philosophy

#1201 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

Jan 12, 2026

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»
#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine

Jan 2, 2026

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»
#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»
#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»