Ann-Sophie Barwich is a cognitive scientist and empirical philosopher based at Indiana University Bloomington. She specialises in the philosophy of olfaction. In this episode we talk to Ann-Sophie about smell, Star Trek and the German punk band Die Toten Hosen…

Lucy Campbell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Warwick. She specialises in epistemology and philosophy of mind. In this episode, we talk to Lucy about self-knowledge, sheepdogs, and pinhole photography…

David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy of Science at King’s College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center. In this episode, David discusses causes and correlations, worrying about branching universes, and the problem with “brilliance”…

Philip Goff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. In this episode, Philip discusses everything from panpsychism and the problem of consciousness to Philip Pullman and talking philosophy on the high seas…

Mahon O’Brien is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. His research is concerned with issues in phenomenology, and he has a particular interest in the work of Martin Heidegger. In this episode we speak to Mahon about Heidegger, horse racing, and his obsessive adolescent listening habits…

Heather Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor Research at the University of Birmingham. Her research concerns the ethical issues surrounding beauty and she is the founder of the #everydaylookism campaign. In this episode we talk to Heather about beauty, choice, and re-reading Twilight…

Brian Glenney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Norwich University, Vermont. He specialises in the philosophy of perception, with a specific interest in Molyneux’s Question. He’s also interested in skateboarding and graffiti art. In this episode we talk to Brian about perception, illusion and (literally) seeing the world through the eyes of another being…

Katherine Furman is Philosopher of Public Policy. She currently teaches at University College Cork, where she directs the MA in Health and Society, and will begin a lectureship in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Liverpool in January 2020. In this episode Katherine talks about AIDS denialism, expertise and growing up in South Africa…

Richard Ashcroft is Professor of Bioethics and Deputy Head of the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London. In this episode, Richard discusses his recent work on utopias, his love of trains, and “the other Richard Ashcroft”…

Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. In this episode, Steven discusses his current interest in phenomenological approaches to quantum mechanics, and recounts his early forays into art-rock journalism…