philosophy

#1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology

Oct 12, 2026

Dr. César Marín is Full Professor in the School of Sciences at Santo Tomas University, Chile. Since 2022, he is a Guest researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, section Ecology & Evolution, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. His primary research interest is (i) Soil Ecology, studying: Fungal Biodiversity; Fungal Biodiversity in Chile; Mycorrhizal Applications; Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning; Soil Fire Ecology; Soil Chemistry; Root Ecology; South American Mycorrhizas. His second research interest is (ii) Multilevel selection in all sorts of systems, albeit he focuses in plant holobiont-symbiont systems. More»
#1309 Espen Hammer: Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche

Sep 21, 2026

Dr. Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. He is the author of After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche. More»
#1302 Benjamin Saltzman - Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Sep 4, 2026

Dr. Benjamin Saltzman is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His research interests include poetry and poetics, visual studies, hermeneutics, gesture, theory, language, and environmental humanities. He is the author of Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture. More»
#1301 Suki Finn - What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought

Sep 3, 2026

Dr. Suki Finn is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research spans the areas of metametaphysics, the metaphysics of pregnancy, the epistemology of logic, and feminist and queer theory. She is the author of What's in a Doughnut Hole?: And Other Philosophical Food for Thought. More»
#1297 Neil Sinhababu: Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence

Aug 24, 2026

Dr. Neil Sinhababu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He is interested in metaethics and related issues. He is the author of Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence. More»
#1296 Carolyn Kraft: Discussing the Ethics and Legality of Sex Work

Aug 21, 2026

Carolyn Kraft is the YouTuber behind Krafty Thinking (@kraftythinking), where she applies philosophy to modern topics so that you understand why people believe what they believe. More»
#1295 Neal Hebert: A Philosophical Analysis of Wrestling | WWE SummerSlam 2026

Aug 20, 2026

Dr. Neal Hebert is an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Grambling State University. He is the author (together with Jon Cogburn) of Kayfabe Nation: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism. More»
#1292 Nima Bassiri: Capitalism, Psychiatry, and the Emergence of Pathological Value

Aug 13, 2026

Dr. Nima Bassiri is a social theorist, historian & philosopher of the human sciences, and associate professor at Duke University, where he teaches in the Program in Literature, Duke’s interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies program. He is also the co-director of Duke’s Institute for Critical Theory, where he convenes the Critical Theory Workshop. He is the author of Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value. More»
#1290 Matthew Lindauer: The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts

Aug 7, 2026

Dr. Matthew Lindauer is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is co-director of the PsyPhi Lab. He works in moral and political philosophy and moral psychology, often at the intersections of these fields. He is the author of The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts. More»
#1281 Francesca Rossi: The Benefits and Risks of AI

Jul 17, 2026

Dr. Francesca Rossi is an IBM fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She works at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York. Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence, specifically they include constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, collective decision making, and AI value alignment. She is also interested in ethical issues in the development and behavior of AI systems. More»