Earth to Philosophy
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago -Earth to Philosophy is a podcast featuring philosophers working on nature and the environment. Each episode, hosts Claire Hamlett and Andrea Gammon invite a guest to discuss some of their work, usually a recent book or paper, or perhaps a side project they have going. It's an attempt to bring environmental philosophy to a wider audience, a no-budget labour of love, and an excuse for Andrea and Claire to talk with people whose work they find interesting.
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Episodes
7: Barbara J. King & Lori Marino
May 25, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 30.6 MBThis is the final episode of season 1! Barbara J. King is emerita professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary and a freelance science writer. The author of six books including How Animals Grieve, Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat, and Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, she focuses on animal emotion and cognition, the ethics of our relating with animals, and the evolution of culture, language, and religion. Her work h...
6: Olufemi Taiwo
May 18, 2020 06:49 - 52 minutes - 28.5 MBOlufemi Taiwo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His theoretical work draws liberally from German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, histories of activism and activist thinkers, and the Black radical tradition. Femi is currently writing a book entitled Reconsidering Reparations that considers a novel philosophical argument for reparations and explores links with environmental justice. He also writes public ...
5: Eric Godoy
May 11, 2020 08:30 - 47 minutes - 16.5 MBEric Godoy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, affiliated faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and member of the Graduate Faculty at Illinois State University. His teaching and research focuses on ethics (especially environmental ethics) and political philosophy. He is particularly interested in how we construct the boundaries of our moral space, sympathy, collective agency, the politics of play, and ‘nature’ as a normative concept. Eric's website and blog ...
4: Emily Brady
May 04, 2020 06:45 - 58 minutes - 22.4 MBEmily is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. She also holds the Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock Director’s Chair in the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Before coming to Texas A&M, she was Professor of Environment and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where she was one of Claire's supervisors. You can find Emily's website here. Episode reading: Climate Change and Future Aesthetics’, in Climate Change and the Humanities, ed. A. Elliott, J. Cullis, and V....
3: Holly Jean Buck
April 26, 2020 19:27 - 43 minutes - 17.4 MBHolly Jean Buck, postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, joined Andrea to discuss her book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration, and her paper "Geoengineering: Re-making Climate for Profit or Humanitarian Intervention?" Holly is a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She’s interested in how communities can be involved in the design of emerging environmental technologies. She works at the interface of environmental sociology,...
2: Mateusz Tokarski
April 19, 2020 14:23 - 48 minutes - 31.8 MBMateusz Tokarski joins us to revisit the most thrilling parts of his dissertation Wild at Home: The Ethics of Living with Discomforting Wildlife, which he defended in 2017. We talk about Val Plumwood's famous (well, in environmental philosophy circles) near-death experience with a crocodile, among other things. Mateusz is an editor, writer, translator, and researcher. He holds a BA in Film and Theatre Studies from London Metropolitan University, a MA in semiotics (Aarhus University, Denmark...
1: Christopher Preston
April 12, 2020 15:02 - 47 minutes - 23.8 MBOur first episode! We speak with Christopher Preston about his most recent book, The Synthetic Age (MIT Press, 2018). Christopher is Professor of Philosophy and a Research Fellow in the Mansfield Center's Program on Ethics and Public Affairs at the University of Montana (and he's also Andrea's former M.A. supervisor). Christopher teaches and writes in environmental philosophy at the University of Montana, Missoula. Much of his research connects to the idea of the Anthropocene, the epoch i...