College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
New Books in Philosophy interviews
Professor Figdor has done over sixty interviews as co-host of the podcast channel New Books in Philosophy. The interview podcasts are below.
Eric Schwitzgebel
Perplexities of Consciousness
Robert Pasnau
Metaphysical Themes
Susan Schneider
The Language of Thought
Peter Ludlow
The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Savoring Disgust
The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics
Peter Ludlow
The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
Crawford Elder
Familiar Objects and their Shadows
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Moralizing Technology
Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
Charlotte Witt
The Metaphysics of Gender
Paul Thagard
The Cognitive Science of Science
Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
Helen Steward
A Metaphysics for Freedom
Lee Braver
Groundless Grounds
A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Kristin Andrews
Do Apes Read Minds?
Toward a New Folk Psychology
Jill Gordon
Plato's Erotic World
Robert Pasnau
Metaphysical Themes
Susan Schneider
The Language of Thought
Peter Ludlow
The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Savoring Disgust
The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics
Peter Ludlow
The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
Crawford Elder
Familiar Objects and their Shadows
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Moralizing Technology
Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
Karen Stohr
On Manners
From Cosmic Origins to Human Death
Miguel de Beistegui
Aesthetics after Metaphysics
From Mimesis to Metaphor
Herman Cappelen
Philosophy Without Intuitions
Beth Preston
A Philosophy of Material Culture
Action, Function, and Mind
Jesse J. Prinz
The Conscious Brain
How Attention Engenders Experience
Helen Longino
Studying Human Behavior
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
Julia Tanney
Rules, Reasons and Self-Knowledge
Berit Brogaard
Transient Truths
An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions
Carlos Montemayor
Minding Time
A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time
Michael Marder
Plant-Thinking
A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Tadeusz Zawidzki
Mindshaping
A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences
Jennifer A. McMahon
Art and Ethics in a Material World:
Kant’s Pragmatist Legacy
Michael Weisberg
Simulation and Similarity
Using Models to Understand the World
Sarah PessinIbn
Gabirol’s Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism
Josef Stern
The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide
Melinda B. Fagan
Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology
Knowledge in Flesh and Blood
Jakob Hohwy
The Predictive Mind
Marcin Milkowski
Explaining the Computational Mind
Anne Jaap Jacobson
Keeping the World in Mind
Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind
Richard Fumerton
Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism
Eric Steinhart
Your Digital Afterlives
Computational Theories of Life after Death
Joelle Proust
The Philosophy of Metacognition
Mental Agency and Self-Awareness
Erik C. Banks
The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell
Neutral Monism Reconceived
Evan Thompson
Waking, Dreaming, Being
Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
Marya Schechtman
Staying Alive
Personal Identity, Practical Concerns, and the Unity of a Life
M. Joshua Mozersky
Time, Language, and Ontology
The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective
Helen de Cruz and Johan de Smedt
A Natural History of Natural Theology
The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Margaret Morrison
Reconstructing Reality
Models, Mathematics, and Simulations
Chad Engelland
Ostension
Word Learning and the Embodied Mind
M. Chirimuuta
Outside Color
Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy
Miriam Solomon
Making Medical Knowledge
Nancy Bauer
How to Do Things With Pornography
Brian P. Copenhaver
Magic in Western Culture
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Colin Klein
What the Body Commands
The Imperative Theory of Pain
David J. Stump
Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science
Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori
Brian Epstein
The Ant Trap
Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences
Eric Dietrich
Excellent Beauty
The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World
Rachel McKinnon
The Norms of Assertion
Truth, Lies, and Warrant
Julian Reiss
Causation, Evidence and Inference
Silvia Jones
Ineffability and Its Metaphysics
The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy
J.D. Trout
Wondrous Truth
The improbable triumph of modern science
Ken Schaffner
Behaving
What's genetic, what's not, and why should we care?
Paul Taylor
Black is Beautiful
A philosophy of black aesthetics