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Episode 162: Matter and Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (with Tuhin Bhattacharjee)

November 29, 2024 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Technology 0 Comments

What can the Indian dualist philosophy Sāṃkhya teach us about matter and consciousness?

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Episode 161: Ethics, Democracy, and Phronesis (with Dimitris Vardoulakis)

November 22, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

The HBS hosts discuss what is lost in the critique of instrumental thinking with Dimitris Vardoulakis.

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Episode 159: Nature

November 8, 2024 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Technology 0 Comments

What do we mean when we say “Nature”? And what, if anything, is “natural”?

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Episode 154: Aristotle and Feminist Materialism, Troubled (with Emanuela Bianchi)

October 4, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Philosophy has traditionally associated the feminine with matter, implying passivity. Why? And to what ends?

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