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Kneeling and Civil Protest

One-sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Thumbnail photo of the One-Sheet document on Kneeling and Civil Protest.Recent protests calling attention to police brutality have taken the form of kneeling during the playing of the national anthem at football games and other sporting events. Episode 53 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on “Kneeling and Civil Protest,” with Dr. Arnold Farr, focused on the criticisms and defenses of players for their protests, as well as the message that protesters have tried to convey. SOPHIA member and UKY graduate student James William Lincoln created a SOPHIA One-Sheet document about the episode for use in local or online discussions about the topic.

Football players kneeling in protest during the playing of the national anthem.

Dr. Arnold Farr.In July of 2018, Dr. Farr kindly joined leaders of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter to hold a meeting testing out the one-sheet document that Lincoln created, and the meeting was a great success. We encourage other chapters to try out a meeting on the basis of this document. Those who wish can also listen to the radio and podcast episode on which the sheet was based. The idea behind the one-sheet, however, is that people don’t have to have heard the episode in order to join in a rich discussion about current and important matters for people to consider today. You can download a printable Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet document here, or by clicking on the image of the one-sheet above.

Photo of the Lexington SOPHIA chapter meeting on Kneeling and Civil Protest from July 2018.

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070: Ep66 – Disability and Popular Culture

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In this 66th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio had the pleasure to talk with self-taught philosopher John Altmann (a.k.a. Adrian Alba), who has been engaging in independent philosophical scholarship since 2010. We talk with John about “Disability and Popular Culture.”

John Altmann delivering his paper at the 2018 Public Philosophy Network Conference in Boulder, CO. Photo by Eric Thomas Weber, 2018.

John is a regular contributor to the Popular Culture and Philosophy book series. He is a member of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. He is also a field editor for the Public Philosophy Journal. John is an active public thinker also in his writings on Facebook and Twitter, on the latter of which he is known as @Iron_Intellect. John published a powerful piece in The New York Times, called “I Don’t Want to Be Inspiring,” which was about disability and the ways in which people will often refer to persons with disabilities as being “so inspiring!”

Eric and Anthony both had the chance to meet John at the 2018 gathering of the Public Philosophy Network in Boulder, Colorado this past February, where John gave a powerful paper about the profession of philosophy, called “The Disabled Can Speak: Socratic Midwifery as a Means of Resisting Epistemic Violence.” In addition to that well received paper, John has also written for volumes such as Dracula and Philosophy, The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Deadpool and Philosophy, Hippo Reads, and the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, where he wrote about Charlottesville.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


(1 hr 8 mins)

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Notes

  1. The Public Philosophy Network.
  2. The Public Philosophy Journal.
  3. Joel Michael Reynolds.
  4. Shelley Lynn Tremain.
  5. Susan Wendell, “The Social Construction of Disability,” in The Rejected Body (New York: Routledge, 1996).
  6. Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra, “Capitalism and Disability,” Social Register 38 (2002): 211-228.
  7. Roddy Slorach.
  8. The Americans with Disabilities Act, information at ADA.gov.
  9. George Yancy.
  10. Carol Hay, “Girlfriend, Mother, Professor?” The New York Times, January 25, 2016.
  11. Nicolas Michaud and Janelle Pötzsch, eds. Dracula and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2015).
  12. Civil American, SOPHIA’s peer-reviewed online journal for general audiences.
  13. Colin McGinn, The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth Century Philosophy (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003).
  14. Anthony Cashio, “Liberating the Liberal Arts: Encouraging Philosophical Engagement Outside of the Classroom,” on our 2018 SOPHIA panel at the Public Philosophy Network conference in Boulder, CO.
  15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (New York: Dover Publications, 1998).
  16. Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May, eds., Deadpool and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2017).
  17. Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene, eds., Mr. Robot and Philosophy: Beyond Good and Evil Corp (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2017).
  18. CarlSagan.com.
  19. We referenced Episode 65 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on “Westworld and Philosophy.”
  20. Ariel Henley, “As A Woman With A Facial Disfigurement, This ‘Wonder Woman’ Villain Pisses Me Off,” Bustle.com, July 7, 2017. See also Henley’s “My face is disfigured. When I met the right guy, he didn’t even bring it up,” The Washington Post, September 28, 2016.
  21. Tommy Curry, mentioned in part in reference to the episodes he recorded on Philosophy Bakes Bread, including Episode 9 on “Studying Black Men,” and Episode 32 on “The Public Philosopher and the Gadfly.”
  22. Chris Lebron.
  23. Jamie Lombardi.
  24. Whitney Mutch.
  25. Gail Pohlhaus.
  26. Julie Piering, “Diogenes of Sinope,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, John posed the following question in this episode:

“What does it mean to get representation (of groups/persons) right in a film or television show?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

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062: Ep58 – Posthumanism and the Media

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Dr. J. J. Sylvia of Fitchburg State University.In this fifty-eighth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, we interview J. J. Sylvia of Fitchburg State University about “Post-Humanism and the Media.”

Neil Harbisson, who hears colors that he cannot see.

J.J. is an assistant professor in Communications Media at Fitchburg State University. Since 2014, he’s been a HASTAC Scholar and in 2015 he received North Carolina State University’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. J.J.’s research focuses on understanding the impact of big data, algorithms, and other new media on processes of subjectivation. Using the framework of posthumanism, he explores how the media we use contribute to our construction as subjects.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


(1 hr 6 mins)

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Notes

  1. Different findings about what percentage of a person is human cells: Michael Greshko, “How Many Cells Are in the Human Body—And How Many Microbes?” National Geographic, January 13, 2016 and Ron Sender, Shai Fuchs, and Ron Milo, “Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body,” PLOS Biology 14, Issue 8 (2016): 1-14.
  2. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
  3. Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy (London: Routledge, 2012).
  4. Neil Harbisson, “I Listen to Color,” TED Talks, July 2012.
  5. Video of Angel Giuffria, speaking with Grant Imahara on the White Rabbit Project, and demonstrating the shooting of an arrow with her prosthetic forearm.
  6. The Rob Dunn Lab, North Carolina State University.
  7. National Geographic, “Are Mites Having Sex on Your Face? [Video],” YouTube.com, September 23, 2014.
  8. According to their Web site, “HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an interdisciplinary community of humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists, and technologists that are changing the way we teach and learn.”

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, J. J. posed the following question in this episode:

“How do you think our current media environment is shaping the way that we understand and interact with the world? How might we experiment with those media?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

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035: Ep31 – Sports Fan I Am

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Cover photo for Dr. Erin Tarver's book, 'The I in Team.'In this thirty-first episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, co-hosts Dr. Eric Thomas Weber and Dr. Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Erin Tarver, author of The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity.

Dr. Tarver is assistant professor of philosophy at Emory University’s Oxford College in Georgia. She is the author of numerous essays and the co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of William James. She teaches courses in logic, ethics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of sport.

Dr. Erin Tarver.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

 

(1 hr 9 mins)

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Notes

  1.  The LeBron James grandmothers’  fan club.
  2. This is what a philosopher looks like t-shirt.

 

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Dr. Tarver proposed the following question in this episode, for which we invite your feedback: “Should colleges and universities even be in the business of organizing ‘minor league’ sports teams?”

What do you think?

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020: Ep16 – On Disability & American Philosophy

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This sixteenth episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread aired on WRFL Lexington, 88.1 FM, on Monday, April 17th of 2017, and was a special episode on the subject of disability and American philosophy. It was another special episode recorded on location at a conference, except for Eric Weber, who skyped in from a closet in Ohio. This episode features four guests who were all on a panel at the annual gathering of the 2017 Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in Birmingham, AL.

Person in a wheelchair beside an inaccessible curb, that drops off down to the road.

Our guests included:

Dr. Justin BellDr. Justin Bell, a.k.a. “Papa J.B.,” of the University of Houston Victoria;

 

Dr. Daniel Brunson.Friend of the show and returning guest, Dr. Daniel Brunson of Morgan State University, who was featured also in Episode 6, on philosophy for first-generation college students;

Dr. Nate JacksonDr. Nate Jackson. of Capital University;

 

Dr. Sarah WoolwineDr. Sarah Woolwine. of the University of Central Oklahoma;

 

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.

 

 

(56 mins)

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Notes

  1. Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York: Beacon Press, 2006).
  2. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (New York: Modern Library, 1999).
  3. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (New York: Penguin Classics, 1986).
  4. Soren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death (New York: Penguin Classics, 1989).

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, our guests proposed an excellent question for you, the listener. We’d love to know what you think about it! Here’s the question: “How are you disabled? What does that mean about your vision of the good life?”

What do you think?

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