About Sarah Tyson

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

NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:

Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023)

February 20, 2024

For F*ck's Sake

Rebecca Roache
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent …

Hil Malatino, "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

January 20, 2023

Side Affects

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 Affe…

Kim Q. Hall, "Queering Philosophy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

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…

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, "Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory" (Polity, 2022)

July 20, 2022

Animal Crisis

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, …

Shannon M. Mussett, "Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

May 13, 2022

Entropic Philosophy

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…

Jana Mohr Lone, "Seen and Not Heard: Why Children's Voices Matter" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

March 21, 2022

Seen and Not Heard

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…

Kris F. Sealey, "Creolizing the Nation" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

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 Nati…

Lindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

October 20, 2021

The Politics of Black Joy

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? I…

Andrea J. Pitts, "Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance" (SUNY Press, 2021)

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 a…

Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)

June 24, 2021

Colonial Debts

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…

Perry Zurn, "Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

April 20, 2021

Curiosity and Power

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), P…

Patricia Hill Collins, "Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory" (Duke UP, 2019)

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 guidin…

Fanny Söderbäck, "Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray" (SUNY Press, 2019)

January 20, 2021

Revolutionary Time

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 tim…

Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

October 20, 2020

Universal Emancipation

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 …

Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: The Course in General Linguistics after a Century" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

August 20, 2020

Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology

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 g…

Cressida J. Heyes, "Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge" (Duke UP, 2020)

June 22, 2020

Anaesthetics of Existence

Cressida J. Heyes
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

How should we think about the relationship between subjectivity and experience? In Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Duke U…

Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice" (Oxford UP, 2020)

March 20, 2020

Socially Undocumented

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 jus…

Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

February 20, 2020

When Time Warps

Megan Burke
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relatio…

Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)

December 20, 2019

Aristotle on the Matter of Form

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 …

Dilek Huseyinzadegan, "Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics" (Northwestern UP, 2019)

October 21, 2019

Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics

Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

In Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Dilek Huseyinzadegan analyzes Kant’s political writings by attending to t…

John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

August 20, 2019

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

John T. Lysaker
Hosted by Sarah Tyson

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 …

Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of Race" (Indiana UP, 2018)

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 b…

Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard" (Columbia UP, 2015)

April 19, 2019

Ethical Loneliness

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 unjus…