1 - Haim Gaifman: Vagueness & the Sorites Paradox

1 - Haim Gaifman: Vagueness & the Sorites Paradox

Haim Gaifman is a philosopher and mathematician. He teaches at Columbia University in New York City. Robinson and Haim talk about vagueness, a branch of philosophy that deals with borderline phenomena like heaps and baldness. (Note that this interview was conducted in May of 2022, before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which is used as an example in the discussion.)


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100 - Steven Pinker: Rationality, Enlightenment, and Free Speech

100 - Steven Pinker: Rationality, Enlightenment, and Free Speech

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is an experimental cognitive psychologist who writes on language, mind, and human nature. In this episode—the hundre...

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99 - Nancy Sherman: Stoicism, Military Ethics, and War

99 - Nancy Sherman: Stoicism, Military Ethics, and War

Nancy Sherman is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Before that, she taught at Yale and did her graduate work in ancient philosophy at Harvard Uni...

9 Jun 20231h 12min

98 - Dani S. Bassett & Perry Zurn: Curiosity, Philosophy, and Network Theory

98 - Dani S. Bassett & Perry Zurn: Curiosity, Philosophy, and Network Theory

Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. Dani and Perry...

7 Jun 20231h 4min

97 - Brian Leiter: Karl Marx, Ideology, and Historical Materialism

97 - Brian Leiter: Karl Marx, Ideology, and Historical Materialism

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values, and is best known in ...

4 Jun 20231h 17min

96 - Jody Azzouni: Knowledge and Skepticism

96 - Jody Azzouni: Knowledge and Skepticism

Jody Azzouni is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. While Jody is best known for his nominalist stance in the philosophy of mathematics, he is also an author of fiction, non-fiction, and poet...

31 Mai 20231h 34min

95 - Achille Varzi: What Is Mereology?

95 - Achille Varzi: What Is Mereology?

Achille Varzi is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor at the University of Trento. He is a renowned metaphysicist and logician, and widely...

28 Mai 20233h 45min

94 - Alva Noë: Art, Philosophy, and The Entanglement

94 - Alva Noë: Art, Philosophy, and The Entanglement

Alva Noë is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he researches the philosophy of mind—primarily focusing on perception and...

26 Mai 20231h 33min

93 - Havi Carel: The Phenomenology of Illness

93 - Havi Carel: The Phenomenology of Illness

Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where she studies illness and its relationship to philosophy. Her research draws largely on phenomenology, a philosophical approach ...

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