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Back to SearchPhilip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 383
In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosop…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jen Ross, "Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 382
What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer i…
2 years, 9 months ago
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 386
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costag…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
Episode 64
How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more th…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 381
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this t…
2 years, 9 months ago
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Episode 192
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonia…
2 years, 9 months ago
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
Episode 69
The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
Episode 191
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, h…
2 years, 9 months ago
Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
Episode 55
Paulo Freire offers activists and academics everywhere a lesson in what it means to be a radical intellectual. He is known as the founder of critical…
2 years, 9 months ago
Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 380
How can sociology help us understand art and music? In The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries (Palgrave MacMilla…
2 years, 9 months ago