Hotel Bar Sessions, as a podcast, is committed to the idea of “public philosophy,” but is there such a thing as a “private philosophy”? Not private in the sense that it is kept out of the public, but private in that it is a philosophy that belongs to an individual.  As professional philosophers, we often find that when were out in public and tell people what we do, they will often ask: “what’s your philosophy?. So, this week, we’re asking each other that same question.

What does it mean to have a philosophy of one’s own? Do each of the hosts have “a philosophy”? 

In this episode, we discuss the following ideas/thinkers/texts/etc.:

• Forgotify
• Samara Joy
• Cornel West’s editorial in the Wall Street Journal defending Ron Desantis’ defense of the classics (this is behind a paywall)
• Alexandre Matheron, Politics, Ontology, and Knowledge
• Aporia
• Rationalism
• Our episode on relativism
• Our episode on gossip
• Jacques Derrida, Aporias
• Deconstruction
• Antonio Gramsci on the idea that everyone is a philosopher
• Michael Hardt, Giles Deleuze: A Philosophical Apprenticeship
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
• Our episode on the history of philosophy
• The origins of May Day

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