1: What is knowledge and what is it for?