Our guest today is Abeba Birhane. Abeba is an Ethiopian Cognitive science PhD student presently living in Dublin. She blogs regularly at https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com on topics including philosophy, psychology, feminism, anthropology. She recently drew quite a bit of attention on the internet in an article for Aeon entitled “Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ and this will be the topic of our discussion today.