Mar 30, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
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In the meantime, Ellie, somebody wants to know, what are some trends that we are seeing in philosophy right now?
So this is actually one of the questions I was like thinking about before the live.
So I'm glad you asked it first because I was already thinking about my answer.
And I was thinking about because I just came from a conference and have been to a couple of conferences in the past month, like about what I was seeing.
So I think the philosopher who was mentioned number one most at the North Texas Philosophical Association this past weekend was Mariano Ortega, including in my paper.
The multiplicitous theories of the self that come out of Latina feminist philosophy, especially Ortega's view based on her 2016 book In Between, is a really hot topic right now, especially within continental philosophy.
No, I will say my book that's coming out next year offers what I think is a superior account because I actually don't support a multiplicitous theory of the self as primary.
I think we should actually be talking about the ambiguity of the self, which allows us to understand both the multiplicity and oneness of the self.
But I was noticing a lot of people at the conference were were appealing to her multiplicitous theory of the self.
So epistemology, you know, theory of knowledge now in recent years has been brought into questions of ethics and like politics.
And so this started in part with the popularizing of the term epistemic injustice and, Partly through some works of my colleagues, like my colleague Rima Basu has done some great work in this area, which is an epistemic injustice basically refers to the idea that you can wrong through your beliefs or through like the knowledge that you have.
And I would say related to that also, in addition to epistemic injustice or in addition to epistemic everything, there's also injustice everything.
So there's like hermeneutic injustice now, like interpretation, you know, like injustice in the space of interpretation, et cetera.
And then, oh, and then the last thing I wanted to say, sorry, I had to, my notes were on my computer and my phone's in front of it, is AI, AI and consciousness, questions of AI.
Well, I was going to say the AI thing, because when I saw that question, I decided to look at the website where people post jobs in philosophy, field jobs, and AI is everywhere.
In the meantime, Ellie, somebody wants to know, what are some trends that we are seeing in philosophy right now?
So this is actually one of the questions I was like thinking about before the live.
So I'm glad you asked it first because I was already thinking about my answer.
And I was thinking about because I just came from a conference and have been to a couple of conferences in the past month, like about what I was seeing.
So I think the philosopher who was mentioned number one most at the North Texas Philosophical Association this past weekend was Mariano Ortega, including in my paper.
The multiplicitous theories of the self that come out of Latina feminist philosophy, especially Ortega's view based on her 2016 book In Between, is a really hot topic right now, especially within continental philosophy.
No, I will say my book that's coming out next year offers what I think is a superior account because I actually don't support a multiplicitous theory of the self as primary.
I think we should actually be talking about the ambiguity of the self, which allows us to understand both the multiplicity and oneness of the self.
But I was noticing a lot of people at the conference were were appealing to her multiplicitous theory of the self.
So epistemology, you know, theory of knowledge now in recent years has been brought into questions of ethics and like politics.
And so this started in part with the popularizing of the term epistemic injustice and, Partly through some works of my colleagues, like my colleague Rima Basu has done some great work in this area, which is an epistemic injustice basically refers to the idea that you can wrong through your beliefs or through like the knowledge that you have.
And I would say related to that also, in addition to epistemic injustice or in addition to epistemic everything, there's also injustice everything.
So there's like hermeneutic injustice now, like interpretation, you know, like injustice in the space of interpretation, et cetera.
And then, oh, and then the last thing I wanted to say, sorry, I had to, my notes were on my computer and my phone's in front of it, is AI, AI and consciousness, questions of AI.
Well, I was going to say the AI thing, because when I saw that question, I decided to look at the website where people post jobs in philosophy, field jobs, and AI is everywhere.
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