Why We Argue
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Why We Argue
Hosted by political philosopher and Vanderbilt University professor Robert Talisse, Why We Argue is an interview podcast that brings in academics, philosophers, historians, journalists, politicians, and other notable public figures to think about the nature of truth in a time of viral misinformation...
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Seeing Truth in Physics
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen...
Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis
Feeling bad about the environment? You should. Artist Alexis Rockman talks about his art, the potential for real change, and his ongoing relationship...
Seeing Truth in the Lab
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they are...
Seeing Truth in Photographs
Artist Penelope Umbrico talks about her work, images as currency, and how technology and various platforms herd images. And is photography tyrannical?...
Seeing Truth in the Archives
Joel Sweimler, Exhibition Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about his career at the museum, working on Seeing Truth, and wha...
Seeing Truth in Museums
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at t...
Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel
Historian and author Dexter Gabriel talks about his relationship to truth and memory in his fiction and non-fiction writing. Come for his thoughts on...
Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic:
Professor Sarah Willen talks about her part in creating the Pandemic Journaling Project and how that has morphed into a series of visual exhibitions t...
Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
In this episode, scientists speak back to ideas about collection building, knowledge making, and the role of art and creativity in research. Bernard G...
Seeing Truth in Plant Humanities
Art historian Romita Ray has long puzzled power, visual culture, and how knowledge moves globally. Currently writing about tea, we talk with Ray about...
Seeing Truth in Making and Unmaking Art
Artist Valerie Hegarty like to rip things up, twist them, distort them, and then leave audiences to ponder the results of her violence against imagery...
Seeing Truth in Collections, Memory and Death Studies
Jane Wildgoose claims she just expanded a beachcomber’s collection but in fact her Wildgoose Memorial Library is a subversive infiltration into the na...
Seeing Truth in Data
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun sees value in the truth, but worries what data we might be looking at to find it. Chun discusses her new book, Discriminating Dat...
Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers....
Democratic Repair and Public Things with Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media, and Political Science at Brown University. Bonnie works at the intersections...
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on climate ethics and environmental justice. Much...
Social Trust in a Free Society with Kevin Vallier
Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His most recent book is titled Trust in a Pola...
Political Rhetoric and Demagoguery with Jennifer Mercieca
Jennifer Mercieca is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Demagogue for President: The...
Conspiracy Theories and Democracy with Quassim Cassam
Quassim Cassam is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. You can follow him on Twitter at .@QCassam. Quassim’s resea...
Democracy and Truth with Sophia Rosenfeld
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Democracy and Truth: A Short Hist...
Transitional Justice with Colleen Murphy
Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law at the College of Law and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political...
Democracy, Protest, and Progress with Melvin Rogers
Melvin Rogers is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. You can follow Melvin on Twitter at @MRogers097. Professor Rogers speci...
Trailer: Future of Truth Season
A quick preview of what's to come in season two of Why We Argue, Future of Truth edition. New episodes arriving in March!
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The Conviction Workshop
This episode is a collection of talks with philosophers who attended Humility & Conviction in Public Life's Conviction Workshop in St. Petersburg Flor...
Controversial Ideas and “No Platforming” with Jeff McMahan
Jeff McMahan is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research focuses broadly on moral and political philosophy, and...
The Constitution as a Public Ethos with Corey Brettschneider
Corey Brettschneider is Professor of Political Science at Brown University, and Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University. His work is focused i...
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina Rini
Regia Rini is the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition at the York University. Her research resides at the intersections...
Are Citizens Polarized with Steven Kull
Steven Kull is a Senior Research Associate and director of the Program for Public Consultation at the School of Public Policy at the University of Mar...
Epistemic Vice with Ian James Kidd
Ian James Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Nottingham with research interests in epistemology, vices, epistemic justice,...
Political Polarization and Epistemic Arrogance Workshop
This episode is a collection of segments from papers given at Humility and Conviction in Public Life’s workshop on Political Polarization and Epistem...
Polarization with Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He has written extensively on news media and political communication in conte...
Policing and Political Division with Alex Vitale
Alex Vitale is a Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has written for a number of...
Anger, Forgiveness, and Public Philosophy with Myisha Cherry
Myisha Cherry is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and next year will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Univ...
Conspiracy Theories with Quassim Cassam
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at University of Warwick in the UK. His academic work resides at the intersection of epistemology and philos...
Public Debate and Respectful Engagement with John Corvino
John Corvino is Professor of Philosophy at the Wayne State University in Detroit. His academic work focuses on topics in moral, social, and legal phil...
Constitutional Reform in Iceland with Jon Olafsson
Jon Olafsson is Professor in the n the department of Comparative and Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland. His research is focused on democra...
Testimony and Anonymity with Sandy Goldberg
Sandy Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language, with particular inter...
Misogyny and Politics with Kate Manne
Kate Manne is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral and social philosophy and feminist philosophy. her new...
Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin
Can we change minds about Confederate monuments? Kevin Levin is a historian and educator studying the American Civil War and memory. His book, Rememb...
Climate Change Skepticism with Lawrence Torcello
How does corporate misinformation and partisan skepticism effect what we know about climate change? Lawrence Torcello is an Associate Professor of Phi...