Doctoral students Phoebe Gilpin, Martha Perez-Mugg, and Arham Kazi sit down with Cara and Derek to talk about the writings that drew them to philosophy in the first place, the books they've encountered through their studies, and the works that they find themselves drawing upon in their own writing, as well.

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Works we talked about in this episode:

Plato's Euthyphro




David Labaree, "Public Goods, Private Goods"




bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress




Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish




Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life




Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life




Sara Ahmed, On Being Included




Natasha Myers, Rendering Life Molecular




José Medina Epistemology of Resistance




Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance




Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks




Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth




Tithi Bhattacharya, ed. Social Reproduction Theory




David Mitchell, Biopolitics of Ability




Jess Calarco, Holding It Together




Catherine Elgin, True Enough




Naomi Oreskes, Why Trust Science?




Savannah Shange, Progressive Dystopia