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This conversation is part of the series 'Philosophy and Climate Change' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Graham Parkes. Graham Parkes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i and Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been teaching environmental philosophy and Asian and comparative thought for forty-five years, beginning at UC Santa Cruz, and later at universities in China, Japan, and Europe.
He edited books such Heidegger and Asian Thoughts (1987), Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), Composing the Soul (1994) and translated works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2005). Today we will focus on his most recent book How to Think About the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living (2020).
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This conversation is part of the series 'Moral Matters Matter' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. He is Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2013, he is a Distinguished Professor (Universiteitshoogleraar) at Utrecht University. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982) compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Ever since, de Waal has drawn parallels between primate and human behavior, from peacemaking and morality to culture. His popular books — translated into twenty languages — have made him one of the world's most visible primatologists. His latest books are The Age of Empathy (2009), and The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013), Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), & Mama's Last Hug (2018), . Two recent edited volumes are The Primate Mind (2012) and Evolved Morality (2014).
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Nicola Perullo. Nicola Perullo is a philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. His research focuses on the philosophical and aesthetic bases of food and taste. He was a pioneer in Italy of the Aesthetics of food and of gustatory taste. In the last eight years, his research has focused on proposing a participatory and implicative model of knowledge. One case for it was wine, chosen as an example to practice an ecological paradigm of appreciation. His books in English include ‘Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food’ (Columbia, 2016) and ‘Epistenology: Wine as Experience’ (Columbia, 2020).
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Ian Werkheiser. Iam Werkheiser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the director of the Center for Collaboration and Ethics at UTRGV. His research is currently focused on how communities of resistance address environmental harms and hazards, particularly around food, while also dealing with social and political oppression or marginalization. He is particularly interested in the ways that UTRGV can become an anchor institution in the Valley and benefit those communities of resistance.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Alexandra Plakias. Alexandra Plakias is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on metaethics and moral psychology: the role of disgust in moral judgment; moral disagreement and objectivity; the relevance of empirical psychology to metaethics. She also works on food and philosophy, which is the topic of today’s discussion.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Andrea Borghini. Andrea Borghini is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and Director of Culinary Mind, an International Research Center for the Philosophy of Food. In his work, he develops new theoretical tools to rethink how we speak, structure, sense, and feel about food, eating, and culinary culture. Professor Borghini’s specific topics of research include hunger and appetite, recipes, food and space, and biodiversity. His research sits at the intersection of theory, value, and practice.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Norbert Corver. Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at Utrecht University, and a member of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He is one of the editors of the book series Studies in Generative Grammar, published by Mouton de Gruyter. He is also the co-author of 4 volumes of the Syntax of Dutch series (Amsterdam University Press), which synthesizes the currently available knowledge of the syntactic structure of Dutch (http://norbert.abelcorver.com/books/). Specifically, he contributed to the 3 volumes on Verbs and Verb Phrases (Volumes I, II, III) and the volume on Coordination and Ellipsis. Lastly, he is the co-editor of various books on Generative Syntax.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Robert T. Valgenti was Professor of Philosophy and The Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. His research and teaching covers contemporary Italian philosophy, hermeneutics, biopolitics, and the philosophy of food. He is also a member of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative and a desk editor for the journal Gastronomica.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Charles Spence is the Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory. He is interested in how people perceive the world around them. In particular, how our brains manage to process the information from each of our different senses (such as smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch) to form the extraordinarily rich multisensory experiences that fill our daily lives. His research focuses on how a better understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of multisensory foods, products, interfaces, and environments in the future. Today’s focus will be his book ‘Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating’.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Carolyn Korsmeyer is the Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and her areas in philosophy include aesthetics and emotion theory. She has a special interest in the senses that have been traditionally neglected by philosophy: taste and touch. In her books, Professor Korsmeyer addresses taste, food, disgust, and related subjects. Today’s focus will be her book ‘Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy’ which explores the gustatory sense and its aesthetic features.
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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Lisa Heldke is the Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated faculty in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and Director in Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is committed to exploring the philosophical significance of food, a topic about which philosophers historically have had very little to say. She has published numerous articles, as well as four (authored or co-edited) books, including 'Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer' and 'Philosophers at Table: On Food and Being Human'. She is on the editorial board for The Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics, published by Springer Publishing.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Laura-Ann Petitto. Professor Laura Ann Petitto, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, is the Co-Principal Investigator, and Science Director, of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center, "Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2"at Gallaudet University. She is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Gallaudet, an affiliated Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, and the Scientific Director of her ownBrain and Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Georges Rey. Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by two guests, Carol Rovane & Akeel Bilgrami, both Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Professor Rovane current research focuses on several interrelated topics: the first person, personal identity, relativism, the foundations of value, group vs. individual responsibility, and some new problems for liberal theory. She is the author of the books: ‘The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics’ and ‘The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism’.
Professor Bilgrami has two relatively independent sets of intellectual interests--in the Philosophy of Mind and Language, and in Political Philosophy and Moral Psychology especially as they surface in politics, political economy, history, and culture. He is the author of several books including: ‘Belief and Meaning’, ‘Self Knowledge and Resentment’, & ‘Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment’. -
This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Robert C. Berwick. Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Berwick has written 8 books and more than 200 articles on the nature of human language and its computational properties, how language is learned, how it develops and differs, and how it evolves and changes over time.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Jean Bricmont. Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His recent books include 'Quantum Sense and Nonsense', 'Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics', & he Co-Edited the book ‘Chomsky Notebook’.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Peter Ludlow. Peter Ludlow is Associate Researcher at the Center for Logic and Epistemology at UNICAMP. He published in a number of areas, ranging from linguistics and the philosophy of language, to topics concerning group knowledge, blockchain technology, virtual worlds, and hacktivism. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the Philosophy of Generative Linguistics.
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This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Anthony DiMaggio. Anthony DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. Professor DiMaggio's research is interdisciplinary, and is based in the fields of Political Science, Political Sociology, and Political Communication. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the book 'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
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This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Alix Cohen. Alix Cohen works at the University of Edinburgh where her current roles include Head of Philosophy. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009), the editor of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide (2014), Kant on Emotion and Value (2014), and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's views on the human sciences, biology, anthropology, history, emotions & more.
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This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Anil Gomes. Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford and Associate Professor in Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Professor Gomes mainly works in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Today, we will talk in particular about his article in the book he co-edited titled ‘Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's views on the mind, his influence on 20th century analytic philosophy & more.
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