Life After Philosophy

Life After Philosophy

By Christopher AnadaleSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Life After Philosophy episodes

  • Episode 10: THE ENTREPRENEUR +11 Years Philosophy Major

    Gary Gasse is the cofounder of Coronation Media in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and a 2012 graduate of Mount St. Mary's University with a double major in philosophy and theology.

    Topics Discussed: Founding a company right out of college; choosing a philosophy major; benefits of liberal arts education for creative & business work; how businesses live or die by their culture; no regrets; thinking & communicating after the rise of generative AI.

    Coronation Media: https://www.coronationmedia.com/

    Aquinas 101 Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_kd4Kgq4tP8e1BBGrC-eFlp86fqyvGex

    25 min
  • Episode 09: BEST QUOTES from Episodes 1-8
    This is some of what you’ll hear on the Life After Philosophy podcast.
    Tom tells us about the philosophical roots of his public policy work
    Rebecca shares how studying philosophy prepared her for law school
    Brian says every part of his life was changed by philosophy
    Olivia mentions an important insight from the philosopher Martha Nussbaum that informs her high school teaching today
    And we might have to agree that in a sense, there is no life AFTER philosophy.
    For more, check out these and other episodes of Life After Philosophy.
    6 min
  • Episode 08: THE NEW PRIEST +4 Years Seminary Philosophy
    Fr. Chiedozie (Dozy) Ononuju is a newly ordained Catholic priest of the diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Born in Nigeria, he came to the United States in 2010 and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Bucknell University before enrolling in Mount St. Mary's Seminary in 2017. He was ordained in 2023 and is now associate pastor at St. Patrick Catholic Church and chaplain at Dickinson College, both in Carlyle, Pennsylvania.
    Topics Discussed: philosophy and preaching; ethos, pathos, logos; tension between practical ministry and classroom learning, lower and upper limits to the intellectual content of Christian faith; advice to new seminarians; electrical engineering education compared with study of philosophy and theology.
    26 min
  • Episode 07: THE MONTESSORI GUIDE +16 Years Seminary Philosophy

    Tom Crowe is a Montessori guide in Steubenville, Ohio, and cohost, with his wife Noelle, of the American Catholic History Podcast.

    He studied philosophy as a seminarian at Mount St. Mary's Seminary from 2005-2007.
    Topics Discussed: living life With (not After) philosophy; hands, intellect, love; Montessori teaching philosophy; synthesis as grasping reality as a whole; importance of good classmates and good professors; humility and honesty as requirements for philosophy study.


    28 min
  • Episode 06: THE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER +9 Years Philosophy Major
    Olivia Aungst teaches English at Catoctin High School in Thurmont, Maryland.
    She was a Philosophy and English double major at Mount St. Mary's University (Class of 2014), where she studied with the late Prof. Trudy Conway. Olivia wrote her honors project on on Thomas Aquinas' virtue of misericordia in light of Portia's speech on mercy in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
    Topics Discussed: value of philosophy for high school teachers & students; self-improvement; legacy of Trudy Conway; philosophy, faith & literature; integration; Olivia's advice for college students; memorable women philosophers.
    26 min
  • Episode 05: THE PASTOR +17 Years Seminary Philosophy
    Fr. Joshua Miller is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Joliet. He is the pastor of parishes in Coal City and Braidwood, Illinois.
    He studied philosophy in the seminary pretheology curriculum at Conception Seminary College from 2004-2006.
    Topics Discussed: his prior study for a Ph.D. in English Literature (Derrida!), reading philosophy to feed a hunger for truth, relevance of philosophy to theology, learning how to think, how philosophy improved his understanding of mathematics, the role of a pastor as teacher, people today tending to have more philosophical than theological problems, how human formation never ends, whether a common philosophical understanding leads to greater unity and fraternity among priests.
    27 min
  • Episode 04: THE LAWYER +6 Years Philosophy Major
    Rebecca Schisler-Adams is a real estate attorney in Annapolis, Maryland.
    She graduated from Mount St. Mary's University in 2017 with a double major in philosophy and sociology, and from law school at Catholic University of America in 2020. She practices civil litigation with the firm of Council Baradel, located in downtown Annapolis. She is married to another Mount grad and they have a 9 month old daughter.
    Topics Discussed: the importance of logic for law school; legislation, advocacy, and the common good; the transition from undergraduate study to law school; whether real estate law is boring; parenthood and integrating the whole person; Roger Scruton on wine-drinking; philosophy as the best way to learn about the human condition; importance of a liberal arts education.
    29 min
  • Episode 03: THE HOMESTEADER +13 Years MA in Philosophy
    Brian Fink is a homesteader, goat farmer, and middle school teacher in Michigan.
    He earned an M.A. in Philosophical Studies from Mount St. Mary's University (Class of 2010), and is a former seminarian.
    Topics Dicussed: living an integrated life, applied philosophy, freedom, benefits of still reading philosophy, advice for anxious zoomers, and philosophy as an antidote to modern malaise.
    The video series about Josef Pieper that I mention is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPCGA67J8M2I5S9ja7bi5P4sgLKga11QB
    Brian is online at https://twitter.com/b_fink and https://bfink.substack.com/.
    28 min
  • Episode 02: THE RECENT GRADUATE +1 Year Philosophy Minor
    Emma Weinheimer was a student worker in the Mount St. Mary's University Philosophy Department office for 4 years.
    She earned a B.A. from Mount St. Mary's University (Class of 2022) with a communications major and a philosophy minor.
    Topics Discussed: working in the department, "I think" vs "I feel," acting early if you choose a Philosophy major, the importance of relationships in education, reducing the role of emotions in conversations, talking about virtue with 5th graders, Augustine/Aquinas/Aristotle, and having confidence in your concept of a good person.
    23 min
  • Episode 01: THE ADVOCATE +7 Years MA in Philosophy
    Tom Venzor is Executive Director of the Nebraska Catholic Conference.
    He earned an M.A. in Philosophical Studies from Mount St. Mary's University (Class of 2016) and is a former seminarian.
    Topics Discussed: how public policy is philosophy in disguise, role of philosophy in seminary formation, relation of philosophy to politics, how philosophy makes us more human, importance of the affective/emotional life, marriage and gift of self in John Paul II's play "The Jeweler's Shop," reason in the public square, teaching philosophy in the world, and Tom's advice to students.
    29 min

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What does the future hold for philosophy majors? I ask former students from my 25-year philosophy teaching career. Hosted by Christopher Anadale.