philosophy

#990 Monte Johnson: Aristotle, Democritus, and Greco-Roman Philosophy

Sep 6, 2024

Dr. Monte Johnson is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches and researches Greco-Roman philosophy and its influence on the history of philosophy and science. His main projects involve reconstructing a lost dialogue of Aristotle (the Protrepticus), and demonstrating the influence of Democritus on Hellenistic ethics. He has a growing interest in comparing Greco-Roman philosophy with other ancient wisdom traditions and literatures. More»
#989 Robert Vinten: Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion

Sep 5, 2024

Dr. Robert Vinten is a postdoctoral research fellow within a project on epistemic injustice and previously a postdoctoral research fellow within a project on the epistemology of religious belief at the NOVA University of Lisbon. He is the author of Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences (2020) and of numerous journal articles about Wittgenstein’s philosophy. He is also the editor of Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind. More»
#987 Tuomas Tahko: Meta-Metaphysics, Fundamentality, and the Building Blocks of Reality

Aug 30, 2024

Dr. Tuomas Tahko is Professor of Metaphysics of Science at the University of Bristol. He specializes in contemporary analytic metaphysics, with an emphasis on methodological and epistemic issues: “meta-metaphysics”. He also works at the interface of metaphysics and philosophy of science: “metaphysics of science”. Broader research interests include issues in epistemology, philosophical logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and history of philosophy. He was the PI of an ERC Consolidator Project "The Metaphysical Unity of Science" (MetaScience, 2018-2023). More»
#984 Andrew Khoury: Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Forgiveness

Aug 23, 2024

Dr. Andrew Khoury is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. He works primarily at the intersection of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and metaphysics on issues surrounding free will and moral responsibility. More»
#981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen - Freud’s Thinking: An Introduction

Aug 16, 2024

Dr. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests include Critical Theory, French literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and psychology. He is the author of several books, his latest one being Freud’s Thinking: An Introduction. More»
#981 Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Was Freud Really a Scientist?

Aug 16, 2024

Dr. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests include Critical Theory, French literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and psychology. He is the author of several books, his latest one being Freud’s Thinking: An Introduction. More»
#978 Sophie Scott-Brown: European Political Thought, Anarchism, and Steven Pinker's Progressivism

Aug 9, 2024

Dr. Sophie Scott-Brown is a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, and Future Fellow at Remarque Institute, NYU. She is also Founder of the Everyday Democracy project with Open Society Foundation. She is well-known for her historical work on left-wing politics, especially the post-war British left, and for her intellectual biography of Raphael Samuel entitled The Histories of Raphael Samuel - A Portrait of A People’s Historian (2017). More»
#974 Robert Welshon: Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality

Aug 1, 2024

Dr. Robert Welshon is a Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His areas of specialization are philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. He is a past Fulbright Fellow (2008-2009) and Visiting Professor at Brown (1997). He is the author of numerous books, the latest one being Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality: A Guide. More»
#969 Seth Robertson: Moral Realism and Anti-Realism, Confucian Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice

Jul 19, 2024

Dr. Seth Robertson is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University. His research interests include moral psychology, the history of ethics, early Chinese ethics, social epistemology, virtue ethics, and metaethics. Dr. Robertson’s research focuses on ways in which non-normative information should constrain our normative theorizing. He has written about the intersection of social intelligence and virtue ethics as well as situationist psychology and moral development in the context of early Confucian ethics, and is currently working on epistemic injustice and rhetorical manipulation. More»
#966 Patrick Hassan: Nietzsche's Struggle Against Pessimism

Jul 12, 2024

Dr. Patrick Hassan is a Lecturer at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. His primary areas of interest are moral and existential philosophy. Currently, he works on 19th century philosophy (particularly Nietzsche and Schopenhauer), ethics and its relation to aesthetics, and environmental philosophy. He is the author of Nietzsche's Struggle against Pessimism. More»