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Hegel’s America and America’s Hegel

DEC 27, 2025

Guest: Terry Pinkard
Hosts: Nicholas Bellinson & Khafiz Kerimov

Terry Pinkard, renowned Hegel scholar and translator of the Phenomenology of Spirit (2018) sits down with us to discuss his own intellectual career; the challenges of reading, translating, and understanding Hegel; when and how Hegel found a home in America and his relation to American democracy; and American pragmatism.

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Peirce Again: Chance, Necessity, Love

NOV 5, 2025

Hosts: Nicholas Bellinson & Khafiz Kerimov

We return to Peirce for an exploration of his more speculative, systematic essays (“A Guess at the Riddle”, “Evolutionary Love”, and others). What should all systems of thought have in common? What would it mean to privilege spontaneity, chance, and even love in a philosophical worldview? What is “agapasm”? What happens to philosophy after Darwin? And what mystical meaning do the numbers 1, 2, and 3 have for an antimetaphysical thinker like Peirce?

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Metzinger’s Ego Machines

SEPT 5, 2025

Hosts: Nicholas Bellinson & Khafiz Kerimov

How do advances in neuroscience disrupt our intuitive notions of the self? Thomas Metzinger’s The Ego Tunnel brings together philosophy and the science of the brain to offers a novel redefinition of what it means to be an individual in the world. Direct brain manipulation, psychopharmacology, induced out-of-body experiences—all of these pose new political and philosophical challenges for humanity.

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Jane Addams and Hull House

JULY 10, 2025

Hosts: Nicholas Bellinson & Khafiz Kerimov

For our sixth episode, we talk about the writings and social work of Jane Addams, American pragmatist philosopher, founder of Hull House in Chicago, and co-founder of the ACLU. For her peace advocacy, Addams (1860-1935) was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize. She bantered with Tolstoy and became Chicago’s first female garbage inspector. Tune in to hear more about her ideas and activities.

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FEB 2, 2026

Roman Holiday
Sympathy and Reform
in Middlemarch

the reformation either meant something, or it did not…