web02.fireside.fm Thu, 21 May 2026 23:04:02 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Circumscription - Episodes Tagged with “#Philosophy” https://circumscription.fireside.fm/tags/%23philosophy Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0500 Much of what gives life meaning, continuity, and order is the act of setting boundaries. Much of what gives you a clear sense of who and what you are is a clear sense of who and what you're not. This is a podcast about drawing such lines. It's about the processes involved in setting and maintaining boundaries, but also stretching and crossing them. We explore questions about boundaries and identity in three areas: religion, foreign policy, and constitutional law. en-us episodic Where We Set The Limits Michael Sargent Much of what gives life meaning, continuity, and order is the act of setting boundaries. Much of what gives you a clear sense of who and what you are is a clear sense of who and what you're not. This is a podcast about drawing such lines. It's about the processes involved in setting and maintaining boundaries, but also stretching and crossing them. We explore questions about boundaries and identity in three areas: religion, foreign policy, and constitutional law. no self, identity, religion, faith, constitutions, constitutional law, foreign policy Michael Sargent profsargent@gmail.com Episode 14: Rough https://circumscription.fireside.fm/14 898a870c-c6d8-42d2-acd3-cd7a6f22f284 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0500 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent A discussion of homelessness, with philosopher Paul Schofield. 54:08 no <p><a href="https://www.paulschofieldphilosophy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Paul Schofield</a> 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 &amp; Politics. Much of his recent public-facing writing has focused on the problem of homelessness.</p> <p><strong>OTHER LINKS</strong><br> <a href="https://youtu.be/sV0SCOvEbdY?si=O5TpEZYnQalRxbXI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--YouTube video of Rally for Housing and Services to End Homelessness</a><br> <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/324265/tell-them-who-i-am-by-elliot-liebow/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--<em>Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women</em>, by Elliot Liebow (1995)</a><br> <a href="https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/04/18/the-necessity-of-guaranteed-housing/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"The necessity of guaranteed housing," by Paul Schofield (2022), <em>Blog of the American Philosophical Association</em></a><br> <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/against-empathy-paul-bloom?variant=32122194853922" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--<em>Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion</em>, by Paul Bloom (2018)</a><br> <a href="https://hatc.org/collaborative-housing/quixote-village/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Quixote Village website</a><br> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/trump-housing-first.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A1A.SBDQ.F739ttC3wXJM&amp;smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Trump says 'Housing First' failed the homeless. Here's what the evidence says," by Jason DeParle (2025), <em>New York Times</em></a><br> <a href="https://www.law.uw.edu/directory/faculty/evans-danieli" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Law professor Danieli Evans's website</a><br> <a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/07/homelessness-crisis-democracy-olympia-dehumanization" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"The homelessness crisis is a crisis of democracy," by Paul Schofield (2025), <em>Jacobin</em></a><br> <a href="https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"</a><br> <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/homelessness-homeless-shelter-sex.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"An inconvenient truth," by Paul Schofield (2023), <em>Slate</em></a></p> <p><strong>MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)</strong><br> --"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts<br> --"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo<br> --"Pleasure," by Haunted Me<br> --"Caress me to sleep," by rui Special Guest: Paul Schofield.</p> homelessness, philosophy, democracy, community 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

Special Guest: Paul Schofield.

]]> 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

Special Guest: Paul Schofield.

]]> Episode 11: Tatter Archives: "Slurred Speech" https://circumscription.fireside.fm/11 878b87fd-96a8-468d-9880-c9727095a108 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0500 Michael Sargent full Michael Sargent I'm pulling an episode from the archives of my previous podcast, Tatter. This is a discussion of slurs--especially gendered slurs, as well as racial and ethnic slurs--with philosopher Lauren Ashwell. 1:27:15 yes <p><strong>ABOUT THIS EPISODE</strong><br> The utterance and writing of gendered and racial or ethnic slurs has often evoked controversy. My philosopher colleague Lauren Ashwell has taken up slurs as a subject of scholarly inquiry. In this episode, we sit for a 90-minute conversation about such issues as what makes a slur a slur, whether slurs can be reclaimed by members of the target group, and why the study of slurs matters. </p> <p><strong>LINKS</strong><br> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lashwell/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Lauren Ashwell's personal website</a><br> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24871341.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Gendered Slurs," by Lauren Ashwell (requies JSTOR access)</a><br> <a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/11/22/cnn-brooke-baldwin-guest-n-word/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"CNN's Brooke Baldwin Chastises Trump Critic For Using N-Word On The Air," by Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly </a><br> <a href="http://www.unmutepodcast.co/season-2/4252016/episode-014-luvell-anderson-on-slurs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Myisha Cherry's interview with Luvell Anderson, about slurs, on The Unmute Podcast</a><br> <a href="http://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/pages/phi/anderson-luvell.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--Luvell Anderson's Syracuse profile</a><br> <a href="https://www.spin.com/2011/08/kreayshawns-white-girl-mob-n-word/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob &amp; The N-Word," by Brandon Soderberg, Spin</a><br> <a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/03-03-2018/a-history-of-outrage-over-the-word-pakeha/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"A History of Outrage Over the Word 'Pākehā'," by Branko Macetic, The Spinoff</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nigger-Strange-Career-Troublesome-Word/dp/0375713719" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--<em>nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word</em>, by Randall Kennedy</a><br> <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/slutwalk-united-states-city_n_851725.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"SlutWalks Sweep The Nation," by Laura Stampler, HuffPost</a><br> <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-brison/slutwalk-black-women_b_980215.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"An Open Letter from Black Women to SlutWalk Organizers," contributed by Susan Brison, HuffPost</a><br> <a href="https://www.bustle.com/articles/139727-is-the-word-queer-offensive-heres-a-look-at-its-history-in-the-lgbtqa-community" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--"Is The Word 'Queer' Offensive? Here's A Look At Its History In The LGBTQA+ Community," by Marissa Higgins, Bustle</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Down-Girl-Misogyny-Kate-Manne/dp/0190604980" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">--<em>Down Girl</em>: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne</a> Special Guest: Lauren Ashwell.</p> slurs, racist slurs, gendered slurs, philosophy ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The utterance and writing of gendered and racial or ethnic slurs has often evoked controversy. My philosopher colleague Lauren Ashwell has taken up slurs as a subject of scholarly inquiry. In this episode, we sit for a 90-minute conversation about such issues as what makes a slur a slur, whether slurs can be reclaimed by members of the target group, and why the study of slurs matters.

LINKS
--Lauren Ashwell's personal website
--"Gendered Slurs," by Lauren Ashwell (requies JSTOR access)
--"CNN's Brooke Baldwin Chastises Trump Critic For Using N-Word On The Air," by Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly
--Myisha Cherry's interview with Luvell Anderson, about slurs, on The Unmute Podcast
--Luvell Anderson's Syracuse profile
--"Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob & The N-Word," by Brandon Soderberg, Spin
--"A History of Outrage Over the Word 'Pākehā'," by Branko Macetic, The Spinoff
--nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Randall Kennedy
--"SlutWalks Sweep The Nation," by Laura Stampler, HuffPost
--"An Open Letter from Black Women to SlutWalk Organizers," contributed by Susan Brison, HuffPost
--"Is The Word 'Queer' Offensive? Here's A Look At Its History In The LGBTQA+ Community," by Marissa Higgins, Bustle
--Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne

Special Guest: Lauren Ashwell.

]]> ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The utterance and writing of gendered and racial or ethnic slurs has often evoked controversy. My philosopher colleague Lauren Ashwell has taken up slurs as a subject of scholarly inquiry. In this episode, we sit for a 90-minute conversation about such issues as what makes a slur a slur, whether slurs can be reclaimed by members of the target group, and why the study of slurs matters.

LINKS
--Lauren Ashwell's personal website
--"Gendered Slurs," by Lauren Ashwell (requies JSTOR access)
--"CNN's Brooke Baldwin Chastises Trump Critic For Using N-Word On The Air," by Oliver Gettell, Entertainment Weekly
--Myisha Cherry's interview with Luvell Anderson, about slurs, on The Unmute Podcast
--Luvell Anderson's Syracuse profile
--"Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob & The N-Word," by Brandon Soderberg, Spin
--"A History of Outrage Over the Word 'Pākehā'," by Branko Macetic, The Spinoff
--nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Randall Kennedy
--"SlutWalks Sweep The Nation," by Laura Stampler, HuffPost
--"An Open Letter from Black Women to SlutWalk Organizers," contributed by Susan Brison, HuffPost
--"Is The Word 'Queer' Offensive? Here's A Look At Its History In The LGBTQA+ Community," by Marissa Higgins, Bustle
--Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne

Special Guest: Lauren Ashwell.

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