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Interview with Philosophers about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy
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talkPOPc or the Philosophers' Ontological Party club, is a public philosophy + socially engaged art practice non-profit founded by Dr. Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. talkPOPc sponsors one-to-one conversations between a participant and a philosopher (who always dons our amazing gold African king hat!) Various philosophers participate and these conversations happen in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. Various bars, both ...
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Based on Dominick Domingo’s acclaimed book by the same name, Language of the Soul Podcast explores the infinite ways in which life, simply put, is story. Individually, we’re all products of the stories we’ve been exposed to. Collectively, culture is the sum of its history. Our respective worldviews are little more than stories we tell about ourselves. Socialization is the amalgamation of narratives we weave about the human condition, shaping everything from the codes we live by to policy its ...
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Welcome to the official podcast channel of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at the University of California, San Francisco.
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False Image Fashion Podcast’s main objective would be to create a space for candid conversations with featured guests who worked in the fashion/beauty industry. Our conversations are connecting the gap between the balance of life and fashion. We allow our featured guests to speak from their heart and expound on their hardships in working within the fashion industry, the purpose of their vision, and secrets to building a sustainable business. We are activating the voice of individuals in the ...
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Welcome to the official free Podcast site from SAGE for Communication & Media Studies. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets with principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
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Episode #130 R.P. Tyler Olds talks with talkPOPc participant Christopher about social power, community dynamics, and obligation
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Timestamps: 00:10 intros 01:20 setting the stage and outfit talk 01:55 What is philosophy? The thought about thought // Power is ability, the ability to do things and influence 03:15 Power and influence, the connection to trust. Influence is capital 04:40 The power that worries us, the things out of our control. But is power control, or is it influ…
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The Science of Fiction with 'Project Suicide' Author John Bukowski
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Join us as we sit down with John Bukowski, whose novel "Project Suicide" draws from a rich tapestry of personal and professional experiences. We'll uncover the intricate process of weaving real-world scientific concepts into compelling fiction, creating stories that thrill while ringing plausible and authentic. John shares his journey from technica…
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Wendy Salkin, "Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, this is someone who has been selected by an official process to hold a political office where he or she is tasked with promoting, advocating, and speaking for a constituency. However, we are also famili…
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Stronger In the Broken Places with Author Terry Tucker
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We chat with Terry Tucker, a college basketball player who defied familial expectations to pursue a career in law enforcement, inspired by his grandfather's legacy. Through his moving story of battling cancer for 12 years and eventually writing "Sustainable Excellence," we explore themes of service, familial bonds, and the ever-evolving nature of p…
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What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its considerations of this question, supporting domination and oppression. In Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy (Lexington Books, 2022), Havis brings our focus to theoretically rich practices of Afri…
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Alan C. Love, "Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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It was an astounding discovery in the early 1980's that the same genetic sequence, the homeobox, controlled the development of basic body plans across the animal kingdom, whether the result was a flatworm, an octopus, a mouse, or a human. This discovery of the conservation of a key developmental mechanism across phyla and vast stretches of evolutio…
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Creative Expression is for Everyone with Ceramics Artist and Author Shelley Finance
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Dominick and Virginia welcome the walking embodiment of creativity in action, a guest who will inspire with her intimate knowledge of the creative drive and her championing self-expression for all. Shelley Finance is also a friend of Dominick's from high school. They grew up in the next-door-to-Hollywood but ironically unglamorous provincial town o…
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Oliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
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The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, justice, equality, and autonomy, there is also an increasing reliance on ideas like misinformation, bias, expertise, and propaganda. These latter notions belong, at least in part, to epistemology – the are…
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Evidence is mounting about the impacts of interventions such as medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions on diet-related health conditions, fueling interest in these interventions among healthcare organizations and payers. On June 5th at 9am PT/12pm ET we heard experts discuss the latest research in this area. Panelists included researche…
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Conceptual Image-making with Iconic Editorial Illustrator Greg Spalenka
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Have you ever gazed at the night sky and felt a profound connection? Join us as we explore the intersection between art and human experience with iconic American Illustrator Greg Spalenka. We begin by reminiscing but also lamenting the deep disconnection from nature revealed by L.A.'s 1994 Northridge Earthquake when city-bound Los Angelesnos found …
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This is the second of a two-part webinar series on implications of the Camden Coalition’s RCT results. In 2020, a major article on “healthcare hotspotting” may have caught your eye. The article described findings from our four-year, prospective, 800-person randomized evaluation of the Camden Core Model, an innovative and comprehensive approach to c…
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Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…
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This is the first of a two-part webinar series on implications of the Camden Coalition’s RCT results. In 2020, a major article on “healthcare hotspotting” may have caught your eye. It did ours! The article described findings from a four-year, prospective, 800-person randomized evaluation of the Camden Coalition’s Camden Core Model, an innovative an…
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Have you ever considered the stories you tell yourself might just be the blueprint for your life? This edition of Language of the Soul delves into the remarkable world of narrative therapy with Virginia Grenier, who shares her wisdom on how our personal narratives can be both a sanctuary and a battleground for our mental well-being. We don't just r…
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Writing Our Own Song with Singer/Songwriter Bill Abernathy
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Have you ever found yourself spellbound by a song that seemed to narrate your life story? Bill Abernathy, our troubadour for the soul, joins us to reveal how his melodies weave the fabric of our lives into song. An enlightening discussion ensues on the enduring influence of singer-songwriters who have used their platforms to make social statements.…
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Organizational Dilemmas in Integrating Medical and Social Care to Improve Health Equity
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On March 29, 2024, the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics convened a session of the Organizational Ethics Consortia Series on social care. Addressing health inequity generally requires attention to the most marginalized patients, whose health is often undermined by social, legal and financial challenges. In response, many health care deliv…
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Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of…
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Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. It is the way of thinking according to which the state, its laws, and its institutions all stand in need of justification, and that the justification of the state must be addressed to those who live wi…
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Cinema and the Quest for Authentic Representation with filmmaker Jay J. Levy
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We are joined this week by filmmaker Jay J. Levy, who offers us a peek behind the curtain of his creative process as a storyteller, his location services business, and his current collaboration with comedy writer Russ Woody: a comedic web series titled, 'Poster Pickers.' Jay does not identify as a gay filmmaker but rather as a filmmaker who happens…
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On Monday March 11th participants joined us for a conversation about the new SIREN Social Care Conceptual Model! Emerging evidence suggests that social care programs do not affect health solely by connecting patients with social services and reducing socioeconomic barriers. In a recent paperwe used this evidence to develop a model that depicts the …
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Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
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Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways that offer us strategies for how to proceed? Have we already become lost in some sort of gender essentialism to ask these questions together? In Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology (Northwestern Univer…
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Although there is no question that adverse social circumstances negatively impact health and healthcare outcomes, it is not clear what the healthcare sector’s role should be in addressing these adverse social factors. On February 28, 2024, SIREN Co-Director Caroline Fichtenberg moderated a lively discussion with three thought-leaders on their persp…
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Afterlife with Documentarian Ben Harl
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When the veil between life and death seems fragile, where do we turn for answers? Join us as we discuss the afterlife with writer and musician-turned-filmmaker Ben Harl. In recent years, Ben has moved his passion for storytelling from the page to the screen, learning the craft of filmmaking through trial and error (and a huge amount of help from fe…
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Cameron J. Buckner, "From Deep Learning to Rational Machines" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp contrast, today's artificial neural networks – deep learning – are able to learn from experience, and perform at human-like levels of perceptual categorization, language production, and other cognitiv…
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Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amounts to more than there being an insufficient supply of adequate shelter. It rather is tied to a range of other forms of social and economic vulnerability – and many of these forms of vulnerability impe…
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The Power of Song with Glenda Benevides
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Glenda Benevides is an esteemed award-winning singer-songwriter, a healer, an author, and an altruist with a career that spans decades. Her music, described as the soulful synthesis of Heart, Janis Joplin, and Bessie Smith, resonates with power, emotion, and authenticity. A Recording Academy voting member and Grammy-considered artist, Glenda's song…
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Episode #129 R.P. Alex Mendez talks with talkPOPc participant Noor about censorship,free speech, and Gaza conflict
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1:00 They discuss how government censorship, particularly in banning books, restricts access to knowledge and different perspectives, questioning why the government has the authority to control what information people can access or contemplate. 5:00 Noor reflects on her opinion about the situation in the Middle East, acknowledging that her views ar…
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Christine Abigail L. Tan, "Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzhi" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Christine Tan argues that the most fruitful way to read the Zhuangzi, if one is seeking political and ethical insight, is through the Jin Dynasty commentator Guo Xiang. In Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 2024), she lays out her reasoning for this position, offering her interpreta…
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