Professor Michael Cholbi from the University of Edinburgh joins Ed Conroy to discuss Dying, death, immortality and suicide, from a philosophers perspective. This episode is about death, dying and how it adds meaning to our lives in the present as we look towards our future death, and how that contrasts and changes across cultures and groups; as well as, perhaps, a discussion on humanity’s quest for youth and immortality and a discussion on suicide.

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Professor Michael Cholbi from the University of Edinburgh joins Ed Conroy to discuss Dying, death, immortality and suicide, from a philosophers perspective. This episode is about death, dying and how it adds meaning to our lives in the present as we look towards our future death, and how that contrasts and changes across cultures and groups; as well as, perhaps, a discussion on humanity’s quest for youth and immortality and a discussion on suicide.

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The episode is about linguistics, from the research of Professor Frederick J Newmeyer, a world-leading scholar on linguistics, and will look at the evolutionary origin of language; ‘The Politics of Linguistics’ (1986); ‘Autonomous linguistics’; how linguistics applies to understanding across cultural and sociological divides and how linguistic forms and grammatical features affect our thinking and conceptualisation.

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