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Our Mental Wellness

Coping with Trauma

Most of us will experience a traumatic event at some point in our lives. Our sense of self and the world may change and we may experience unwanted distressing memories and feel a wide range of negative emotions.
Psychiatry

The Microbiome and the Brain

An interview with Professor Phil Burnet, who discusses his research into the influence of the gut microbiome on brain health. He talks about novel findings, potential future work, and takes questions from trainee psychiatrists and researchers.
Shakespeare and the Brain

Extracts from Shakespeare, read by Roland Oliver (actor): Richard II Act V, Scene 5; Macbeth Act II, Scene 1; Henry IV Part 2, Act IV, Scene 3

Roland (an actor and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) concludes the ‘Shakespeare and the Brain’ event by reading relevant extracts from three of Shakespeare’s plays.
Shakespeare and the Brain

The Hunter Heartbeat Method – Kelly Hunter (actor, director and educator)

Kelly gives an outline of some of her work using sensory drama games, using Shakespeare’s works, to interact and play with children with autism.
Shakespeare and the Brain

Shakespeare, Mind and World – Dr Tom MacFaul (Lecturer in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

Tom discusses how Shakespeare’s age thought about thinking. In particular, he looks at the transformative power of thought and the idea in some of Shakespeare’s works that the mind is free to create its own world.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

'Artificial Intelligence' part 2 - How to create machines that learn

Professor Nando de Freitas explains that understanding how our brains work has helped us create machines that learn, and how these learning machines can be put to completing different tasks.
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Was Schubert a musical brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis deepens his argument against the idea that we are our brains. He believes there is a distinction in kind between humans and other animals. This he illustrates by appeal to the differences between the music of Schubert and the singing
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Spiders, yes, but why cats?

Prof.Iain McGilchrist illustrates his argument by appeal to a number of paintings done by psychotic patients. He points to various commonalities between these paintings and speculates on the ways in which they support claims about the two hemispheres and
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Am I my mind?

Prof. Iain McGilchrist, whilst agreeing with Tallis that we are not our brains argues that we can learn a great deal about our culture by learning more about our brain. In particular we should recognise we have two hemispheres, each with a different funct
Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Am I my brain?

Prof. Raymond Tallis argues that extraordinary claims have been made for neurophysiology. For example it has been said that a person is nothing but his or her brain. Professor Raymond Tallis rejects this ‘neuromania’. He shows why it is attractive, but al
Oxford Physics Public Lectures

Consciousness and Computability

Prof. Sir Roger Penrose on the idea of artificial intelligence and whether consciousness can be replicated by a computer - a discussion of new physics which may take us closer to explaining the mind.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Further reading and more...

So you've finished this series of podcasts. Find out where to go from here...
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 5: Questions and Answers

Marianne Talbot presents the last of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, engaging in a questions and answers discussion with the audience.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 4: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

Marianne Talbot presents the fourth of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, wondering if we are asking the wrong questions?
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 3: If Physicalism Won't Work, What is the Alternative?

Marianne Talbot presents the third of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on alternatives to Physicalism.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face

Slides to accompany Marianne Talbot's second of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the problems they face.
A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind

Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won't Work

Marianne Talbot presents the first of five episodes of the Romp through the Philosophy of Mind, on Identity Theory and why it won't work.
Keble College

Creativity Lecture 1: Soul Dust - the Science and Art of Consciousness

Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist based in Cambridge, presents his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. Part of the Creativity Lecture Series by the Keble College Advanced Studies Centre.
General Philosophy

8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains

Part 8.4. The final part of this series. Explores the distinction between mind and body and whether this makes a difference to the idea of personal identity.
Alumni Weekend

How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr David Smith gives a talk on how to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

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