#1205 Jasmine Sherni: Being Part of a Cultural Minority in the Sex Industry
Jasmine Sherni is an adult content creator, model, and actress. She has a YouTube channel (@JasmineSherni). More»
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#1204 Sarah Dierna: The History and Theory of Antinatalism
Sarah Dierna is a PhD candidate in Interpretation Studies at the Department of Humanities at the University of Catania, where she collaborates with the chair of Theoretical Philosophy. She has published essays, articles, and reviews in various scholarly journals and collective volumes. In 2023, she edited the Italian translation of David Benatar's The Misanthropic Argument for Antinatalism for Oxford University Press. In 2025, she published the monograph È il nascere che non ci voleva. Storia e teoria dell'Antinatalismo (Mimesis). More»
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#1203 Nicole Karlis: Your Brain on Altruism
Nicole Karlis is a health and science journalist. Her work has been published in Salon, The New York Times, Marie Claire, and The Bold Italic. She is the author of Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis. More»
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#1202 Valerie Tiberius: The Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being
Dr. Valerie Tiberius is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Her work explores the ways in which philosophy and psychology can both contribute to the study of well-being and virtue. She is the author of What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters. More»
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#1201 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
Dr. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She is a MacArthur Fellow and has received the National Humanities Medal of the US, the National Jewish Book Award, and numerous other honors. She’s the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, including The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex. Her latest book is The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us. More»
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#1200 Vicky Oelze: The Anthropology of the Atlantic and Transatlantic Slave Trade
Dr. Vicky Oelze is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and Director of the Primate Ecology & Molecular Anthropology Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include mobility and dietary adaptations in archaeological human populations; African strontium isoscapes and isotopic investigations of the Atlantic and transatlantic slave trade; the dietary ecology of extant African great apes; great ape breastfeeding and weaning; and chimpanzee tool use and termite-chimpanzee interactions. More»
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#1199 Jason Clarke - Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception
Dr. Jason Clarke is Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London. He is a cognitive scientist whose research focuses on revealing the psychological and neural processes underlying visual perception, memory, and consciousness. He is the author of Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception. More»
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#1198 Rebecca Love: Where Negative Attitudes Towards Sex Workers Stem From
Rebecca Love is an adult film actress who has been in the industry since 1995. She furthered her career and had the opportunity to be in Erotica Films on HBO, Showtime and Cinemax. She is also the cofounder of “Adult Film Star Network” which educates people in the adult industry. More»
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#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Dr. Mark Wicclair is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at West Virginia University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research and teaching interests are in bioethics and applied ethics. He is the author of Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis, Ethics and the Elderly, and more recently, Conscientious Objection in Medicine. More»
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#1196 Walter Veit: A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness
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»