Elucidations: A University of Chicago Podcast
Summary: Elucidations is a monthly philosophy podcast recorded at the University of Chicago. Each month, a prominent philosopher sits down with our graduate student co-hosts to talk about his or her latest work and areas of philosophical expertise. The podcast covers a wide range of topics from the theoretical to the practical (including causation, metaphor, agency, religious freedom, and moral psychology) and explores a wide range of problems from the perennial to the cutting-edge (including skepticism and experimental philosophy).
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- Artist: Matt Teichman & Mark Hopwood
- Copyright: Copyright 2014
Podcasts:
In this episode, Bryce Huebner argues that our implicit racial biases are shaped by the physical environments we inhabit.
In this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance.
In this episode, Bob Simpson discusses how a person should respond to the realization that they only believe something because of how they were brought up.
In this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics.
In this episode, Mark Schroeder discusses an example of how something other than evidence against a claim can give you a reason not to believe that it's true.
In this episode, Barbara Herman describes the intricacies of the relationship between two people that is created when one does a favor for the other.
In this episode, Malte Willer discusses attempts to give a formal theory of commonsense reasoning, and how it differs from the kind of reasoning that has traditionally been studied.
In this episode, Christina van Dyke discusses the medieval mystics, a loose collection of authors who thought through philosophical issues by writing about their religious experiences.
In this episode, Greg Salmieri explains why Ayn Rand thought a good life is oriented, first and foremost, toward the goal of benefitting oneself.
In this episode, Robert May explains what racial, ethnic, and homophobic slurs literally mean.
In this episode, Kent Schmor introduces us to Rudolf Carnap's classic work, _The Logical Construction of the World_.
In this episode, Susan James explains Spinoza's view that the mind and the body are really just different aspects of the same thing, and how that view led him to think of moral reasoning as having an emotional component.
In this episode, Christel Fricke discusses a view in ethics according to which you determine the right thing to do by imitating the perspective of an ideal, impartial spectator.
In this episode, Mark Lance defends the view that instead of answering to a central authority, our society should self-govern, only scaling up what it has to.
In this episode, John Protevi discusses research across several different disciplines which supports the hypothesis that human beings evolved to cooperate with each other.
