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The Vimcast The Vim Podcast
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The Vim Podcast is philosophers talking about politics. We step outside the news cycle and discuss the broader issues.
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The final episode of the Vim Podcast.
Ask the Vim Anything with Justin C., Dylan, Gabe, Zach, and Justin D.
Questions include:
- What political issue doesn't get enough attention?
- If you could meet with Trump for 15 minutes, would you? And if so, what would you tell him?
- Is democracy overrated or underrated?
- If you could snap your fingers and pass any constitutional amendment, what would it be?
- Who are your most hated public figures?
- Will Lebron win another title?
- Who will win in 2016?
Book recommendations:
- Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Peter Singer
- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
- Phenomenology of the Alien, Bernhard Waldenfels
- Constructing the World, David Chalmers
- Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
- Are Prisons Obsolete, Angela Davis
- Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
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(recorded August 7, 2020) -
Kwame Anthony Appiah on Cosmopolitanism
In the penultimate Vim Podcast episode, Justin and Zach do a book report. They read Kwame Anthony Appiah's 2006 book 'Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers'. Appiah is a British-Ghanaian political and moral philosopher at NYU and regularly writes for the NY Times.
Justin and Zach attempt to unpack the philosophical content of the book. They discuss different types of cosmopolitanism, Appiah's type, and his takedown of Peter Singer in the final chapter.
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(recorded sometime in Jan., 2020)
Customer Reviews
Not punditry
Well done podcast. Good production quality. Wide range of issues, discussed not in pundit speak but with a different, more careful style. Cool to see philosophers talking directly about political issues.
Serious yet fun philosophy
It's so great to hear motivated philosophers in grad school looking for more than their traditional programs attend to. There's a need for pushing the profession of philosophy towards greater public engagement and these thinkers are speaking up. Keep going and thanks for the great podcast!
~ Eric Thomas Weber
Excellent
A fresh look at political analysis. You have to focus but it's good.