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Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Interdisciplinary contemporary philosophy interviews •Marginalised thinkers: BIPOC, LGBTQIA, disabled •Ethics: AI, healthcare, global justice •Race, decolonial and environmental politics •Feminist pedagogy, epistemic injustice, social media rhetoricThis podcast is an interview-driven show that spotlights contemporary philosophy beyond the traditional canon by centering thinkers and approaches that have often been marginalised in academic philosophy, including women, LGBTQIA people, disabled scholars, and BIPOC philosophers. Conversations range across professors, graduate students, and non-academics, with a recurring focus on what philosophy looks like in practice today and how it intersects with other fields.
Across the episodes, a major theme is interdisciplinarity: guests draw on methods from bioethics, global health ethics, anthropology, history, media and communication studies, design and aesthetics, and medical humanities. Ethical and political questions appear frequently, especially around healthcare and embodiment, including disability justice, transgender health, narrative medicine, pregnancy and birth, and the challenges of producing more holistic care. Several discussions examine how power shapes knowledge production—through gatekeeping and class in academia, epistemic injustice, archival practices and “anti-extractivist” research, and the risk of “epistemicide” in philosophy of race.
Technology and contemporary culture are also treated as philosophical sites, with attention to AI ethics (including non-Western perspectives), algorithmic governance, and the rhetoric of online participation. The show repeatedly connects philosophical concepts to lived experience, pedagogy, and activism, exploring how teaching choices, public philosophy, and decolonial or anti-colonial frameworks can reshape what counts as philosophy and who gets to be recognised as a philosopher.
