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Philosophy Gets Personal
by Susi Ferrarello
Welcome to Philosophy gets Personal, the podcast funded by California State University East Bay. This podcast is a series of conversations between Dr. Susi Ferrarello and Philosophers from around the world exploring the ever persistent question of “what is the meaning of life” from an intimately personal perspective amongst other topics in philosophy. Our host, Dr. Ferrarello received her PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is an expert in Phenomenology, Ethics, Moral Psychology and, Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy. Dr. Ferrarello is currently a professor of philosophy at California State University East Bay, and also a philosophical counselor. Follow our social media accounts for episode updates, highlights and other behind the scenes material.
Episodes
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Zsuzsanna Chapell: Philosophy Gets Personal with Medical Injustice
Final Episode: In this beautiful talk Zsuzsanna Chappell, a philosopher madwoman, discusses the intersection between mental illness, philosophy and social justice.
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Englander Gets Personal with Empathy and Music
In this nice talk Magnus reflects on the notion of empathy, how it differs from compassion and sympathy. He finds in music a form of empathy and home.
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Lin Gets Personal with Religion
In this beautiful interview Deena Lin guides us through her understanding of religion and spiritual growth through the themes of death, education, racial differences.
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Jon Weidenbaum Gets Personal with Life Choices
This interview is built on Weidenbaum's beautiful article, 5 days, where he recounts the most difficult days in his life. During these days he had to decide whether to keep his wife alive through machines or unplug it. With candor and extreme honesty, Jon guides us through the emotional upheaval...
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Grudin Gets Personal with Environment
In this episode prof. Gruin tells us a bit about his relationship with the environment and how philosophy helped him to look at it from the point of view of nature.
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Churchill gets personal with empathy
In this episode prof. Churchill tells us how got curious about empathy in animals and why he started this type of investigations.
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Stone Gets Personal with Motherhood
In this beautiful talk with prof. Stone, she talks about her fondness for English female philosophers. In doing so, an implicit comparison leads us to examine her life as a female philosopher and to understand what motherhood had meant for her life and her career.
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Baiasu Gets Personal with Mental Health
In this nice talk with Prof. Baiasu we touched upon different themes, such as mental health, death, philosophy of feminism. It was a beautiful exploration of her path to life and philosophy.
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Brencio gets personal with kindness
What is normality? How can we live a kind life with each other? What does impede us from being fully ourselves? In today's episode, Professor Susi Ferrarello is joined by Francesca Brencio. Francesca Brencio is an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the Research Group “Filosofía Aplicada…
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Yancy gets personal with critical race theory
'Mum, can we pray for the devil?' So Yancy's interview goes toward an exploration of the use of categories in society and race theory. In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. George Yancy, an American philosopher and Professor at Emory University. George Yancy has written extensively…
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Qui Lin gets personal with women in philosophy and science
Do we have a duty to be happy? Isn't happiness a value that make us pretend to be what we are not. Welcome to this new episode of Philosophy gets Personal. In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarrello is joined by Dr. Qui Lin, a Chinese philosopher and Researcher into Émilie du Châtelet and the Chinese...
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Welch gets personal with women studies and rational choice theory
Welcome to the Meaning of Life: Where Philosophy gets Personal. In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. Shay Welch, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Spelman College. Shay Welch has written on Native American epistemology, feminist ethics, and contemporary embodied cognition...
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Zapien gets personal with marital affairs, technology and psychoanalysis
Why do we cheat? Is technology ruining our lives? Can we really be happy in this life? In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. Nicolle Zapien to discuss about technology, the way it affects our personal life and what psychoanalysis can do to make our life better. Dr. Nicolle Zapien is…
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Cannon gets personal with gender identity
How do we become ourselves? How much courage does it take to even think of ourselves as we wish we want to be? This episode dives into one's choices of responsibility, gender identity, and Cannon's personal philosophical journey on his gender identity.Welcome to the Meaning of Life: Where...
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Moreman gets personal with the afterlife, zombies, and synchronicities
Do ghosts exist? Do we have reasons to believe in the afterlife? In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. Christopher Moreman, professor and chair of the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at California State University East Bay. Christopher Moreman specializes in…
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Eagan Gets Personal with Practice
In this episode of the podcast Philosophy Gets Personal, prof. Eagan examines the role of practice in philosophy. She shows the delicate balance between philosophy and praxis and offers practical examples on how that applied in her practical life
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Brannigan Gets Personal with Education
Brannigan is an expert scholar in bioethics. In this talk we spoke about well-being, education, connection with each other
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Salice Gets Personal with Sociality
In this beautiful talk Salice reflects on sociality and what it means to be a citizen of the world.
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Wehrle Gets Personal with Embodiment
In this beautiful talk Maren explains us what embodiment means and how it feels to be in your ow body.
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Bornemark Gets Personal with Culture
Bornemark defends a form of culture that can be accessed by people and doesn't hide itself behind numbers and idealization. She is a force of nature, capable of very refined arguments conveyed in a very communicative way.
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Pigliucci Gets Personal with Stoicism
In this talk with Massimo he guides us in his path into becoming himself. How he got to know Stoicism, how he transitioned from being a scientist to a philosopher, how stoicism helped him in radical moment of his life. It was a beautiful and honest talk.
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Marinoff Gets Personal with Philosophical Counseling
Lou Marinoff explains to us what it means to be a philosophical counselor and how we can practically use philosophy in our life to make it better.
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Bizzari Gets Personal with Autism
In this beautiful talk we discussed Bizzari's work with autism and how she approaches it. We also considered the impact of the pandemic on her work and personal life
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Stanton Gets Personal with Nutrition
This was our very first episode and Mike was a great guest. He told us about his care for food and the important impact it has on psychological well-being.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Philosophy gets Personal, the podcast funded by California State University East Bay. This podcast is a series of conversations between Dr. Susi Ferrarello and Philosophers from around the world exploring the ever persistent question of “what is the meaning of life” from an intimately personal perspective amongst other topics in philosophy. Our host, Dr. Ferrarello received her PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is an expert in Phenomenology, Ethics, Moral Psychology and, Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy. Dr. Ferrarello is currently a professor of philosophy at California State University East Bay, and also a philosophical counselor. Follow our social media accounts for episode updates, highlights and other behind the scenes material.
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