• Zsuzsanna Chapell: Philosophy Gets Personal with Medical Injustice
    Jan 17 2024

    Final Episode: In this beautiful talk Zsuzsanna Chappell, a philosopher madwoman, discusses the intersection between mental illness, philosophy and social justice.

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    46 mins
  • Englander Gets Personal with Empathy and Music
    Nov 21 2023

    In this nice talk Magnus reflects on the notion of empathy, how it differs from compassion and sympathy. He finds in music a form of empathy and home.

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    48 mins
  • Lin Gets Personal with Religion
    Nov 13 2023

    In this beautiful interview Deena Lin guides us through her understanding of religion and spiritual growth through the themes of death, education, racial differences.

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    43 mins
  • Grudin Gets Personal with Environment
    Nov 9 2023

    In this episode prof. Gruin tells us a bit about his relationship with the environment and how philosophy helped him to look at it from the point of view of nature.

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    36 mins
  • Jon Weidenbaum Gets Personal with Life Choices
    Nov 9 2023

    This interview is built on Weidenbaum's beautiful article, 5 days, where he recounts the most difficult days in his life. During these days he had to decide whether to keep his wife alive through machines or unplug it. With candor and extreme honesty, Jon guides us through the emotional upheaval that accompanies choices of this sort. Reading of these cases on bioethics books remain instead often dry and detached.

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    39 mins
  • Churchill gets personal with empathy
    Nov 9 2023

    In this episode prof. Churchill tells us how got curious about empathy in animals and why he started this type of investigations.

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    42 mins
  • Stone Gets Personal with Motherhood
    Nov 9 2023

    In this beautiful talk with prof. Stone, she talks about her fondness for English female philosophers. In doing so, an implicit comparison leads us to examine her life as a female philosopher and to understand what motherhood had meant for her life and her career.

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    44 mins
  • Baiasu Gets Personal with Mental Health
    Nov 8 2023

    In this nice talk with Prof. Baiasu we touched upon different themes, such as mental health, death, philosophy of feminism. It was a beautiful exploration of her path to life and philosophy.

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    50 mins