TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: New Voices in the History of Philosophy

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33 episodes
2021 to 2026
Median: 40 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast features interview-based conversations that broaden standard histories of philosophy by focusing on thinkers and traditions that have often been excluded or underrepresented in European and Western philosophical canons. Across the episodes, hosts speak with contemporary scholars who introduce a wide range of philosophers—frequently women, Black and Africana thinkers, anti-slavery writers, and figures working outside familiar academic genres—and situate their work in its historical, political, and intellectual context.

A recurring emphasis is on reconstructing philosophical contributions that appear in diverse forms, including essays, letters, novels, plays, salons, autobiography, mystical or contemplative writings, and scientific experimentation. The discussions regularly engage core philosophical areas such as metaphysics (including motion, time, space, personhood, and harmony), moral psychology and ethics (sympathy, attention, virtue, moral motivation, and moral education), and social and political philosophy (slavery and abolition, colonialism, citizenship, rights, labor, patriarchy, racism, and feminism). The podcast also explores cross-cultural and comparative work, including engagement between classical Chinese philosophy and contemporary analytic approaches, as well as methods for studying Indigenous and non-canonical traditions.

Alongside historical content, the conversations address what it is like to do this kind of scholarship today: how to find sources, interpret texts not previously treated as “philosophy,” navigate methodological and institutional challenges, and bring these figures into research and teaching. Some episodes also reflect on contemporary philosophical practice more broadly, including the role of community, intellectual networks, and podcasting as a form of scholarship.