Episodes
I ask the philosopher Bob Stalnaker five questions about himself.
Bob Stalnaker is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of several books, including “Inquiry” (1984), “Our Knowledge of the Internal World” (2008), and “Context” (2014).
Published 04/19/22
I ask the philosopher Susanna Siegel five questions about herself.
Susanna Siegel is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She is the author of “The Contents of Visual Experience” (2010) and “The Rationality of Perception” (2017).
Published 04/12/22
I introduce the third season of Five Questions, a podcast in which I ask philosophers five questions about themselves.
New episodes post on Tuesday mornings.
Published 04/05/22
I ask the philosopher Kit Fine five questions about himself.
Kit Fine is Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at NYU. He is the author of several books, including “Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects” (1985), “The Limits of Abstraction” (2002), and “Semantic Relationism” (2007).
Published 08/03/21
I ask the philosopher Miranda Fricker five questions about herself.
Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the author of “Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing” (2007).
Rachel Whiteread, “Untitled (Stacks)”
Doris Salcedo, “Fragmentos”
Published 07/27/21
I ask the philosopher Larry Blum five questions about himself.
Lawrence Blum is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of several books including, most recently, “Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education” (2021).
Published 07/20/21
I ask the philosopher Sebastian Rödl five questions about himself.
Sebastian Rödl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of “Self-Consciousness” (2007), “Categories of the Temporal” (2012), and “Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism” (2018).
Published 07/13/21
I ask the philosopher Cheryl Misak five questions about herself.
Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her books include “Truth and the End of Inquiry” (1990), “The American Pragmatists” (2013), and “Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers” (2020).
Published 07/06/21
I ask the philosopher Philip Pettit five questions about himself.
Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of many books, including “The Common Mind” (1996), “Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government” (1997), and “The Birth of Ethics” (2018).
Published 06/29/21
I ask the philosopher Anil Gomes five questions about himself.
Anil Gomes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of “Iris Murdoch on Art, Ethics, and Attention” (2013), “Is There a Problem of Other Minds?” (2011), “Kant on Perception” (2014), and other essays.
Published 06/22/21
I ask the philosopher Elizabeth Barnes five questions about herself.
Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia and the author of “The Minority Body” (2016).
Published 06/15/21
I ask the philosopher Sarah Moss five questions about herself.
Sarah Moss is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan and the author of “Probabilistic Knowledge” (2018).
Published 06/08/21
I ask the philosopher Raimond Gaita five questions about himself.
Rai Gaita is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is the author of many books, including “Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception” (1991), “Romulus, My Father” (1998), and “A Common Humanity” (1998).
J. S. Bach, Cello Suites, performed by Pablo Casals
Published 06/01/21
I ask five of my colleagues one question about themselves.
MIT Philosophy
Published 05/25/21
I ask the philosopher Steve Darwall five questions about himself.
Steve Darwall is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including “Impartial Reason” (1983), “Welfare and Rational Care” (2002), and “The Second-Person Standpoint” (2006).
Published 05/18/21
I ask the philosopher Rachel Barney five questions about herself.
Rachel Barney is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of “Names and Nature in Plato’s ‘Cratylus’” (2001) and other essays on ancient philosophy.
Published 05/11/21
I ask the philosopher Lucy O'Brien five questions about herself.
Lucy O’Brien is Professor of Philosophy at University College London and the author of “Self-Knowing Agents” (2007).
Rembrandt van Rijn: “Self-Portrait with Two Circles”
Published 05/04/21
I ask the philosopher Riki Heck five questions about themselves.
Riki Heck is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. They are the author of “Frege’s Theorem” (2011) and “Reading Frege’s ‘Grundgesetze’” (2012).
Published 04/27/21
I ask the philosopher Jonathan Wolff five questions about himself.
Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at Oxford University. He is the author of several books, including “Why Read Marx Today?” (2002), “The Human Right to Health” (2012), and “Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry” (2020).
Published 04/20/21
I ask the philosopher Hannah Ginsborg five questions about herself.
Hannah Ginsborg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of “The Normativity of Nature: Essays on Kant’s ‘Critique of Judgement’” (2015).
Raphael's “Ecstasy of St. Cecilia”
Published 04/13/21
I ask the philosopher T. M. Scanlon five questions about himself.
Tim Scanlon is the Emeritus Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard. He is the author of several books, including “What We Owe to Each Other” (1998), “Moral Dimensions” (2009), and “Why Does Inequality Matter?” (2018).
Published 04/06/21
I ask the philosopher Gerald Dworkin five questions about himself.
Gerald Dworkin is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at UC Davis and the author of “The Theory and Practice of Autonomy” (1988).
Published 03/30/21
I ask the philosopher Elisabeth Camp five questions about herself.
Elisabeth Camp is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. She is the author of “Slurring Perspectives” (2013), “Thinking with Maps” (2007), and other essays in the philosophy of language and mind.
Published 03/23/21
I ask the philosopher David Hills five questions about himself.
David Hills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and the author of "Aptness and Truth in Verbal Metaphor" (1997) and other essays in aesthetics and the philosophy of mind.
Published 03/16/21
I ask the philosopher Michele Moody-Adams five questions about herself.
Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of “Fieldwork in Familiar Places” (1997) and a forthcoming book “Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope.”
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston Common
Published 03/09/21