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Philosophy for the People philosophyforthepeople@gmail.com
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Philosophy today is almost exclusively carried out either in limited-access classrooms, at professional conferences, or in total isolation in an office or study. Philosophy for the People challenges these contemporary modes of philosophizing by inviting members of academia to participate in a form of public philosophy. In each episode I sit down with a philosopher to discuss questions of ultimate concern in ways that are relevant to everyday people and the crises and conundrums we face. I also offer free, open-access, online seminars for anyone interested in taking a deeper dive into the topics.
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Aristotle and Us: Homo Politicus | ft. Dr. Sara Brill
| Season 1 | Episode 12 |
"Philosophy should, at its best, be the shaming of ignorance. Where that shaming is done, there philosophy is..... Shining a light on ignorance provides resources for resistance. Our job is to lend ourselves to the understanding of oppression for the sake of resisting it." -
Philosophy, AI and the Future of Thought | ft. Dr. Catherine Malabou
| Season 1 | Episode 11 |
"Now we have to build new alliances between philosophy and the sciences, philosophy and cybernetics, philosophy and psychology—I think this is the future of philosophy. " -
You Are Going To Die | ft. Dr. Simon Critchley
| Season 1 | Episode 10 |
"This is where I would come back to Philosophy for the People: trying to encourage people to do work which is fearless in relation to what they're actually thinking about; and if that's the weirdest, most eccentric, obscure thing, then to do that and pursue it with complete conviction." -
Philosophies of Nothingness | ft. Dr. Gereon Kopf
| Season 1 | Episode 9 |
"There's a whole wealth of philosophical methods and terminology that can actually enrich the way we have done philosophy in the past in Europe and North American. And that I think is the goal of global philosophy." -
Women and Buddhist Philosophy | ft. Dr. Jin Y. Park
| Season 1 | Episode 8 |
"It is true, I believe, that everybody becomes a philosopher when they are in love." -
Critical Thinking and Self-Transformation | ft. Dr. William Bristow
| Season 1 | Episode 7 |
"Insofar as philosophy dismisses us [the public] as not making a legitimate demand for a demonstration, it's consigning itself to being a mere appearance. But philosophy has a right to make a demand upon us as well, and that's where the self-transformational aspect of the message comes in."