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Society & Culture
Philosophy
151
John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
An interview with John Sellars
60 min
152
Luke Russell, "Being Evil: A Philosophical Pers...
An interview with Luke Russell
63 min
153
M. Kirloskar-Steinbach and L. Kalmanson, "A Pra...
An interview with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach and Leah Kalmanson
62 min
154
Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination"...
An interview with Peter Langland-Hassan
69 min
155
Patricia Hill Collins, "Intersectionality as Cr...
An interview with Patricia Hill Collins
61 min
156
Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Camb...
Interview with Thomas Pradeu
61 min
157
Thomas P. Crocker, "Overcoming Necessity: Emerg...
An interview with Thomas P. Crocker
60 min
158
Fanny Söderbäck, "Revolutionary Time: On Time a...
An interview with Fanny Söderbäck
58 min
159
Kyle Johannsen, "Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral ...
An interview with Kyle Johannsen
67 min
160
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
161
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Ei...
An interview with Paul Goldin
63 min
162
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harva...
An interview with John Campbell
64 min
163
Paul Morrow, "Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms ...
The moral horrors of genocide and mass atrocity lead us to wonder how such things are even possible....
68 min
164
David Chai, "Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothi...
Chai offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought...
71 min
165
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford U...
Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency...
64 min
166
Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasur...
Hitz provides a vision of how learning is a characteristically human activity that is essential for a fulfilled life...
58 min
167
Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Ra...
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?
58 min
168
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perc...
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?
62 min
169
Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Globa...
Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....
70 min
170
Ann-Sophie Barwich, "Smellosophy: What the Nose...
What features of the world do smells pick out? What is the olfactory code?
66 min
171
Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Ir...
Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...
66 min
172
Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Struc...
Beata Stawarska guides us to consider Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics anew...
59 min
173
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...
64 min
174
Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Langua...
This book brings together work on the syntax and semantics of the Chinese language with philosophy of language, from the classical Chinese and contemporary analytic Anglophone traditions...
90 min
175
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Bi...
O’Connor introduces the basics of game theory and its particular branch, evolutionary game theory...
64 min