Latest Elucidaitons Podcast Episodes
Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses misgendering
Elucidations - October 15, 2019 03:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, our guest argues that in addition to ordinary individual cases of misgendering, in which one person gets another person's gender wrong when they address them, there's a broader sense of the term. In the broader sense, a philosophical account of what gender is can also misgender p...
Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments
Elucidations - September 12, 2019 17:50 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the humans of the future as we care about people now. Re-emphasizing our commitment to future people,...
Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says to plagiarize this podcast
Elucidations - August 30, 2019 20:50 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky) argues that we should think more carefully about our moral reaction to instances of plagiarism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies
Elucidations - August 05, 2019 23:56 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Tommy Curry argues that if we really want to understand gender-based oppression, we have to look at how black men have been targeted for it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups
Elucidations - July 01, 2019 00:50 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Katherine Ritchie (CUNY Graduate Center, City College) lays out what it means to belong to a social group, and what kind of thing a social group is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology
Elucidations - May 14, 2019 14:08 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsWhat is the nature of a person's political outlook? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics
Elucidations - April 08, 2019 12:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Tom Pashby explains how quantum physics is different from theories that came before, and runs through some of the ways that philosophers and physicists have tried to make intuitive sense of this challenging framework. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation
Elucidations - March 07, 2019 12:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Myisha Cherry argues that having a productive conversation with someone often involves explicitly laying out each person's background experiences and expectations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics
Elucidations - January 27, 2019 23:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Greg Kobele discusses how abstract mathematics can be useful for arriving at a unified theory of what patterns a person has mastery over when they can speak a language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Elucidations - December 15, 2018 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsWhat is the best way forward for a group of people fairly recently freed from slavery? Booker T. Washington emphasized economic enfranchisement, whereas W.E.B. Du Bois thought it was necessary to achieve political enfranchisement alongside economic enfranchisement. Join us as our guest discusses ...
Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle
Elucidations - October 13, 2018 19:56 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsBonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature of moral disagreement, and the existence of political divides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom
Elucidations - September 15, 2018 22:43 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsWhat do you think of yourself as? A musician? A mother? A political organizer? In this episode, our guest argues that your ability to act and reason freely is premised on your ability to shape and sometimes even invent the labels you apply to yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history
Elucidations - August 03, 2018 18:14 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the subtle ways that things like your race, gender, sexual orientation, and class can influence your life. She argues that the best way to understand that kind of influence is by looking to the history of the relevant social group. Hosted on Acast....
Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender
Elucidations - June 22, 2018 22:15 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, R. A. Briggs discusses some complexities underlying our use of the terms 'man' and 'woman.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory
Elucidations - April 20, 2018 22:46 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsHow do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief
Elucidations - March 04, 2018 16:13 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Seth Yalcin argues that every belief we have is implicitly framed as the answer to a question, and that at different times we're considering different questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx
Elucidations - January 09, 2018 13:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, we talk to Brian Leiter about why the writings of Karl Marx are helpful for understanding the current situation of the working and middle class in America, the 2016 Presidential election, and related topics! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self
Elucidations - December 01, 2017 13:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Josh Knobe discusses a series of experiments that try to tease out what we implicitly assume about who a person really is, deep down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness
Elucidations - October 21, 2017 19:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Miranda Fricker argues that the purpose of blaming someone is to communicate to them your sense of why what they did was wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 100: Agnes Callard discusses aspiration
Elucidations - September 22, 2017 00:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Agnes Callard explains why she thinks aspiration is the process of moving from one set of values to a new set of values in the way you live your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 99: Steven Nadler discusses Spinoza on freedom
Elucidations - August 13, 2017 13:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Steven Nadler discusses Benedict de Spinoza's unique reason-centric conception of what it is to live a good life and be free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 98: Jennifer Lackey discusses credibility
Elucidations - July 17, 2017 12:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Jennifer Lackey discusses both how you can get things factually wrong and do something morally wrong by trusting people more than they deserve to be trusted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases
Elucidations - June 11, 2017 14:20 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Meghan Sullivan argues that if it's irrational to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term gain, then it's also irrational to prefer for bad experiences to have already happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning
Elucidations - May 08, 2017 17:42 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Nic Koziolek offers an account of what thought, belief, and reasoning are in terms of what knowledge is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 95: Zed Adams discusses the genealogy of color
Elucidations - April 10, 2017 21:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Zed Adams argues that philosophers are in an irresolvable debate about whether colors are real because they inherited multiple conflicting conceptions of what color is from previous generations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 94: Zsofia Zvolenszky discusses fictional names
Elucidations - March 23, 2017 16:31 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Zsofia Zvolenszky argues that names like 'Harry Potter' or 'Princess Leia' stand for non-concrete human-made artifacts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death
Elucidations - January 30, 2017 22:29 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Barry Lam examines our common assumption that we should prioritize honoring the wishes of dead people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 92: Kristie Dotson discusses epistemic oppression
Elucidations - January 14, 2017 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Kristie Dotson discusses how imbalances in the way we share information with each other reflect broader power imbalances between social groups. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals
Elucidations - December 23, 2016 00:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, Paolo Santorio argues that to explain what statements like 'If A were, then B would be' mean, we need to understand them as statements about causal networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction
Elucidations - November 20, 2016 00:31 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsIn this episode, our guest argues that we confer social statuses on each other by treating each other has having different obligations and entitlements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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