Interviews

The Post-Truth Kerfuffle

Susan Haack, who is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law, at the University of Miami, talks with Angela Tan about how and when we know.
[Issue 169: August/September 2025]

Stephen Fry

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025]

Dr. Gindi

Dr. Gindi, sculptor, has a philosophical conversation with Richard Baron about sensation, life, infinity and, you guessed it, sculpture.
[Issue 166: February/March 2025]

Robert Stern

Robert Stern talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025]

Sarah Bakewell

Sarah Bakewell, popular author of engaging books about exciting ideas, chats with Tim Madigan about Iris Murdoch, Montaigne, the meaning of hope, humanism, fallibility, and her own life, among other topics.
[Issue 164: October/November 2024]

Brian Leiter

Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, and founder and Director of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. Angela Tan chatted with him about Nietzsche.
[Issue 163: August/September 2024]

Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.
[Issue 162: June/July 2024]

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024]

Terry Pinkard

Terry Pinkard, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC, talks to AmirAli Maleki about how Hegel can help us make sense of modern social, cultural and political hot topics.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

Jeffrey Raff

Jungian psychoanalyst and author, shares some insights and analysis with Arianna Marchetti.
[Issue 156: June/July 2023]