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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, interdisciplinary philosophy interviews • marginalised thinkers • disability, queer/trans, BIPOC perspectives • bioethics, global health justice, narrative medicine • AI ethics in healthcare • decolonial/anti-colonial environmentalism • race, feminism, pedagogy, social media rhetoricThis podcast uses interview conversations to showcase what contemporary philosophy looks like beyond the traditional canon, with an explicit focus on thinkers and topics that have often been marginalised in academic philosophy, including work by and about women, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, and BIPOC communities. Episodes frequently connect philosophical methods to other fields—such as anthropology, history, medical humanities, design, media studies, and bioethics—asking what “interdisciplinarity” involves in practice and what it changes about the questions scholars can ask.
Across the discussions, recurring themes include ethics, power, and knowledge: how institutions set the terms of credibility, whose experiences count as evidence, and how norms get enforced through academic gatekeeping, archival practices, classroom pedagogy, and public discourse. Several conversations focus on health and medicine, examining global health justice, narrative approaches to illness and identity, reproductive and birth-related experiences, and the ethical tensions around data, safety, and access—particularly for transgender people. Technology is another throughline, with attention to the social and moral implications of AI in healthcare and broader debates about digital culture, platform governance, and online rhetoric.
The show also returns to political philosophy and social critique, including decolonial and anti-colonial approaches, environmental and “waste colonialism” analyses, and Black political thought and Black feminist philosophy. Alongside scholarly ideas, guests often describe their paths into research and teaching, offering a view of philosophy as a lived practice shaped by activism, creative work, and professional constraints.
