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 • ethics and contemporary injustice • AI ethics, trust, misinformation, racist algorithms • political philosophy, democracy, rights vs welfare • bioethics, dehumanization, autonomy • mind, consciousness, cognition, identity • race, feminism, critical theory, reparations • law, evidence, burdens of proof • education and outreach
This podcast offers accessible conversations with academic philosophers about how philosophical ideas connect to contemporary life and injustice. Across interviews, the show moves between core areas of philosophy—ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind—and applied questions arising in medicine, law, technology, and public culture.
A recurring focus is moral and political evaluation of institutions and social practices. Discussions examine what justice requires in democracy, healthcare, workplaces, and legal systems, including how to balance individual rights against public welfare, how power operates in “private” settings, and how concepts like autonomy, paternalism, and decisional capacity shape medical and legal decision-making. Social philosophy themes include race, reparations, feminist ethics, trans inclusion and “ontological erasure,” group formation, and the ethical dimensions of social epistemology.
Technology appears often as a site where philosophical analysis meets pressing policy and personal concerns. Episodes explore AI ethics, accountability and transparency, user agency, algorithmic influence on belief and desire, risks of de-skilling and dependence, and questions about whether artificial systems could be conscious. Related conversations address misinformation, fake news, and how evidence, belief, and credibility function in a digitally mediated environment.
The show also returns to questions about the mind and human experience: consciousness and time, animal consciousness, emotion and anxiety, depression, non-linguistic cognition, computation, identity, and transformative experiences. Alongside these topics are reflections on education and outreach—how philosophy is taught, how young people can engage it, and how traditions beyond the Western canon (including Indian philosophy) inform debates about reality, perception, humility, and meaning.
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Episodes:
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Encoding Algorithmic Fairness — Dr. Justin Shin
2026-Jul-05
60 minutes
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Understanding Dehumanization — Professor Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc
2026-Jun-24
53 minutes
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Unpacking the AI Doom Spiral — Dr. Jennifer Chien
2026-Jun-18
72 minutes
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Mapping an Unjust World — Professor Chetan Cetty
2026-Jun-10
64 minutes
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Overcoming Isolation — Dr. Samuel Kimbriel
2026-Jun-05
65 minutes
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Exploring Indian Philosophy — Professor Deepak Sarma
2026-May-20
67 minutes
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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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