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Back to SearchHelen Louise Cowie, "Animals in World History" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 27
Animals in World History (Routledge, 2024) by Dr. Helen Cowie provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting att…
1 year, 8 months ago
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 402
Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they’re animated beings, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer
Episode 135
In this episode, we explore the profound philosophical and theological dimensions of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, particularly his views on war. In his boo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 236
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author wh…
1 year, 9 months ago
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 508
Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across t…
1 year, 9 months ago
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 83
This conversation includes James Boyle, Duke University; Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, UPR-M; Héctor José Huyke, UPR-M, and Natalia Bustos, UPR-M.
This is the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 291
With From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (Cornell UP, 2024), Susan Grunewald significantly enhances under…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 234
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, a…
1 year, 9 months ago
Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 233
G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aest…
1 year, 9 months ago
Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 18
After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants wer…
1 year, 9 months ago