Thinking in the Midst

Annie Schultz and LeAnn Holland join us to discuss education in its ecological valence, which includes conversations about anthropocentrism and animality, aesthetics, the weather, and the crucial issue of whether Timothy Morton's work counts as "accessible" philosophy. For more of LeAnn's work, click here and here. For more of Annie's work, click here and here. Here is the form to recommend future guests and topics!

Jen Logue and Sarah Stitzlein join Cara and Derek to talk about the theme of the 2024 PES conference, to be held in Salt Lake City, March 7th-11th. See the conference website and submit a session or paper here. Submission deadline is November 1st, 2023. Meanwhile, for more of Sarah's work, see her website. And Jen's work is similarly findable on her website, as well. To recommend guests or topics for future episodes, please use this form!

Samantha Deane and Bryan Warnick sit down with Cara and Derek to discuss the manifold overlap between schools, violence, and guns, which opens up onto the manifold ways that education reflects, reinforces, and potentially alters the way that we live with objects and with one another. For more of Sam's work, click here and here. For more of Bryan's work, click here, here, and here. As always, please use this form to suggest future episodes and guests (including yourself!)

Thea Abu El-Haj and Carla Shalaby sit down with Cara and Derek to discuss, in broad terms, what models of community-building might look like that do not strive to identify and accommodate exceptions to some presumed norm, but are rather oriented toward the various needs of all; and what efforts to imagine and practice such community building might teach us about our concepts of freedom and belonging; and--most importantly, perhaps--what we might learn from children in these regards. For more of Thea's work, please click here, here, and here. For more of Carla's work, please click here, here, and here. As always, please use this form to suggest guests or topics for future shows! We are getting our transcription issues solved and will have this and back episodes up soon!

Sarah Campbell and Doris Santoro join us to talk about philosophy's place in the lives of working teachers, the kinds and origins of pressures that make thoughtful practice and reflection difficult, and the importance of creating and maintaining the space necessary to stop and think. For more of Sarah's work, click here. For Doris's book, click here.

Dave Waddington and Gideon Dishon speak with Cara about the educational uses and various misuses of games and gaming. What is the value, from a learning perspective, of structured play -- whether of sports, or cooperative tabletop games, or video games? For more of Dave's work, click here and here and here. For more of Gideon's work, click here and here and here. To suggest future topics or guests for the show, please use this form. We continue to face difficulties with our transcription tool; we will post transcripts as soon as it is resolved -- apologies for the delay!

Marek Tesar and Karin Murris join Cara and Derek to discuss the nature of childhood, the nature of philosophy, and what it might mean to allow children's views of the world to instruct us rather than the other way around. For more of Marek's recent work, please click here and here and here. For more of Karin's work, please click here and here and here. To recommend future topics and/or guests for us to cover, please use this form. We are having some temporary trouble with our transcription software, so we will append a full transcript for this episode as soon as that problem is resolved!

Sigal Ben-Porath and Mordechai Gordon join Cara and Derek to talk about the issue of "cancel culture" on campus. Both guests have recently published books on the topic, so the conversation is fascinating. Find Sigal's book here, and Mordechai's here. Please use this form to recommend future guests and topics. And you can download a transcript of this episode here, as well.

Liz Jackson and Lauren Bialystok sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about navigating academic institutions and organizations, as well the world in general, while gendered in particular ways. For Liz's paper we discuss, "The Smiling Professor," click here. For Lauren's latest book we discuss, Touchy Subject, click here. For a transcript of the episode, click here. And as always, to suggest a topic or a guest for the show, please use this form!

Cecilia Espinosa and Jonathan Rosa join Cara to talk about the way that languages show up in schools and how educational institutions and personnel encounter them and their speakers. For Jonathan's work on these issues, click here and here and here. For Cecilia's work, click here and here and here. For a transcript of this episode, click here. And to suggest topics and guests for future episodes, please use this form.