Episode 14
Rough
January 21st, 2026
54 mins 8 secs
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About this Episode
Paul Schofield is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bates College. His areas of speciality are ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of film. He teaches a range of courses, including Capitalism and Its Critics; Wellbeing and the Good Life; and Human Natura, Morality & Politics. Much of his recent public-facing writing has focused on the problem of homelessness.
OTHER LINKS
--YouTube video of Rally for Housing and Services to End Homelessness
--Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women, by Elliot Liebow (1995)
--"The necessity of guaranteed housing," by Paul Schofield (2022), Blog of the American Philosophical Association
--Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, by Paul Bloom (2018)
--Quixote Village website
--"Trump says 'Housing First' failed the homeless. Here's what the evidence says," by Jason DeParle (2025), New York Times
--Law professor Danieli Evans's website
--"The homelessness crisis is a crisis of democracy," by Paul Schofield (2025), Jacobin
--King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
--"An inconvenient truth," by Paul Schofield (2023), Slate
MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo
--"Pleasure," by Haunted Me
--"Caress me to sleep," by rui