Description (podcaster-provided):
A podcast dedicated to promoting philosophical education and deep reflection. We invite philosophers from around the globe to discuss philosophy in the context of contemporary injustices – all at an easy-to-understand and digestible level. New episodes weekly on Friday.
Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Accessible philosophy interviews • contemporary injustices, race, feminism, transness • democracy, law, evidence • ethics: bioethics, abortion, animal rights, healthcare • social epistemology, misinformation, trust • mind/cognition: consciousness, computation, emotions, depression, AI bias • philosophy education/outreach
This podcast presents accessible conversations with philosophers about major areas of philosophy as they connect to contemporary social, political, and technological problems. Across episodes, the host interviews academics working in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law, and social and political philosophy, often using current events and familiar cases to introduce core debates and terminology.
A recurring focus is how societies form beliefs and distribute knowledge: discussions examine evidence, credence, and trust; the nature and spread of misinformation; and the ethical dimensions of social epistemology, including how ignorance can be socially produced or maintained. Related conversations address how resistant or indoctrinated beliefs persist, how information flows through institutions and media, and how these dynamics intersect with race, power, and injustice.
Another major theme is justice and moral responsibility in public life. The podcast explores democratic legitimacy and electoral reform, legal decision-making and burdens of proof, and questions about punishment and jury reasoning. It also addresses applied ethics in medicine and public health—such as autonomy and resource allocation—as well as broader debates in normative ethics, including virtue ethics and its limits. Several conversations foreground oppression and social structure through topics like group formation, social ontology, ontological erasure, feminist philosophy, abortion ethics, reparations, and critical theory.
Philosophy of mind and cognitive science also appear frequently. Episodes consider consciousness and subjective experience, time perception, animal consciousness, computation in cognition, and non-linguistic numerical understanding. These inquiries connect to technology-focused discussions about artificial intelligence, including whether AI can amplify misinformation, encode racial bias, or plausibly achieve forms of consciousness.
Alongside research topics, the podcast regularly highlights philosophy education and outreach, discussing teaching philosophy to youth, classroom practice, debate as a pathway to philosophical thinking, and efforts to broaden philosophical engagement beyond traditional academic spaces.
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Episodes:
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How to Fix a Democracy: Making Margins Matter with Professor Daniel Wodak
2023-Mar-27
54 minutes
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Ethics in Social Epistemology: “Insidious Ignorance” with Professor Bailey Thomas
2023-Mar-17
52 minutes
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Fake News and Misinformation with Professor Eliot Michaelson
2023-Mar-10
55 minutes
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The Necessity of Philosophy for the Youth: PLATO with Professor Jana Mohr Lone
2023-Mar-04
43 minutes
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Consciousness: Experience and Time with Professor Geoffrey Lee
2023-Feb-24
51 minutes
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The Non-Linguistic Mind: the Approximate Number System with Dr. Sam Clarke
2023-Feb-17
47 minutes
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Computation and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science with Dr. Andrew Richmond
2023-Feb-10
45 minutes
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Cognition and Social Philosophy: Resistant Social Beliefs with Dr. Carolina Flores
2023-Feb-05
45 minutes
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Race and Epistemology: Information Flow and Racist AI? with Dr. Eric Bayruns García
2023-Jan-27
52 minutes
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Legal Philosophy and "Reasonable Moral Doubt" with Professor Emad Atiq
2022-Nov-07
48 minutes
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Justice in Health and Philosophy at Northwestern with Professor Chad Horne
2022-Oct-03
46 minutes
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Animal Rights and Ethics with Professor Jeff Sebo
2022-Sep-28
48 minutes
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Group Formation and Social Ontology with Professor Katherine Ritchie
2022-Sep-20
46 minutes
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Idealism: Consciousness and Ethics with Professor Robert Smithson
2022-Sep-12
48 minutes
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Virtue Ethics and its Limits with Professor Travis Timmerman
2022-Sep-06
46 minutes
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Bioethics and Autonomy with Professor Samuel Reis-Dennis
2022-Aug-29
50 minutes
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Metaphysics and Identity with Professor Erica Shumener
2022-Aug-22
47 minutes
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Social Indeterminacy and Ontological Erasure with Professor Kevin Richardson
2022-Aug-15
50 minutes
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Aristotelian Education and Ethics in Computer Science with Dr. William Cochran
2022-Aug-08
46 minutes
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Moral Philosophy and Ethics with Professor Vida Yao
2022-Aug-01
49 minutes
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Education, Trust, and the Ethics of Computer Science with Dr. Trystan Goetze
2022-Jul-25
49 minutes
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Metaphysics, Chances, Time Travel, and Philosophy Education with Professor Katie Elliott
2022-Jul-18
48 minutes
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Feminist Philosophy and Ethics in Society with Dr. Sophia Dandelet
2022-Jul-11
54 minutes
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The Philosophy and Politics of Race and Reparations with Professor Joseph Frigault
2022-Jul-09
55 minutes
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the Philosophy of Critical Theory with Dr. Yarran Hominh
2022-Jun-27
47 minutes
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The Philosophy of Emotions and Anxiety with Professor Charlie Kurth
2022-Jun-20
52 minutes
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The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Raphaël Millière
2022-Jun-13
54 minutes
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Roe v. Wade and the Philosophy of Abortions with Dr. Dustin Crummett
2022-Jun-06
52 minutes
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Law, Legal Epistemology, and Legal Burdens of Proof with Professor Georgi Gardiner
2022-May-30
61 minutes
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Competitive Debate, Thought, and Surety with Dr. Ben Holguín
2022-May-23
61 minutes
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Animal Consciousness and Prison Philosophy Outreach with Dr. Simon Brown
2022-May-16
63 minutes
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Epistemology: Belief, Credence, and Evidence with Dr. Liz Jackson
2022-May-09
69 minutes
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The Philosophy of Depression with Dr. Ian Tully
2022-May-02
65 minutes
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The Philosophy and Power of Transformative Experiences with Dr. Rebecca Chan
2022-Apr-25
43 minutes
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Consciousness, Artificial Consciousness, and Artificial General Intelligence with Dr. Anand Vaidya
2022-Apr-19
56 minutes
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Narcissism, Comedy, and Psychotherapy with Eva Virc
2022-Apr-11
52 minutes
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