BSP Podcast – BSP Online

The BSP Podcast is a regular audio streaming service free to all. Its aim is to both promote the British Society for Phenomenology and its activities, as well as preserve, archive, and share the work of phenomenologists associated with the society. The content is generated primarily from recordings of papers given at our events… [More]

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Season Six (2024): Part II

Season Six will continue later in September 2024…

Season Six (2024): Part I

#157	Mariia Galkina	Towards a phenomenology of environmental shame	3 July 2024
#156	Paul Tuppeny	“I didn’t want their past to be a mark on them.” (R. Rauschenberg): A Sculptor’s Investigation into the Phenomena of Objective Age	2 July 2024
#155	Adam Takacs	Ageing Being: Temporality, Corporeality, and Shared World	1 July 2024
#154	Gage Krause	Desynchronization, Alienation, and the Social World in Grief	10 June 2024
#153	Ronja Griep	When Does Bodily Shame Turn Unjust? The Case of Menstrual Shame	7 June 2024
#152	Oskar Otto Frohn	Shame and Depression – A Phenomenological Qualitative Exploration of Shame in Depression	6 June 2024
#151	Emily Hughes	“Heavier, and less mine”: grief and the modification of bodily experience	5 June 2024
#150	Pat McConville	Phenomenology and Artificial Hearts: Three scales of temporal change	4 June 2024
#149	Penelope Lusk	“It said the quiet part out loud”: Reshaping Shame in the #MedBikini Twitter Movement	3 June 2024
#148	Janna van Grunsven	Reimagining Embodied Well-Being: Quasi-Cartesianism, Crip Technoscience & 4E Cognition	27 May 2024
#147	Michael L. J. Greer	On Oscillating Between Fatness & Thinness in a Fatphobic World: Weight-Cycling, Apprehensive Perception, & the Body You Might Have	27 May 2024
#146	Bence Marosan	Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Animal Emotions. A Husserlian Perspective	24 May 2024
#145	Joe MacDonagh	Daseinic elements of the ethicality of nursing practice	23 May 2024
#144	Tristan Hedges	Towards a phenomenology of discrimination	22 May 2024
#143	Charlotte Knowles & Filipa Melo Lopes	How to Dress Like a Feminist	21 May 2024
#142	Matt Pritchard & Philip Tovey	Ecophenomenological Perspectives on Human Augmentation	19 May 2024
#141	Maxim Miroshnichenko	The Painful Incorporation: Hybrid Intercorporeality in the Case of Dialysis and Chronic Kidney Disease	17 May 2024
#140	Liesbeth Schoonheim	Posters, protests, and reclaiming the streets	16 May 2024
#139	Eugenia Stefanello	Empathy, Narrative Medicine, and (Mis)Representation of Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective	15 May 2024
#138	Joshua Bergamin	When is ‘my truth’ true? Interpreting lived experience in phenomenological interviews	14 May 2024
#137	Tom Hey	A Phenomenological Approach to Bulimia	13 May 2024
#136	Ida Djursaa	Towards a Critical Phenomenology of the Erotic	10 May 2024
#135	Kira Meyer	Ecophenomenology as a Contribution to Transformation	9 May 2024
#134	Ullrich Haase	‘Is Heidegger’s Other Thinking necessarily an Ecological Thinking? Reflections on the Absence of Nature and the Destiny of Technology’	8 May 2024
#133	Giovanna Colombetti	Varieties of incorporation: beyond the blind man’s cane	7 May 2024
#132	Alia Al-Saji	Fanon and an Engaged Phenomenology of Affect: Touching the wounds of colonial duration	6 May 2024

Season Five (2020-2021): Part III

#131	Marieke Borren	The Spatial Phenomenology of White Embodiment	27 November 2021
#130	Ondra Kvapil	Thought-provoking Death	20 November 2021
#129	Sam McAuliffe	The Improvisational Encounter: What is Common to Music and Hermeneutic-Phenomenology	13 November 2021
#128	Adriano Lotito	Tran Duc Thao between Phenomenology and Marxism	6 November 2021
#127	Maria-Nefeli Panetsos	Dancing Phenomenology: A New Source of Non-Verbal Knowledge	30 October 2021
#126	Pablo Fernandez Velasco	Evenki wandering and Situationist wandering	23 October 2021
#125	Mary Coaten	Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Acute Adult Psychiatry: Psyche and Dasein	16 October 2021
#124	María Jimena Clavel Vázquez	Perceiving like a girl? Sensorimotor Enactivism in the face of situated embodiment	9 October 2021
#123	Mary Fridley & Susan Massad	Creating a New Performance of Dementia Gwen Lowenheim presenting for Susan Massad	2 October 2021
#122	Giuseppe Torre	Noise, Phenomena and the Digital Psychosis	25 September 2021
#121	Joel Krueger	Taking Watsuji online: aidagara and expression in the techno-social niche	18 September 2021

Season Five (2020-2021): Part II

#120	Juan Toro	The Ecological-Enactive Model of Disability: Why disability does not entail pathological embodiment Co-authors: Julian Kiverstein & Erik Rietveld	3 July 2021
#119	Ellen Moysan	Phenomenological Description of the Notion of Inner Song: Doing Phenomenology to Understand Music Practice	26 June 2021
#118	Bence Peter Marosan	Engaged Eco-phenomenology. An Eco-socialist stance based upon a phenomenological account of narrative identity	19 June 2021
#117	Belinda Marshal	Being-in-the-Virtual-World	12 June 2021
#116	D. R. Koukal	Teaching Phenomenology as a Heuristic Tool in Architectural Design	5 June 2021
#115	Sadaf Soloukey	Phenomenological Embodiment in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury Receiving Neural Implants	29 May 2021
#114	Michael Fitzgerald	Phenomenological interpretations of patient engagement in research Co-authors: Esther Shoemaker, Lisa Boucher, Claire Kendall	22 May 2021
#113	Lucienne Spencer	The phenomenological impact of hermeneutical injustice	15 May 2021
#112	Lewis Coyne	What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of its Aims and Methods	8 May 2021
#111	Margaret Steele	Weight-Based Shame as an Affective Determinant of Health	1 May 2021
#110	Pablo Andreu	On the Patient’s Agency – a Phenomenological Approach to Medical Praxis	24 April 2021
#109	Caroline Greenwood Dower	Experiences of Anxiety: Exploring the phenomenon for therapeutic benefit Co-author: Benedict Smith	17 April 2021
#108	Joe Smeeton	In search of meanings within child protection social work in the UK	10 April 2021
#107	Maja Berseneva	The transformative power of vulnerability	3 April 2021
#106	Jan Halák & Petr Kříž	Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of bodily intentionality	27 March 2021
#105	Miriam Ambrosino	Using Feeling: Engaging Aesthetic Experience in Phenomenological Practice	20 March 2021
#104	Jamie Murphy	The Angry is Always Right	13 March 2021
#103	Danielle Petherbridge & Natalia Burakowska	An Embodied-Cognitive Approach to Dementia	6 March 2021
#102	Sophie Loidolt	Order, Experience, and Critique: The Phenomenological Method in Political and Legal Theory	27 February 2021
#101	Sophie Loidolt	A conversation with Sophie Loidolt Interview by Hannah Berry and Jessica Stanier	26 February 2021

Episode 100 Special

#100

Shaun Gallagher

A conversation with Shaun Gallagher
100th Edition Special. Interview by Hannah Berry and Jessica Stanier

26
December
2020

Season Five (2020-2021): Part I

#99	Hannah Berry	We Need to Talk About Ted	20 December 2020
#98	Nicole Miglio & Jessica Stanier	Painful experience and constitution of the intersubjective self: a critical-phenomenological analysis	19 December 2020
#97	Filipa Melo Lopes	“Half Victim, Half Accomplice”: Cat Person and Narcissism	12 December 2020
#96	Kata Dóra Kiss	The Importance of Intersubjectivity in the Process of Psychotherapy	5 December 2020
#95	Rachel Elliott	The Futurity of the “We”: A Merleau-Pontian Account of Group Temporality and Improvised Music	28 November 2020
#94	Francesca Brencio	Shifting the paradigm. Neurosciences and the phenomenological challenge 3/3: “Engaging phenomenology in the neurosciences”	21 November 2020
#93	Valeria Bizzari	A multidisciplinary analysis of autism: predictive engagement and the living body 2/3: “Engaging phenomenology in the neurosciences”	14 November 2020
#92	Prisca Bauer	Engaged phenomenology: neurology beyond the brain 1/3: “Engaging phenomenology in the neurosciences”	7 November 2020
#91	Dan Zahavi	Pure and Applied Phenomenology	31 October 2020
#90	Luna Dolezal	A conversation with Luna Dolezal Interview by Hannah Berry and Jessica Stanier	24 October 2020

Season Four (2020)

#89	Keith Crome	Education as Child’s Play	23 August 2020
#88	Hannah Berry	Empathy: the border between narratives	22 August 2020
#87	Francesca Brencio	“Fill the gap”. A phenomenological perspective of exercising psychiatry	16 August 2020
#86	William Large	Atheism of the Word: A Genealogy of the Concept of God	15 August 2020
#85	Pablo Andreu	Death as an “Ontological Infidelity”	8 August 2020
#84	Marco Di Feo	The Human Right to Family Reunification	1 August 2020
#83	Botsa Katara	Reassessing the Super-crip Stereotype	25 July 2020
#82	Pablo Fernandez Velasco	Disorientation and Self-consciousness: A Phenomenological Inquiry	18 July 2020
#81	Andreas Sandner	Visible Odours? On the Issue of Visuocentricism in “Olfactory Austerity”	11 July 2020
#80	Matteo Valdarchi	The circle and the origin. An interpretation of Heidegger’s Habilitationsschrift	4 July 2020
#79	Katherine Burn	Recalibrating the Contemporary: Reading the Phenomenology of Shame in Metamodernism	27 June 2020
#78	Dylan Trigg	Who is the Subject of Birth?	20 June 2020
#77	Prabhsharanbir Singh	The Auseinandersetzung with Colonialism and the Oblivion of Other Beginnings in Heidegger’s History of Being	12 June 2020
#76	Salvatore Spina	“Sacrificing for Being”: Opfer and Seinsfrage in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks	11 June 2020
#75	Lin Ma	On the Double Role of Going-Under in the History of Beyng – Thinking beneath and beyond Heidegger’s Ponderings in the Black Notebooks	10 June 2020
#74	Matthew Kruger-Ross	What can Heidegger teach us? After the Black Notebooks	9 June 2020
#73	Gülben Salman	From Pseudos to Falsum: Heidegger on Truth	8 June 2020
#72	Niall Keane	The World as Natural or Abysmal? The Threat of Naturalism and the History of Beyng	7 June 2020
#71	Babette Babich	Heidegger on Nietzsche’s “Rediscovery” of the Greeks: Machenschaft and Seynsgeschichte in the Black Notebooks	6 June 2020
#70	Ullrich Haase	How can the Black Notebooks Enlighten us about the Question for the History of Being?	5 June 2020

Season Three (2019)

#69	Zeigam Azizov	Without Origins: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ in the light of nonessentialist thinking	2 August 2019
#68	Tingwen Li	What If We Exclude Ready-mades from the Artworld?	26 July 2019
#67	Tarjej Larsen	Husserl’s Circularity Argument for the Epoché	19 July 2019
#66	Rona Cohen	“Taking Flesh” in Heidegger: On Dasein’s Bodying Forth	28 June 2019
#65	Rhoda Ellis	Being, the Gallery and Virtual Reality: An Artist’s Take on Building Immersive Artworks	21 June 2019
#64	Philip Tovey	Temporal range, future mandate and strategic shaping; the existential and cognitive phenomenological ethics of preventative policing	14 June 2019
#63	Peter Wilson (& Rajan Nathan)	Phenomenology and causal entities in psychiatry	31 May 2019
#62	Marcel Dubovec	The Inner Structure of Heidegger’s Concept of Freedom	24 May 2019
#61	Lorenzo Girardi	The Constitution of the One World: Faith in Husserl’s Philosophy	17 May 2019
#60	Julio Andrade	Normative provisionality as a means to navigate Levinasian infinite responsibility	10 May 2019
#59	James Rakoczi	Moving without movement: Merleau-Ponty’s “I can” in cases of global paralysis	3 May 2019
#58	Jack Price	Adorno and Scheler on Action and Experience	28 April 2019
#57	Erin Plunkett	Patočka’s asubjective phenomenology	19 April 2019
#56	Bhaswar Malick	Paradise on Earth: Tomb of Akbar at Sikandrabad	29 March 2019
#55	Arthur Rose	Reorienting Breathlessness: A Case against Symptom Discordance	22 March 2019
#54	Aoife McInerney	The Phenomenology of Solidarity	1 March 2019
#53	James Forrest	The World from the Enactive Approach: Degrees of Transcendentalism	22 February 2019
#52	Niall Keane	Metaphysics and Nihilism	15 February 2019
#51	Luna Dolezal	Phenomenology and Intercorporeality in the Case of Commercial Surrogacy	8 February 2019
#50	Moujan Mirdamadi	Death-conscious culture and experiences of depression in Iran	31 January 2019
#49	Ullrich Haase	Understanding the Historical Body	25 January 2019
#48	Patrick O’Connor	Knausgaard, Bodies and The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery	18 January 2019
#47	Christopher Eagle	Brain Stories: On the Limits of Neuro-Fiction	11 January 2019
#46	Raymond Tallis	The Embodied Subject and Objects in the Weighty sense	4 January 2019

Season Two (2017-2018)

#45	Jack Lovell Price	Max Scheler, Critic of Phenomenology	5 September 2018
#44	Marek Pokropski	Practising Phenomenology in Cognitive Sciences: Toward Theoretical Integration with Mechanism	29 August 2018
#43	Mike Martin	The Application of Phenomenology to Explore Pre-Service Teachers Experience of Placement in School	22 August 2018
#42	Jeffrey McCurry	The Therapy of Putting Essences Back Into Existence: Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and Phenomenology as a Way of Life	15 August 2018
#41	Rachel Coventry	Are the sunglasses a metaphor? Some Heideggerian Considerations of the Essence of Sunglasses	8 August 2018
#40	Maria Jimena Clavel Vazquez	Naturalizing Heidegger (Against his Will)	1 August 2018
#39	Pasi Heikkurinen	Ecophenomenosophy – A Response to the Anthropocene	25 July 2018
#38	Jakub Kowalewski	Levinas and the Deformalisation of Time	18 July 2018
#37	Aoife McInerney	Practical Thinking	18 July 2018
#36	Anna Yampolskaya	Aesthetical experience as transformative: Henry and Maldiney on Kandinsky	11 July 2018
#35	O. Bader & A. Peri-Bader	The Presence of Others and the Constitution of Extraordinary Architectural Space	4 July 2018
#34	Jonathan Tuckett	The Cartesian Meditation of Pneuma: the Dasein of a Video Game Character	27 June 2018
#33	Zeigam Azizov	A Temporal Order of Things: Husserl’s ‘temporal objects’ and the (Industrial) Temporalisation of Consciousness	20 June 2018
#32	Mariam Shah	Typical Criminals: A Schutzian Inspired Theoretical Framework Exploring Type Formation and Potential Application in Magistrate’s Courts in England	13 June 2018
#31	Niall Keane	Affective Demonstration and Speaking Communally: The Practice of Rhetoric	6 June 2018
#30	Lillian Wilde	The Minimal Self in the Face of Trauma: Practical Applications of Phenomenological Theory	26 February 2018
#29	Edmund O’Toole	Phenomenology and Psychiatry	19 February 2018
#28	Luis Aguiar de Sousa	The Lived Body as ‘Tacit Cogito’ in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception	12 February 2018
#27	Mary Edwards	The Phenomenological Foundations of Sartre’s ‘Human-World Realism’	5 February 2018
#26	Matt Barnard	Two Concepts of Anxiety: Heidegger and Sartre on Freedom	29 January 2018
#25	Ashley Woodward	Lesson of Darkness: Phenomenology and Lyotard’s Aesthetics	22 January 2018
#24	Tanja Staehler	Phenomenology of Childbirth between Theory and Practice	15 January 2018
#23	Will Large	Before language there is language	15 September 2017
#22	Dan O’Hara	Some Aesthetic Implications of McCarthy’s Conception of the Role of the Unconscious in the Evolution of Forms	8 September 2017
#21	Julius Greve	“The Kekulé Problem” in Cormac McCarthy’s Concept of Nature	1 September 2017
#20	Matt Barnard	The Silent Call: Heidegger and McCarthy on Talking to Yourself	25 August 2017
#19	Katja Laug	Kekulé, or McCarthy’s Physicality of Dreaming	18 August 2017
#18	Chris Thornhill	Language in Benjamin, Agamben and McCarthy	11 August 2017
#17	Patrick O’Connor	The Phenomenology of the Unconscious in Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem	4 August 2017
#16	Patrick O’Connor	Interview: On Cormac McCarthy and Philosophy	13 June 2017

Season One (2016-2017)

#15	Rachel Coventry	Can Poetry break the Internet: A Heideggerian account of Post-Internet Poetry	26 May 2017
#14	Katrin Joost	Photographic Phenomenology	19 May 2017
#13	Jonathon Tuckett	The Talos Principle: When does a bot become a person?	12 May 2017
#12	Miles Kennedy	Where learning takes place: A phenomenological description of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development	5 May 2017
#11	Emma Williams	The Ways We Think: Epistemology, Phenomenology and Education	28 April 2017
#10	Ingrid Wilkinson	Post-stroke changes in the embodied experience of walking	21 April 2017
#9	Valeria Bizzari	Phenomenology and its usefulness in psychopathology: an “embodied” proposal	14 April 2017
#8	Philip Tovey	A Remote Outpost Under Siege: A phenomenological understanding of officers and staff operating under a new core operating model	7 April 2017
#7	Bernardo Ainbinder	Heidegger on colour-perception. A case for conceptualism in phenomenology	13 January 2017
#6	Bence Marosan	Phenomenological biology: A proposal for future phenomenology	6 January 2017
#5	Ashika L. Singh	Dwelling, Building and Homelessness	30 December 2016
#4	Emiliano Trizio	Science, Metaphysics and the Crisis of Rationality	9 December 2016
#3	Eric Chelstrom	Seriality and We-Intentions: A Sartrean Contribution to Collective Intentionality	2 December 2016
#2	Darian Meacham	How Low Can You Go? BioEnactivism, Phenomenology and Cognitive Biology	10 October 2016
#1	Felix Ó Murchadha	Speaking after the Phenomenon: Faith and the Passion of Being	10 October 2016