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091: Ep88 – School Was Our Life

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In this 88th episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread, “School Was Our Life,” Dr. Jane Roland Martin, author of School Was Our Life (2018), joins Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio to talk about progressive education.

Photo of the cover of Dr. Martin's book, School Was Our Life, next to a black and white artwork of her portrait.

Dr. Jane Roland Martin is professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published many books on philosophy, education, and gender and received a Guggenheim Award. Her most recent book is titled School Was Our Life, published in 2018 with Indiana University Press. Thank you for joining us today, Jane! Eric’s colleague, Dr. Beth Goldstein, in Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, called his attention to Martin’s 1991 essay titled “The Contradiction and the Challenge of the Educated Woman,” which inspired him and Anthony to reach out to Dr. Martin, who is an authority in the philosophy of education.

 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 16mins)

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Notes

  1. Jane Roland Martin, School Was Our Lives (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018).
  2. Israel Sheffler. 
  3. Summerhill School in England, and A. S. Neill.  
  4. The Dalton School in New York. 
  5. The Little Red Schoolhouse Wikipedia page.
  6.  Pamela Paul, “Let Children Get Bored Again,” The New York Times, February 2, 2019. 
  7. John Dewey on “Play and Work in the Curriculum,” Chapter 15 of Democracy and Education (New York: The Free Press, 1916/1997). 
  8. Elisabeth Irwin of the Little Red Schoolhouse on Wikipedia.com. 

 

You Tell Me!

Dr. Martin’s question for listeners is inspired by her work on a new, forthcoming book: 

“Do you think that to preserve the natural environment of the planet that has allowed our species to flourish human nature has to change? If so, can we change it?”

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

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What Is Public Philosophy?

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Thumbnail image of the One-Sheet, which links to a printable, Adobe PDF version of this one-sheet.There is a growing movement for public philosophy today. Leaders of the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter created a SOPHIA One-Sheet asking “What Is Public Philosophy?” given all the different outlooks on what the practice is that such a movement might entail. For a little more background on the call for more public philosophy, see the statement that the American Philosophical Association issued on valuing public philosophy here.

Photo of Dr. Gregory B. Sadler being interview on television news. Click this image to link to the printable, Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet.

This one-sheet was created by Gregory B. Sadler and Kreigh A. Knerr of the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter, with some questions added by Eric Thomas Weber.

SOPHIA is grateful to Greg, Knerr, and the Milwauke SOPHIA Chapter for sharing this one-sheet! 

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076: Ep72 – A Multicultural Manifesto

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The cover of Van Norden's book, 'Taking Back Philosophy,' featuring a warrior in colorful apparel.In this 71st episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Bryan Van Norden on “A Multicultural Manifesto,” the subtitle of his recent book Taking Back Philosophy and the theme underlying a very popular piece that he published in The Stone series in The New York Times, titled “If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is.”

Dr. Bryan Van Norden.

Photo courtesy of Karl Rabe / Vassar College

Bryan is currently Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College. A recipient of Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Mellon fellowships, he has been honored as one of The Best 300 Professors in the US by The Princeton Review. He is also Chair Professor in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University, China, and Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College (USA). He has authored, edited, or translated a number of books on Chinese and comparative philosophy, including Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (2011), Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy (2014, with Justin Tiwald), and Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2nd ed., 2005, with P.J. Ivanhoe).

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. Bryan’s 2016 piece in The New York Times, “If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is.”
  2. Fung Yu-lan (or Feng Youlan), entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  3. Lao Tzu (or Laozi) entry on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  4. Thich Nhat Hahn’s page of books about Buddhism on Amazon.com.
  5. Consequentialism, entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  6. The Hua Yan Buddhist mentioned in this episode was Fazang, whose Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry is here.
  7. Virtue ethics, entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  8. Mo-tzu, or Mozi, entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  9. Mencius (or Mengzi), entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. Zhang Xuecheng.
  11. Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi), entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  12. Joseph Chan at the University of Hong Kong.
  13. Martha Nussbaum at the University of Chicago, and a past guest on Philosophy Bakes Bread in Episode 19 of the show, on “Anger and Forgiveness.”
  14. Bryan’s 2018 op-ed in The New York Times, “The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to An Audience.”

 

 

You Tell Me!

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

“When you’re on your deathbed and you look back on your life, what kind of accomplishment do you think will make you proud of the life you’ve lived?”

Following up on that: “Are you going to be proud of how much money you earned, about the car you bought in 2019, or about the time you showed integrity in a time of crisis, or the time you stood up for somebody who could defend themselves, or the time you spent with your family?”

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067: Ep63 – Democracy and Public Exposure

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Dr. Mark Sanders.In this 63rd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Mark Sanders on “Democracy and Public Exposure.” We ask Mark about democracy and public philosophical engagement, including some of the special projects that he runs in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Photo of a streaker at a soccer game, playing on the sillier sense of 'public exposure,' when we really mean public engagement, of course.

Mark specializes in American Pragmatism and social and political philosophy. He is very involved on campus; he is a Faculty Associate with the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics and the Faculty Co-Advisor of the Philosophy Club. Mark has recently written and published articles in Human Affairs and the Review Journal for Political Philosophy. The focus of his recent work has been on the intersection of deliberative democracy, pragmatic pluralism, and citizenship. Mark also has interests in phenomenology especially the views of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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 1 mins)

 

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Notes

  1. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sysiphus (New York: Vintage Press, 1991).
  2. The story of Sysiphus.
  3. The New College of Florida.
  4. The Web site for Campus Compact, and the Charlotte, North Carolina Chapter.
  5. Jana Mohr Lone and Michael Burroughs, Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialogue in Schools (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
  6. Lynx Light Rail of Charlotte, NC.
  7. James Fishkin on deliberative polling and the Center for Deliberative Democracy.

 

 

You Tell Me!

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

“Not to promote excessive drinking, but: Do you think that there ought to be a drinking game to go along with the Philosophy Bakes Bread podcast?”

Proposed examples: When you hear “I like that,” “Right on,” “Indeed,” Eric’s out-of-date pop-culture references, or “This is correct!”

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

 

 

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059: Ep55 – Evaluating Public Philosophy

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Dr. Eric Thomas Weber.Photo of Dr. Anthony Cashio.In this fifty-fifth episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Anthony and Eric talk about “Evaluating Public Philosophy,” in an episode based upon their recently co-authored paper, titled “Lessons Learned Baking Bread.” In this episode and in our paper, Anthony and Eric propose four criteria by which public philosophy can be evaluated: substance, accessibility, invitingness, and community building.

Judges scoring with numbers raised high.

Anthony and Eric presented this paper in the summer of 2017 at the Future of Philosophical Practice conference at UNC Asheville, in the beautiful hills of Asheville, North Carolina. We are grateful to Brian Butler for hosting a great event there, as well as for all the great feedback that we received at the event. In fact, that is where we met and interviewed Cole Nasrallah, our guest from episode 36, “Quality Philosophy for Everyone.” While we were there, we also interviewed John Shook and Randy Auxier for episode 34, on “Saving American Culture in a Yurt.”

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. UPDATE: As of this podcast release, our updated numbers are: 27,500 downloads from 99 countries!
  2. Freeman Dyson, “What Can You Really Know,” The New York Review of Books, November 8, 2012. In that review essay, Dyson asks, “When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories?”
  3. Our episode with Nancy McHugh, on “Philosophy and Social Change,” episode 47.
  4. Our episode with Amy Leask, on “Philosophy at Home,” episode 46.

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Anthony and Eric posed the following questions in this episode:

“Whom should we have on the show? It doesn’t have to be a philosopher, just someone thoughtful and fun to talk to, from any walk of life.”

“What rewards would be attractive for people who might want to support the show?”

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