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Society & Culture
Philosophy
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Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performativ...
Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..
61 min
177
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
178
Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
60 min
179
Matthew McManus and Marion Trejo, "Myth and May...
In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...
49 min
180
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Zahi Zalloua, "​Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-...
Zalloua uses Žižekian philosophy to arrive at more complicated, but also more productive and emancipatory visions of racial oppression and emancipation might look like...
37 min
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Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achiev...
McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...
50 min
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Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially Undocumented: Iden...
Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially undocumented identity...
57 min
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Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and...
What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scientific proposition we can’t elaborate or do anything with?
56 min
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Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Throug...
For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...
55 min
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David Estlund, "Utopophobia: On the Limits (If ...
It is tempting to hold that any proposed principle of social justice is defective if it demands too much of people, given their proclivities...
79 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
188
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
55 min
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Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: ...
If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you...
69 min
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Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metap...
Dispositionalism is the view that there are irreducible causal powers in nature that explain why objects behave as they do...
63 min
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Katherine Hawley, "How to Be Trustworthy" (Oxfo...
It is obvious that in our day-to-day lives, a lot hangs on trust, and thus on whether those around us are trustworthy...
66 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
193
Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...
115 min
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Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and ...
Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...
38 min
195
Manuel Heras Escribano, "The Philosophy of Affo...
Ecological psychology is one of a number of contemporary theories that explains the mind in terms of embodiment and environmental situatedness, rather than inner symbol manipulation by brains...
61 min
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectu...
For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...
53 min
197
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flo...
Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...
66 min
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Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Fo...
Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip...
55 min
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Peter Adamson, "Philosophy in the Islamic World...
Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...
53 min
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Christopher Peacocke, "The Primacy of Metaphysi...
Peacocke argues for the idea that the metaphysics of the domain must always be involved – that one must always draw on facts about metaphysics to explain meaning but not vice versa..
61 min