Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with the University of Chicago. Each month, Matt Teichman sits down with a person of philosophical interest to discuss their view on a topic. Now and again, he is joined by an awesome co-host. Some of the guests are philosophy professors, some of the guests are other kinds of professors, and some of the guests are not professors. Either way, the goal is to develop a feel for how the guest’s perspective hangs together in ...
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Best Elucidaitons podcasts we could find (updated February 2020)
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Updated February 2020
Updated February 2020
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1Episode 123: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist metaphysics48:01
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In this episode, Matt Teichman and Henry Curtis talk to Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center) about the philosophical foundations of Buddhism. Buddhism isn't just a religion--it's an entire family of philosophical traditions that took root all over the Asian continent for thousands of years. The historical Buddha articulated views in what we conside…
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1Episode 122: Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold discuss new work, new culture39:36
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In this episode, Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold make the case for a different approach to working in the modern world. A lot of us experience our day to day work as a 'mild disease'--not terrible, not excruciating, but also not our #1 choice about how to spend weekdays. Instead, they argue, a person's work should be the best part of their lif…
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1Episode 121: Aaron Ben Ze'ev discusses the arc of love41:47
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In this episode, Matt Teichman and Julia Liu talk to Aaron Ben Ze'ev (University of Haifa) about lifelong romantic love. What is love? Is it just a private feeling that each individual person experiences, or is it something that crucially involves multiple people? Our guest argues that although it is primarily a feeling, it is also something that e…
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1Episode 120: Robin Dembroff on going beyond the gender binary32:32
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Ever wonder what 'gender non-binary' means? Don't worry--Robin Dembroff (Yale University) is here to walk us through the relevant terminology, along with the everyday moral issues that are tied up with the gender concepts we use.
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1Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses misgendering45:00
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In this episode, our guest argues that in addition to ordinary individual cases of misgendering, in which one person gets another person's gender wrong when they address them, there's a broader sense of the term. In the broader sense, a philosophical account of what gender is can also misgender people. How? The idea is that in signing yourself up f…
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1Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments52:54
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In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the humans of the future as we care about people now. Re-emphasizing our commitment to future people, he argues, has the effect of allowing us to embrace …
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1Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says to plagiarize this podcast38:21
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In this episode, Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky) argues that we should think more carefully about our moral reaction to instances of plagiarism.
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1Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies59:23
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In this episode, Tommy Curry argues that if we really want to understand gender-based oppression, we have to look at how black men have been targeted for it.
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1Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups40:04
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In this episode, Katherine Ritchie (CUNY Graduate Center, City College) lays out what it means to belong to a social group, and what kind of thing a social group is.
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1Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology40:49
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What is the nature of a person's political outlook?
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1Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics35:46
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In this episode, Tom Pashby explains how quantum physics is different from theories that came before, and runs through some of the ways that philosophers and physicists have tried to make intuitive sense of this challenging framework.
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1Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation43:47
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In this episode, Myisha Cherry argues that having a productive conversation with someone often involves explicitly laying out each person's background experiences and expectations.
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1Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics41:08
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In this episode, Greg Kobele discusses how abstract mathematics can be useful for arriving at a unified theory of what patterns a person has mastery over when they can speak a language.
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1Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois37:04
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What is the best way forward for a group of people fairly recently freed from slavery? Booker T. Washington emphasized economic enfranchisement, whereas W.E.B. Du Bois thought it was necessary to achieve political enfranchisement alongside economic enfranchisement. Join us as our guest discusses how threads from this 100-year-old debate persist in …
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1Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle47:39
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Bonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature of moral disagreement, and the existence of political divides.
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1Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom36:06
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What do you think of yourself as? A musician? A mother? A political organizer? In this episode, our guest argues that your ability to act and reason freely is premised on your ability to shape and sometimes even invent the labels you apply to yourself.
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1Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history50:07
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In this episode, Linda Martín Alcoff discusses the subtle ways that things like your race, gender, sexual orientation, and class can influence your life. She argues that the best way to understand that kind of influence is by looking to the history of the relevant social group.
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1Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender37:29
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In this episode, R. A. Briggs discusses some complexities underlying our use of the terms 'man' and 'woman.'
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1Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory37:00
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How do we tell what the best strategies for changing our beliefs on the basis of new evidence might be?
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1Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief38:53
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In this episode, Seth Yalcin argues that every belief we have is implicitly framed as the answer to a question, and that at different times we're considering different questions.
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1Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx50:54
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In this episode, we talk to Brian Leiter about why the writings of Karl Marx are helpful for understanding the current situation of the working and middle class in America, the 2016 Presidential election, and related topics!
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1Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self33:20
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In this episode, Josh Knobe discusses a series of experiments that try to tease out what we implicitly assume about who a person really is, deep down.
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1Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness49:32
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In this episode, Miranda Fricker argues that the purpose of blaming someone is to communicate to them your sense of why what they did was wrong.
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1Episode 100: Agnes Callard discusses aspiration49:02
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In this episode, Agnes Callard explains why she thinks aspiration is the process of moving from one set of values to a new set of values in the way you live your life.
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1Episode 99: Steven Nadler discusses Spinoza on freedom39:22
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In this episode, Steven Nadler discusses Benedict de Spinoza's unique reason-centric conception of what it is to live a good life and be free.
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1Episode 98: Jennifer Lackey discusses credibility32:08
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In this episode, Jennifer Lackey discusses both how you can get things factually wrong and do something morally wrong by trusting people more than they deserve to be trusted.
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1Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases55:54
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In this episode, Meghan Sullivan argues that if it's irrational to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term gain, then it's also irrational to prefer for bad experiences to have already happened.
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1Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning41:20
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In this episode, Nic Koziolek offers an account of what thought, belief, and reasoning are in terms of what knowledge is.
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1Episode 95: Zed Adams discusses the genealogy of color32:59
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In this episode, Zed Adams argues that philosophers are in an irresolvable debate about whether colors are real because they inherited multiple conflicting conceptions of what color is from previous generations.
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1Episode 94: Zsofia Zvolenszky discusses fictional names36:26
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In this episode, Zsofia Zvolenszky argues that names like 'Harry Potter' or 'Princess Leia' stand for non-concrete human-made artifacts.
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1Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death41:35
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In this episode, Barry Lam examines our common assumption that we should prioritize honoring the wishes of dead people.
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1Episode 92: Kristie Dotson discusses epistemic oppression43:53
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In this episode, Kristie Dotson discusses how imbalances in the way we share information with each other reflect broader power imbalances between social groups.
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1Episode 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals35:10
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In this episode, Paolo Santorio argues that to explain what statements like 'If A were, then B would be' mean, we need to understand them as statements about causal networks.
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1Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction29:09
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In this episode, our guest argues that we confer social statuses on each other by treating each other has having different obligations and entitlements.
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1Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals41:01
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In this episode, John Collins discusses the philosophical significance of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, along with some of the scientific evidence for it.
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1Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice30:13
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In this episode, Kent Bach discusses the importance of subconscious processes that underlie ordinary, everyday reasoning.
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1Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity31:13
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In this episode, Susanna Schellenberg argues that hallucination involves the very same ability as ordinary visual experience--it's just that the ability goes wrong.
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1Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes46:24
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In this episode, Daniel Smyth discusses the vast amount of background knowledge that goes into interpreting a photograph.
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1Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science35:19
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In this episode, Bryce Huebner argues that our implicit racial biases are shaped by the physical environments we inhabit.
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1Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy43:10
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In this episode, Amanda Greene argues that democracy is the form of government that most reliably leads to long-term stability and acceptance.
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1Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety35:44
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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.
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1Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity41:08
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In this episode, Robert May discusses the problems that arise when we try to explain what simple statements of arithmetic are saying.
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1Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce's categories can do for you37:58
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In this episode, Cathy Legg talks about why Charles Sanders Peirce thought that existing was only one of three ways of being.
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1Episode 80: Mark Hopwood discusses love and moral value31:59
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In this episode, Mark Hopwood discusses the moral relation that results when one person values another as a particular individual.
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1Episode 79: Anthony S. Gillies discusses conditionals32:39
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In this episode, Anthony S. Gillies shows us how difficult it is to figure out what if/then statements mean!
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1Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative32:09
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In this episode, Stephen Engstrom discusses the principle that Immanuel Kant thought to underlie all of ethics.
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1Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief38:49
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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.
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1Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude42:02
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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.
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1Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic31:50
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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.
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1Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism30:00
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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.
