TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: New Voices in the History of Philosophy

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31 episodes
2021 to 2026
Median: 40 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast features interview-based conversations that expand the history of philosophy beyond the standard European canon by foregrounding philosophers and traditions that have been historically excluded or underrepresented. Across the episodes, hosts speak with scholars about thinkers ranging from medieval mystics and early modern women moral philosophers to abolitionists, Black political thinkers, Indigenous Andean traditions, and figures in Latin American and Chinese philosophy. The discussions situate these philosophers in their historical contexts while also drawing out their distinctive arguments and conceptual innovations.

A recurring focus is how philosophical ideas develop in and respond to structures of power, including slavery, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, and exclusion from academic institutions. Topics often include moral psychology and ethics (sympathy, moral motivation, moral education), political philosophy (rights, citizenship, justice, resistance, feminist movements), and metaphysics (personhood, harmony, the self), as well as debates about religion, contemplative practice, and the philosophical significance of attention. Several conversations explore philosophy’s connections with other genres and media—novels, plays, autobiography, translations, experimental science, and political essays—emphasizing that philosophical work has taken many forms besides treatises.

The podcast also reflects on methodology and contemporary scholarly practice: how to “recover” neglected archives, how to interpret texts not historically classified as philosophy, and how comparative approaches (for example, bringing Confucian role ethics into dialogue with analytic metaphysics) can open new questions. Advice for students and early-career researchers appears throughout, alongside reflections on teaching, curriculum change, and building intellectual communities, including discussion of podcasting itself as a mode of scholarship.