Elucidations

Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest.

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Update frequency: every 36 days
Average duration: 37 minutes
Episodes: 151
Years Active: 2009 - 2025

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Episode 131: Greg Salmieri discusses egoism and altruism

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.

What was the last thing you did? The last t…

00:49:42 | Sun 03 Jan 2021

Episode 130: Jessica Tizzard discusses weakness of the will

This month, Long Dang and I sit down to talk to Jessica Tizzard (University of Connecticut, Storrs) about weakness of the will.

You’re at a party hosted by a close friend. It’s been three hours since …

00:36:02 | Sun 22 Nov 2020

Episode 129: Nethanel Lipshitz discusses discrimination

This month, Ben Andrew and I are joined by Nethanel Lipshitz (Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University) to talk about discrimination.

If someone treats me unequally--that is, if they give other people…

00:51:11 | Sun 27 Sep 2020

Episode 128: Melissa Fusco discusses free choice permission

One of the foundational ideas behind philosophical logic is that when you say something, that has further implications beyond the single thing you said. Like, if I think ‘every single frog is green’ …

00:41:25 | Sun 16 Aug 2020

Episode 127 - Nic Koziolek discusses self-knowledge

In this episode, Nic Koziolek (Washington University in St. Louis) returns to talk to me and Nora Bradford about self-consciousness.

Self-consciousness, as philosophers use the term, is a word for whe…

00:40:49 | Wed 15 Jul 2020

Episode 126 - Listener Q&A with Agnes Callard and Ben Callard

Three philosophers. Eight head-scratchers. 50 minutes. In this episode, Agnes Callard, Ben Callard and I respond to the world's most awesome listener-recorded questions.

A lot of people have the impre…

00:47:54 | Thu 11 Jun 2020

Episode 125: James Koppel discusses counterfactual inference and automated explanation

Episode link here.

In this episode, James Koppel (MIT, James Koppel Coaching) joins me and Dominick Reo to talk about how we can write software to help identify the causes of disasters.

These days, the…

00:38:53 | Fri 17 Apr 2020

Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy

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https://elucidations.now.sh/posts/episode-124/

In this episode, Graham Priest returns to discuss Buddhist political philosophy with me and Henry Curtis. (Last month, we talked with h…

00:40:59 | Sat 21 Mar 2020

Episode 123: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist metaphysics

00:48:01 | Sat 15 Feb 2020

Episode 122: Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold discuss new work, new culture

In this episode, Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold make the case for a different approach to working in the modern world. A lot of us experience our day to day work as a 'mild disease'--not terrib…

00:39:36 | Fri 17 Jan 2020

Episode 121: Aaron Ben Ze'ev discusses the arc of love

In this episode, Matt Teichman and Julia Liu talk to Aaron Ben Ze'ev (University of Haifa) about lifelong romantic love. What is love? Is it just a private feeling that each individual person experie…

00:41:47 | Thu 05 Dec 2019

Episode 120: Robin Dembroff on going beyond the gender binary

Ever wonder what 'gender non-binary' means? Don't worry--Robin Dembroff (Yale University) is here to walk us through the relevant terminology, along with the everyday moral issues that are tied up wi…

00:32:32 | Sun 10 Nov 2019

Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses misgendering

In this episode, our guest argues that in addition to ordinary individual cases of misgendering, in which one person gets another person's gender wrong when they address them, there's a broader sense…

00:45:00 | Tue 15 Oct 2019

Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments

In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the…

00:52:54 | Thu 12 Sep 2019

Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says to plagiarize this podcast

In this episode, Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky) argues that we should think more carefully about our moral reaction to instances of plagiarism.

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00:38:21 | Fri 30 Aug 2019

Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies

In this episode, Tommy Curry argues that if we really want to understand gender-based oppression, we have to look at how black men have been targeted for it.

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00:59:23 | Mon 05 Aug 2019

Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups

In this episode, Katherine Ritchie (CUNY Graduate Center, City College) lays out what it means to belong to a social group, and what kind of thing a social group is.

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00:40:04 | Mon 01 Jul 2019

Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology

What is the nature of a person's political outlook?

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00:40:49 | Tue 14 May 2019

Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics

In this episode, Tom Pashby explains how quantum physics is different from theories that came before, and runs through some of the ways that philosophers and physicists have tried to make intuitive s…

00:35:46 | Mon 08 Apr 2019

Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation

In this episode, Myisha Cherry argues that having a productive conversation with someone often involves explicitly laying out each person's background experiences and expectations.

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00:43:47 | Thu 07 Mar 2019

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