Back Episode Transcript: No. 106 with R. A. Briggs on gender

Subscribe to Elucidations:       Episode post here. This episode transcribed by Dusty Dallman. Matt Teichman: Hello, and welcome to Elucidations, a philosophy podcast ordinarily recorded at the University of Chicago, but which today is being brought to you from Palo Alto. With me is R.A. Briggs, professor of philosophy at Stanford University, and they are here to discuss gender....

Back Episode Transcript: No. 99 with Steven Nadler on Spinoza's view of freedom

Subscribe to Elucidations:       Episode post here. This episode transcribed by Dusty Dallman. Matt Teichman: Hello. Welcome to Elucidations, a philosophy podcast recorded at the University of Chicago. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Steven Nadler, William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, and Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison—and he’s here to discuss Spinoza on freedom....

Episode 135: Sara Protasi discusses the philosophy of envy

Subscribe to Elucidations:       This month, Charlie Wiland and I sit down with Sara Protasi to talk about envy. Which she just came out with a whole book about! Awesome. Click here to download episode 135 of Elucidations. You might think that it’s pretty clear what envy is. Isn’t envy just when someone else has something you want, you don’t have it, and that makes you feel annoyed?...

Episode 134: Claire Kirwin discusses value realism

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....

Transcript: Episode 132 with Rebecca Valentine on queer hackerspaces

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....

Back Episode Transcript: Bonus Episode No. 109 with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle

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....

Why does measurement need an epistemology and what could it look like?

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....

Episode 133: Aristotle discusses his philosophy

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....

Episode 132: Rebecca Valentine discusses queer hackerspaces

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....

Back Episode Transcript: No. 115 with Katherine Ritchie on social groups

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!...