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Philosophy
Philosophy
February 19, 2021
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Patricia Hill Collins
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or …
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Literary Studies
February 15, 2021
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
Cassandra Falke
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Cassandra Falke, professor of English Literature ad UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, about her book The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016). In …
Philosophy
February 10, 2021
Philosophy of Immunology
Thomas Pradeu
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Vaccines make us wholly or partly immune to disease, such as Covid-19. But what is it to be immune? What is an immune system, and what does it do? In …
Philosophy
February 1, 2021
Overcoming Necessity
Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism
Thomas P. Crocker
Hosted by Robert Talisse
A core duty of government is keeping those it governs safe. However, in modern democratic states, government is structured by a Constitution, which establishes constraints and checks on the power …
Philosophy
January 20, 2021
Revolutionary Time
On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray
Fanny Söderbäck
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What is the relationship between time and sexual difference? Are the categories of linearity and circularity that have so dominated conceptions of time sufficient for the emancipatory aims of feminist …
Philosophy
January 11, 2021
Wild Animal Ethics
The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
Kyle Johannsen
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Many sentient (or possibly sentient) wild animals follow a reproductive strategy whereby they have large numbers of offspring, the vast majority of which suffer and die quickly or suffer and …
Philosophy
January 4, 2021
The Ethics of Microaggression
Regina Rini
Hosted by Robert Talisse
Seemingly fleeting and barely legible insults, slights, and derogations might seem morally insignificant. They’re the byproducts of ordinary thoughtlessness and insensitivity; moreover, insofar as they inflict harm at all, the …
Philosophy
December 21, 2020
The Art of Chinese Philosophy
Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them
Paul Goldin
Hosted by Alexus McLeod
Paul Goldin's book The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (Princeton UP, 2020) provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most important works of …
Philosophy
December 10, 2020
Causation in Psychology
John Campbell
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Our practices of holding people morally and legally responsible for what they do rests on causal relationships between our mental states and our actions – a desire for revenge or …
Philosophy
December 1, 2020
Unconscionable Crimes
How Norms Explain and Constrain Mass Atrocities
Paul C. Morrow
Hosted by Robert Talisse
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible. A common and understandable reaction is to see events of this kind …
Philosophy
November 20, 2020
Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness
David Chai
Hosted by Alexus McLeod
Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness (SUNY Press, 2018) offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological …
Philosophy
November 10, 2020
Games
Agency As Art
C. Thi Nguyen
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nguyen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency, our capacity to set …
Philosophy
November 2, 2020
Lost in Thought
The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Zena Hitz
Hosted by Robert Talisse
We live in a culture that tends to view thought with a degree of suspicion. Thinking is frequently associated with uselessness, idleness, laziness. These suspicions can be somewhat allayed when …
Philosophy
October 20, 2020
Universal Emancipation
Race Beyond Badiou
Elisabeth Paquette
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference? In Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) …
Philosophy
October 12, 2020
Attentional Engines
A Perceptual Theory of the Arts
William P. Seeley
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it? In Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts (Oxford University Press …
Philosophy
October 1, 2020
No Refuge
Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis
Serena Parekh
Hosted by Robert Talisse
Discourse in wealthy Western countries about refugees tends to follow a familiar script. How many refugees is a country morally required to accept? What kinds of care and support are …
Philosophy
September 10, 2020
Smellosophy
What the Nose Tells the Mind
Ann-Sophie Barwich
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Smells repel and attract; they bring emotionally charged memories to mind; they guide behavior and thought nonconsciously; they give food much of its taste; and the loss of sense of …
Philosophy
September 1, 2020
The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs
Lisa Bortolotti
Hosted by Robert Talisse
There is something intuitive about the idea that when we believe, we ought to follow our evidence. This entails that beliefs that are the products of garden varieties of irrationality …
Philosophy
August 20, 2020
Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology
The Course in General Linguistics after a Century
Beata Stawarska
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
In Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan), Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew …
Philosophy
August 10, 2020
On Inhumanity
Dehumanization and How to Resist It
David Livingstone Smith
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
The phenomenon of dehumanization is associated with such atrocities as the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust in World War II. In these and other cases, people are described …
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