Tent Talks

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my colleague Eno Agolli.  Eno is a first year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Connecticut, specializing in logic and the philosophy of language.  We discuss a view called ‘logical nihilism’, before talking about a paper of Eno’s on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, in which Eno develops a theory about the nature of linguistic nonsense.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with Kristin Culbertson, who is a fourth year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Connecticut.  Kristin works primarily on Buddhist philosophy, Feminist philosophy, Ethics, and the intersection between the three.  For her dissertation, she is approaching issues of oppression in feminist philosophy from a Buddhist perspective.  In this episode, we briefly discuss Kristin’s dissertation, before having a wide-ranging conversation about a paper of hers on different buddhist views of personal identity.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my friend Nate Johnson, who is a member of the United States Coast Guard.  Nate is currently getting his master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Connecticut in preparation for teaching ethics at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.  We discuss Nate’s life in the Coast Guard, the moral complexities of search and rescue missions, the very concept of morality in the context of war, and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with my friend and fellow grad student Rashed Ahmad.  Rashed is a third year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Connecticut specializing in logic.  We discuss Rashed’s views on the philosophy of humor, the nature of truth, logical paradoxes, and Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem.

This is a solo episode in which I discuss the philosophy of consciousness. In the episode, I define consciousness and then talk about the primacy of consciousness and what is known in philosophy as the hard problem of consciousness.

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with Tai Huynh. Tai has years of work experience as a chemical engineer, and is currently a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Tai and I discuss a variety of subjects that pertain to his interests, including but not limited to stem cell research, age reversal, the possibility of telepathy, artificial intelligence, designer babies, the singularity, the concept of Enlightenment, and Transhumanism.