This conversation is part of the podcast series 'Corporate Sustainability: A Philosophical Perspective'. GUEST INFO: Christopher M. Bruner is the Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and serves as a faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. He holds a courtesy appointment at the UGA Terry College of Business. Bruner teaches a range of corporate and transactional subjects, and he has received the School of Law’s C....
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 46 min
This conversation is part of the series 'Philosophy and Climate Change' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Graham Parkes. Graham Parkes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i and Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been teaching environmental philosophy and Asian and comparative thought for forty-five years, beginning at UC Santa Cruz, and later at universities in China, Japan, and Europe. He edited books s...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 40 min
This conversation is part of the series 'Moral Matters Matter' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. He is Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2013, he is a Distinguished Professor (Universi...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 35 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Nicola Perullo. Nicola Perullo is a philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. His research focuses on the philosophical and aesthetic bases of food and taste. He was a pioneer in Italy of the Aesthetics of food and of gustatory taste. In the last eight years, his research has focused on...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 40 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Ian Werkheiser. Iam Werkheiser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the director of the Center for Collaboration and Ethics at UTRGV. His research is currently focused on how communities of resistance address environmental harms and hazards, particularly around food, while also de...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 55 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Alexandra Plakias. Alexandra Plakias is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on metaethics and moral psychology: the role of disgust in moral judgment; moral disagreement and objectivity; the relevance of empirical psychology to metaethics. She also works on food and philosophy, which is the topic of to...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 16 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Andrea Borghini. Andrea Borghini is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and Director of Culinary Mind, an International Research Center for the Philosophy of Food. In his work, he develops new theoretical tools to rethink how we speak, structure, sense, and feel about food, eating, and culinary culture. Professor Bor...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 53 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Norbert Corver. Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at Utrecht University, and a member of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He is one of the editors of the book series Studies in Generative Grammar, published by Mouton de Gruyter. He is also the co-author of 4 volumes of the Syntax of ...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 35 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Robert T. Valgenti was Professor of Philosophy and The Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. His research and teaching covers contemporary Italian philosophy, hermeneutics, biopolitics, and the philosophy of food. He is also a member of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative and a desk editor for the journal Gastr...
Sep 01, 2021•2 hr 9 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Charles Spence is the Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory. He is interested in how people perceive the world around them. In particular, how our brains manage to process the information from each of our different senses (such as smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch) to form the extraord...
Aug 29, 2021•2 hr 28 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Carolyn Korsmeyer is the Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and her areas in philosophy include aesthetics and emotion theory. She has a special interest in the senses that have been traditionally neglected by philosophy: taste and touch. In her books, Professor Korsmeyer addresses taste, food, disgust, and related subjects. Today’s focus w...
Jul 31, 2021•1 hr 32 min
This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Lisa Heldke is the Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated faculty in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and Director in Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is committed to exploring the philosophical significance of food, a topic about which philosophers historically have had very little to say. She has published numerous articles, as well as four (auth...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 19 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Laura-Ann Petitto. Professor Laura Ann Petitto, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, is the Co-Principal Investigator, and Science Director, of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center, "Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2"at Gallaudet University. She is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Gallaudet, an affiliated Professor in the Depar...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 54 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Georges Rey. Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 50 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by two guests, Carol Rovane & Akeel Bilgrami, both Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Professor Rovane current research focuses on several interrelated topics: the first person, personal identity, relativism, the foundations of value, group vs. individual responsibility, and some new problems for liberal theory. She is the author of the books: ‘The Bound...
Apr 24, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Robert C. Berwick. Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Berwick has written 8 books and more than 200 articles on the nature of human language and its computational properties, how language is learned, how it develops and differs, and how it evolves and changes over tim...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 32 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Jean Bricmont. Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His recent books include 'Quantum Sense and Nonsense', 'Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics', & he Co-Edited the book ‘Chomsky Notebook’.
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Peter Ludlow. Peter Ludlow is Associate Researcher at the Center for Logic and Epistemology at UNICAMP. He published in a number of areas, ranging from linguistics and the philosophy of language, to topics concerning group knowledge, blockchain technology, virtual worlds, and hacktivism. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the Philosophy of Generat...
Mar 07, 2021•1 hr 53 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Anthony DiMaggio. Anthony DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. Professor DiMaggio's research is interdisciplinary, and is based in the fields of Political Science, Political Sociology, and Political Communication. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the book 'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 25 min
This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Alix Cohen. Alix Cohen works at the University of Edinburgh where her current roles include Head of Philosophy. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009), the editor of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide (2014), Kant on Emotion and Value (2014), and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. ...
Nov 24, 2020•53 min
This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Anil Gomes. Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford and Associate Professor in Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Professor Gomes mainly works in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Today, we will talk in particular about his article in the book he co-edited titled ‘Kant and the Philosophy of M...
Oct 11, 2020•1 hr 2 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Paul Pietroski. Paul Pietroski is Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books including ‘Causing Actions’ & ‘Events and Semantic Architecture' & most recently ‘Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values’. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Semantics, Meaning, & Innat...
Sep 15, 2020•58 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky has been called "the father of modern linguistics” and is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He has been a professor at MIT since 1955 (now Emeritus) and continues to teach at the University of Arizona at the age of 91. He has written over 100 books covering topics including linguistics, politics, and philosophy. Today, I disc...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min
This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Brian Bix. Brian Bix is a Professor of Law & Philosophy at University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books including ‘Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy’, ‘Jurisprudence: Theory and Context’ & ‘Contract Law : Rules, Theory, and Context’. Today, we will discuss his articles ‘Natural law theory’ & ‘Natural law theory: The modern tradition’.
Aug 20, 2020•48 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Norbert Hornstein. Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at University of Maryland. He is the author of several books including ‘Understanding Minimalism’ & ‘A Theory of Syntax’. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Hornstein’s articles ‘'Empiricism and Rationalism as Research Strategies’ & ‘The Rationalism of Generative Grammar’. In this ...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 35 min
This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Colleen Murphy. Colleen Murphy is a Professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University P...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 19 min
This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Robert Hanna. Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher, Co-Director of the online philosophy mega-project, Philosophy Without Borders, and Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project. He is the author of several books including 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy', and 'Kant, Science, and Human Nature'. This conversation is part of the 'Dare to know!' Phil...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 58 min
This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. He is the author of 16 books and the co-editor of four additional books. His work covers many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. His most recently published book is H.L.A....
Jul 18, 2020•59 min
This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Andrei Marmor. Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law. His research interests span philosophy of law, moral, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of language. His most recent books include Social Conventions: from language to law (Princeton, 2009), Philosophy of Law (Princeton, 2011) and The Language of Law (Oxford, 2014). Today, w...
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 18 min
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by James McGilvray. James McGilvray is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University, Montréal. He has written a general introduction to Chomsky’s work (Chomsky 1999; second edition, 2014) and edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (2005) and the second (2002) and third (2009) editions of Chomsky’s seminal Cartesian Linguistics (Cambridge Un...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 38 min
