Field Notes: Featuring Simon Ruchti and Catherine Clune-Taylor

Join us as we kick off our field notes series--It’s a podcast-road-trip/conference episode that introduces a series on trans philosophy, while also reflecting on what we might want philosophy to do in the world
Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier head to the Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking conference for conversations with philosophers Simon Ruchti and Catherine Clune-Taylor.
We talk trans philosophy, philosophy conferences, academic culture, bodies, food, accessibility, posturing, hospitality, and what makes a philosophical community feel like a community.
Plus: what would we teach high school students if we could teach them anything?
The Golden Girls make an appearance, as do Michel Foucault, Aristotle, Sarah Ahmed, moral luck, happiness, and the question of how philosophy might help us become better humans.
We ask asks what conferences are for, how bodies and social conditions affect philosophical work, and what kinds of academic communities we want to build.
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Keywords: trans philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy conference; Foucault; trans studies; philosophy and gender; academic culture; philosophy pedagogy; moral luck; Sarah Ahmed; happiness; accessibility;
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