Loneliness and You

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.

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.

My guest in this episode is Marlies Maes. Marlies is Assistant Professor for Youth Studies, Interdisciplinary Social Science, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is interested in social relationships between humans and studies loneliness, mainly amongst adolescents. Her co-authored paper, How (Not) to Measure Loneliness: A Review of the Eight Most Commonly Used Scales, is published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

My guest in this episode is Lucy Osler. Lucy is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. She is interested in phenomenological and 4E approaches to online sociality, embodiment, intersubjectivity, affectivity, and psychopathology. Her recent co-authored paper, Loneliness and Absence in Psychopathology, is published in the journal Topoi.

My guest in this episode is Johnna Wellesley. Johnna is a PhD Candidate in Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas, Medical Branch. She is interested in the ethical, cultural, legal, and emotional aspects of medicine and focuses on the presence of shame and stigma in the dying and the dead. Her recent commentary, "Autonomy requires more curiosity less deference to risk" is published in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My guest in this episode is Aaron Hames. Aaron is a medical anthropologist and a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines how the elderly in Japan encounter an ageing society and work through cooperative medical organizations to meet their social and health needs. He has recently published the paper, "The Energetic Brain Club in Life and Death" in the journal Anthropology and Humanism.