Subscribe to Elucidations: This month, Josh Kaufman and I talk to Claire Kirwin (Clemson University) about whether things are objectively good or bad, or whether it’s all in the eye of the beholder. Click here to download Episode 134 of Elucidations. Professor Kirwin is a fan of peanut butter cup ice cream, and Josh and I are fans of mint chocolate chip....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Maria Araújo. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Rebecca Valentine, co-founder of Queerious Labs in San Francisco. Rebecca Valentine, welcome. Rebecca Valentine: Hey, how’s it going? Matt Teichman: So I billed you as the co-founder of Queerious Labs, and I thought maybe we could start off by talking about what Queerious Labs actually is....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Transcription by Maria Araújo. Brilliant work; thank you! Episode post here. Toby Buckle: Well, are you interviewing me, or am I interviewing you? Let’s just start. Matt—you’ve been doing this way longer than me, right now. This is, what, your fifth, sixth year podcasting? Matt Teichman: Longer than that. I’ve been recording episodes of my podcast for about 10 years, and we launched nine years ago....
Measuring things seems quite straightforward. Most of us already learned in primary school to measure how far apart two points are on a piece of paper: draw a line between them, and compare its length with the length of your ruler. After checking how many marks on the ruler your line covers, you can express the outcome of your measurement numerically. You may now see that the points are 10 centimeters or 4 inches apart, but the knowledge of such units is hardly necessary for your purposes....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Full transcript here. This month, Agnes Callard and I talk to Aristotle about his philosophy, including his work on physics, biology, and ethics. Featuring an introduction by our awesome intern, Noadia Steinmetz-Silber! Click here to download Episode 133 of Elucidations. Not everyone is familiar with Aristotle’s work today, but the case could be made that science, political theory, logic, ethics, and philosophy exist in their current form largely due to the precedent he set....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Full transcript here. This month, we sit down with Rebecca Valentine (co-founder of Queerious Labs) to talk about anarchism, feminism, tech culture, and creative hacking. Click here to download Episode 132 of Elucidations. Hack this, hack that. What is a hacker, anyway? In pop culture, it’s common to use the term ‘hacker’ as a synonym for ‘cybercriminal’—that is, a person who engages in illegal activity over a computer network, usually involving gaining access to something they shouldn’t....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Many thanks to Johanna Wiedenkeller for this excellent transcription. Matt Teichman: Hello, and welcome to Elucidations. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Katherine Ritchie, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, CUNY.1 She’s here to discuss social groups. Katherine Ritchie, welcome. Katherine Ritchie: Hi, Matt!...
Subscribe to Elucidations: Transcription by Maria Araújo. Thank you, Maria! Episode post here. Matt Teichman: Hello, and welcome to Elucidations, a philosophy podcast recorded at the University of Chicago. With me today is Chike Jeffers, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, and he is here to discuss the social and political philosophy of W....
Subscribe to Elucidations: This episode transcribed by Maria Araújo. Thanks, Maria! Episode post here. Matt Teichman: Hello. Welcome to Elucidations. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Greg Salmieri, a fellow at the Anthem Foundation, who teaches Philosophy at Rutgers University, and who co-edited a companion to Ayn Rand in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series and Foundations of a Free Society — which is out from University of Pittsburgh Press....
Subscribe to Elucidations: Full transcript here. This month, Greg Salmieri (University of Texas at Austin) returns for his third (!!) appearance on Elucidations, this time to talk about doing right by yourself. Click here to download Episode 131 of Elucidations. What was the last thing you did? The last thing I did was pull a shot of espresso....