Elucidations takes the Chicago Department of Philosophy Faculty out of the classroom and onto the web. Two graduate students (Matt Teichman and Mark Hopwood) talk to professors about their latest work, covering a range of topics from the theoretical to the practical, including perception, moral motivation, and sexual orientation. If you have questions or comments about Elucidations, please contact Matt Teichman.
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Episode 5: Jocelyn Benoist discusses the philosophy of perception - November 2009.
Jocelyn Benoist is the White's Visiting Professor in Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Coming Next Month: Jesse Prinz discusses experimental philosophy.
Past Elucidations
Epidsode 4: Martha Nussbaum discusses sexuality and the law - October 2009
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book, Sex and Social Justice, won the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2000.
EPISODE 3: Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche on morality - September 2009
Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values at the University of Chicago. He specializes in general jurisprudence (including its intersection with issues in metaphysics and epistemology), moral and political philosophy (in both Anglophone and Continental traditions), and the law of evidence.
EPISODE 2: Gabriel Richardson Lear discusses Plato's philosophy of poetry - August 2009
Gabriel Richardson Lear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. She specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Her book, Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Princeton, 2004), is about the relationship between morally virtuous action and theoretical contemplation in the happiest life.
EPISODE 1: Agnes Callard discusses desire and satisfaction - July 2009
Agnes Callard is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Action.