AMA Announcement: Monday 6/5 12PM EST - Barry Lam, host of philosophy
podcast Hi-Phi Nation
Abstract
The mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by
Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the
Executive Producer and Host of philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation. Barry
will be joining us on Monday June 5th at 12PM EST to discuss his
philosophy, podcasts and everything in between with a live AMA. Hear it
from him: Barry Lam I am Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Vassar College and the Executive Producer and Host of the Hi-Phi Nation
podcast, the first story-driven documentary-style show about philosophy.
I just completed production and release of the first season of Hi-Phi
Nation as Humanities Writ-Large fellow at Duke University, where the
first season covered stories and philosophy ranging from the
possibilities of posthumous harm, the morality of war, the referent of
religious terms in Christianity and Islam, the philosophy of music, the
replication crisis in the statistical sciences, philosophy of gender,
Kuhn and scientific realism, and the philosophy of love. I would be
happy to talk about any of the substantive issues that arose from these
episodes, as well as discuss any issues concerning doing philosophy in a
story-driven way. Here are a few select episodes on Soundcloud: Episode
1: The Wishes of the Dead Episode 3: The Morality of War Episode 4: The
Name of God Episode 7: Hackademics II (Epistemology of Replication
Crisis) Some interviews and discussions about Hi-Phi Nation: My posts
about the show at Leiter Reports The American Philosophical Association
Blog interview Vassar’s Interview Elucidations Podcast, extended
discussion of the wishes of the dead My own philosophical work has been
in epistemology and the philosophy of language, particularly on the
nature of epistemic rationality, and in experimental semantics and
pragmatics. I would be happy to have a discussion about those topics. In
the past two years I’ve set technical research aside to produce what I
hope will be an ongoing series of narrative story-driven philosophy akin
to the best productions we have for economics and the social sciences,
such as Freakonomics Radio and Invisibilia. It is my hope that having a
high-production story-driven show about philosophy will open up the
field to lots of new people, as well as let existing fans of philosophy
appreciate the way it connects with journalism, history, law, and
nonfiction writing. Links: Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast Go to
the website and subscribe to the blog for announcements Follow on
Twitter Follow on Facebook Paypal donation page Patreon Page AMA Please
feel free to post questions for Barry here. He will look at this thread
before he starts and begin with some questions from here while the
initial questions in the new thread come in. Please join me in welcoming
Professor Barry Lam to our community!