Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) talks with Kevin (East Carolina University) about her book Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience. They talk about what epiphanies are, why they should count as a type of reason (often more persuasive than more formal conceptions of reason), and why philosophers should better appreciate their role in everyday moral life.

00: Intros, and Why Sophie Teaches at the Open University
5:37 - What Are Epiphanies and Why Are They Important to Philosophy?
16:06 - How Moral Experience and Thinking Work in the Real World
21:08 - Epiphanic Experience, Empathy, and the Debate Over Abortion Rights
29:03 - Epiphanies and Moral Monism, Relativism and (Sophie's Preference) Pluralism
47:18 - Why Are Most Philosophers Reluctant to Acknowledge "Noncognitive" Factors in Moral Life?

Moti Gorin (Colorado State) talks with Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne) about her new book, "Gender Critical Feminism" (Oxford University Press).

Sheena (SUNY Oneanta) and Kevin (East Carolina University) continue an ongoing conversation about the idea of race and Sheena's arguments about racelessnes. This episode gets more personal about Sheena's and Kevin's respective connections to "transracial" families. Sheena was adopted into a "transracial" family and Kevin is adopting a daughter who is differently raced than he. What does all of this mean for how we should think about race, racism, and the idea of racelessness?

:009 - Sheena's book on racelessness will be out soon
10:33 - Kevin and Sheena get personal about racialization and their connections to "transracial" adoption.
31:24 - Different ways that different people experience and talk about racialization. Kevin talks about 'the wrong kind of colorblindness."
41:13 - All the ways in which race is a clunky signifier 53:08 - The ways race unavoidably limits us. Can racelessness liberate us?
1:13:13 - Kevin talks to his son about race with the help of a t-shirt and a children's book.

Kevin's article ("Race Talk") that is referred to in the middle of the show: https://theelectricagora.com/2022/04/19/race-talk/