Episode link here . In this episode, James Koppel (MIT, James Koppel Coaching) joins me and Dominick Reo to talk about how we can write software to help identify the causes of disasters. These days, there's often a tendency to think of software primarily as a venue for frivolous pleasures. Maybe there's a new app that's really good at hooking me up with videos of alpacas on skateboards, or making my mom look like a hot dog when she's video chatting with me, or helping me decide what flavor of cu...
Apr 17, 2020•39 min•Ep. 125
Episode link here: https://elucidations.now.sh/posts/episode-124/ In this episode, Graham Priest returns to discuss Buddhist political philosophy with me and Henry Curtis. (Last month, we talked with him about Buddhist metaphysics.) Last month, we discussed the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: that suffering happens, that this suffering is (partially) caused by emotional attachment, that you can deal with it by changing your headspace, and that you can change your headspace by understanding the wo...
Mar 21, 2020•41 min•Ep. 124
In this episode, Matt Teichman and Henry Curtis talk to Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center) about the philosophical foundations of Buddhism. Buddhism isn't just a religion--it's an entire family of philosophical traditions that took root all over the Asian continent for thousands of years. The historical Buddha articulated views in what we consider to be many different areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. For this episode, we're focusing on the metaphysi...
Feb 15, 2020•48 min•Ep. 123
In this episode, Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold make the case for a different approach to working in the modern world. A lot of us experience our day to day work as a 'mild disease'--not terrible, not excruciating, but also not our #1 choice about how to spend weekdays. Instead, they argue, a person's work should be the best part of their life. But making that a possibility for everyone requires not just our social structures to transform--it requires a kind of personal psychological trans...
Jan 17, 2020•40 min•Ep. 122
In this episode, Matt Teichman and Julia Liu talk to Aaron Ben Ze'ev (University of Haifa) about lifelong romantic love. What is love? Is it just a private feeling that each individual person experiences, or is it something that crucially involves multiple people? Our guest argues that although it is primarily a feeling, it is also something that emerges out of the interaction between two people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 05, 2019•42 min•Ep. 121
Ever wonder what 'gender non-binary' means? Don't worry--Robin Dembroff (Yale University) is here to walk us through the relevant terminology, along with the everyday moral issues that are tied up with the gender concepts we use. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 10, 2019•33 min•Ep. 120
In this episode, our guest argues that in addition to ordinary individual cases of misgendering, in which one person gets another person's gender wrong when they address them, there's a broader sense of the term. In the broader sense, a philosophical account of what gender is can also misgender people. How? The idea is that in signing yourself up for an incorrect philosophical account of gender, you could be committing yourself to the view that certain people are not the gender they (correctly) ...
Oct 15, 2019•45 min•Ep. 119
In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the humans of the future as we care about people now. Re-emphasizing our commitment to future people, he argues, has the effect of allowing us to embrace utilitarianism wholeheartedly without having to feel like we aren't doing enough. Why? The best way to make life better for future generations is to h...
Sep 12, 2019•53 min•Ep. 118
In this episode, Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky) argues that we should think more carefully about our moral reaction to instances of plagiarism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 30, 2019•38 min•Ep. 117
In this episode, Tommy Curry argues that if we really want to understand gender-based oppression, we have to look at how black men have been targeted for it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 05, 2019•59 min•Ep. 116
In this episode, Katherine Ritchie (CUNY Graduate Center, City College) lays out what it means to belong to a social group, and what kind of thing a social group is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 01, 2019•40 min•Ep. 115
What is the nature of a person's political outlook? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 14, 2019•41 min•Ep. 114
In this episode, Tom Pashby explains how quantum physics is different from theories that came before, and runs through some of the ways that philosophers and physicists have tried to make intuitive sense of this challenging framework. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 08, 2019•36 min•Ep. 113
In this episode, Myisha Cherry argues that having a productive conversation with someone often involves explicitly laying out each person's background experiences and expectations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 07, 2019•44 min•Ep. 112
In this episode, Greg Kobele discusses how abstract mathematics can be useful for arriving at a unified theory of what patterns a person has mastery over when they can speak a language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 27, 2019•41 min•Ep. 111
What is the best way forward for a group of people fairly recently freed from slavery? Booker T. Washington emphasized economic enfranchisement, whereas W.E.B. Du Bois thought it was necessary to achieve political enfranchisement alongside economic enfranchisement. Join us as our guest discusses how threads from this 100-year-old debate persist in today's discussions about racial justice in America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 15, 2018•37 min•Ep. 110
Bonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature of moral disagreement, and the existence of political divides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 13, 2018•48 min•Ep. 109
What do you think of yourself as? A musician? A mother? A political organizer? In this episode, our guest argues that your ability to act and reason freely is premised on your ability to shape and sometimes even invent the labels you apply to yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2018•36 min•Ep. 108
In this episode, Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the subtle ways that things like your race, gender, sexual orientation, and class can influence your life. She argues that the best way to understand that kind of influence is by looking to the history of the relevant social group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 03, 2018•50 min•Ep. 106
In this episode, R. A. Briggs discusses some complexities underlying our use of the terms 'man' and 'woman.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 22, 2018•37 min•Ep. 106
How do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 20, 2018•37 min•Ep. 105
In this episode, Seth Yalcin argues that every belief we have is implicitly framed as the answer to a question, and that at different times we're considering different questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 04, 2018•39 min•Ep. 104
In this episode, we talk to Brian Leiter about why the writings of Karl Marx are helpful for understanding the current situation of the working and middle class in America, the 2016 Presidential election, and related topics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 09, 2018•51 min•Ep. 103
In this episode, Josh Knobe discusses a series of experiments that try to tease out what we implicitly assume about who a person really is, deep down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 01, 2017•33 min•Ep. 102
In this episode, Miranda Fricker argues that the purpose of blaming someone is to communicate to them your sense of why what they did was wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 21, 2017•50 min•Ep. 101
In this episode, Agnes Callard explains why she thinks aspiration is the process of moving from one set of values to a new set of values in the way you live your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 22, 2017•49 min
In this episode, Steven Nadler discusses Benedict de Spinoza's unique reason-centric conception of what it is to live a good life and be free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 13, 2017•39 min
In this episode, Jennifer Lackey discusses both how you can get things factually wrong and do something morally wrong by trusting people more than they deserve to be trusted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 17, 2017•32 min
In this episode, Meghan Sullivan argues that if it's irrational to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term gain, then it's also irrational to prefer for bad experiences to have already happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 11, 2017•56 min
In this episode, Nic Koziolek offers an account of what thought, belief, and reasoning are in terms of what knowledge is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 08, 2017•41 min
