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Interdisciplinary Philosophy

Mario Veen

A podcast about interdisciplinary philosophy. Produced by Mario Veen.

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54- More Moments of Meaning-Making with Mieke Bal

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2025/09/16

This is the second part of our conversation about Mieke Bal's Moments of Meaning-Making: On Anachonism, Becoming, and Conceptualizing, published by Valiz. Mieke Bal (1946) is a Dutch theorist, video artist, and a well-known writer and feminist. She has been a Professor in Literary Theory (University of Amsterdam). In 1994 she was a co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Bal has been teaching at many institutes and universities in Europe, US, and beyond. She is known for her

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53- Moments of Meaning-Making with Mieke Bal

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2025/07/16

We discuss Mieke Bal's Moments of Meaning-Making: On Anachonism, Becoming, and Conceptualizing, published by Valiz. Mieke Bal (1946) is a Dutch theorist, video artist, and a well-known writer and feminist. She has been a Professor in Literary Theory (University of Amsterdam). In 1994 she was a co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Bal has been teaching at many institutes and universities in Europe, US, and beyond. She is known for her specific ways of ‘deep-reading’

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52- After the Age of the World-View with Gert Biesta

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2025/07/08

We discuss Turning the arrow: education after the age of the world-view by Gert Biesta: https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/507626803/BiestaAPJE2025TurningTheArrow.pdf Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland, and Visiting Professor of Education at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). Until July 2025 he was Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of

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Episode 51 - Bergson's Restless World with Emily Herring

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/10/22

We discuss Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson brought philosophy to the people - The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. Emily Herring is a writer based in Paris. She received her PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Leeds, and her writing has appeared in Aeon and the Times Literary Supplement. You can read the latest installment of my new

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Episode 50 - Teaching Climate with Ginie Servant-Miklos

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/09/21

We discuss Ginie Servant-Miklos' new book Pedagogies of Collapse. This urgent, and radically honest, open access book looks collapse in the face, acknowledges the temptation for denial and despair, but chooses hope. Pedagogies of Collapse makes a dire, fact-packed case for the urgency of action, but resists the urge to fall into the usual categories of environmental discourses. The ebook version will be available as open access. Ginie Servant-Miklos

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Episode 49 - Everyday Activism with Chris Julien

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/08/26

We discuss Chris Julien's new book Everyday Activism (Alledaags Activisme). Chris is an activist and researcher, he is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, where he works on ecological governance with an emphasis on new materialisms and decolonial ecology. He has an independent practice at the intersection of ecology and culture and is a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion in The Netherlands. You can order Alledaags Activisme here:

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Episode 48 - Geocentric Worldview with Marcia Bjornerud

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/08/15

We discuss Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud. Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of Environmental Studies and Geosciences at Lawrence University. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times and the author of Reading the Rocks, Timefulness, and Geopedia. Turning to Stone is available from Macmillan Publishers: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250875891/turningtostone My book about Plato's

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Episode 47 - Sad Planets with Dominic Pettman

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/07/25

Dominic Pettman is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at the New School, and the author of numerous books on technology, humans, and other animals. We discussed his books Infinite Distraction and Peak Libido in episode 10. His book Telling the Bees comes out later this year. In this episode, we discuss Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker, which is available for order here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sad+Planets-p-9781509562374 My book about Plato's allegory of the

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Episode 46 - Finding your Climate Path with Petra...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/07/08

dr.Petra Verdonk is an occupational and health psychologist and works as an associate professor at the department of Ethics, Justice and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her research and teaching she focuses on gender and diversity in health and care. She has long-term experience with research and projects in the field of gender (especially but not only women), labor and health (occupational health) of (health care) professionals. Petra has been active for Extinction Rebellion

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Episode 45 - Value in the Metacrisis with Zak Stein

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/04/30

Dr. Zachary Stein is a founding team member at the Civilizational Research Institute. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought after and award winning speaker, and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development. Zak is the author of several books, such as Education in a Time Between Worlds. In this conversation we

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Hoe Plato je uit je grot sleurt boektrailer (Dutch)

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/04/19

Bestel hier: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/ (Song ceated using Udio)

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Episode 44 - World-Changing Organisms with Stephen...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/04/10

Stephen Porder is the Associate Provost for Sustainability and Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology and Environment and Society at Brown University in the United States. His research publications explore tropical rainforest ecology, the impacts of intensive agriculture on people and the environment, and the potential for large-scale tropical forest restoration. He also steers Brown University's Sustainability efforts, first and foremost the elimination of fossil fuel use

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Episode 43 - Intergenerational Trauma with Inez...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/03/23

My book about Plato's allegory of the cave is now available for pre-order: https://noordboek.nl/boek/hoe-plato-je-uit-je-grot-sleurt/ Inez Schelfhout is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who specializes in the impact of war on next generations. So intergenerational effects and intergenerational trauma. Inez works at the ARQ Center '45 and the ARQ Knowledge Center for War, Persecution and Violence. The countless conversations in the therapy room made Inez aware that these

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Episode 42 - The Soul's Task on Earth with Dorita Sleur

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/03/07

Dorita Sleur has been a spiritual teacher and guide for more than 20 years. She works with people tot become aware of the influence of Light in their lives. In her work, the Light creates balance in every area. If we learn to live from the light, the world will look different. We discuss Dorita's book The Soul's Task On Earth, which is available here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-souls-task-on-earth-dorita-sleur/1144279212 or here:

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Episode 41 - Climate Biology with Fabian Ercan

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2024/01/24

Dr Fabian E.Z. Ercan is a broadly interested (climate) biologist who does not shy away from broader discussions concerning natural sciences, philosophy, engineering and history. The dimension of time plays an important role in biology, ecology and climate and in the resulting science of paleoecology. Fabian combines these disciplines in his field of climate biology, but also to philosophise about a changing environment and societal issues. With a lot of fieldwork experience in the arctic, he is an

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Episode 40 - The Climate Health Crisis with Margarita...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2023/11/25

Margarita Vossen is a medical doctor who has worked in several areas in medicine, both in the Netherlands and abroad (Zambia, Lesvos and Moldova). Currently she is working as a general practitioner in the south of the Netherlands. She is an ambassador for the 'Dutch Green Healthcare Alliance' (Groene Zorg Alliantie) and member of 'The Green General Practitioner' (De Groene Huisarts). In this role she tries to build a more sustainable (primary) healthcare and to reduce its environmental impacts. She

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Episode 39 - On Disinformation with Lee McIntyre

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2023/11/09

I interview Lee McIntyre about On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy, available from MIT Press. Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has taught philosophy at Colgate University (where he won the Fraternity and Sorority Faculty Award for

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Episode 38B - Money Creation with Anne Kervers (Part 2)

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2023/10/29

Anne Kervers is a PhD candidate in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. She researches the political dimensions of money creation in relation to the climate finance gap. Previously she worked at Triodos Bank and completed studies in sustainability, economics, applied ethics and cultural analysis. Anne practices civil disobedience with Extinction Rebellion. https://twitter.com/unmutingmoney https://twitter.com/anne_kervers This is Part 2, but you can listen to it as a standalone

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Episode 38A - How to Block a Freeway with Anne...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2023/08/16

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Episode 37 - Technics and Time (Stiegler) with Daniel...

Interdisciplinary Philosophy ·

2023/07/24

Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download). He is also the co-director with David Barison of the feature documentary The Ister (rent or buy on Vimeo), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004, and which won awards in Montreal and Marseille. Through that film, he met

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