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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 philosophy interviews • Marginalised thinkers • Bioethics and global health justice • Trans healthcare, AI ethics • Disability, ableism, archival ethics • Decolonial environmentalism, waste colonialism • Philosophy of race, Black feminism • Pedagogy, class, epistemic injustice • Social media rhetoric, algorithm hygiene • Aesthetics, narrative medicineThis podcast is an interview-based series that spotlights what philosophy looks like outside the traditional “canonical” focus, foregrounding thinkers and topics that have often been marginalised within academic philosophy. The host speaks with professors, graduate students, and practitioners from adjacent fields to explore contemporary philosophical work shaped by feminist, queer, anti-racist, disability, and decolonial perspectives, as well as by interdisciplinary methods.
Across the conversations, guests describe how philosophical questions emerge in practical settings and other disciplines such as bioethics, anthropology, history, aesthetics, and digital communications. A recurring theme is how ethical and epistemic frameworks function under real-world constraints: in healthcare systems, educational institutions, archives, social media platforms, and public life. Listeners hear about debates in global health ethics and critiques of distributive models of justice, along with discussions of healthcare access and safety for transgender people, including the promises and risks of using AI-driven tools in clinical contexts.
The podcast frequently returns to issues of knowledge production and power: gatekeeping and class in academic pathways, epistemic injustice, the politics of curricula and classroom practice, and how to do research that is attentive to extraction, representation, and community accountability. Disability studies and “crip” perspectives appear as methodological and ethical lenses, shaping approaches to scholarship as well as critiques of institutional norms.
Cultural analysis also features strongly, with philosophical attention to online rhetoric and platform governance, influencer aesthetics, and the ways popular culture intersects with activism and digital anti-ableism. Other strands include environmental and colonial critique through topics like waste and pollution, and engagements with Black political thought and Black feminist philosophy. Overall, the series presents philosophy as a living practice that crosses disciplinary boundaries, connects to social movements, and interrogates how identities and material conditions shape both theory and lived experience.
