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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):
➤ Contemporary philosophy interviews • Interdisciplinarity across humanities, science, media • Ethics: AI, global health, healthcare • Trans health, gender justice • Disability/crip studies, anti-ableism • Race, Black feminist thought, decolonial/anti-colonial politics • Public pedagogy, archives, social media rhetoricThis podcast uses an interview format to present what contemporary philosophy looks like outside the familiar canon, with a consistent emphasis on thinkers and problems that have often been marginalised in academic philosophy. Across conversations with professors, graduate students, and non-academics working in philosophy and adjacent fields, the show highlights how philosophical methods interact with scholarship and practice in areas such as disability studies, feminist theory, philosophy of race, queer and trans studies, political thought, and applied ethics.
A major thread is interdisciplinarity: guests draw on anthropology, history, media studies, design and aesthetics, medical humanities, and bioethics to address philosophical questions in real-world contexts. Many discussions examine how power and exclusion shape knowledge-making—through institutional gatekeeping, class barriers in education, and the politics of who is recognised as a philosopher. Relatedly, the podcast frequently engages with social epistemology and pedagogy, including how classrooms, syllabi, and academic norms can be reshaped as forms of resistance.
Ethics is a recurring focus, especially in health, medicine, and technology. Topics include global health justice and critiques of distributive frameworks; ethical strategies for protecting marginalised groups while still generating knowledge; and the use of AI in areas like healthcare, including its implications for transgender people. The show also explores narrative approaches to illness and care, using memoir, phenomenology, and “narrative medicine” to think about identity, diagnosis, and what holistic healthcare might require.
Contemporary digital culture and public life appear throughout, with philosophical attention to social media rhetoric, moderation and “hygiene” policies, influencer culture, and activism online. Environmental and anti-colonial concerns are also present, linking ethical theory to issues like waste colonialism and extractive research practices, including the responsibilities involved in archival work. Overall, the podcast centers philosophy as a living, situated practice shaped by embodied experience, cultural context, and struggles over justice and recognition.
