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About Sarah Tyson

Sarah Tyson is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.

NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:

Philosophy January 20, 2023

Side Affects

On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

Hil Malatino

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (University of …
Philosophy September 20, 2022

Queering Philosophy

Kim Q. Hall

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer philosophy? What would it mean to care queerly for …
Philosophy July 20, 2022

Animal Crisis

A New Critical Theory

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, it becomes increasingly difficult to register the full scope …
Philosophy May 13, 2022

Entropic Philosophy

Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation

Shannon M. Mussett

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), Shannon M …
Philosophy March 21, 2022

Seen and Not Heard

Why Children's Voices Matter

Jana Mohr Lone

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What happens when we take children seriously as philosophical thinkers? What if we try to hear them about topics such as climate change, solitude, and the meaning of friendship? In …
Philosophy January 10, 2022

Creolizing the Nation

Kris F. Sealey

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nation (Northwestern UP, 2020), Kris F …
Philosophy October 20, 2021

The Politics of Black Joy

Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism

Lindsey Stewart

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What can southern Black joy teach us about agency? What role does refusal have in liberation? What more might there be to root work than resistance? In The Politics of …
Philosophy August 20, 2021

Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance

Andrea J. Pitts

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
How can we think together multiplicity and agency? How can we resist oppression and build transformative political coalitions while attending to the ambivalences and incommensurabilities born of the collective conditions …
Philosophy June 24, 2021

Colonial Debts

The Case of Puerto Rico

Rocío Zambrana

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambrana theorizes the way debt has …
Philosophy April 20, 2021

Curiosity and Power

The Politics of Inquiry

Perry Zurn

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Perry Zurn shows, consequentially, yes. He further asks …
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 …
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 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 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 June 22, 2020

Anaesthetics of Existence

Essays on Experience at the Edge

Cressida J. Heyes

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How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? In Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke University Press, 2020), Cressida J. Heyes approaches this …
Philosophy March 20, 2020

Socially Undocumented

Identity and Immigration Justice

Amy Reed-Sandoval

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
In Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020), Amy Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially …
Philosophy February 20, 2020

When Time Warps

The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence

Megan Burke

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In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by …
Philosophy December 20, 2019

Aristotle on the Matter of Form

A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation

Adriel M. Trott

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
In Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Adriel M. Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s …
Philosophy October 21, 2019

Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics

Dilek Huseyinzadegan

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In Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Dilek Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to the role of history, anthropology, and geography in his thought. She …
Philosophy August 20, 2019

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

John T. Lysaker

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What is the relationship between the form of writing and what can be thought? How is a writer’s thinking shaped by form? How is a reader’s? Does this matter for …
Philosophy June 20, 2019

The Assisted Reproduction of Race

Camisha Russell

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) such as in vitro fertilization and surrogacy have been critically examined within philosophy, particularly by feminists and bioethicists, but the role of race—both in how the …
Philosophy April 19, 2019

Ethical Loneliness

The Injustice of Not Being Heard

Jill Stauffer

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
In Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia University Press 2015, paperback 2018), Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when …