Selling Plato
Welcome to Selling Plato, hosted by Dr. Jared Oliphint. I talk to all kinds of people who can make philosophy useful for your daily life. Go to www.sellingplato.com, subscribe on our YouTube channel to watch the conversations, and follow us on socials at @sellingplato to learn more. Philosophy has a marketing problem. Let’s solve it.
Episodes
Brandon Warmke will be Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida starting in Fall 2025. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and was, during the 2023–2024 academic year, a visiting fellow at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Warmke works on various ...
Few people know how colleges work. What does "R1" mean? How are professors incentivized? Why do graduate students teach college courses? What's a SLAC?
Dr. Jared Oliphint is the founder of Selling Plato (www.sellingplato.com), received his PhD in philosophy, and teaches philosophy at the college level. His published work has focused on metaphysics, philosophy of language, conceptual engineering, social ontology, and me...
Dr. Nathan Howard is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specialized in moral philosophy, particularly concerning questions at the intersection of ethical theory and practical reasoning about the nature of moral motivation and the role of virtue in ethical life.
Chapters
00:00 The Intersection of Ethics and Parenthood
02:43 Building Connections: The Role of Relationships in Academia
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Dr. Gillian Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, as well as a visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She works mostly in the philosophy of language and logic, and is the author of Barriers to Entailment: Hume’s Law and other Limits on Logical Consequence and Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction. She lives in the New South ...
Dr. Megan Fritts is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She specializes in the areas of ethics, action theory, philosophy of technology, and religious existentialism. Along with her husband, Frank, Megan also hosts and produces the podcast Philosophy on the Fringes.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Format
01:30 Balancing Family Life and Academia
04:17 Early Philosophical Influences
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Dr. Randal Baker (MD, FACS) is a bariatric surgeon, specializing in obesity and weight loss. Well lover a decade ago, Dr. Baker developed a potentially world-changing weight loss device called the Full Sense Device, which is now pending approval with the FDA. Read more about how revolutionary this device is at the links below.Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Dr. Randy Baker
01:27 Journey into Medicine: Education and Early Career
04:28 T...
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