New Books in Philosophy
Interview with Philosophers about their New Books
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- Interviews with Philosophers about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-02 05:07
- last episode published
- 2025-01-01 09:00
- publication frequency
- 12.66 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Marshall Poe
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- marshallpoe@gmail.com (Marshall Poe)
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- 392
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-01 | Various kind of philosophical considerations have been offered in favor of democracy. By some accounts, democracy realizes some intrinsic value, such as equality or collective autonomy. According to other views, democracy’s value is more instrumental: ... |
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| 2024-12-20 | What does mourning have to do with politics? How do practices of forced disappearance and improper burial shape subjects, spaces, and what is intelligible? What are people doing in movements across the globe when they gather in public space and recount... |
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| 2024-12-10 |
Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024) This interview is an exception to our “single author monographs” rule, because the edited collection that is its topic is an intellectual achievement worth making an exception for in over 12 years of New Books in Philosophy podcasts. Emotion Theory: Th... |
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| 2024-12-04 |
Alexander Guerrero, "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections" (Oxford UP, 2024) Elections loom large in our everyday understanding of democracy. Yet we also acknowledge that our familiar electoral apparatus is questionable from a democratic point of view. Very few citizens have access to the kinds of resources that could enable th... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024) An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? In Civic ... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023) Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in nineteenth-century German and the early twentieth century. European luminaries like Schlegel, Hegel, von Günde... |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024) It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put yourself in their shoes. But such systems of representing the world are not truly alien – they still invol... |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024) Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital have to do with ethics? Why is the proletariat the revolutionary class? What is the normative importance... |
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| 2024-10-10 | Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millenium (University of Chicago Press),... |
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| 2024-10-01 |
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023) We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typically adjusted to say that democracy is a system of representative government, where elected officials a... |
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