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Podcast Profile: Five Questions

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81 episodes
2020 to 2022
Median: 26 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast features conversational interviews structured around five recurring personal questions posed to philosophers. Across the episodes, listeners meet academics from a range of institutions who reflect on themselves and their intellectual lives, often in ways that connect biography, temperament, and formative experiences to philosophical work. The emphasis is less on debating a single topic than on getting a clear sense of how philosophers think about their own motivations, influences, and methods.

The guests’ areas of specialization span many parts of the discipline. There is frequent presence of ethics and moral psychology (including responsibility, blame, autonomy, value, and reasons), political philosophy and public policy (including freedom, equality, education, racial justice, and civic life), and epistemology and social epistemology (including knowledge, belief, testimony, and the ethics of knowing). The podcast also regularly touches on philosophy of mind and perception, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science, with occasional attention to themes like time, self-consciousness, and the interpretation of physical theories.

Many episode descriptions situate guests through their books and research programs, giving a map of contemporary philosophy through individual careers. Some installments also gesture to connections with art and culture—such as references to visual artworks or music—suggesting that aesthetic experience and broader intellectual influences can be part of the conversation. Overall, the series offers a cross-section of professional philosophers describing who they are and how they arrived at the questions that organize their work.

Episodes:

Kieran Setiya 2022-Oct-04 37 minutes

Liam Kofi Bright 2022-Sep-27 24 minutes

Kyla Ebels-Duggan 2022-Sep-20 29 minutes

Ken Winkler 2022-Sep-13 31 minutes

Laura Ruetsche 2022-Sep-06 34 minutes

Hanna Pickard 2022-Aug-30 37 minutes

Miriam Schoenfield 2022-Aug-23 27 minutes

Palle Yourgrau 2022-Aug-16 24 minutes

Pamela Hieronymi 2022-Aug-09 22 minutes

Ian Phillips 2022-Aug-02 26 minutes

Ben Laurence 2022-Jul-26 30 minutes

Susan James 2022-Jul-19 27 minutes

Rachel Fraser 2022-Jul-12 34 minutes

Steve Yablo 2022-Jul-05 33 minutes

Aaron Wendland 2022-Jun-28 33 minutes

Karen Bennett 2022-Jun-21 27 minutes

Akeel Bilgrami 2022-Jun-14 31 minutes

Antonia Peacocke 2022-Jun-07 29 minutes

Sharon Street 2022-May-31 31 minutes

Ryan Preston-Roedder 2022-May-24 24 minutes

Ursula Coope 2022-May-17 25 minutes

R. Jay Wallace 2022-May-10 25 minutes

Guy Longworth 2022-May-03 23 minutes

Japa Pallikkathayil 2022-Apr-26 22 minutes

Bob Stalnaker 2022-Apr-19 23 minutes

Susanna Siegel 2022-Apr-12 26 minutes

Season 3 Trailer 2022-Apr-05 2 minutes

Kit Fine 2021-Aug-03 19 minutes

Miranda Fricker 2021-Jul-27 34 minutes

Lawrence Blum 2021-Jul-20 26 minutes

Sebastian Rödl 2021-Jul-13 27 minutes

Cheryl Misak 2021-Jul-06 24 minutes

Philip Pettit 2021-Jun-29 30 minutes

Anil Gomes 2021-Jun-22 27 minutes

Elizabeth Barnes 2021-Jun-15 27 minutes

Sarah Moss 2021-Jun-08 26 minutes

Raimond Gaita 2021-Jun-01 36 minutes

Philosophers@MIT 2021-May-25 29 minutes

Stephen Darwall 2021-May-18 25 minutes

Rachel Barney 2021-May-11 26 minutes

Lucy O'Brien 2021-May-04 29 minutes

Richard Kimberly Heck 2021-Apr-27 22 minutes

Jonathan Wolff 2021-Apr-20 30 minutes

Hannah Ginsborg 2021-Apr-13 28 minutes

T. M. Scanlon 2021-Apr-06 22 minutes

Gerald Dworkin 2021-Mar-30 27 minutes

Elisabeth Camp 2021-Mar-23 25 minutes

David Hills 2021-Mar-16 24 minutes

Michele Moody-Adams 2021-Mar-09 29 minutes

Matthew Boyle 2021-Mar-02 29 minutes

Havi Carel 2021-Feb-23 26 minutes

Mark Wilson 2021-Feb-16 30 minutes

Seana Shiffrin 2021-Feb-09 26 minutes

Season 2 Trailer 2021-Feb-02 2 minutes

Rae Langton 2020-Oct-27 23 minutes

Sophie Grace Chappell 2020-Oct-20 28 minutes

Jonathan Lear 2020-Oct-13 28 minutes

Alice Crary 2020-Oct-06 26 minutes

Kwame Anthony Appiah 2020-Sep-29 28 minutes

Gabriel Richardson Lear 2020-Sep-22 25 minutes

David Christensen 2020-Sep-15 24 minutes

Barbara Herman 2020-Sep-08 26 minutes

Tim Crane 2020-Sep-01 24 minutes

Jane Heal 2020-Aug-25 26 minutes

Tom Baldwin 2020-Aug-18 26 minutes

Alva Noë 2020-Aug-11 28 minutes

Helen Steward 2020-Aug-04 25 minutes

Richard Holton 2020-Jul-28 24 minutes

Jennifer Hornsby 2020-Jul-21 23 minutes

Cora Diamond 2020-Jul-14 22 minutes

Barry Lam 2020-Jul-07 23 minutes

Nancy Bauer 2020-Jun-30 21 minutes

Tommie Shelby 2020-Jun-23 25 minutes

Gideon Rosen 2020-Jun-16 26 minutes

Scott Shapiro 2020-Jun-09 27 minutes

Zena Hitz 2020-Jun-02 26 minutes

Béatrice Longuenesse 2020-May-26 25 minutes

Richard Moran 2020-May-19 28 minutes

Susan Wolf 2020-May-12 22 minutes

David Velleman 2020-May-05 21 minutes

Season 1 Trailer 2020-Apr-28 2 minutes