Elucidations

By Matt Teichman

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Subscribers: 279
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Episodes: 149


 Sep 12, 2021

Allana
 Feb 16, 2021
Great to fall asleep to. Inspires my dreams.

casual thinker
 Feb 25, 2019
A favorite for falliing asleep to.

Description

Elucidations is an unexpected philosophy podcast produced in association with Emergent Ventures. Every episode, Matt Teichman temporarily transforms himself back into a student and tries to learn the basics of some topic from a person of philosophical interest.

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Episode Date
Episode 149: Lainie Ross and Christos Lazaridis talk about defining death
Apr 14, 2024
Episode 148: Christos Lazaridis discusses brain death
Oct 20, 2023
Episode 147: Gabriella Gonzalez discusses the intersection of algebra and programming
Jul 15, 2023
Episode 146: Gaurav Venkataraman discusses memory in DNA and RNA
Mar 30, 2023
Episode 145: Andrew Sepielli discusses quietism and metaethics
Jan 21, 2023
Episode 144: Christopher Beem discusses democratic virtues
Nov 20, 2022
Episode 143: Mark Linsenmayer discusses alternative models of education
Oct 05, 2022
Episode 142: Emily Dupree discusses the rationality of revenge
Aug 02, 2022
Episode 141: Rob Goodman discusses eloquence
Jun 13, 2022
Episode 140: Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko discuss the good life
Apr 10, 2022
Episode 139: Jessica Tizzard discusses the philosophy of pregnancy
Feb 13, 2022
Episode 138: Toby Buckle discusses Mill's liberty principle
Jan 23, 2022
Episode 137: Bryan Caplan discusses open borders
Jan 02, 2022
Episode 136: Christian Miller discusses virtue and character
Oct 25, 2021
Episode 135: Sara Protasi discusses the philosophy of envy
Jul 15, 2021
Episode 134: Claire Kirwin discusses value realism
May 29, 2021
Episode 133: Aristotle discusses his philosophy
Apr 04, 2021
Episode 132: Rebecca Valentine discusses queer hackerspaces
Mar 02, 2021
Episode 131: Greg Salmieri discusses egoism and altruism
Jan 03, 2021
Episode 130: Jessica Tizzard discusses weakness of the will
Nov 22, 2020
Episode 129: Nethanel Lipshitz discusses discrimination
Sep 27, 2020
Episode 128: Melissa Fusco discusses free choice permission
Aug 16, 2020
Episode 127 - Nic Koziolek discusses self-knowledge
Jul 15, 2020
Episode 126 - Listener Q&A with Agnes Callard and Ben Callard
Jun 11, 2020
Episode 125: James Koppel discusses counterfactual inference and automated explanation
Apr 17, 2020
Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy
Mar 21, 2020
Episode 123: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist metaphysics
Feb 15, 2020
Episode 122: Frithjof Bergmann and David Helmbold discuss new work, new culture
Jan 17, 2020
Episode 121: Aaron Ben Ze'ev discusses the arc of love
Dec 05, 2019
Episode 120: Robin Dembroff on going beyond the gender binary
Nov 10, 2019
Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses misgendering
Oct 15, 2019
Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments
Sep 12, 2019
Episode 117: Brian L. Frye says to plagiarize this podcast
Aug 30, 2019
Episode 116: Tommy Curry discusses black male studies
Aug 05, 2019
Episode 115: Katherine Ritchie discusses social groups
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 114: Sally Haslanger discusses ideology
May 14, 2019
Episode 113: Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics
Apr 08, 2019
Episode 112: Myisha Cherry discusses the skill of conversation
Mar 07, 2019
Episode 111: Greg Kobele discusses mathematical linguistics
Jan 27, 2019
Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois
Dec 15, 2018
Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle
Oct 13, 2018
Episode 108: Mariam Thalos discusses freedom
Sep 15, 2018
Episode 107: Linda Martín Alcoff discusses identity and history
Aug 03, 2018
Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender
Jun 22, 2018
Episode 105: R. A. Briggs discusses epistemic decision theory
Apr 20, 2018
Episode 104: Seth Yalcin discusses the question-sensitivity of belief
Mar 04, 2018
Episode 103: Brian Leiter explains why we should think about Marx
Jan 09, 2018
Episode 102: Josh Knobe discusses the true self
Dec 01, 2017
Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness
Oct 21, 2017
Episode 100: Agnes Callard discusses aspiration
Sep 22, 2017
Episode 99: Steven Nadler discusses Spinoza on freedom
Aug 13, 2017
Episode 98: Jennifer Lackey discusses credibility
Jul 17, 2017
Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases
Jun 11, 2017
Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning
May 08, 2017
Episode 95: Zed Adams discusses the genealogy of color
Apr 10, 2017
Episode 94: Zsofia Zvolenszky discusses fictional names
Mar 23, 2017
Episode 93: Barry Lam discusses obligations after death
Jan 30, 2017
Episode 92: Kristie Dotson discusses epistemic oppression
Jan 14, 2017
Episode 91: Paolo Santorio discusses counterfactuals
Dec 23, 2016
Episode 90: Ásta Sveinsdóttir discusses social construction
Nov 20, 2016
Episode 89: John Collins discusses language universals
Oct 28, 2016
Episode 88: Kent Bach discusses jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice
Oct 12, 2016
Episode 87: Susanna Schellenberg discusses perceptual particularity
Sep 11, 2016
Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes
Aug 18, 2016
Episode 85: Bryce Huebner discusses race and cognitive science
Aug 01, 2016
Episode 84: Amanda Greene discusses the legitimacy of democracy
Jun 10, 2016
Episode 83: Bob Simpson discusses genealogical anxiety
May 12, 2016
Episode 82: Robert May discusses Frege and the problem of identity
Apr 13, 2016
Episode 81: Cathy Legg discusses what Peirce's categories can do for you
Mar 15, 2016
Episode 80: Mark Hopwood discusses love and moral value
Feb 10, 2016
Episode 79: Anthony S. Gillies discusses conditionals
Jan 06, 2016
Episode 78: Stephen Engstrom discusses the categorical imperative
Dec 09, 2015
Episode 77: Mark Schroeder discusses reasons for action and belief
Nov 13, 2015
Episode 76: Barbara Herman discusses gratitude
Oct 13, 2015
Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic
Sep 08, 2015
Episode 74: Christina van Dyke discusses gender and medieval mysticism
Aug 07, 2015
Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy
Jul 15, 2015
Episode 72: Robert May discusses pejorative expressions
Jun 25, 2015
Episode 71: Kent Schmor discusses Carnap's Aufbau
Jun 05, 2015
Episode 70: Susan James discusses Spinoza on the good embodied life
May 06, 2015
Episode 69: Christel Fricke discusses Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments
Mar 25, 2015
Episode 68: Mark Lance discusses anarchism
Feb 18, 2015
Episode 67: John Protevi discusses Darwin, disaster, and prosociality
Jan 12, 2015
Episode 66: Haim Gaifman discusses mathematical reasoning
Dec 17, 2014
Episode 65: Julian Savulescu discusses doping in sports
Nov 17, 2014
Episode 64: James Conant and Jay Elliott discuss the analytic tradition
Oct 18, 2014
Episode 63: Michael Devitt discusses reference
Sep 19, 2014
Episode 62: Sally Sedgwick discusses Hegel’s critique of Kant
Aug 21, 2014
Episode 61: Jeff Buechner discusses Kripke and functionalism
Jul 16, 2014
Episode 60: Fabrizio Cariani shares some thoughts about oughts
Jun 23, 2014
Episode 59: Quill Kukla discusses reproductive risk
May 14, 2014
Episode 58: Stewart Shapiro discusses vagueness, part II
Apr 17, 2014
Episode 57: Julia Annas discusses virtue ethics
Mar 19, 2014
Episode 56: Philip Pettit discusses corporate rights and responsibilities
Feb 10, 2014
Episode 55: Branden Fitelson discusses paradoxes of consistency
Jan 08, 2014
Episode 54: Patricia Blanchette discusses Frege's logicism
Dec 06, 2013
Episode 53: Martin Stokhof discusses formal semantics and Wittgenstein
Nov 14, 2013
Episode 52: Rafeeq Hasan discusses Rousseau on freedom and happiness
Oct 14, 2013
Episode 51: Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen discuss inquisitive semantics
Sep 23, 2013
Episode 50: Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work
Aug 21, 2013
Episode 49: Hans Kamp discusses discourse representation theory
Jul 17, 2013
Episode 48: Jennifer Frey discusses the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
Jun 10, 2013
Episode 47: Alexandru Baltag discusses the logic of knowledge
May 14, 2013
Episode 46: Frank Veltman discusses normality
Apr 19, 2013
Episode 45: Anubav Vasudevan discusses probability and determinism
Mar 22, 2013
Episode 44: Joelle Proust discusses metacognition
Feb 15, 2013
Episode 43: Peter Adamson discusses the philosophy of Al-Kindi
Jan 01, 2013
Episode 42: Agustin Rayo discusses the construction of logical space
Dec 12, 2012
Episode 41: David Enoch discusses metaethics
Nov 09, 2012
Episode 40: Johan van Benthem discusses logical dynamics
Oct 08, 2012
Episode 39: Nicholas Asher discusses the philosophy of language
Sep 04, 2012
Episode 38: Christopher Frey discusses Aristotle on living organisms and their parts
Aug 08, 2012
Episode 37: Catarina Dutilh Novaes discusses methods in philosophy
Jul 10, 2012
Episode 36: Robert van Rooij discusses vagueness
Jun 15, 2012
Episode 35: Martha Nussbaum discusses the capabilities approach
May 07, 2012
Episode 34: Kieran Setiya discusses moral disagreement
Apr 09, 2012
Episode 33: Daniel Sutherland discusses the philosophy of mathematics
Mar 14, 2012
Episode 32: Jennifer Lockhart discusses ignorant knowledge
Feb 09, 2012
Episode 31: Branden Fitelson discusses reasoning fallacies
Jan 11, 2012
Episode 30: Marko Malink discusses modal syllogistic
Dec 12, 2011
Episode 29: Peter Kail discusses Hume's legacy
Nov 08, 2011
Episode 28: John Searle discusses human reality and basic reality
Oct 18, 2011
Episode 27: Emma Borg discusses semantic minimalism
Sep 26, 2011
Episode 26: Robert Richards discusses evolutionary ethics
Sep 08, 2011
Episode 25: Robert Stalnaker discusses conversational context
Jul 18, 2011
Episode 24: Christopher Peacocke discusses the perception of music
Jun 13, 2011
Episode 23: Quassim Cassam discusses transcendental arguments
May 17, 2011
Episode 22: Ben Laurence discusses collective action
Apr 06, 2011
Episode 21: Raymond Geuss discusses political liberalism
Mar 07, 2011
Episode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith
Feb 08, 2011
Episode 19: Dan Sperber discusses epistemic vigilance
Jan 12, 2011
Episode 18: Mark Lance discusses language and power
Dec 06, 2010
Episode 17: Brandon Fogel discusses mechanism and causation
Nov 08, 2010
Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice
Oct 06, 2010
Episode 15: Brian Leiter discusses religious toleration
Sep 08, 2010
Episode 14: Edward Witherspoon discusses skepticism
Aug 02, 2010
Episode 13: Fabrizio Cariani discusses judgment aggregation
Jul 09, 2010
Episode 12: Jason Bridges discusses contextualism
Jun 03, 2010
Episode 11: Martin Gustafsson discusses philosophical pictures
May 07, 2010
Episode 10: Richard Kraut discusses goodness
Apr 05, 2010
Episode 9: Ted Cohen discusses metaphor
Mar 04, 2010
Episode 8: Chris Haufe discusses evolutionary psychology
Feb 12, 2010
Episode 7: Daniel Groll discusses nature and ethics
Jan 04, 2010
Episode 6: Jesse Prinz discusses experimental philosophy
Dec 01, 2009
Episode 5: Jocelyn Benoist discusses the philosophy of perception
Nov 02, 2009
Episode 4: Martha Nussbaum discusses sexuality and the law
Oct 01, 2009
Episode 3: Brian Leiter discusses Nietzsche on morality
Sep 01, 2009
Episode 2: Gabriel Richardson Lear discusses Plato's philosophy of poetry
Aug 03, 2009
Episode 1: Agnes Callard discusses desire and satisfaction
Jul 06, 2009