Invasive Thoughts
by Nicholas Bellinson and Khafiz Kerimov
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About this podcast
Let our thoughts invade yours.
Khafiz and Nicholas teach at St. John's College, Annapolis.
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Episodes
- Tim Harrison (GUEST): Impossible Experience and the Invention of Consciousness · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 18What would it mean to remember the beginning of consciousness? Tim Harrison (English and Social Thought, UChicago) takes us through moments when literary and philosophical…
- Rosanna Warren (GUEST): Sacred Cannibalism · 1 h 14 min · Season 1 Episode 17Join us as we ask distinguished poet, critic, and translator Rosanna Warren about her literary autobiography, the state of literary criticism, and the role of the poet-critic…
- Miguel de Beistegui (GUEST): The Crisis of Crises · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 16In this episode of Invasive Thoughts, we speak with Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) about crisis as one of the basic conditions of…
- Emily Riehl (GUEST): Metamathematics and Infinity Category Theory · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 15Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins, Mathematics) joins us to discuss the power of abstraction in mathematics. Is category theory the mathematics of mathematics? What is infinity category…
- Peter Fenves (GUEST): Kant's Rational Delusions · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 14Peter Fenves (Northwestern) poses some unexpected questions relating to Immanuel Kant’s thought. How does politics emerge from a shortage of space? Should we understand humans as…
- Sean Kirkland (GUEST): Nietzsche and Heidegger at the End of Metaphysics · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 13Is Nietzsche a philosopher or an anti-philosopher? Is Western philosophical thought one monolithic tradition? Sean Kirkland (DePaul Philosophy) joins us to discuss the position…
- Jon Cogburn (GUEST): Bridging the Continental-Analytic Divide; Paradoxico-Metaphysics; and, Panpsychism, or, are all things Mind? · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 12In this episode of Invasive Thoughts, we’re joined by Jon Cogburn, Chair of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. Jon sketches a history of the Continental–Analytic divide in…
- David Wellbery (GUEST): Goethe, the Age of Goethe, and World Literature · 1 h 25 min · Season 1 Episode 11David Wellbery (UChicago German, Social Thought) joins us to discuss Goethe's work, life, and milieu. He describes Goethe's position at the center of an intellectual and artistic…
- Richard Strier (GUEST): Shakespeare, Herbert, Jarrell, Dylan · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 10Richard Strier (UChicago English, emeritus) recites the poem that changed his career, explains why formalism and historicism should be friends, offers us a way of reading George…
- Terry Pinkard (GUEST): Hegel's America and America's Hegel · 1 h 21 minTerry Pinkard, renowned Hegel scholar and translator of the Phenomenology of Spirit (2018) sits down with us to discuss his own intellectual career; the challenges of reading…
- Peirce Again: Chance, Necessity, Love · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 8We return to Peirce for an exploration of his more speculative, systematic essays ("A Guess at the Riddle", "Evolutionary Love”, and others). What should all systems of thought…
- Metzinger's Ego Machines · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 7How do advances in neuroscience disrupt our intuitive notions of the self? Thomas Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel brings together philosophy and the science of the brain to offers a…
- Jane Addams and Hull House · 59 minFor our sixth episode, we talk about the writings and social work of Jane Addams, American pragmatist philosopher, founder of Hull House in Chicago, and co-founder of the ACLU…
- Agamben's Bored Animals · 1 h 22 min · Season 1 Episode 5What distinguishes human beings from animals? The question has been a mainstay of philosophy for over two thousand years. Is it our bipedalism? Our rationality? Or could it be…
- Northrop Frye's Literary Universe · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 4What is literary criticism? What concept of literature underlies it? Northrop Frye's 1957 Anatomy of Criticism sketches a vast and comprehensive map of the literary universe and…
- Meillassoux's Failed Coup · 58 minQuentin Meillassoux's 2006 After Finitude seemed like it was going to revolutionize philosophy. It didn't. We talk about its radical implications and why it may still have…
- Hegel, Goethe's Gardener · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 2Around the time he was finishing the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel almost became director of Goethe's botanical gardens in Jena. We play around with affinities between Goethe's…
- Peirce, the "Greatest American Thinker"? · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 1"Certainly the greatest American thinker ever." - Bertrand Russell. A foray into the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, father of pragmatism, largely through six classic essays.
