Interviews

John Dupré

John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter and Director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. He was recently elected President of the Philosophy of Science Association. Edit Talpsepp-Randla talks to him about the philosophy of biology.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Joerg Tuske

Anja Steinbauer talks to a philosophy professor in the West who studies classical Indian philosophy.
[Issue 132: June/July 2019]

Kathryn Harkup

Tim Madigan meets the author of Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
[Issue 128: October/November 2018]

Aaron James

Skye Cleary interviews Aaron James about his new book, Surfing With Sartre.
[Issue 124: February/March 2018]

Slavoj Žižek

In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017]

Raymond Tallis

Our columnist has just released a major book on the philosophy of time. Grant Bartley interviews him about Of Time and Lamentation.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017]

Anthony Gottlieb

Grant Bartley interviews the historian of Western philosophy and former Economist editor.
[Issue 118: February/March 2017]

Tu Weiming

Tu Weiming is a philosophy professor at Harvard University and Chair of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University. He is an ethicist and is one of the leading lights of New Confucianism. David Volodzko asked him about the relevance of Confucius today.
[Issue 117: December 2016 / January 2017]

Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, and public intellectual. Scott Parker asks him about a particular kind of community.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016]

Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán

Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán has been called ‘the crime-fighting philosopher’ for using philosophy to make sense of organized crime. He has worked for a range of organisations including the Colombian government, Global Integrity, and Transparency International. Nick Chester asks him about using philosophy to combat corruption.
[Issue 114: June/July 2016]