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This conversation is part of the podcast series 'Corporate Sustainability: A Philosophical Perspective'. GUEST INFO: Christopher M. Bruner is the Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and serves as a faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. He holds a courtesy appointment at the UGA Terry College of Business. Bruner teaches a range of corporate and transactional subjects, and he has received the School of Law's C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching. BOOKS BY PROFESSOR BRUNER: The Corporation as Technology Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-corporation-as-technology-9780197635179?q=bruner&lang=en&cc=us The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-corporate-law-corporate-governance-and-sustainability/34E428DB18C05F02B9E8CB19E22437DA - Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power - https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/law/corporate-law/corporate-governance-common-law-world-political-foundations-shareholder-power?format=PB A Research Agenda for Corporate Law - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-corporate-law-9781800880436.html HOST INFO: https://www.rug.nl/staff/f.m.corver/?lang=en

This conversation is part of the series 'Philosophy and Climate Change' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Graham Parkes. Graham Parkes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i and Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been teaching environmental philosophy and Asian and comparative thought for forty-five years, beginning at UC Santa Cruz, and later at universities in China, Japan, and Europe. He edited books such Heidegger and Asian Thoughts (1987), Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), Composing the Soul (1994) and translated works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2005). Today we will focus on his most recent book How to Think About the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living (2020).

This conversation is part of the series 'Moral Matters Matter' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. He is Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2013, he is a Distinguished Professor (Universiteitshoogleraar) at Utrecht University. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982) compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians. Ever since, de Waal has drawn parallels between primate and human behavior, from peacemaking and morality to culture. His popular books — translated into twenty languages — have made him one of the world's most visible primatologists. His latest books are The Age of Empathy (2009), and The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013), Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), & Mama's Last Hug (2018), . Two recent edited volumes are The Primate Mind (2012) and Evolved Morality (2014).

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Nicola Perullo. Nicola Perullo is a philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. His research focuses on the philosophical and aesthetic bases of food and taste. He was a pioneer in Italy of the Aesthetics of food and of gustatory taste. In the last eight years, his research has focused on proposing a participatory and implicative model of knowledge. One case for it was wine, chosen as an example to practice an ecological paradigm of appreciation. His books in English include ‘Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food' (Columbia, 2016) and ‘Epistenology: Wine as Experience' (Columbia, 2020).

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Ian Werkheiser. Iam Werkheiser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the director of the Center for Collaboration and Ethics at UTRGV. His research is currently focused on how communities of resistance address environmental harms and hazards, particularly around food, while also dealing with social and political oppression or marginalization. He is particularly interested in the ways that UTRGV can become an anchor institution in the Valley and benefit those communities of resistance.

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Alexandra Plakias. Alexandra Plakias is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on metaethics and moral psychology: the role of disgust in moral judgment; moral disagreement and objectivity; the relevance of empirical psychology to metaethics. She also works on food and philosophy, which is the topic of today's discussion.

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Andrea Borghini. Andrea Borghini is the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Milan and Director of Culinary Mind, an International Research Center for the Philosophy of Food. In his work, he develops new theoretical tools to rethink how we speak, structure, sense, and feel about food, eating, and culinary culture. Professor Borghini's specific topics of research include hunger and appetite, recipes, food and space, and biodiversity. His research sits at the intersection of theory, value, and practice.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Norbert Corver. Norbert Corver is Professor of Dutch Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at Utrecht University, and a member of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. He is one of the editors of the book series Studies in Generative Grammar, published by Mouton de Gruyter. He is also the co-author of 4 volumes of the Syntax of Dutch series (Amsterdam University Press), which synthesizes the currently available knowledge of the syntactic structure of Dutch (http://norbert.abelcorver.com/books/). Specifically, he contributed to the 3 volumes on Verbs and Verb Phrases (Volumes I, II, III) and the volume on Coordination and Ellipsis. Lastly, he is the co-editor of various books on Generative Syntax. 

This conversation is part of the series 'The Philosophy, Science, & Aesthetics of Food' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Robert T. Valgenti was Professor of Philosophy and The Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College. His research and teaching covers contemporary Italian philosophy, hermeneutics, biopolitics, and the philosophy of food. He is also a member of the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative and a desk editor for the journal Gastronomica.

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.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Alix Cohen. Alix Cohen works at the University of Edinburgh where her current roles include Head of Philosophy. She is the author of Kant and the Human Sciences: Biology, Anthropology and History (2009), the editor of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide (2014), Kant on Emotion and Value (2014), and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's views on the human sciences, biology, anthropology, history, emotions & more.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Anil Gomes. Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford and Associate Professor in Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. Professor Gomes mainly works in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Today, we will talk in particular about his article in the book he co-edited titled ‘Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's views on the mind, his influence on 20th century analytic philosophy & more.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Paul Pietroski. Paul Pietroski is Professor of Philosophy & Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books including ‘Causing Actions’ & ‘Events and Semantic Architecture' & most recently ‘Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values’. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Semantics, Meaning, & Innate Ideas.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky has been called "the father of modern linguistics” and is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He has been a professor at MIT since 1955 (now Emeritus) and continues to teach at the University of Arizona at the age of 91. He has written over 100 books covering topics including linguistics, politics, and philosophy. Today, I discuss with him issues ranging from science, the history of science, philosophy of mind, to moral/political philosophy and law. This episode is part of a larger series called ‘Understanding Noam Chomsky’ on this channel. If you’re interested you can check out those episodes as well.

This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Brian Bix. Brian Bix is a Professor of Law & Philosophy at University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books including ‘Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy’, ‘Jurisprudence: Theory and Context’ & ‘Contract Law : Rules, Theory, and Context’. Today, we will discuss his articles ‘Natural law theory’ & ‘Natural law theory: The modern tradition’.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Norbert Hornstein. Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at University of Maryland. He is the author of several books including ‘Understanding Minimalism’ & ‘A Theory of Syntax’. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Hornstein’s articles ‘'Empiricism and Rationalism as Research Strategies’ & ‘The Rationalism of Generative Grammar’. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Rationalism vs. Empiricism on the Mind, Truth, & Knowledge.

This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Colleen Murphy. Colleen Murphy is a Professor in the College of Law with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters. Today, we will discuss the work of Lon Fuller and his book ‘The morality of Law’.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Robert Hanna. Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher, Co-Director of the online philosophy mega-project, Philosophy Without Borders, and Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project. He is the author of several books including 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy', and 'Kant, Science, and Human Nature'. This conversation is part of the 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant's First Critique and Kant's influence on the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy.

This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. He is the author of 16 books and the co-editor of four additional books. His work covers many areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. His most recently published book is H.L.A. Hart: The Nature of Law (Polity Press, 2018). Today, however, we will focus on his book ‘Objectivity and the Rule of Law’.

This conversation is part of the 'Philosophy of Law' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Andrei Marmor. Andrei Marmor is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy and Law. His research interests span philosophy of law, moral, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of language. His most recent books include Social Conventions: from language to law (Princeton, 2009), Philosophy of Law (Princeton, 2011) and The Language of Law (Oxford, 2014). Today, we will focus in particular on his book ‘Philosophy of Law’.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by James McGilvray. James McGilvray is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University, Montréal. He has written a general introduction to Chomsky’s work (Chomsky 1999; second edition, 2014) and edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (2005) and the second (2002) and third (2009) editions of Chomsky’s seminal Cartesian Linguistics (Cambridge University Press). Today, we focus in particular on his book ‘Chomsky: Language, Mind and Politics’.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Lawrence Pasternack. Lawrence Pasternack is Professor of Philosophy & Director of Religious Studies at Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on Immanuel Kant, Ethical Theory, & Philosophy of Religion. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Pasternack’s book ‘Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: An Interpretation and Defense’.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by David Poeppel. David Poeppel is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. Since 2014, he is also the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Poeppel’s article ‘The Influence of Chomsky on the Neuroscience of Language’ which can be found in the book ‘The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky’.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Norman Bowie. Norman Bowie is the former Elmer L Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the University of Minnesota. He has authored or edited 16 books and over 75 articles. Professor Bowie is the leading scholar in the application of Kant's moral philosophy to business. Today, we will talk in particular about his book ‘Business Ethics: A Kantian perspective.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by John Mikhail who is currently a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University. He is the author of 'Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls's Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment'. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Mikhail's article 'Chomsky and Moral Philosophy' in the book: 'The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky'.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Frances Egan who is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. She has authored a number of articles and book chapters on philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and perception. Today, we will talk in particular about Professor Egan's article in the book ‘Chomsky and his Critics’ called ‘Naturalistic Inquiry: Where does Mental Representation Fit in?’.

This conversation is part of the 'Understanding Noam Chomsky' Series ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by John Collins who is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His areas of specialization are the philosophy of language, generative linguistics, concept of truth, & philosophy of mind/cognitive science. Today, we will talk in particular about his book ‘Chomsky: A Guide for The Perplexed’.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Today we are joined by Onora O’Neill. Onora O’Neill is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, a crossbench member of the House of Lords and a former President of the British Academy (2005–2009). She has extensively published articles and books related to the work of Immanuel Kant. In this conversation, we talk in particular about her book ‘Constructing Authorities: Reason, Politics and Interpretation in Kant’s Philosophy’’.

This conversation is part of the Immanuel Kant Series | 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. Robert Louden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maine. Additionally, he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Hawaii. He has extensively published articles and books related to the work of Immanuel Kant. In this conversation, we talk in particular about his book ‘Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature’. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss Kant’s views on anthropology, human nature, evil, education & more. Enjoy watching!

Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher, Co-Director of the online philosophy mega-project, Philosophy Without Borders, and Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project. He is the author of several books including 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy', and 'Kant, Science, and Human Nature'. This conversation is part of the 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss the 'Sensibility First' approach, conceptualism versus non-conceptualism, & the Affect of Reason.

Robert Hanna is an independent philosopher, Co-Director of the online philosophy mega-project, Philosophy Without Borders, and Director of The Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project. He is the author of several books including 'Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy', and 'Kant, Science, and Human Nature'. This conversation is part of the 'Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast. In this episode of the Dare to know! Podcast we discuss how to interpret and approach the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the three faces of Immanuel Kant, & how to become the radical Kant.