Kate Rigby

Val Plumwood

Prof. Kate Rigby discusses Dr Val Plumwood, an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism, her life and how she survived an attack by a saltwater crocodile.

 Dr Val Plumwood - Prof. Kate Rigby

Jeannine Deckers

D.A. Chadwick

Jeannine Deckers, The Singing Nun - D.A. Chadwick discusses her book, The Singing Nun Story: The Life and Death of Soeur Sourire, and her important legacy.

Jeannine Deckers - The Singing Nun - D.A. Chadwick

Inês Hipólito

Cognition - Dr Inês Hipólito discusses how cognitive development affects learning, why it is important to study cognition and the connection between memory and cognition.

Cognition - Dr Inês Hipólito

Caroline Norma

Influential feminist activists from Japan’s contemporary feminist movement - Dr Caroline Norma discusses Japan’s contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls.

Influential feminist activists from Japan - Dr Caroline Norma

Shame - Madeleine Shield discusses if there is a connection between shame and self-respect, whether it is possible to force someone to feel shame and if it's possible to overcome the emotion of Shame.

Shame - Madeleine Shield 

Marina McCoy

Vulnerability - Professor Marina McCoy discusses why it important to accept our vulnerability and what is the best way to respond to vulnerability also how vulnerability is central to the human experience.

Vulnerability - Professor Marina McCoy

Rosa Antognazza

Knowledge and Belief - Prof. Maria Rosa Antognazza discusses whether most people's belief system is based on knowledge and how knowledge and belief assist people in their everyday life.

Knowledge and Belief - Prof. Maria Rosa Antognazza 

Vanessa Brassey

Art - Dr Vanessa Brassey discusses the connection between philosophy and art, also why the philosophical prospective of art is important and if art could be a form of philosophy.

Art -  Dr Vanessa Brassey

Jane Johnson

Animals in Research - Dr Jane Johnson discusses if there are grounds for extending human research principles to animals, also respect for persons (autonomy) and informed consent.

Animals in Research - Dr Jane Johnson

Cristina Chimisso

Hélène Metzger

Hélène Metzger - Prof Cristina Chimisso discusses Hélène Metzger's early life, her thesis on the emergence of the science of crystals and why she is not as well-known as she should be.

Hélène Metzger - Prof Cristina Chimisso

Food for Thought, lets get radical for philosophy!

A great podcast for thinkers in a world disrupted and in need of new ideas and ways of working.

Fascinating!

Radical Philosophy

Catherine Legg

Dr Catherine Legg speaks about American Pragmatism and the other different fields of Philosophy. Also women participation within these fields.

Dr Catherine Legg - American Pragmatism

Dr Norva Lo speaks about how emotions might breakdown boundaries between human and non-human animals. Also why farm animals are virtually invisible to the majority of the population, whereas dogs and cats enjoy such a privileged status.

Animal ethics empathy and emotion with Dr Norva Lo

Helen Ngo

Helen Ngo speaks about what racism is and how racism is expressed through bodily habits.

Helen Ngo - Racism

Tereza Hendl

Dr Tereza Hendl speaks about gender selection and the main reasons why people want to choose the sex of their child

Dr Tereza Hendl - Gender Selection Part 1

Louise Antony

Philosophers Without Gods - Professor Louise Antony gives a definition of what a atheist is, and discusses why is it that sceptics and atheists are viewed with suspicion and if religious faith is a form of belief.

Professor Louise Antony - Philosophers Without Gods

Miranda Fricker

Epistemic Injustice - Prof Miranda Fricker speaks about the two central forms of epistemic injustice,  their two corresponding remedies and epistemic injustice relation to health care and  psychiatry.

Prof Miranda Fricker - Epistemic Injustice

Alexis Shotwell

Against Purity - Associate Professor Alexis Shotwell  discusses if it's possible for anybody to be 100% pure, disturbance regime, and explains what being against purity means as well as if natural purity a rationalised concept.

A/Prof Alexis Shotwell - Against Purity

Serena Parekh

Hannah Arendt - Associate Professor Serena Parekh tells us about some of the tensions and paradoxes within the modern concept of human rights, which Arendt brings to light, and the “the banality of evil”

A Prof Serena Parekh - Hannah Arendt 

Sharon Presley

Voltaraine de Cleyre - Dr Sharon Presley discusses Voltaraines' classic works anarchism and the American tradition, de Cleyre's concept of the Dominant Idea, what de Cleyre's thoughts were on free thought and religion, and  explains about her essay “sex slavery”.

Dr Sharon Presley - Voltaraine de Cleyre

Cathy Weiss

Cathy Weiss speaks about domestic work, radical feminism and the  patriarchal family.

Cathy Weiss - Domestic Work

Candice Delmas

Civil Disobedience - Assistant Professor Candice Delmas explains the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience, the moral and political importance of civil disobedience also what type of disobedience Pussy Riot participated in.

Assistant Professor Candice Delmas - Civil Disobedience

Rebecca Hill

Dr Rebbecca Hill speaks about the definition of sexual difference and what is was that inspired her to study sexual difference, as well as  Luce Irigaray's theory of sexual difference. Part 1 of a 2 part interview.

Sexual Difference with Dr Rebecca Hill

Kristin Andrews

Philosophy of Animal Minds Part 1- Associate Professor Kristin Andrews discusses why within the field of philosophy, ever since ancient times there has been an interest in animal minds however in the last few decades animal minds has became become a major topic, and also explains about animals and language of thought.

A/Prof Kristin Andrews - Philosophy of Animal Minds P1

Nancy Hirschmann

Disabilities - Professor Nancy Hirschmann gives a definition of disability, a political analysis of disability, and discusses some problematic ways that disability is betrayed, also how disability has been used in the pursuit of different political goals.

Prof Nancy Hirschmann - Disabilities

Fiona Woollard

Breastfeeding - Professor Fiona Woollard discusses why there is shame associated with breastfeeding especially in public places, the philosophical mistakes surrounding the way we talk and think about infant feeding decisions and if there was a dollar value placed on human milk would raise the status of women.

Prof Fiona Woollard - Breastfeeding

Diana Tietjens Meyers

Contesting Female Genital Cutting in Africa - Professor Diana Tietjens Meyers speaks about the legal status of female genital cutting  and her philosophical analysis of successful strategies.

Prof Diana Tietjens Meyers - Female Genital Cutting

Andrea Witcome

Cultural Heritage - Professor Andrea Witcome speaks about cultural heritage. The model of Treblinka and how it is completely different in its aesthetic and lineage to other museum models.

Professor Andrea Witcome - Cultural Heritage

Liz Walker

Porn Harms Kids - Liz Walker the chair of Porn Harms Kids speaks about  harmful things watching porn can do to your child, what is the best way to go about speaking with your kids about porn and how Australia is under pressure to force porn sites to introduce age verification.

Liz Walker - Porn Harms Kids

Lydia Goehr

Philosophy of Music - Professor Lydia Goehr discusses what the purpose and value of music is and explains about analytic and historical philosophical approaches to music.

 Philosophy of Music - Professor Lydia Goehr

Dr Emma Larking answers questions such as What does Arendt referred to when she is speaking about the myth of human rights? Could you describe what a condition of absolute rightlessness is?  Would you agree with statement that Jewish people were already stripped of all their rights, by their treatment by the Nazis, before their right to live was taken from them?

The right to have rights,  Dr Emma Larking

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