Life From Plato's Cave

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A course in interdisciplinarity by Mario Veen. In each episode I travel through Plato's Allegory of the Cave together with a guide. Together, we examine the question of what it means to learn, grow and develop in life on earth. We do so from a new perspective every time. You can use this course to study whatever interests you through the lens of philosophy, film, art, physics, spirituality and many more. All you need is the willingness to think things through and the openness to have your preconceived notions challenged. lifefromplatoscave.com

Episodes

Tuesday Jun 14, 2022

Episode 19 - Love and/of Philosophy with Jeanne Proust

Tuesday Jun 14, 2022

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 12 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide: among many fields, she does research in Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York, Jeanne is advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy, leading her to recently produce her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography, drawing and painting works. She is currently working on articles at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology, and starting a new book project about contrasting feminist views on female sexual desire.

https://jeanneproust.github.io/index.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-proust-74162b40/

https://www.instagram.com/can_you_phil_it_/?hl=fr

Jeanne recently published an essay about FOMO in Nouma Magazine: https://www.noemamag.com/a-remedy-for-fomo/

Sources that came up in our conversation:

Philosophical podcasts:

LSD (French): https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/lsd-la-serie-documentaire

Philosophize This: https://www.philosophizethis.org/

BBC's In Our Time: Philosophy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr/episodes/downloads

Rani Lill Anjum's Introduction to Philosophy syllabus in podcast episodes: https://ranilillanjum.com/introduction-to-philosophy-syllabus-in-podcast-episodes/

Smellosophy: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983694

Invisible Demons documentary: https://mk2films.com/en/film/invisible-demons/

Virginie Despendes, "King Kong Theory" https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/king-kong-theory

Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: (translation of La Penseé et le Mouvement): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208057.The_Creative_Mind

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

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Sunday Jul 10, 2022

Episode 20 - Being Better Earthlings with Marcia Bjornerud

Sunday Jul 10, 2022

Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton. Her research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain-building, and she combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. Marcia was named Outstanding Educator in 2011 by the Association of Women Geoscientists. She is the author of Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, Timefulness: How thinking like a geologist can help save the world and a contributing writer to The New Yorker’s science and technology blog, “Elements”. Her most recent book is called Geopedia: A Cabinet of Geologic Curiosities.

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Thursday Jul 28, 2022

Episode 21 - Image-Thinking & Travelling Concepts with Mieke Bal

Thursday Jul 28, 2022

We discuss Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal. Mieke (www.miekebal.org) started as a literary scholar. Her commitment is to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural artifacts and their potential effects. She focuses on gender, migratory culture, psychoanalysis, and the critique of capitalism. Mieke published 45 books and curated many exhibitions. She directed films and documentaries, many of which are exhibited as video installations in museums over the world. Her books include a trilogy on political art: Endless Andness, Thinking in Film, and Of What One Cannot Speak. Mieke supervised 81 PhDs. She (co-)made documentaries on migratory culture, and films which she calls ‘theoretical fictions.’ A Long History of Madness argues for a more humane treatment of psychosis, and was exhibited in a site-specific version, Saying It, in the Freud Museum in London. Madame B was combined with paintings by Edvard Munch in the Munch Museum in Oslo. Reasonable Doubt is about the philosopher René Descartes and explores the social aspects of thinking. The installation Don Quixote: tristes figuras is exhibited as a sixteen channel video work. Becoming Vera is a documentary about a girl who is "three years old. Living in three worlds". Her latest film, It’s About Time! Reflections on Urgency was produced in Poland (2020), just before the corona pandemic. It's a short film and you can watch it in full on Mieke's website.

She was recently was elected to the one-year chair “L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures”, founded as one of three “chaires annuelles” by the Collège de France.

Image-Thinking proposes a new model of synthesis of creative and intellectual work. It merges theoretical and practical considerations in innovative and empowering ways, while clarifying difficult concepts through accounts of practice including trauma, agency, identity and affect.

We also briefly discuss Mieke's influential idea of "travelling concepts", which she introduced in her 2002 book Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide.

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

Episode 22 - World-Centered Education with Gert Biesta

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

We discuss World-Centered Education by Gert Biesta. Gert Biesta (gertbiesta.com/) is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is also deputy head of the Institute for Education, Teaching and Leadership. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Agder, Norway, and has recently completed a Visiting Professorship at Uniarts, the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland.

He is co-editor of the British Educational Research Journal, co-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, and associate editor of Educational Theory. He co-edits two book series with Routledge: Theorizing Education, and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education.

Gert has written many books about education. Some of these are Good Education in the Age of Measurement, The Beautiful Risk of Education, and The Rediscovery of Teaching. Gert has been involved in educational policy, for instance as From 2015 until 2018 I was an associate member of the 'Onderwijsraad' (the Education Council of the Netherlands), the main government advisory body on education from 2015 to 2018. And in 2020 he was appointed by the Dutch government to the Scientific Curriculum Committee which is to provide advise about the final stages of the reform of the national framework for the curriculum for primary and secondary education.

World-Centered Education makes an intervention in a long-standing discussion by arguing that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred. This is not just because education should provide students with the knowledge and skills to act effectively in the world, but is first and foremost because the world is the place where our existence as human beings takes place.

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Friday Sep 02, 2022

Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education - Megan Brown, Mario Veen & Gabrielle Finn

Friday Sep 02, 2022

The book Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education by Megan Brown, Mario Veen and Gabrielle Finn considers the practical application of philosophical concepts to teaching, learning, and research, covers philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Practical Wisdom, and includes practice points for educators within each chapter of the book.

*To skip to a specific presentation, scroll down to the end for all the times*

In this episode (and if you're a regular listener of this podcast you may skip to another episode unless you are interested in this topic) some of the authors present their chapter. We invite you to our book launch conference on September 13th, 7pm-9pm BST. It's free and you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsH_0JJ0tu1Zy8b-DpNdvP9mvVixSFyBVHE21diIXElUalGQ/viewform

The book launch will be dedicated to discussion between attending authors and those who sign up. We've had fantastic interest from our contributing authors regarding attending the launch, so it looks set to be a rich and practical discussion regarding how we can "philosophize" health professions education.

The book is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3

If you are interested in philosophy and education after listening to this episode, I invite you to listen to Episode 22 of this podcast: World-Centered Education with Gert Biesta https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ios0v1c7SvA5Q3vLRSfMr?si=lz5FfBltQOS1CBz6muOEUw&utm_source=whatsapp&nd=1

If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us on twitter. After all, the only stupid question is the one you did not ask:

Megan Brown: https://twitter.com/Megan_EL_Brown

Mario Veen: https://twitter.com/MarioVeen

Gabrielle finn: https://twitter.com/gabs_finn

Timecodes of the presentations in this episode:

2:58 Chapter 2 Philosophy of Education: Towards a Practical Philosophy of Educational Practice Wouter Pols, Joop Berding
9:55 Chapter 3 Subjectification in Health Professions Education: Why We Should Look Beyond the Idea of Professional Identity Formation Simon Verwer, Marije van Braak
17:55 Chapter 4 The Serious Healer: Developing an Ethic of Ambiguity Within Health Professions Education Mario Veen, Megan E. L. Brown
25:02 Chapter 5 Acknowledgement: The Antidote to Skillification (of Empathy) in Health Professions Education Anne de la Croix, Grace Peters, William F. Laughey
30:22 Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Social Justice: Lessons for Achieving Progress in Health Professions Education Through Meaningful Inclusion Angelique N. Dueñas, Marina Politis, Adam Danquah
33:16 Chapter 10 The Future of Healthcare is Feminist: Philosophical Feminism in Health Professions Education Lena Wånggren, Gabrielle Maria Finn
39:19 Chapter 12 “What Does It Mean to Be?”: Ontology and Responsibility in Health Professions Education Tasha R. Wyatt, Rola Ajjawi, Mario Veen
47:24 Chapter 15 Ethics Education in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington
50:12 Chapter 23 Teaching Dignity in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington
53:11 Chapter 16 Climate Change and Health Care Education Cristina Richie
58:41 Chapter 18 Philosophy as Therapy: Rebalancing Technology and Care in Health Professions Education Martina Ann Kelly, Tim Dornan, Tinu Ruparell
1:04:10 Chapter 20 Phronesis in Medical Practice: The Will and the Skill Needed to Do the Right Thing Margaret Plews-Ogan, Kenneth E. Sharpe
1:12:20 Chapter 21 In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education Sven Schaepkens, Camillo Coccia
1:18:04 Chapter 22 The Application of Stoicism to Health Professions Education Alexander MacLellan, Megan E. L. Brown, Tim LeBon, Neil Guha
1:25:18 Chapter 24 The Ambiguities of Humility: A Conceptual and Historical Exploration in the Context of Health Professions Education Barret Michalec, Frederic W. Hafferty, Nicole Piemonte, Jon C. Tilburt

Tuesday Oct 25, 2022

Episode 23 - How Science Works with Vincent Icke

Tuesday Oct 25, 2022

If the idea in society about how science works does not match how it actually works, how can society provide the optimal conditions for science?

Vincent Icke is Professor of theoretical Astrophysics at Leiden University, where he founded the Astronomy Theory Group, and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. His main research interests are cosmology, the relationship between dark matter and dark energy, the formation of structure in the Universe, and radiative hydrodynamics. Vincent takes an active interest in the popularization of science, participating in hundreds of productions on radio, fielm and television. He wrote many books in Dutch and English. For instance, Gravity Does Not Exist: A Puzzle For the 21st Century, about the relationship between relativity and quantum theory, and Reisbureau Einstein (Einstein’s Travel Agency) about the quest for extraterrestrial life. His latest book (Dutch) is called Licht: Tussen waarheid en wetenschap (Light: Between truth and science).

Vincent is also a visual artist, whose work covers a wide range of styles, media, applications and concepts. For instance, imagining what an alien spaceship might look like.

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Friday Nov 25, 2022

Episode 24 - Extinction Rebellion with Hannah Prins

Friday Nov 25, 2022

Hannah Prins is a climate activist and studies criminal law and international law in Amsterdam. She is active in the Extinction Rebellion Legal Circle and is passionate about protecting the right to demonstration.

Sources:

Merchants of Doubt documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc

Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. (2010). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

The Smoke Filled Room Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5YwN4NW5o

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: https://www.ipcc.ch/

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Friday Dec 09, 2022

Episode 25 - Conversation Analysis with Mike Huiskes

Friday Dec 09, 2022

Mike Huiskes is professor of Language and Social Interaction at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. His work focuses on social interaction as an embodied phenomenon in both mundane and professional settings. His studies topics like intersubjectivity, epistemics and action coordination. Currently, his work focuses on learning and teaching as action coordination in various professional settings. For instance, studying how surgeon supervisors and residents construct a learning environment.

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

Episode 26 - Dealing with Collapse with Chris Julien

Wednesday Dec 14, 2022

Chris Julien mixes research and practice in the fields of public innovation, theory and culture, with a focus on ecology and epistemology. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Utrecht university that combines new materialisms and eco-thinking to constitute a field of so-called ‘ecological governance’. Furthermore, he is active in Extinction Rebellion and XR Nieuwsmedia and works on urban ecology and artistic research projects with Waag Futurelab, besides siting on various boards and committees. He holds cum laude masters degrees in Conflict Studies & Human Rights and in Cultural Analysis.

https://chrisjulien@kolektiva.social/@chrisjulien

https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/CFJulien

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.

Sources:
Havelock, E.A. (1982) Preface to Plato. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674699069

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments:

Friday Jan 13, 2023

Episode 27 - Michel Serres’ Philosophy with Aldo Houterman

Friday Jan 13, 2023

Our mountain guide through Plato's Cave and the philosophy of Michel Serres is Aldo Houterman. Aldo teaches Medical Ethics and Philosophy at the Amsterdam University Medical Center and is doing his PhD research at the ESPRIT center for sports, integrity and transition

at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His book 'We are our body' is about the meaning of the body, sports and movement for human existence His area of research is the philosophy of the body: How is the body regarded in sports, in healthcare or in science? Which body images prevail in top sports and which ideas about the body are sustainable? In his work Aldo uses the interdisciplinary philosophy of Michel Serres. Aldo is also an avid cyclist and a member of the ethical committy of the cyclist union KNWU.

Sources:

ESPRIT: https://www.eur.nl/esphil/onderzoek/onderzoeksinstituten-centra-en-scholen/erasmus-center-sport-integrity-transition

Wij zijn ons lichaam (Dutch): https://www.amboanthos.nl/boek/wij-zijn-ons-lichaam/

Interview with Aldo about sport (Dutch): https://www.human.nl/lees/2021/aug/aldo-houterman.html

‘De gymles van Michel Serres’ (Dutch): https://www.academia.edu/38127298/De_gymles_van_Michel_Serres

Michel Serres Reading Guide: https://christopherwatkin.com/2020/02/27/so-you-want-to-read-michel-serres-start-here/

This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways.

I hope you enjoy the episode!
Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/

I'd love to hear your questions or comments: