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Podcast Profile: Five Questions

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81 episodes
2020 to 2022
Median: 26 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast features brief, recurring interviews in which philosophers are asked a fixed set of five questions about themselves. Across the conversations, listeners are introduced to a wide range of academic philosophers—from early-career scholars to emeritus faculty—working at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The focus is largely personal and reflective, using the five-question format to draw out intellectual backgrounds, influences, and the ways philosophical work connects to a life.

The guests’ areas of expertise span many central subfields. There is substantial representation from moral and political philosophy (including autonomy, responsibility, resentment, equality, justice, public policy, and social movements), epistemology and social epistemology (belief, testimony, knowledge, scientific inquiry, and the ethics of knowing), and metaphysics and philosophy of mind (self-consciousness, time, perception, experience, and aboutness). Other episodes foreground the philosophy of language, aesthetics, ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, and intersections with mathematics and physics, including work related to quantum theory and the nature of time.

Throughout, the show situates guests by noting their institutional roles and highlighting books and essays they have written, giving a sense of the scholarly traditions and debates informing their thinking. Some descriptions also reference artworks or music connected to the conversation, suggesting occasional engagement with broader cultural materials alongside academic philosophy.

Episodes:

Kieran Setiya 2022-Oct-04 37 minutes

Liam Kofi Bright 2022-Sep-27 24 minutes

Kyla Ebels-Duggan 2022-Sep-20 29 minutes

Ken Winkler 2022-Sep-13 31 minutes

Laura Ruetsche 2022-Sep-06 34 minutes

Hanna Pickard 2022-Aug-30 37 minutes

Miriam Schoenfield 2022-Aug-23 27 minutes

Palle Yourgrau 2022-Aug-16 24 minutes

Pamela Hieronymi 2022-Aug-09 22 minutes

Ian Phillips 2022-Aug-02 26 minutes

Ben Laurence 2022-Jul-26 30 minutes

Susan James 2022-Jul-19 27 minutes

Rachel Fraser 2022-Jul-12 34 minutes

Steve Yablo 2022-Jul-05 33 minutes

Aaron Wendland 2022-Jun-28 33 minutes

Karen Bennett 2022-Jun-21 27 minutes

Akeel Bilgrami 2022-Jun-14 31 minutes

Antonia Peacocke 2022-Jun-07 29 minutes

Sharon Street 2022-May-31 31 minutes

Ryan Preston-Roedder 2022-May-24 24 minutes

Ursula Coope 2022-May-17 25 minutes

R. Jay Wallace 2022-May-10 25 minutes

Guy Longworth 2022-May-03 23 minutes

Japa Pallikkathayil 2022-Apr-26 22 minutes

Bob Stalnaker 2022-Apr-19 23 minutes

Susanna Siegel 2022-Apr-12 26 minutes

Season 3 Trailer 2022-Apr-05 2 minutes

Kit Fine 2021-Aug-03 19 minutes

Miranda Fricker 2021-Jul-27 34 minutes

Lawrence Blum 2021-Jul-20 26 minutes

Sebastian Rödl 2021-Jul-13 27 minutes

Cheryl Misak 2021-Jul-06 24 minutes

Philip Pettit 2021-Jun-29 30 minutes

Anil Gomes 2021-Jun-22 27 minutes

Elizabeth Barnes 2021-Jun-15 27 minutes

Sarah Moss 2021-Jun-08 26 minutes

Raimond Gaita 2021-Jun-01 36 minutes

Philosophers@MIT 2021-May-25 29 minutes

Stephen Darwall 2021-May-18 25 minutes

Rachel Barney 2021-May-11 26 minutes

Lucy O'Brien 2021-May-04 29 minutes

Richard Kimberly Heck 2021-Apr-27 22 minutes

Jonathan Wolff 2021-Apr-20 30 minutes

Hannah Ginsborg 2021-Apr-13 28 minutes

T. M. Scanlon 2021-Apr-06 22 minutes

Gerald Dworkin 2021-Mar-30 27 minutes

Elisabeth Camp 2021-Mar-23 25 minutes

David Hills 2021-Mar-16 24 minutes

Michele Moody-Adams 2021-Mar-09 29 minutes

Matthew Boyle 2021-Mar-02 29 minutes

Havi Carel 2021-Feb-23 26 minutes

Mark Wilson 2021-Feb-16 30 minutes

Seana Shiffrin 2021-Feb-09 26 minutes

Season 2 Trailer 2021-Feb-02 2 minutes

Rae Langton 2020-Oct-27 23 minutes

Sophie Grace Chappell 2020-Oct-20 28 minutes

Jonathan Lear 2020-Oct-13 28 minutes

Alice Crary 2020-Oct-06 26 minutes

Kwame Anthony Appiah 2020-Sep-29 28 minutes

Gabriel Richardson Lear 2020-Sep-22 25 minutes

David Christensen 2020-Sep-15 24 minutes

Barbara Herman 2020-Sep-08 26 minutes

Tim Crane 2020-Sep-01 24 minutes

Jane Heal 2020-Aug-25 26 minutes

Tom Baldwin 2020-Aug-18 26 minutes

Alva Noë 2020-Aug-11 28 minutes

Helen Steward 2020-Aug-04 25 minutes

Richard Holton 2020-Jul-28 24 minutes

Jennifer Hornsby 2020-Jul-21 23 minutes

Cora Diamond 2020-Jul-14 22 minutes

Barry Lam 2020-Jul-07 23 minutes

Nancy Bauer 2020-Jun-30 21 minutes

Tommie Shelby 2020-Jun-23 25 minutes

Gideon Rosen 2020-Jun-16 26 minutes

Scott Shapiro 2020-Jun-09 27 minutes

Zena Hitz 2020-Jun-02 26 minutes

Béatrice Longuenesse 2020-May-26 25 minutes

Richard Moran 2020-May-19 28 minutes

Susan Wolf 2020-May-12 22 minutes

David Velleman 2020-May-05 21 minutes

Season 1 Trailer 2020-Apr-28 2 minutes