Candice Shelby is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. She has published in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and addiction, and has spoken at international venues on a variety of topics related to addiction. She is a popular lecturer in the national addictions recovery community.
We chat about her newest book Addiction, a book that argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that is to be understood on many levels at once. Employing a complex dynamic systems approach and philosophical methodology, Shelby explains addiction as an irreducible neurobiological, psychological, developmental, environmental, and sociological phenomenon.
We begin the conversation off with a discussion around philosophy, what it means and why it is becoming more paramount in this rapidly changing world. I really enjoyed this chat and I hope you do also.