This is the final episode of the first series of the podcast. I have a look at the conversations of the past year, try to identify some guiding threads, and create some connections. I also ramble on a fair bit about various philosophical questions. Please stay tuned - we'll be back in the autumn with the second series, in which we'll focus on the lived experience of loneliness ..read more

My guest in this episode is Melba Jensen. Melba is a guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. She previously taught 19th Century American Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst ..read more

My guest in this episode is Richard Deming. Richard is the Director of Creative Writing at Yale University. He is a writer, critic, and scholar whose work explores the intersections of philosophy, literature, and visual culture. His recent book, This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity, is published with Viking ..read more

My guest in this episode is Tamara Kayali Browne. Tamara is  Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. She works in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine with a focus on reproductive technology (particularly ethical issues related to non-medical sex selection) and neuroethics (particularly ethical and philosophical issues related to diagnoses of mental illness). Her book, Depression and the Self: Meaning, Control, and Authenticity, is published with Cambridge University Press ..read more

My guest in this episode is Olya Kudina. Olya is Assistant Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft in the Netherlands. She explores moral questions through the lens of hermeneutics, pragmatism, and empirical philosophy and is particularly interested in AI ethics. Her new book, Moral Hermeneutics and Technology: Making Moral Sense through Human-Technology-World Relations, is published with Rowman & Littlefield. Her paper, “Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense‐Making, is in the journal Human Studies ..read more

My guest in this episode is Ulla Schmid. Ulla is a physician and philosopher. One of her interests, both in research and as a social worker and junior assistant in psychiatry, is addiction. Her recent paper, Alcohol and Loneliness: Their Entanglement and Social Constitution, is published in the journal Topoi ..read more

My guest in this episode is Jeff Meek. Jeff is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is interested in the experiences of gay and bisexual men in post-war Scotland, as well as the history of same-sex desire from the 17th century to the late 20th century in Scotland. His recent work includes "A Purer Form of Loneliness’: Loneliness and the Search for Community amongst Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1940 to 1980". His book, Queer Trades, Sex, and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland, is published with Routledge ..read more

My guest in this episode is Bryanna Moore. Bry is Assistant Professor in the Department for Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas, USA. She is interested in clinical ethics, pediatric ethics, medical decision-making, end of life issues, virtue ethics and moral psychology. Her paper, At What Cost? Analyzing Hospital Visitation Restrictions in a Pandemic Using a Public Health Framework is published in the Journal of Hospital Ethics ..read more

My guest in this episode is Lars Svendsen. Lars is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of several books, including "A Philosophy of Loneliness" (2017) for which he won the 2022 Philosophical Book Prize in Germany ..read more

My guest in this episode is Rick Anthony Furtak. Rick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA. He is interested in the moral psychology of the emotions, the relations between philosophy and literature, and existential thought. Apart from his philosophical publications, Rick also writes poetry. His paper (co-authored with Ruth Rebecca Tietjen), Loneliness, Love, and the Limits of Language, has been published by The Southern Journal of Philosophy. His recent book, "Love, Subjectivity, and Truth: Existential Themes in Proust", is published by Oxford University Press ..read more