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Thanks to an ingenious listener, I now have transcripts of all the interview episodes in a raw form; these were done by automatic voice recognition, so they have some errors (though astonishingly few) and some other drawbacks, for instance no indication of who is saying what. I thought I might appeal to the listeners out there for volunteers to prepare some of these transcripts for publishing on the website, since this would be a valuable resource.

Here is my guest appearance on the "Dogs With Torches" podcast! On authority and scholasticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSOGEHUWcu4

Here is my appearance on the Swiss TV show "Sternstunde" together with Anke Graness, talking about global philosophy! (In German.)

A new guest podcast appearance! In which Tom Kasulis and I are interviewed by Julian Baggini. We talk about the use of thought experiments in philosophy, focusing on Islamic and Japanese philosophy.

https://www.julianbaggini.com/how-to-think-like-a-philosopher-ep3/

The Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies invites applications for a Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track) of Philosophy, especially History of Philosophy of Modern Age to the Present, commencing as soon as possible.

I am pleased to say that the great Muslim philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is now covered on the Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy! I did the entry together with Fedor Benevich of Edinburgh University.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-din-al-razi/

He was covered here on the podcast too, in this episode:

A lot of these seem to be coming along at the moment: here's a second appearance for me on the series Blogging Theology devoted to the ancient and Islamic debate over the Eternity of the Universe. It's a one hour conversation on video with the host, Paul Williams.

Here's another video podcast appearance! I was interviewed for "Love and its Discontents" on the topic of love in Greek philosophy, and this has just appeared today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa93Bap0Hv4