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I ask philosophers five questions about themselves.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosopher interviews via five personal questions • backgrounds, influences, and intellectual lives • ethics, autonomy, responsibility • epistemology, perception, mind • language, meaning, metaphysics, time • political philosophy, justice, equality • philosophy of science, quantum theoryThis podcast is a recurring interview series built around a simple, consistent format: the host asks philosophers five questions about themselves. The conversations are framed less as technical lectures and more as personal, wide-ranging portraits of working philosophers—where they come from intellectually, what motivates their interests, and how their lives and careers intersect with their philosophical concerns. Guests are typically established academics from major universities, and introductions often situate them by role and by notable books or articles, giving listeners a sense of each guest’s background and areas of contribution.
Across the episodes, the subject matter spans many central domains of contemporary philosophy. A significant portion of the guests work in ethics and moral psychology, including questions of responsibility, blame, autonomy, reasons, and moral agency. Another recurring cluster centers on epistemology and related issues in social epistemology, such as belief, inquiry, testimony, and the social conditions under which knowledge is formed or distorted. Several guests represent philosophy of mind and perception, engaging themes like experience, temporality, imagination, and how we perceive or think. The show also regularly touches on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the foundations of logic or mathematics, alongside historically oriented work drawing on ancient philosophy and early modern figures.
Political philosophy and public-facing concerns appear as well, including freedom, inequality, education, civic renewal, justice, and the relationship between philosophy and public life. Some episode descriptions also point to connections with art, literature, and music, suggesting that the five questions sometimes prompt guests to discuss particular artworks or cultural touchstones alongside philosophical ideas.
While the guest list ranges across specialties—from quantum theory interpretation to Kantian aesthetics to pragmatism—the unifying emphasis is on understanding philosophers as people: their intellectual formation, commitments, and the topics that animate their work.
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Kieran Setiya2022-Oct-04 37 minutes |
Liam Kofi Bright2022-Sep-27 24 minutes |
Kyla Ebels-Duggan2022-Sep-20 29 minutes |
Ken Winkler2022-Sep-13 31 minutes |
Laura Ruetsche2022-Sep-06 34 minutes |
Hanna Pickard2022-Aug-30 37 minutes |
Miriam Schoenfield2022-Aug-23 27 minutes |
Palle Yourgrau2022-Aug-16 24 minutes |
Pamela Hieronymi2022-Aug-09 22 minutes |
Ian Phillips2022-Aug-02 26 minutes |
Ben Laurence2022-Jul-26 30 minutes |
Susan James2022-Jul-19 27 minutes |
Rachel Fraser2022-Jul-12 34 minutes |
Steve Yablo2022-Jul-05 33 minutes |
Aaron Wendland2022-Jun-28 33 minutes |
Karen Bennett2022-Jun-21 27 minutes |
Akeel Bilgrami2022-Jun-14 31 minutes |
Antonia Peacocke2022-Jun-07 29 minutes |
Sharon Street2022-May-31 31 minutes |
Ryan Preston-Roedder2022-May-24 24 minutes |
Ursula Coope2022-May-17 25 minutes |
R. Jay Wallace2022-May-10 25 minutes |
Guy Longworth2022-May-03 23 minutes |
Japa Pallikkathayil2022-Apr-26 22 minutes |
Bob Stalnaker2022-Apr-19 23 minutes |
Susanna Siegel2022-Apr-12 26 minutes |
Season 3 Trailer2022-Apr-05 2 minutes |
Kit Fine2021-Aug-03 19 minutes |
Miranda Fricker2021-Jul-27 34 minutes |
Lawrence Blum2021-Jul-20 26 minutes |
Sebastian Rödl2021-Jul-13 27 minutes |
Cheryl Misak2021-Jul-06 24 minutes |
Philip Pettit2021-Jun-29 30 minutes |
Anil Gomes2021-Jun-22 27 minutes |
Elizabeth Barnes2021-Jun-15 27 minutes |
Sarah Moss2021-Jun-08 26 minutes |
Raimond Gaita2021-Jun-01 36 minutes |
Philosophers@MIT2021-May-25 29 minutes |
Stephen Darwall2021-May-18 25 minutes |
Rachel Barney2021-May-11 26 minutes |
Lucy O'Brien2021-May-04 29 minutes |
Richard Kimberly Heck2021-Apr-27 22 minutes |
Jonathan Wolff2021-Apr-20 30 minutes |
Hannah Ginsborg2021-Apr-13 28 minutes |
T. M. Scanlon2021-Apr-06 22 minutes |
Gerald Dworkin2021-Mar-30 27 minutes |
Elisabeth Camp2021-Mar-23 25 minutes |
David Hills2021-Mar-16 24 minutes |
Michele Moody-Adams2021-Mar-09 29 minutes |
Matthew Boyle2021-Mar-02 29 minutes |
Havi Carel2021-Feb-23 26 minutes |
Mark Wilson2021-Feb-16 30 minutes |
Seana Shiffrin2021-Feb-09 26 minutes |
Season 2 Trailer2021-Feb-02 2 minutes |
Rae Langton2020-Oct-27 23 minutes |
Sophie Grace Chappell2020-Oct-20 28 minutes |
Jonathan Lear2020-Oct-13 28 minutes |
Alice Crary2020-Oct-06 26 minutes |
Kwame Anthony Appiah2020-Sep-29 28 minutes |
Gabriel Richardson Lear2020-Sep-22 25 minutes |
David Christensen2020-Sep-15 24 minutes |
Barbara Herman2020-Sep-08 26 minutes |
Tim Crane2020-Sep-01 24 minutes |
Jane Heal2020-Aug-25 26 minutes |
Tom Baldwin2020-Aug-18 26 minutes |
Alva Noë2020-Aug-11 28 minutes |
Helen Steward2020-Aug-04 25 minutes |
Richard Holton2020-Jul-28 24 minutes |
Jennifer Hornsby2020-Jul-21 23 minutes |
Cora Diamond2020-Jul-14 22 minutes |
Barry Lam2020-Jul-07 23 minutes |
Nancy Bauer2020-Jun-30 21 minutes |
Tommie Shelby2020-Jun-23 25 minutes |
Gideon Rosen2020-Jun-16 26 minutes |
Scott Shapiro2020-Jun-09 27 minutes |
Zena Hitz2020-Jun-02 26 minutes |
Béatrice Longuenesse2020-May-26 25 minutes |
Richard Moran2020-May-19 28 minutes |
Susan Wolf2020-May-12 22 minutes |
David Velleman2020-May-05 21 minutes |
Season 1 Trailer2020-Apr-28 2 minutes |