Loneliness and You

My guest in this episode is Richard Gipps. Richard is a clinical psychologist and philosopher practicing as a psychotherapist in Oxford, UK. His recent book, On Madness: Understanding the Psychotic Mind, is published by Bloomsbury Press.

My guest in this episode is Zohar Lederman. Zohar is an emergency medicine physician with a PhD in bioethics. He currently works as a researcher at the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong, where he investigates issues in bioethics including loneliness and One Health Ethics.

My guest in this episode is Pritika Nehra. Pritika is a political philosopher with particular interests in the works of Kant and Hannah Arendt. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi, India.

My guest in this episode is Fred Cooper. Fred is a historian of medicine and transdisciplinary researcher in the medical humanities. He currently works as a postdoctoral research associate in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter in the UK.

My guest in this episode is Eric Schoenmakers. Eric is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Amongst other things, he focuses on the question of how people of various age groups talk about and cope with loneliness and the social stigma or taboo that may be associated with feeling lonely.

My guests in this episode are Samir Dayal and Jon Ericson. Samir is Professor in English and Media Studies at Bentley University in Greater Boston, US. His main research is in Culture Studies, especially postcolonial studies with a focus on South Asia. He is interested in literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis. Jon is Associate Professor in Information Design and Corporate Communication at Bentley University. His background is in Cognitive Science and Experimental Psychology. He is interested in all the ways in which we experience ourselves as connected with, or disconnected from, ourselves, other people, and the world, and how all this relates to technology and design.

My guests in this episode are Ruth Rebecca Tietjen and Sanna Tirkkonen. Ruth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She specializes in social and political philosophy and is interested in topics such as fanaticism and radicalization and also existential phenomena such as melancholia and anxiety. Sanna is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Visiting Scholar at Heidelberg University Hospital. She works in practical philosophy but is also interested in phenomenology, the philosophy of the emotions and of psychiatry. Ruth's and Sanna's paper, "The Rage of Lonely Men: Loneliness and Misogyny in the Online Movement of "Involuntary Celibates" (Incels)" is recently published in the journal Topoi.

My guest in this episode is Joanna McHugh Power. Joanna is Associate Professor of Psychology at Maynooth University in Ireland, where she works on loneliness and social functioning in later life. Her new co-authored paper, “Freedom and loneliness: dementia caregiver experiences of the nursing home transition", is now published in the journal Age and Ageing.  

My guest in this episode is Elena Popa. Elena is a philosopher of science and postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where she is working on the project “Values, Trust, and Decision-Making in Public Health”. 

My guests in this episode are Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Cole. Shaun is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, US. His new book, the Self and its Disorders, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Jonathan is Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at University Hospitals Dorset in the UK and President of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. His new book, Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Author, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Press.