Recorded Interviews, Lectures and Podcasts featuring Department of Philosophy Faculty
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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. Click here for the most recent podcast. If you have questions or comments about Elucidations, please contact Matt Teichman.
Recorded Faculty Interviews & Lectures
Interviews and Lectures, many outside the University of Chicago
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"Humor and the Tabooo" on Odyssey (NPR), June 25, 2001 - Link
Discussiong the philosophy of humor and his book Jokes: philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters, on Odyssey (NPR), December 15, 1999 - Link
James Conant
"John McDowell's Kant" lecture given on September 19, 2005, University of Bergen- Listen
"Family Resemblance, Composite Photography, and Unity of Concept: Goethe, Galton, Wittgenstein" lecture given on September 15, 2005, University of Bergen - Abstract or Listen
Varieties of Skepticism, a series of lectures given in August-September, 2005 at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway - Link
"The Alleged Heresy of Mono-Wittgensteinianism," lecture given on June 2, 2005 at Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Language conference in Skjolden, Norway - Listen
Discussing Pragmatism on Odyssey (NPR), April 24, 2002 - Link
Discussing the Aesthetic of Beauty on Odyssey (NPR), June 17, 2002 - Link
Discussing Science and Aesthetics on Odyssey (NPR), January 3, 2003 - Link
"The continuity of Wittgenstein's philosophy: why worry about the Tractatus?" lecture given on December 15, 2001, University of Bergen - Abstract or Listen
Arnold Davidson
Discussant at "Paraphilias" at the Philoctetes Center, October 18, 2008 - Podcast and Video
“In Praise of Counter-Conduct” at the Foucoult Across the Disciplines Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 2, 2008 - Listen
Discussing the legacy of Michael Foucault on Odyssey (NPR), March 8, 2005 - Listen
"Talking back book cover" for La vacanza morale del fascismo: Intorno a Primo Levi (in Italian) - Video
David Finkelstien
Discussing New Year's Resolutions on Odyssey (NPR), January 4, 2005 - Listen
Discussing Language and Thought on Odyssey (NPR), May 29, 2002 - Listen
Anton Ford
On the parts and whole of Plato's republic at the Franke Institute, with an introduction by James Conant, January 23, 2008 - Listen
John Haugeland
The relationship between philosophers Martin Heidigger and Hannah Arendt is examined on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight series, Sept. 24, 2004 - Listen
Jonathan Lear
Transcript and audio of ABC Radio (Australia) interview, January 31, 2009
Discussing Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life on Odyssey (NPR), December 6, 2000 - Listen
The Life And Times Of Freud (Talk of the Nation on NPR), October 13, 1998 - Listen
Martha Nussbaum
University of School Law School Faculty Podcast: Judge Diane Wood and Martha Nussbaum discussion "Constitutions and Capabilities" Feb. 2, 2009
"From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law," October 30, 2008, as part of the Law School's Diversity Week, and sponsored by Outlaw
The Real Clash of Civilizations: Democracy, Religious Violence, and the Case of India” December 3, 2007, Yale Law School
100th Episode, Original Airdate 8/29/2006, Philosophy Talk
Friendship, Original Airdate 11/29/2005 on Philosophy Talk
The Indispensible Emotions, Original Airdate 07/26/2005 on Philosophy Talk
Discussing Measuring Poverty on Odyssey (NPR), May 27, 2003- Link
“People as Fictions: Proust and the Ladder of Love” at the Erotikon Symposium
Video, March 2001
Robert Pippin
Imagining Utopia Roundtable February 8, 2007 at Philoctetes, The Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination
2004 Ryerson Lecture: Robert Pippin: “Bourgeois Philosophy? On the Problem of Leading a Free Life”
"Mine and Thine? The Kantian State"
Author Meets Critics: Robert Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life
March 29, 2001, American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting
“The Erotic Nietzsche: Philosophers without Philosophy” at the Erotikon Symposium -Video, March 2001
Inaugural convocation ceremony of Robert J. Zimmer - Video
Robert Richards
Darwin's Natural Theology at the Franke Institute on March 5, 2008 - Listen
Darwin’s Origin of Species and Descent of Man course at the University of Chicago, Fall Quarter 2008 video and audio
Discussing Science and Aesthetics on Odyssey (NPR), January 3, 2003 - Link
Discussing Rhetoric and Science on Odyssey (NPR), March 25, 2002 - Link
Discussion with Bill Wimsatt about "Science in Public Life" on Odyssey (NPR), August 13, 2001 - Listen
Past-Present-Future -- conceptions of time in Western thought as part of this week's WBEZ series onTime, December 7, 1999 - Link
Candace Vogler
At the Franke Institute: “Ethical Challenges”, March 4, 2009 - Listen
Discussing "Philosophy's Conception of Evil" on Odyssey (NPR), March 3, 2003 - Listen
Candace Vogler discusses Aquinas's arguments on intention, action and practical good, (0:53 min) © Fathom 2003. Link
William Wimsatt
On re-engineering philosophy for limited beings at the Franke Institute, with introductions by Françoise Meltzer and Robert Richards, May 2, 2007- Listen
Discussion with Bob Richards about "Science in Public Life" on Odyssey (NPR), August 13, 2001 - Listen
Past-Present-Future -- conceptions of time in Western thought as part of this week's WBEZ series onTime, December 7, 1999 - Link
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