philosophy

#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»
#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»
#1185 Giovanni Rolla: Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Embodied Cognition

Dec 5, 2025

Dr. Giovanni Rolla is Professor of Philosophy at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. His research is about enactivism, ecological psychology and radically embodied cognition in general (sometimes he deals with traditional epistemology as well, especially know-how, normativity and rationality). He is also a founding member of the Enactive Cognition and Narrative Practices research group (University of Wollongong), and a founding member of the Cognition, Language, Enaction and Affectivity research group. More»
#1184 Maël Lemoine - Philosophy of Physiology: What is Disease, and What is Health?

Dec 4, 2025

Dr. Mäel Lemoine is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. His interests include the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of cognitive science, and general philosophy of science. He is the author of Philosophy of Physiology. More»
#1182 Dries Bostyn: How People Respond to Trolley Dilemmas

Nov 28, 2025

Dr. Dries Bostyn is a social psychologist, statistician and philosopher currently doing a BOF senior postdoctoral fellowship at the Social Psychology Lab at Ghent Unversity. His primary research focus is the study of moral psychology. More»
#1177 Mark Alfano: Nietzsche on Virtue

Nov 17, 2025

Dr. Mark Alfano is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. Dr. Alfano uses tools and methods from philosophy and the sciences to explore topics in moral psychology, epistemology, and digital humanities. He studies how people become and remain virtuous, how values become integrated into people's lives, and how these virtues and values are (or fail to be) manifested in their perception, thoughts, feelings, deliberations, and behavior. He’s the author of books like Character as Moral Fiction, Nietzsche's Moral Psychology, and Nietzsche on Virtue. More»
#1175 Jakob Norberg: Schopenhauer's Politics

Nov 13, 2025

Dr. Jakob Norberg is Professor of German Studies at Duke University. His research explores conceptions of community in German thought and literature. He is the author of three books, the latest one being Schopenhauer’s Politics. More»
#1174 David Bather Woods - Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist

Nov 10, 2025

Dr. David Bather Woods is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, especially his philosophical pessimism and his moral and political philosophy. His new book is Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist. More»
#1173 David Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge

Nov 7, 2025

Dr. David Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He has published across a broad range of philosophical subjects, including philosophy of language, philosophy of education, ethics, aesthetics, environmental philosophy, animal ethics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of religion, history of both Western philosophy and Asian philosophy, and modern European philosophy, especially Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. More»
#1169 Gabriel Zamosc-Regueros - Nietzsche's Ideals: Sovereignty, Wholeness, and Becoming What One Is

Oct 30, 2025

Dr. Gabriel Zamosc-Regueros is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Science at the University of Colorado, Denver. His areas of expertise include ethics, Nietzsche, 19th-20th century continental philosophy, and philosophy of Action. More»