Author: Pat McConvile

  • Season 1, Episode 9: Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation with Dalia Nassar

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar. Dr Dalia Nassar works at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy and ethics. She has written on the tradition of romantic empiricism, including its significance contemporary questions of ecology and environment. She has also worked to promote women in the history…

  • Season 1, Episode 8: Paris, Cuba, and David from any Direction with Lucy Benjamin

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin. Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural theory and creative practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of environmental theory, architecture, and philosophy, especially the emergence of repair as a design principle and the conditions for human rights in the age of eco-crisis. They discuss…

  • S1E7 Annie Sandrussi: Background Notes

    From: Annie Sandrussi <>To: Pat McConville <>Subject: Re: Invitation to interview on Concept : Art podcast 1.      Ontological disruption,  and the ‘unthought’ grounds of thinking – and those things that remain hidden from our view, but are fundamental to it.  I come at this from a combined Heideggerian and ecofeminist lens. I have a paper…

  • Season 1, Episode 7: Ontological Disruption, Slow Cinema, and Religious Icons with Annie Sandrussi

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Annie Sandrussi. Dr Annie Sandrussi applies phenomenological and gender-based methods to examine how everyday and public understandings are underpinned by ontological commitments, especially with respect to relationality, embodiment and materialism. Her research is primarily at the juncture of ecofeminist ethics and existential-phenomenology, and she works on philosophical enquiry…

  • Season 1, Episode 6: Gold, Silver, and Bronze with Yuri Cath

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Yuri Cath. Dr Yuri Cath’s work explores epistemological questions about the nature and sources of different kinds of knowledge, and the importance of these issues for other areas of philosophy including the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. He is interested in the philosophical distinction between “knowing-how” and…

  • S1E6 Yuri Cath: Transcript

    In this episode I speak with Dr Yuri Cath. We discuss going from practising painting to practising philosophy, the gradations of what it is like knowledge and the differences and similarities between art and philosophy. Dr Yuri Cath’s work explores epistemological questions about the nature and sources of different kinds of knowledge and the importance…

  • S1E6 Yuri Cath: Background Notes

    From: Yuri Cath <>To: Pat McConville <>Subject: Re: Invitation to interview on Concept : Art podcast I still feel (following points in my old email below) that I couldn’t say that any art works/genres have influenced my work in philosophy in any direct way.  But there are definitely connections between the artists and art movements that…

  • Season 1, Episode 5: Pottery, Moral Enhancement, and Science-Fiction with Pei-hua Huang

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Pei-hua Huang. Dr Pei-hua Huang’s work lies where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. She is interested in the interaction of social issues and medical technologies. She has a special interest in philosophical issues raised by human and moral enhancement technologies and the treatment of morally relevant psychiatric conditions.…

  • S1E4 Christopher Mayes: Transcript

    In this episode I speak with Dr Christopher Mayes. We discuss dance and the biopolitics of lifestyle; food and cultural appropriation; and music, film, death, and grief. Dr Christopher Mayes is an interdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in sociology, history and philosophy. His research interests include history and philosophy of healthcare, sociology of health and food…

  • Season 1, Episode 4: Lifestyle and Death with Christopher Mayes

    In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Christopher Mayes. Dr Christopher Mayes is an interdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in sociology, history and philosophy. His research interests include history and philosophy of healthcare, sociology of health and food, and bioethics. They discuss dance and the biopolitics of lifestyle; food and cultural appropriation; and music, film, death,…