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Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Well, this is not about them! Philosophy Casting Call is where Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, your friendly neighbourhood philosopher, interviews professors, grad students, and non-academics to find out what philosophy looks like now and try to shine a spotlight on thinkers, topics, and themes that are historically marginalised in academic philosophy. This includes women, LGBTQIA, disabled, and BIPOC people who are out there, getting their philosophy on, and who deserved to be cast as philosophers in our culture.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Contemporary, marginalized-focused philosophy interviews • interdisciplinarity across humanities, medicine, media • disability/crip ethics, anti-ableism • trans health and gender justice • AI ethics • race, Black feminist thought, decolonial/anti-colonial politics • social media rhetoric, archives, pedagogyThis podcast is an interview-based show that highlights contemporary philosophy by centering thinkers and topics that have often been marginalized within academic philosophy, including work by and about women, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, and BIPOC communities. Conversations frequently focus on what philosophy looks like in practice today: how scholars and non-academics build intellectual projects, navigate institutions, and bring ethical and political commitments into research, teaching, and public life.
Across episodes, recurring themes include applied ethics and social justice questions in health and medicine (including global health, narrative medicine, birth and reproductive experiences, and healthcare access for transgender people), as well as the ethical and epistemic challenges of emerging technologies such as AI and social media. The show also returns to questions of knowledge, power, and methodology: critiques of “ideal theory,” gatekeeping and class barriers in academia, epistemic injustice, and the ethical stakes of archival and historical work—especially from disability- and activist-informed perspectives.
Interdisciplinarity is a major throughline, with guests drawing on philosophy alongside fields such as anthropology, history, design, media studies, and religious traditions to address topics like decolonial environmental thought, political theory and Black intellectual traditions, aesthetics and influencer culture, and pedagogies shaped by resistance to misogyny and institutional harms. Overall, listeners can expect discussions that connect philosophical concepts to lived experience, contemporary culture, and real-world policy or institutional contexts.
