The Women In Parenthesis Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
6.18 Closing (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.17 Stop O, Keble College (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.16 Stop N, 2 Bradmore Road (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.15 Stops M, Park Town (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.14 Stop L, St Hugh’s College (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.13 Stop K, St Anne’s College (then Society) (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.12 Stop J, Royal Oak (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.11 Stop I, Somerville College (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.10 Stop H, St Aloysius Church (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.9 Stop G, 27 St John Street (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.8 Stop F, Blackfriars (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.7 Stop E, Ashmolean Museum (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.6 Stop D, 17 Broad Street, Oxfam Shop and Collecting Centre (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.5 Stop C, 3 Cornmarket Street (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.4 Stop B, 13 King Edward Street (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.3 Stop A, Bodleian Library (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.2 Introduction (Series 6: Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
6.1 Mapping the Quartet: Oxford Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, and Philippa Foot are four of the twentieth century’s most important British philosophers. Oxford wa...
5.5 A School of Their Own - a conversation (Bonus Episodes: The Quartet, Intersections and Comparisons)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our four philosophers—Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, and Elizabeth Anscombe—can be considered as individuals or as a philosophical sch...
5.4 Thought Experiments (on Murdoch and Foot) - a conversation (Bonus Episodes: The Quartet, Intersections and Comparisons)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from two scholars—Jacquelyn Maxwell and Ana Barandalla—about thought experiments in the philosophies of Iris Murdoch and ...
5.3 Take a Look Outside (on Midgley and Murdoch) - a conversation (Bonus Episodes: The Quartet, Intersections and Comparisons)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amber Donovan joins me to discuss connections between Mary Midgley’s and Iris Murdoch’s ideas about how we ought to think of ourselves in the worl...
5.2 Female Philosophers—Feminists? a conversation (Bonus Episodes: The Quartet, Intersections and Comparisons)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Anne-Marie MacCallion about how our four women are connected to the philosophical projects of feminism. With Amy Ward
5.1 A Moral Quartet - a conversation (Bonus Episodes: The Quartet, Intersections and Comparisons)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rachael Wiseman and I have a conversation about how a concern for morality brought our four philosophers—Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Fo...
4.4 Anscombe and Double Effect - a conversation (Series 4: Protesting with Elizabeth Anscombe)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rachael Wiseman and I talk about why Elizabeth Anscombe does not agree with Philippa Foot’s arguments about the doctrine of double effect. For A...
4.3 Taking a Stand - a conversation (Series 4: Protesting with Elizabeth Anscombe)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Rachael Wiseman offers some context to Elizabeth Anscombe’s pamphlet ‘Truman’s Degree’. *content warning: discussion of m...
4.2 Opposing Pacifism (Series 4: Protesting with Elizabeth Anscombe)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores another moral trap that Elizabeth Anscombe points out in her pamphlet on Truman’s degree. The particular brand of pacifism tha...
4.1 Opposing Calculative Ethics (Series 4: Protesting with Elizabeth Anscombe)
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our last Quartet member, we turn to Elizabeth Anscombe and the pamphlet she wrote to protest US President Harry Truman’s honorary degree at Oxfo...
3.6 Morality Among Us -a conversation (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode about Natural Goodness, I ask Ana Barandalla what she thinks is important to learn from Philippa Foot’s concept of morality. Wi...
3.5: Defective - a conversation (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing in conversation with Ana Barandalla on Natural Goodness, this episode addresses some problems in Philippa Foot’s ethical picture. In part...
3.4 The Form of a Good Person - a conversation (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Barandalla is back to discuss Philippa Foot’s book Natural Goodness, and in particular, the idea of having a standard form of life for humans wh...
3.3 Moral Objectivity - a conversation (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Barandalla joins us to talk about Philippa Foot’s book Natural Goodness. In this episode, we discuss Foot’s project in moral philosophy, and w...
3.2 Looking for Moral Principles (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on the Foot train, this episode delves more deeply into Philippa Foot’s response to arguments for how the doctrine of double effect shoul...
3.1 Tracking the Runaway Train (Series 3: Philippa Foot and Trolley Problems)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although the trolley problem is a well-known meme, not many people know of its origins in philosophy. In this episode, I introduce the doctrine of dou...
2.6 Everyday Morality - a conversation (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a conversation with Lesley Jamieson about Iris Murdoch’s moral vision within the context of her contemporaries and how she is set ap...
2.5 Love and Sight - a conversation (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Cathy Mason for a conversation about Iris Murdoch’s idea of love. In Murdoch’s philosophy, love is not just a...
2.4 Unselfing - a conversation (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Lawson-Frost shares her thoughts and experiences of unselfing to continue our exploration of Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy. Unselfing is a w...
2.3 The Art of Attention (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are many ways of practicing Iris Murdoch’s moral vision, and the examples she gives involve turning our attention outward and yielding our vie...
2.2 What is the Good Person Like? (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Iris Murdoch fashion, we look at the images involved in the idea of the Good Person in Murdoch’s own work, and specifically, Murdoch’s classic ...
2.1 The Iris Murdoch Complaint (Series 2: Iris Murdoch on Morality)
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Iris Murdoch time! I introduce Murdoch’s moral philosophy by looking at ethical theories that she disagrees with—in particular, she thinks ...
1.6 Working in a Man’s World - a conversation (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a discussion with Rebekah Howlett, we chat about a concrete example of why isolated thinking can be harmful towards other groups of people. In part...
1.5 How Do We See Ourselves?: Philosopher Edition - a conversation (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I talk with Amber Donovan about the picture we often have for the philosopher—as a thinker, alone—and other ways of doing philosophy that might be...
1.4 How Do We See Ourselves?: Midgley and Gaia -a conversation (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I’m back with Ellie Robson again, this time to talk about topics she thinks are missing from philosophical discourse. Following Mary Midgley, we tak...
1.3 What is Missing in Philosophy? a conversation (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chat with Ellie Robson about the role of philosophy in everyday life and the topics that are not getting enough attention in the di...
1.2 Open to Disruption (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing on the theme from the last episode, here I expand on how isolation and one-sided thinking shows up in philosophical thought. With Amy Ward
1.1 Aspects of Isolation (Series 1: Mary Midgley, ‘Rings and Books’)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To start off this series, I talk about the pros and cons of isolation with Mary Midgley’s essay ‘Rings and Books’ in mind. Although being alone ...