All Episodes

#1196 Walter Veit: A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

Jan 1, 2026

Dr. Walter Veit is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Philosophy at the University of Reading, where he is also the director of the PPE program as well as the philosophy MA program. His interests are broad, but he works primarily in and at the intersections of (i) the Philosophy of Cognitive and Biological Sciences, (ii) the Philosophy of Mind, and (iii) Applied Ethics. Much of his recent writing has been on animal minds, welfare, and ethics, as well as evolution. He is the author of A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness. More»
#1195 Kaytlin Bailey: The History of Sex Work, and What Sex Workers Need Politically

Dec 29, 2025

Kaytlin Bailey is a sex worker rights advocate, comedian, and writer. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Old Pros, a nonprofit that uses storytelling to advocate for sex worker rights. Host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, she is also the creator of The Oldest Profession, a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective, which can be performed as a lecture or a theatrical performance. More»
#1194 Kah Dantas: Trabalho Sexual, Marxismo e Feminismo

Dec 26, 2025

THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
#1193 Jennifer Nagel: Epistemic Intuitions, Knowledge, and Common Knowledge

Dec 25, 2025

Dr. Jennifer Nagel is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on knowledge, belief, and our capacities to track these states in ourselves and others. Dr. Nagel is interested in the history of epistemology, both in the Western tradition back to Plato, and in the Classical Indian and Tibetan traditions. She also works in contemporary philosophy of mind, with special interests in metacognition and mental state attribution. More»
#1192 Ava Devine (@TheAvaDevine): A Legend of the Sex Industry

Dec 22, 2025

Ava Devine is an adult film actress, and the host of the Ava Devine’s Bad Advice Podcast. More»
#1191 Keegan Kjeldsen (Essentialsalts) - Nietzsche's Philosophy: Reason, Truth, Politics & More

Dec 19, 2025

Keegan Kjeldsen is the host of the YouTube channel essentialsalts (@untimelyreflections), a doom metal guitarist, and host of The Nietzsche Podcast. More»
#1190 Eric Storm - Nationalism: A World History

Dec 18, 2025

Dr. Eric Storm is Associate Professor of History at Leiden University. He is a specialist in Spanish history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also conducted extensive research into the construction of regional identities in France, Spain and Germany between 1890 and 1940. At present, he mainly publishes about nationalization processes in a comparative perspective. He is the author of Nationalism: A World History. More»
#1189 Nina Hartley: Pornography, Sex Education, and Feminism

Dec 15, 2025

Nina Hartley is a legendary pornographic film actress and sex educator. She has been described by Las Vegas Weekly as an "outspoken feminist" and "advocate for sexual freedom". More»
#1188 Ashley Randall: Sexual Minority and Gender-Diverse Individuals in Romantic Relationships

Dec 12, 2025

Dr. Ashley Randall is a Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. She studies couples’ interpersonal emotion regulation. Although stressful experiences can have deleterious effects on individual well-being in a variety relationships and settings, romantic partners are in a unique position to regulate each other’s emotions during times of distress. More»
#1187 Peter Turchin: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Elite Overproduction, and Social Unrest

Dec 11, 2025

Dr. Peter Turchin is Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut in the departments of ecology and evolutionary biology, anthropology, and mathematics. He is a project leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and a research associate at the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is a complexity scientist who works in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call cliodynamics. He is the author of books like War and Peace and War, Ages of Discord, Ultrasociety, End Times, and The Great Holocene Transformation. More»