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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 via interviews • marginalized thinkers and identities • interdisciplinarity • disability and anti-ableism • trans health and bioethics • AI ethics • decolonial/anti-colonial thought • race and Black feminist philosophy • pedagogy, class, epistemic injustice • social media rhetoricThis podcast uses interviews to map what contemporary philosophy looks like beyond the traditional canon, centering thinkers and questions that have often been marginalised in academic philosophy. Conversations span work by professors, graduate students, and scholars outside philosophy who still use philosophical methods, with a recurring focus on who gets recognised as a philosopher and how identity, power, and institutions shape knowledge.
Across episodes, the show frequently connects ethical and political theory to real-world sites of struggle and care. Topics include disability and anti-ableist scholarship, feminist philosophy and epistemic injustice, anti-racist and Black political thought, decolonial approaches to environmental issues, and critiques of how academic disciplines define legitimacy and expertise. Interdisciplinarity is treated as both a practical method and a philosophical problem, bringing in perspectives from history, anthropology, medical humanities, design, and digital communication.
Healthcare and biomedicine appear as major through-lines, explored through bioethics, global health justice, narrative medicine, and questions about data, safety, and access—especially in relation to transgender health. Technology is another key domain, with attention to AI ethics (including non-Western frameworks) and to social media as a space where rhetoric, platform governance, and online culture influence activism and public discourse.
The podcast also looks inward at philosophical practice itself: teaching and pedagogy, gatekeeping and class, public philosophy in nontraditional settings, and creative or artistic modes of philosophising. Overall, the series presents philosophy as something done in conversation with lived experience, institutions, and contemporary cultural life.
