Digital Dialogue

Episodes

1. 10

   Digital Dialogue 73: Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop 2015

   We held the first Public Philosophy Journal Writing Workshop at the Inn at the Presidio this to facilitate the work of five collaborative projects. On episode 73 of the Digital Dialogue, each collaborative writing team joins me and Mark Fisher to talk about their work, their progress, and the...

   Jun 12, 2015

   1h 05m
2. 9

   Digital Dialogue 72: Reading Plato

   It is probably fair to say that Will Altman and I met one another in my book Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy. Perhaps it is strange to think of a book as a place in which two people can meet one another, but it was in Will's reading of my book, his reaching out to me to share his...

   Jun 10, 2015

   1h 09m
3. 8

   Digital Dialogue 71: Plato’s Rhetoric

   In episode 71 we are joined by John Jasso, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State. Our conversation focuses on what Jasso calls Plato’s Psychagogic Rhetoric, a phrase that suggests the manner in which Plato deployed (or had Socrates deploy) rhetorical strategies designed to move souls.

   Nov 9, 2014

   57m
4. 7

   Digital Dialogue 70: Thinking the Plural

   Richard Lee, Jr., Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, joins Chris Long for episode 70 of the Digital Dialogue to talk about the teaching and philosophy of Richard Bernstein. Rick and I were students of Bernstein in the early 1990's, and although we learned a lot of philosophical content...

   Oct 6, 2014

   57m
5. 6

   Digital Dialogue 69: Philosophical Imagination

   Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, joins me for episode 69 in which we discuss Plato and the philosophical imagination. Marina is a long time guest of the Digital Dialogue, appearing previously on episode 6: Attentive Listening (when the Digital Dialogue was in its...

   Jan 10, 2014

   39m
6. 5

   Digital Dialogue 68: Building the PPJ

   During our first planning trip to Matrix at Michigan State to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher and I sat down to talk with Ethan Watrall and Bill Hart-Davidson...

   Nov 21, 2013

   46m
7. 4

   Digital Dialogue 67: Queering Hip Hop

   Moya Bailey is a post-doctoral fellow at the Africana Research Center here at Penn State. She received her doctorate from Emory University in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Training to Treat: A Study of Representation of Black Women Patients at Emory School of Medicine.” She specializes in...

   Nov 16, 2013

   49m
8. 3

   Digital Dialogue 66: Sustainable Scholarship

   Almost immediately upon being awarded a $236K Mellon Grant to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher, Dean Rehberger and I found ourselves in New York at the 2013 Ithaka...

   Nov 2, 2013

   29m
9. 2

   Digital Dialogue 65: Acoustic Animals

   In 1914 Harlan Smith published an article about how best to incorporate sound into museum exhibitions to supplement the visual experiences of museum goers. According to Craig Eley, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at Penn State, it took two decades for this idea to…

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   Oct 15, 2013

   50m
10. 1

    Digital Dialogue 64: Writing Philosophy

    John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, joins me to discuss his current book project on philosophical writing. In it, John investigates various forms of philosophical writing, developing what he calls a "descriptive phenomenology of writing." The episode was recorded in the...

    Sep 28, 2013

    55m