{"id":9131,"date":"2020-04-14T23:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2020-05-13T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:23:27","slug":"from-the-vaults-philosophy-as-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-philosophy-as-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Philosophy as Therapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Beverley Clack \/ Molly Macdonald \/ John Skorupski<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen <a href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20191029_EI_PhilosophyAsTherapy.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dx9TnDfdB4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a rich tradition of claiming therapeutic powers for philosophy, but if philosophy is the love of wisdom, is ignorance bliss? Is philosophy only about sharp arguments and subtle distinctions, or can it help us find better ways to live? Join us as we discuss whether thinking philosophically can be a form\u00a0of self-help.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookes.ac.uk\/templates\/pages\/staff.aspx?wid=&amp;op=full&amp;uid=p0073620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beverley Clack<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor in Philosophy, Oxford Brookes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/sed\/staff\/macdonaldm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Molly Macdonald<\/a><br \/>\nLecturer in Literary Theory, QMUL<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philosophy\/dept\/staffprofiles\/?staffid=116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Skorupski<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of Fashion Cultures, UAL &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beverley Clack \/ Molly Macdonald \/ John Skorupski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/3-MI-MH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2nh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10969,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9131\/revisions\/10969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}