Category: Episodes
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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Season 1, Episode 3: Dancing Parkinson’s and Queering Science with John Noel Viaña
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr John Noel Viaña. Dr John Noel Viaña’s work is focused on the social and ethical aspects of neuroscience and biotechnology. He has interests in a range of bioethical issues and has engaged with researchers, clinicians and science communicators to explore justice, equity and diversity considerations in health research…
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Season 1, Episode 2: Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff with Marilyn Stendera
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Marilyn Stendera. Dr Stendera’s work focuses mainly on the phenomenological tradition, especially its intersections with philosophy of cognition and mind. She is particularly interested in time, including its role in cognition, its relationship to power, and how it has been conceptualised in different philosophical traditions. She also likes…
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Season 1, Episode 1: Caste, Music, and Microinequities with Supriya Subramani
In this episode, Pat speaks with Dr Supriya Subramani. Dr Subramani’s interest in morality and ethics has led her to explore morality, behaviour, and ethics in healthcare contexts. She has worked on the concepts of belonging, micro-inequities, moral habitus, the idea of the passive patient, the social construction of incompetency, and reflexivity. They discuss caste…