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Entitled to Love: Relationships, Commandability, and Obligation
1 Introduction Bertrand Russell married Alys Pearsall Smith in 1894. The match was strongly opposed by members of Russell's family, but his deep love, admiration, and attachment to Smith prevailed. For seven years they lived contentedly as man and wife. Then one unremarkable day Russell set out for an afternoon cycle and was struck by an emotional epiphany. ‘Suddenly, as I was riding along a country road, I realised that I no longer loved Alys’, he recounted in his autobiography.
Advancing neuroethics in Africa
Matshabane, O. P., Hartford, A., Ewuoso, C. O., Palk, A. C., Koehly, L. M., Stein, D. J., & de Vries, J. (2024). Advancing neuroethics in Africa. South African Journal of Science , 120 (5/6). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/18180 Copyright is retained by the authors. Readers are welcome to reproduce, share and adapt the content without permission provided the source is attributed. Disclaimer: The publisher and editors accept no responsibility for statements made by the authors
Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications
Work at the intersection of philosophy and medicine makes an important contribution by considering key metaphysical issues (e.g., what is the nature of disease?), epistemological questions (e.g., how do we determine the validity of diagnostic concepts?), and ethical matters (e.g., how does disease impact personhood?). Analogous questions arise at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. Since ancient times, implicit and explicit responses have had a crucial influence on clinical practice.
Anna Hartford: "Unfathomable Life"
Anna Hartford Getty Images You shouldn’t think too much about it.” I was in the office of my gynecologist, who had always struck me as an under-thinker. But now I agreed with him. I had overanalyzed the question of whether to have a child, and the process had not led to any resolve, only to a knot of fear and uncertainty. Yet when I stepped back everything was quite simple: I loved someone, I wanted his child, I wanted our family. At the time I was thirty-two.
The Sun Magazine | The Lovely Harry, Philip Larkin, And Me | By Paula Harris | Issue 545
When we talk about poetry, my psychologist rests his elbow on the window ledge just to the right of his chair, then rests the side of his head in his hand. I look at him — black beard speckled with white, black hair pulled back in a ponytail, black shirt, black tie, black trousers, black socks, polished black shoes — and think he looks perfect in this position. Sometimes his shirt and tie are dark blue. I wish I could figure out how to write a poem about him sitting like this.
To live more truthfully, we need to tell fewer lies and embrace the truth more
Psychology In their perverse way, liars are guided by truth: they recognise and acknowledge truth but attempt to conceal it 01 March 2020 - 00:03 By Anna Hartford In early childhood we develop what psychologists call "theory of mind". We grasp that there's a distance between what we know and what other people know, and in turn we grasp that we're able to manipulate this distance. We can get someone else to believe something that we ourselves don't believe.
Why you should get interested in boredom
In an age of perpetual distraction have we forgotten how to be bored? Or are we, instead, more deeply and insidiously bored than before? BL PREMIUM 10 December 2019 - 05:00 Anna Hartford We struggle to take boredom seriously: it seems like such a spoilt, adolescent complaint. We are told repeatedly as children not to admit to boredom because it means we have no inner resources. I conclude now I have no/ inner resources, because I am heavy bored, wrote the US poet John Berryman in Dream Song 14.
Does your pet love you, and why do you even care?
"Does my cat love me?" I found myself typing this into Google the other day. (I've googled sadder things). It's hard to know what I was looking for. As it transpired, I found an article on some dubious blog that assured me that if my cat liked my company and showed me his belly, and perhaps especially if he blinked slowly while appraising me, that I could be relatively assured of his affections. My cat does all of these things, but I still closed my laptop unsatisfied.
What's our duty to future generations? Greta Thunberg demands an answer
The uncomfortable truth about the teen activist's message on climate change is that we can no longer claim innocence - we have known too much for too long, and we have done nothing about it, writes Anna Hartford 13 October 2019 - 00:02 By Anna Hartford We know the planet is warming. We know we're causing it. We know it will result in drought, plague, famine, disease, drowned coastlines, mass extinctions.
Forget me, forget me not - what should the internet remember?
If we are going to make memory powerful then we are also going to have to empower forgetting 10 September 2019 - 05:10 Anna Hartford Error 404: Oops! Page not found. Picture: 123RF/ IRYNA OMELCHAK There was a time before search engines (there was even an internet before search engines) where the only way to find a webpage was to transcribe its precise URL. Writing on that internet was a bit like whispering to yourself in a heavy metal club; your voice utterly indistinguishable from the din.
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