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Havi Carel
Philosopher, author, Illness.
Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Illness (2018) and of Phenomenology of Illness (2016). She currently leads a Wellcome Discovery Award project, EPIC: epistemic injustice in health care.

Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Illness (2018) and of Phenomenology of Illness (2016). She currently leads a Wellcome Discovery Award project, EPIC: epistemic injustice in health care.
Havi Carel Videos

The Agony & the Ecstasy
Is pain a necessary part of human experience?

If it doesn't kill you
Do we need suffering to lead a meaningful life?

The Immortal Now
Can philosophy teach us how to die?

Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Should we not name illnesses?
Havi Carel Articles
More Videos

The Agony & the Ecstasy
Is pain a necessary part of human experience?

The Problem of Evil
Does 'evil' exist?

Morality of the Tribe
Should and can we treat all people equally?

The Lure of Lucifer
Why do we love Evil?

Our Sins and Our Selves
Should we embrace our inconsistency?

The Mystery of the Good
Is morality relative or absolute?

The Really Real
Is absolute right and wrong a fantasy?

The Good, The Bad, and the Controversial
Is morality simply prejudice?

Rethinking Feminism
Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

Being Human and Being Good
Is morality relative?

Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Rebecca Goldstein | Plato in the Age of Google

Is Religion Dangerous?
Faith - The Problem or The Solution

After Buddhism
What could secular Buddhism bring the West?

The Last Taboo
Paedophilia, innocence and morality

Doing Right and Feeling Good
Is morality about thinking or feeling?

Thinking Good and Doing Evil
Is belief in any morality dangerous?

On Evil
How do we explain our fascination with evil?

Trouble with Heaven
Why does the dark and the dangerous attract us?

On Humans and Animals
Peter Singer and Mary Midgley on what's next for animal rights

Dancing with the Devil
Can and should art be moral? Our controversial panel confront the darkness.

Rethinking Science and Spirituality
Rupert Sheldrake | They complement each other

Can Animals Be Moral?

Reason and the Gods
What do secular and religious worldviews share?

New Gods
Do we need religion? And if so, why?

The Fountain

Morality and Mindfulness
Vishvapani Blomfield | Can meditation fix ethics?

How to See Things Clearly
Overcoming Wilful Blindness | Margaret Heffernan

The Death of God and the War On Terror
Secularism versus religious fundamentalism

Ethics, Darwin and Dante
The assumptions behind moral beliefs

Good and Evil Around the Globe
Is morality rooted in culture? | Joel Robbins

Belief and the Gods
Is the divine a fantasy?

The Myth of Being Happy
We should give up on the obsession with happiness

Science and Religion
Can science and religion coexist?

In Place of Prejudice
Can rationality provide a basis for morality?

Death and the Human Animal
Is the quest for immortality a fool's errand?

God is an Orgasm

Of Lies and Necessity
Is honesty a fantasy?

Return of the Pagans
Does paganism offer a new haven for spirituality?

Moral Animals and Our Place in the Universe
Are good and evil unique to humans?

The Point of It All
Where should we turn to find meaning?

The Age of Nothing
The consequences of the decline of faith

The Banality of Evil
Nature versus nurture

Life's Secret
Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness

Beyond Good and Evil II
Is morality instinctual?

True to Myself
Morality, virtues & consequences
A Tale of Love and Hate
Are love and hate inextricably linked?

Competition versus Cooperation
Can we survive and succed without competition?

Morality, Cruelty and Freedom
Attitudes towards animal suffering

In the Beginning was Nature
Spirtuality and the environment

Purity and Dirt
Uncovering the significance of cleanliness
More Articles

CRISPR's Brave New World

Science is based in metaphor

Rewriting the code of life

The moral case for eugenics?

The false promise of human gene editing

A new paradigm to understand pain

Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope

Looking at genes through a human lens

The mystery and origins of play
Biology's Uncertainty Principle

The fight for the future of biology

Nature didn't make us human, culture did

From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation

Too much pleasure causes pain

How science makes politics absurd

Cracking the creation of life

The ocean is the engine of the Earth

The microorganism that shaped humanity

We risk turning life into an illness

The Brave New World of synthetic humans

The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here

The mystery of living things

A new theory of matter may help explain life

The mind-body problem is ruining our health

Suspended Ethics?

Entering the Soul Niche

A New Science of Life

The Persecution of Heretics

Who First into the Ark?

An Enemy of The Open Society