Living Philosophy – Details, episodes & analysis

Believe it or not, the saying “You are what you eat” reveals what we’ve got wrong about our approach to eating and living well. Why? It tends to take an overly narrow focus on ourselves without consideration of other values, histories, and species. Dr. Kelly Donati (William Angliss Institute, Australia) discusses the finer points of gastronomy, its history, its development, and how we can re-think what it means to eat and live well. She reflects in particular on her ethnographic fieldwork with an artisan cheesemaking goat farm.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Kelly Donati (Angliss Institute)

“Toward a Ruminant Gastronomy” (Environmental Humanities)
Sutton Grange Organic Farm (Website)

Deborah Bird Rose (Wikipedia)
Susan Parham (LinkedIn)
Aboriginal cooking (First Nation Food)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (Wikipedia)

Music: www.bensound.com

Logo Art: Dattura Studios (website)

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Grasping what it means to be disabled is more complex than you might think. But doing so is key to understanding how we might treat people with impairments as equals with respect to justice, rights, and ethics. Prof Chris Riddle (Utica University) specializes in political philosophy, applied ethics, and the philosophy of disability. He has been an expert witness in several prominent legal cases concerning disability rights, and in this podcasts he discusses the historical and philosophical dimensions to understanding disability, as well as his own personal experiences as a scholar and an expert witness.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Chris Riddle (Uttica University)
Chris’s personal website

ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health)

Tom Shakespeare (Wikipedia)
Anita Silvers (Wikipedia)
Thomas Scanlon (Wikipedia)
Robert Nozick (Wikipedia)
Luck egalitarianism (SEP)
Martha Nussbaum (Wikipedia)
Fragility of Goodness (Good Reads)
Eva Kittay (Wikipedia)
Jerome Bickenbach (University of Lucerne)

Music: Earth and the Moon, by Ketsa

Logo Art: Dattura Studios (website)

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Medicine involves more than science and evidence-based experiments. In today’s health climate—where there seems to be a conflict of interest between health care, on the one hand, and pharmaceutical companies and the privatization of medicine, the other hand—it is easy to overlook a more holistic approach that understands how illness is causally linked to both the mind and body. David Corfield (University of Kent, UK) is Associate Professor of Philosophy, with special interests in the philosophies of mathematics, science, logic, medicine, history, and psychoanalysis. He discusses the importance of the role of the mind in medicine, and more generally, how a well-rounded approach to academic research and investigation provides a much more balanced and informed perspective.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
David Corfield (Wikipedia | University of Kent)
Twitter (@DavidCorfield8)

Why Do People Get Ill? by Corfield and Leader (Amazon)
Modal Homotopy Type Theory: The Prospect of a New Logic for Philosophy (Oxford University Press)

Darian Leader (Psychoanalyst)
Thomas Kuhn (SEP)
Imre Lakatos (SEP)
Alasdair MacIntyre (Wikipedia)
Albert Lautman (Wikipedia)
R. G. Collingwood (SEP)
John Ruskin (Wikipedia)

Lacanian Psycholanalysis (Wikipedia)
Vienna Circle (SEP)
Type Theory (SEP)
Idiographic vs. Nomothetic Analysis (Wikipedia)

Music: Earth and the Moon, by Ketsa

Logo Art: Angela Silva, Dattura Studios

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Hillary Hutchinson is a career coach and change strategist at Transitioning Your Life. She has helped professionals understand who they are in order to make significant changes to their careers. She reflects on how events in her own life put her in a place to better understand the nuances and complications of change and how it can affect us in both positive and challenging ways. Do the work! Be the change!

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Hillary Hutchinson (LinkedIn)
Transitioning Your Life (website)

Scaling the Ivory Tower: Your Academic Job Search Workbook (Goodreads)     
The CHANGE-UP System: Your guide to creating fulfillment, balance, and success in your career life (Goodreads)

William Bridges, Managing Transitions (Goodreads)
Elisabeth Kubler Ross (Wikipedia)

Impostor Syndrome (APA)
Writing a CV of Failure (Melanie Stefan)
Buddhism and Awareness (Wikipedia)
Universal Unitarianism (UUA)
Karl Jaspers and Limit Situations (SEP)
Office Space (IMDB)

Photo: Transitioning Your Life

Music: www.bensound.com

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Arvind Gupta is a genetic engineer and venture capitalist whose approach to investment is driven by trying to better the planet, yet without the use of moral arguments and platforms. Instead, his approach to business draws on his personal experience with mortality and behavioral insights into how people can and cannot be convinced of a need for change. Arvind is also an accomplished rock climber, BASE jumper, and mixed martial artist.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Arvind Gupta (LinkedIn)

IndieBio
Mayfield

Albert Camus (1913-1960, Wikipedia)
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Good Reads)

Decoding the World, Arvind Gupta & Po Bronson (Good Reads)
Uma Valeti (Good Food Institute)
Upside Foods
Eric Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth (Good Reads)

Photo: IndieBio

Music: www.bensound.com

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We see it every day—the problem of misunderstanding and misreading meaning and intentions. It can be the cause of frustration, hurt, and even violence. Hermeneutics is the branch of philosophy interested in how the interpretation of language, symbols, texts, and even the nature of existence requires a nuanced and open-minded approach. It can potentially help us to resolve a lot of the problems of miscommunication. Listen to three experts—Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), David Utsler (North Central Texas College, USA), and Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee, UK)—reflect on the importance of hermeneutics and why it matters to our everyday lives.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life

Links Related to this Episode:
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University)
David Utsler (Discursive Dialectics)
Nicholas Davey (Wikipedia)

Intro to Hermeneutics (YouTube)
Hans Georg-Gadamer (SEP)
Paul Ricoeur (SEP)
Wilhelm Dilthey (SEP)
Georgia Warnke (PhilPeople)

Antigone (Wikipedia)
Anthropocentrism (Oxford Bibliographies)

Reading Suggestions by the Panelists
Hans Weidenfeld, Absolute Nothingness
Walter Kempowski, Swangsong 1945
Wilhelm Dilthey, Introduction to the Human Sciences
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Culture
Wolfgang Iser, The Range of Interpretation
Gianni Vattimo, Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller

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Charlie Undershaw (Carlos Marin de Miguel) is a Spanish jazz musician whose recent album “Agora” has been hitting the airwaves in Spain and on Spotify. He shares how Brazilian jazz and philosophy have shaped his life, his academic teaching, and his views on how to weather the obstacles and worries about our mortality.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Charlie Undershaw (Spotify)
Carlos Marin de Miguel (Twitter: @undershaw_music)

Songs by Charlie Undershaw from Agora
Monte Serra (Spotify)
O Tempo Dirá (Spotify)
Time Will Tell (Spotify)

Antônio Carlos Jobim (Wikipedia)
Ricardo Belda (Musician/producer)
João Gilberto (Wikipedia)
João Donato (Wikipedia)
Sakamoto “Song” (recited by Paul Bowles)

Decoding the World by Arvind Gupta & Po Bronson (Good Reads)
Michael Sandel (BBC)
Philosophical Coaching (Philosophy2u)
Amartya Sen (Wikipedia)
Martha Nussbaum (Wikipedia)
Capabilities Approach (Wikipedia)
A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Good Reads)

Photo: Charlie Undershaw

Music: www.bensound.com

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It seems more than ever that our present era is one of misunderstanding others—their motives, their reasons, their practices, and their beliefs. Is there a quick remedy to this, such as being more objective? Is objectivity even possible, especially given how incomplete our knowledge of others is? Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire, UK) is Professor of Philosophy, with a special interest in ethics, action, and understanding others. He discusses the importance of shared practices and has some surprising thoughts about the role of empathy.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Constantine Sandis (personal website)
Akrasia (Weakness of the Will)
Argument from Illusion (Wikipedia)
“Eyebrows on Fleek Vine by Peaches Monroee” (YouTube)
Prejudice and Bias (YouTube)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Wikipedia)
Paul Ricoeur (Wikipedia)

Music: Earth and the Moon, by Ketsa

Logo Art: Angela Silva, Dattura Studios

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Hans Florine is a world-renowned climber, best known for holding the record for the fastest ascent of the Nose on El Capitan (Yosemite) with Alex Honnold in 2012. The record remained until 2018. Hans has spent his life learning from competition and the application of different models of thinking in order to problem solve and be as efficient as possible. Listen to him reflect on the roles of learning how to fail in order to become better, cooperative competition, and his own motivational wisdom and ideas.

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Host:
Dr Todd Mei

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Links Related to this Episode:
Hans Florine (www.hansflorine.com)
On LinkedIn
On Twitter (@hansflorine)

On the Nose (Amazon)
On the Nose (Audio Book)

Do Hard Things Challenge (www.dhtchallenge.com)
Birthday Challenge (http://www.birthdaychallenge.com/whatis.html)

Eric Weihenmayer (Wikipedia)
Obituary for Steve Edwards, Outside Magazine (by Hans Florine)
Brian Tracy (Wikipedia)

Photo: Falcon Press
Music: www.bensound.com

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Dr Todd Mei discusses closing thoughts and reflections on the year which explore the prospect of social cohesion through the task of posing questions. Topics discussed:

• Stoicism
• Tolerance
• Hermeneutics
• Philosophical questioning
• Social Cohesion
• Unity through difference

Sponsors:
Philosophy2u.com
Hillary Hutchinson, Career and Change Coach at Transitioning Your Life
Martin Bunzl, author of Thinking while Walking
Hermeneutics in Real Life
Geoffrey Moore, author of The Infinite Staircase     

Logo Art: Angela Silva, Dattura Studios

Music: www.bensound.com

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