philosophy

#1023 Francesca Bellazzi: Biochemical Kinds and Functions, Genes, and Virtue Ethics

Nov 22, 2024

Dr. Francesca Bellazzi is Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project Assembling Life at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS) in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History, Art and Ideas (UiO) at the University of Oslo, Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Department of Science and Technology at UCL, and Honorary Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She is interested in the complexity of the interactions between different entities. In particular, she is fascinated by the interface between chemistry and biology. She also has several side projects that consider the ethical aspects of science, in particular focusing on virtue ethics and epistemic injustice. More»
#1018 Brian Leiter & Jaime Edwards: The Life and Ideas of Marx

Nov 11, 2024

Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence. More»
#1015 Julia Hermann: The Ethics of Artificial Wombs

Nov 4, 2024

Dr. Julia Hermann is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Twente where she works on ectogestative technology, care robots, technomoral change and progress, and new methodologies in the ethics of technology. More»
#1007 Brian Talbot: The End of Epistemology As We Know It

Oct 17, 2024

Dr. Brian Talbot is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work is on epistemology, ethics, and the intersection of ethics and epistemology. He is the author of The End of Epistemology As We Know It. More»
#1006 Anna Alexandrova - Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

Oct 14, 2024

Dr. Anna Alexandrova is a Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. She does work in philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, measurement in social and medical sciences, social organization of science, philosophy of mental health/psychotherapy/wellbeing, evidence-based policy and role of science in governance; and more. She is the editor of Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification. More»
#1005 Joshua May - Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science

Oct 11, 2024

Dr. Joshua May is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He works in ethics and cognitive science. His latest book is Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science. More»
#1004 Lawrence Anton - Antinatalism: Birth, Death, Consent, and Extinction

Oct 10, 2024

Lawrence Anton has a YouTube channel on antinatalism - @LawrenceAnton. More»
#1004 Lawrence Anton (@LawrenceAnton) - Antinatalism: Birth, Death, Consent, and Extinction

Oct 10, 2024

Lawrence Anton has a YouTube channel on antinatalism - @LawrenceAnton. More»
#1003 Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

Oct 7, 2024

Dr. Andy Clark is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. His academic interests include artificial intelligence, embodied and extended cognition, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the author of several books, the latest one being The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality. More»
#1001 Edward Hall: The Philosophy of Causation, and the Structure of Reality

Oct 3, 2024

Dr. Edward Hall is Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He works on a range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology that overlap with philosophy of science. More»