PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Let me begin by saying I’m an outsider to U.S. politics. I come from and still live in southern Ontario, on the border with New York State. Like many Canadians, I’ve always been […]
Author: Paul Fairfield
Paul Fairfield is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada), the author of nine sole-authored books, and editor or co-editor of five anthologies.
My writings fall generally within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work to date include Friedrich Nietzsche, John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Current projects include a book on the philosophy of history entitled Transitions: Philosophical Reflections on Historical Change and a book co-authored with Jeff Mitscherling entitled Artistic Creation.
Free Speech 101
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Political trends are like the wind—at your back one day, in your face the next, and utterly fickle. Regardless of your politics, those winds are going to be against you sooner or later, […]
Feed The Imagination
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Hans-Georg Gadamer once remarked that when in his student days he first met Martin Heidegger, he could tell from Heidegger’s eyes that he had a great imagination. Coming from Gadamer, this was high […]
Adversity IV: Flee The Cities, Work From Home
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: How will COVID-19 change our society, not only in the months ahead but over the longer term? Many are offering predictions about how our lifestyles might change as a result of the pandemic, […]
Adversity III: The COVID-19 University
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Rather than simply close their doors, universities around the world are attempting to cope with the pandemic largely by opting for what’s called “remote learning,” essentially putting all courses, both undergraduate and graduate, […]
Adversity II: Politics and COVID-19
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: I’m going to continue on the theme of adversity, this time focusing on what might be some of the political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic we’re all living through. Experiences of socially shared […]
Adversity – Dealing with COVID-19
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a hornet’s nest of issues, ranging from public health matters to politics to the question of what the longer-term societal consequences of this might be. Some of these […]
The Ethics of Emergencies
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: I write this in the midst of a global pandemic. As a life-threatening virus goes around the world, institutions and businesses have closed their doors, people including myself are working from home, “social […]
Post-Ethics
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: The prefix “post” remains in vogue, so here’s a new term for you. I’ve written about “post-truth,” “post-common sense,” and “post-news” already. Here’s something even hotter off the press: post-ethics. It seems wrong […]
Judging Philosophers You Haven’t Read
PODCAST: TRANSCRIPT: Surely no philosopher, or professor of philosophy, would ever do this, you would think. It’s common sense that you can’t judge a book or an author you haven’t read, and surely no intelligent […]
