Generous Questions Podcast
1) Episode 8: Susan Notess: Listening, silencing, gaslighting and honesty
Susan suggested a bunch of things to read about the philosophy and ethics of listening, for you to follow up: Talk: The science of conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe Yo! And Lo! The Pragmatic Topograp...Show More
2) Episode 7: Clare Moriarty – Berkeley, Mathematics, Trolling and Tarwater
Here are some links to find out even more: Our guest for this episode: Dr Clare Moriarty! her personal webpage at KCL is here, and you can find her on twitter @quiteclare. Here's Clare's excellent ...Show More
3) Episode 6: Aoife – Icelandic Sagas and moral philosophy
I didn't know much about Icelandic Sagas before I heard about Aoife's project, I just knew that they were long and complicated and involved feuds and fate. But Aoife, a philosophy student at Queen's U...Show More
4) Episode 5: Rupert – Ethical Egoism
We talk about ethical egoism, which Rupert seems to feel is dismissed a little bit too lightly, and we hear about how he's going to try to defend it. While Rupert’s talking about ethics and about what...Show More
5) Episode 4: Aine – Pyrrhonic Scepticism
This is a conversation with a final-year student in Philosophy. Aine graduated from Queen's University Belfast in the summer of 2019, and like many students she used her final year of studies to work ...Show More
6) Episode 3: Nancy Jecker – the chronically ill, the newly deceased
Prof. Nancy Jecker came to Queen's University Belfast to speak at this philosophy conference on the ethics of chronic illness, and I used that opportunity to ask her about her philosophical interests ...Show More
7) Episode 2: Jonathan Webber – Freedom and Morality
This is part two of the interview with Jonathan Webber about his book 'Rethinking Existentialism', and in this one we talk about existentialist ideas around freedom and ethical action, which is why I'...Show More
8) Episode 1: Jonathan Webber – projects and choices
It's the first episode! And that means all the work that's been building for over year gets unleashed RIGHT HERE and it's pretty exciting and terrifying at the same time. So where better to start than...Show More