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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 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.

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