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This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Charles Spence is the Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and the head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory. He is interested in how people perceive the world around them. In particular, how our brains manage to process the information from each of our different senses (such as smell, taste, sight, hearing, and touch) to form the extraordinarily rich multisensory experiences that fill our daily lives. His research focuses on how a better understanding of the human mind will lead to the better design of multisensory foods, products, interfaces, and environments in the future. Today's focus will be his book 'Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating'.

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Carolyn Korsmeyer is the Research Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and her areas in philosophy include aesthetics and emotion theory. She has a special interest in the senses that have been traditionally neglected by philosophy: taste and touch. In her books, Professor Korsmeyer addresses taste, food, disgust, and related subjects. Today's focus will be her book 'Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy' which explores the gustatory sense and its aesthetic features.

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Lisa Heldke is the Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated faculty in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and Director in Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is committed to exploring the philosophical significance of food, a topic about which philosophers historically have had very little to say. She has published numerous articles, as well as four (authored or co-edited) books, including 'Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer' and 'Philosophers at Table: On Food and Being Human'. She is on the editorial board for The Encyclopedia of Food and Agriculture Ethics, published by Springer Publishing.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Laura-Ann Petitto. Professor Laura Ann Petitto, a Cognitive Neuroscientist, is the Co-Principal Investigator, and Science Director, of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center, "Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2"at Gallaudet University. She is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Gallaudet, an affiliated Professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, and the Scientific Director of her ownBrain and Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Georges Rey. Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by two guests, Carol Rovane & Akeel Bilgrami, both Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Professor Rovane current research focuses on several interrelated topics: the first person, personal identity, relativism, the foundations of value, group vs. individual responsibility, and some new problems for liberal theory. She is the author of the books: 'The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics' and 'The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism'. Professor Bilgrami has two relatively independent sets of intellectual interests--in the Philosophy of Mind and Language, and in Political Philosophy and Moral Psychology especially as they surface in politics, political economy, history, and culture. He is the author of several books including: 'Belief and Meaning', 'Self Knowledge and Resentment', & 'Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment'.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Robert C. Berwick. Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Berwick has written 8 books and more than 200 articles on the nature of human language and its computational properties, how language is learned, how it develops and differs, and how it evolves and changes over time.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Jean Bricmont. Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His recent books include 'Quantum Sense and Nonsense', 'Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics', & he Co-Edited the book 'Chomsky Notebook'.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Peter Ludlow. Peter Ludlow is Associate Researcher at the Center for Logic and Epistemology at UNICAMP. He published in a number of areas, ranging from linguistics and the philosophy of language, to topics concerning group knowledge, blockchain technology, virtual worlds, and hacktivism. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the Philosophy of Generative Linguistics.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Anthony DiMaggio. Anthony DiMaggio is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. Professor DiMaggio's research is interdisciplinary, and is based in the fields of Political Science, Political Sociology, and Political Communication. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the book 'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.