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Episode Synopsis
Doctoral students Phoebe Gilpin, Martha Perez-Mugg, and Arham Kazi sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the writings that drew them to philosophy in the first place, the books they've encountered through their studies, and the works that they find themselves drawing upon in their own writing, as well.
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Works we talked about in this episode:
Plato's Euthyphro
David Labaree, "Public Goods, Private Goods"
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed, On Being Included
Natasha Myers, Rendering Life Molecular
José Medina Epistemology of Resistance
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Tithi Bhattacharya, ed. Social Reproduction Theory
David Mitchell, Biopolitics of Ability
Jess Calarco, Holding It Together
Catherine Elgin, True Enough
Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?
Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia
As always, please use this form to recommend future topics and guests.
Works we talked about in this episode:
Plato's Euthyphro
David Labaree, "Public Goods, Private Goods"
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed, On Being Included
Natasha Myers, Rendering Life Molecular
José Medina Epistemology of Resistance
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Tithi Bhattacharya, ed. Social Reproduction Theory
David Mitchell, Biopolitics of Ability
Jess Calarco, Holding It Together
Catherine Elgin, True Enough
Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?
Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia
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