Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
The BBC has a feature on my friend, the philosopher Havi Carel, and the way in which philosophy has helped her come to terms with the diagnosis of an incurable disease. Havi has a book Illness (US, UK) forthcoming in September, in which she draws on her own experience and tries to give a philosophical [...]
nanopolitan (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
"I don't have a choice about being ill, but I do have a choice about how I am going to live with my illness," she said. "When you are faced with serious illness you can let it take over your life, or you can learn to co-exist with it, to make peace with how things are. [...] "I am a philosopher and I use philosophy to make sense of my illness. "Philosophy was traditionally a practical aid to life,...
of personal value (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
From a BBC news article, “I think that there is a huge role for philosophical reflection as a way of changing our attitude towards events over which we have no control…We have to learn to make sense of a finite life.” Philosopher Havi Carel uses the tools she understands best to place a personal perspective [...]
