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Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research known for his challenge of the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder. Instead, he argues that philosophy begins with disappointment, specifically religious and political disappointment. In addition to his study of disappointment, Simon Critchley's recent works have engaged in more experimental forms of writing on Shakespeare, David Bowie, suicide, Greek tragedy and association football. He is the series moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, where Critchley asks philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture.
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research known for his challenge of the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder. Instead, he argues that philosophy begins with disappointment, specifically religious and political disappointment. In addition to his study of disappointment, Simon Critchley's recent works have engaged in more experimental forms of writing on Shakespeare, David Bowie, suicide, Greek tragedy and association football. He is the series moderator of The Stone at The New York Times, where Critchley asks philosophers to weigh in on contemporary issues in art, literature, politics, and popular culture.
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Brave New Horizon
Where will technology lead the human race?
The Immortal Now
Can philosophy teach us how to die?
Emperor's New Genes
Are genes not the blueprint for life we imagined?
What happens to our bodies when we die?
Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay
The Evolution of Desire
Do genetics explain all of human nature?
Defeating Aging
Do you want to live forever?
The New Bodies
Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs
Orgasmatron
What can MRI scans of brains in orgasm tell us?
After Darwin
Is the age of selfish gene theory over?
Are Doctors Bad For Us?
Medicine, trust, and power
The Illusion of Race
How do we move on from race?
After Evolution
Is culture beyond genetics?
Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?
The Evolution of Suicide
Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history
Doctors and the Danger Industry
Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?
Life On The Edge
How can we halt society's existential crises?
Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?
Why We Are Who We Are
The epigenetic revolution
Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?
The Uniqueness of Humanity
Is evolution progress?
Genes, Cells, and Brains
Taking on the bioscience industry
A Paradigm of Health
What are the limits of western medicine?
The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?
Cyborg Future
Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body
Inside the Mind’s Eye
The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Your Life in the Balance
Should we trust doctors less than we do?
Documenting Death
Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti
Docs in the Dock
What can we do about medical errors?
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
How Science Tells Us Who We Are
George Ellis | Nature vs nurture
Designing Life
How to Live Forever
A future without morality
Medicine's Mistakes
Should we distrust medicine?
Meat, Metal, Code
Human and Superhuman
Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?
Should We Change Our Genes?
Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?
The Mystery of Life
If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?
Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?
Trust Me, I'm Google
Medicine in a digital age
Dawkins on the crisis of rationality
In conversation with Richard Dawkins
Science, hypocrisy and lies
The truth deficit
How specialisation is killing us
Life, death, and specialisation
Wave goodbye to being human
The transhumanist dream
The life and philosophy of Denis Noble
Esteemed biologist reflects on life and career
Risk, Evidence and Lockdown
The right response to Covid-19?
The matrix or the miracle
The future of the family
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The morality of animals
The two ideas that divide us
Nature loves a hypocrite
Who is to blame for migrant deaths?
In defence of pessimism
Christmas traditions don't need religion
The Epicurean's guide to Christmas
How four women revolutionised ethics
Are mandatory vaccines justified?
Groundhog Day vs Nietzsche: Reliving Your Life
The Return of Meaning
The power of anxiety
Humour is no joke
Change Thyself: your personality is a moral issue
The rules of war are absurd, but necesssary
What Hobbes really thought about war
Why getting what you want won't make you happy
Moderating Twitter's Moderators
Truth is questionable, and so is honesty
Nietzsche: your conscience is no saint
5 philosophers on how to face death
Happiness as an act of resistance
The present is all there is to happiness
Paul Bloom: The Pleasure of Suffering
Pandemic prediction from Lucretius
Mapping morality: Peter Singer vs his critics
The danger of ethics without empathy
Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live
How effective altruism lost the plot
Pursuing happiness is a mistake