Digital Dialogue – Christopher P. Long

Digital Dialogue 72: Reading Plato

June 10, 2015

It is probably fair to say that Will Altman and I met one another in my book Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy. Perhaps it is strange to think of a book as a place in which two people can meet one another, but it was…

Digital Dialogue 71: Plato’s Rhetoric

November 9, 2014

In episode 71 we are joined by John Jasso, Assistant Professor of English at Penn State. Our conversation focuses on what Jasso calls Plato’s Psychagogic Rhetoric, a phrase that suggests the manner in which Plato deployed (or had Socrates deploy) rhetorical strategies designed to move…

Digital Dialogue 70: Thinking the Plural

October 6, 2014

Richard Lee, Jr., Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, joins Chris Long for episode 70 of the Digital Dialogue to talk about the teaching and philosophy of Richard Bernstein. Rick and I were students of Bernstein in the early 1990's, and although we learned a…

Digital Dialogue 69: Philosophical Imagination

January 10, 2014

Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, joins me for episode 69 in which we discuss Plato and the philosophical imagination. Marina is a long time guest of the Digital Dialogue, appearing previously on episode 6: Attentive Listening (when the Digital Dialogue was…

Digital Dialogue 68: Building the PPJ

November 20, 2013

During our first planning trip to Matrix at Michigan State to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher and I sat down to talk with Ethan Watrall and Bill Hart-Davidson about creating the journal as an ecosystem of scholarly communication. Ethan Watrall (aka: @Captain_Primate) is…

Digital Dialogue 67: Queering Hip Hop

November 16, 2013

Moya Bailey is a post-doctoral fellow at the Africana Research Center here at Penn State. She received her doctorate from Emory University in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Training to Treat: A Study of Representation of Black Women Patients at Emory School of Medicine.” She…

Digital Dialogue 66: Sustainable Scholarship

November 1, 2013

Almost immediately upon being awarded a $236K Mellon Grant to develop the Public Philosophy Journal, Mark Fisher, Dean Rehberger and I found ourselves in New York at the 2013 Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship conference to learn more about how to identify a path by which scholarly…

Digital Dialogue 65: Acoustic Animals

October 15, 2013

In 1914 Harlan Smith published an article about how best to incorporate sound into museum exhibitions to supplement the visual experiences of museum goers. According to Craig Eley, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at Penn State, it took two decades for…

Digital Dialogue 64: Writing Philosophy

September 28, 2013

John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, joins me to discuss his current book project on philosophical writing. In it, John investigates various forms of philosophical writing, developing what he calls a "descriptive phenomenology of writing." The episode was recorded in the restaurant at…

Digital Dialogue 63: Aristotle on Touch

August 2, 2013

Rebecca Goldner, recent PhD from Villanova University, joined the Digital Dialogue for episode 63 on Touch in Aristotle. This was our first recorded Digital Dialogue using Google+ On Air, and we were able to stream it live during the discussion. In the spring of 2013,…

Digital Dialogue 62: Practicing Openness at #DH2013

July 22, 2013

Lee Skallerup Bessette and Jarah Moesch join the Digital Dialogue for episode 62 at the 2013 Digital Humanities Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lee, who tweets as @readywriting and writes the College Ready Writing blog for Inside Higher Education, and Jarah, @jarahmoesch, talked about the paper…

Digital Dialogue 61: The Public Philosophy Journal

April 9, 2013

Mark Fisher, Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning with Technologies in the Philosophy Department and Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, joins me to talk about the vision and development of the Public Philosophy Journal.

Digital Dialogue 60: Socratic Narrative

April 7, 2013

Anne-Marie Schultz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core at Baylor University, joins me at the 13th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society She is author of many articles in Ancient Greek Philosophy and on Plato specifically, including most recently: "The Narrative…

Digital Dialogue 59: Anarchy and Animal Humor

December 7, 2012

For episode 59 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined at the 51st annual meeting of SPEP in Rochester, NY by Cynthia Willett and Shannon Winnubst to talk about the paper Cindy delivered entitled "Anarchy and Animal Humor." Cynthia Willet is Professor of Philosophy at…

Digital Dialogue 58: Love of the World

November 8, 2012

For episode 58 of the Digital Dialogue I am joined at the 51st annual meeting of SPEP in Rochester, NY by Silvia Benso. She is Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she teaches courses in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Contemporary European Philosophy, the…

Digital Dialogue 57: The Politics of Reading

October 28, 2012

A collaborative lecture given by Professor Christopher Long at the University of San Francisco, Thursday, October 25, 2012. Here are the curated tweets and other artifacts related to the lecture and courses I taught designed to perform the sort of collaborative reading for which I…

Digital Dialogue 56: God and the Organism

October 4, 2012

John Protevi, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University, joins me for episode 56 of the Digital Dialogue, God and the Organism. John's work focuses on Continental phenomenology and, more specifically, on contemporary French philosophy. In addition…

Digital Dialogue 55: Aristotle and the Tragedy of Life

August 8, 2012

Larry Hatab joins Emanuela Bianchi, Erick Jimenez and me in beautiful Umbria, Italy in Citta di Castello, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, for episode 55 of the Digital Dialogue. Larry Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University. He…

Digital Dialogue 54: Plato’s Philosophers

March 3, 2012

For episode 54 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined via Skype by Catherine Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Zuckert is the author of many on the history of political philosophy and the relationship between…

Digital Dialogue 53: Pindar and the Phaedrus

January 7, 2012

Christopher Moore joins me for Digital Dialogue, episode 53. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and is currently Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics at Penn State. His areas of specialization include: Ancient Philosophy, Socrates, Aesthetics and Democratic Theory. He has…

Christopher Long and Sarah Brill for Digital Dialogue

Digital Dialogue 52: Politics and the Phaedo

November 7, 2011

Episode 52 of the Digital Dialogue was recorded at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. I was joined by Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate from the Philosophy Department here at Penn State in…

Digital Dialogue 51: Digital Public

October 9, 2011

Episode 51 of the Digital Dialogue was recorded in Washington, D.C. at the Advancing Public Philosophy conference. Joining me are: Mark Fisher, Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State, Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco, Cori Wong, PhD Candidate,…

Digital Dialogue 50: Efficient Cause

August 12, 2011

Tom Tuozzo, Professor of Philosophy at Kansas University, joins me for episode 50 of the Digital Dialogue. Professor Tuozzo is author of the forthcoming book with Cambridge University press entitled "Plato's Charmides. Positive Elenchus in a 'Socratic' Dialogue." He has written extensively on Ancient Greek Philosophy,…

Digital Dialogue 49: Poetic Pessimism

June 24, 2011

This episode of the Digital Dialogue was recorded at the 11th annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society in Sundance, UT. On it, I am joined by Karen Gover and Kalliopi Nikolopoulou. Karen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bennington College. She specializes in…

Digital Dialogue 48: Truth as Justice

May 24, 2011

John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, turns the tables on me for this episode of the Digital Dialogue. As promised in episode 16 in which John and I discussed his book, Emerson and Self-Culture, John took the lead to interview me after the…

Digital Dialogue 47: Narrative

April 26, 2011

Claire Colebrook, Edwin Earl Sparks Professor of English here at Penn State joins me for episode 47 of the Digital Dialogue. Claire received her doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and was a Professor of Modern Literary Theory at the University of Edinburgh before joining…

Digital Dialogue 46: Public Philosophy

April 8, 2011

Cori Wong who is a graduate student in the department of Philosophy here at Penn State working on affective embodiment and oppression. I invited her to the Digital Dialogue because she and I have been been involved with a very interesting initiative designed to cultivate…

Digital Dialogue 45: Soul and Substance

March 18, 2011

For episode 45 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Josh Hayes who is currently a Lecturer at Santa Clara University. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University and he graduated…

Digital Dialogue 44: The Apology

March 1, 2011

For Digital Dialogue episode 44, I have joined Nicolas Parra, Norman Mora and Sergio Ariza in their home city of Bogotá, Colombia to discuss the seminar we held today on Plato's Apology and a paper I wrote entitled Socratic Disturbances and Platonic Politics. Sergio is…

Digital Dialogue 43: Death of Painting

February 1, 2011

In episode 43 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Ryan Drake, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate of the Pennsylvania State University's Department of Philosophy. This is Ryan's second time on the Digital Dialogue, the first time, in episode 31,…

Digital Dialogue 42: Remembering

December 20, 2010

Walter Brogan, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, editor of Epoché: Journal for the History of Philosophy and a founding member of the Ancient Philosophy Society joins me for episode 42 of the Digital Dialogue. Walter is the author of numerous publications on ancient philosophy,…

Digital Dialogue 41: Time and Motion

November 9, 2010

Francisco Gonzalez, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Frank's work centers on ancient philosophy, contemporary heremeutics and the relation between metaphysics and ethics/politics. His first book, Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato's Practice of Philosophical Inquiry, Northwestern University Press, 1998, offers insight into dialogue as…

Digital Dialogue 40: Engaged Pluralism

September 12, 2010

Vincent Colapietro, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy here at Penn State, joins me for episode 40 of the Digital Dialogue. The depth and breadth of his scholarship can hardly be touched upon in any substantive way in such a brief introduction, although I will…

Digital Dialogue 39: World in Conversation

August 10, 2010

On Digital Dialogue episode 39, I am joined by the co-directors of the World in Conversation Project, Sam Richards and Laurie Mulvey. Their work explores the multifaceted relationship between people from different cultural and ancestral groups. More specifically, they use a Socratic method of dialogue…

Digital Dialogue 38: Cooperative Education

July 27, 2010

Cole Camplese is the Director of Education Technology Services, Allan Gyorke, Assistant Director of Education Technology Services, and Sam Richards, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice and co-director of World in Conversation join me for episode 38 of the Digital Dialogue. These…

Digital Dialogue 37: Le Jazz and Social Media

July 13, 2010

In episode 37 of the Digital Dialogue, I am joined by Matt Jordan, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the College of Communications here at Penn State. His work focuses on jazz, pop culture, and French culture. His book entitled, Le Jazz: Jazz…

Digital Dialogue 36: Plutarch and Socrates

June 29, 2010

Mark Shifmann joins me to discuss Plutarch's understanding of the practice of Socratic philosophy as animated by erotic wisdom. Plutarch himself focused more on Socratic practice than on attempting to articulate a systematic account of Platonic philosophy. His focus on the action of the dialogues…

Digital Dialogue 35: Socratic Strangeness

June 15, 2010

Sean Kirkland joins me for Digital Dialogue episode 35 to joins me today to talk about a book project he is completing entitled Ontology and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues. Our discussion focuses on the extent to which the activity of Socratic philosophy must be…

Digital Dialogue 34: Heidegger on Aristotle

June 1, 2010

Rob Metcalf, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Denver and graduate of the Pennsylvania State University's Department of Philosophy, joins me for episode 34 of the Digital Dialogue. Rob's work focuses on ancient philosophy, phenomenology, ethics, philosophy of religion and the…

Digital Dialogue 33: APS 2010

May 18, 2010

Jill Gordon, Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, and Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, join me for episode 33 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss Catherine Zuckert's keynote address at the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society held at Michigan State. The…

Digital Dialogue 32: Crisis of Community

May 3, 2010

Episode 32 of the Digital Dialogue is a recording of my paper on Plato's Protagoras entitled, "Crisis of Community: The Topology of Socratic Politics," delivered at the 10th Annual Independent meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. The paper is part of a larger project that…

Digital Dialogue 31: Shame and Justice

April 20, 2010

Ryan Drake, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University and graduate of Penn State's Philosophy Department, joins me for Digital Dialogue 31 which focused on the paper I will deliver at the 2010 Ancient Philosophy Society conference at Michigan State entitled: Crisis of Community: The…

Chris Long on the left in a white shirt and tie and Rick Lee on the right with an orange sweater. Both smiling.

Digital Dialogue 30: The Logic of Force

April 6, 2010

My good friend and fellow New School graduate, Rick Lee, joins me for episode 30 of the Digital Dialogue. We discuss his work on Hobbes and the dangers of a politics that acts on behalf of future generations. We also discuss some points of common…

Digital Dialogue 29: The Unruly

March 16, 2010

Falguni Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire College joins me for episode 29 of the Digital Dialogue to talk about her book Toward a Political Philosophy of Race. We discuss the central argument of her book which is that race is…

Digital Dialogue 28: Friends of Passage

March 2, 2010

Leonard Lawlor, Edwin Earl Sparks Professor of Philosophy and Co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy, joins me for episode 28 of the Digital Dialogue in which we discuss his recent work on the philosophy of immanence and the questions of human and…

Digital Dialogue 27: Philosophical Exchanges

February 16, 2010

Kathryn Gines, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and founding co-Director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP) joins me for episode 27 of the Digital Dialogue. In this episode we discuss the CBWP, the initiatives the Philosophy department at Penn State has undertaken to support…

Digital Dialogue 26: Blogging Philosophy

February 2, 2010

Episode 26 of the Digital Dialogue is a special edition in which Jaimie Oberdick, Associate Editor for Publications at Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) at Penn State, turns the tables on me and interviews me about the way I have used blogs in my…

Digital Dialogue 25: Uncivil Speech

January 19, 2010

Jeremy Engels, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences here at Penn State University, joins me for Digital Dialogue, episode 25. Jeremy's work focuses on the rhetorical foundations of democratic practices. His first book, Enemyship, the difficult question of how talk of "the enemy" functions…

Digital Dialogue 24: Feminine Symptom

January 5, 2010

Emanuela Bianchi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte joins me for episode 24 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss her book manuscript with the working title The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos.

Digital Dialogue 23: Bernasconi on Race

December 22, 2009

Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, joins me for episode 23 of the Digital Dialogue to discuss his inaugural lecture at Penn State entitled "Nature, Culture, Race: A Phenomenological Perspective on Critical Philosophy of Race. In the episode we touch on issues related…

Digital Dialogue 22: Transformative Dialogue

December 15, 2009

A group of students from my Philosophy 200, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course join me for episode 22 of the Digital Dialogue. Drew Bullard, Jordan Sanford, Cody Yashinsky, Anthony Zirpoli, Tony Arnold, Pam Doran and Joni Noggle discuss some of the themes that have emerged over…

Digital Dialogue 21: Rhetoric and Philosophy

December 8, 2009

Axelle Karera, graduate student in Philosophy at Penn State, and Nicolas Parra, who is a visiting student at Penn State as he completes his M.A. degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogata, Columbia, join me for episode 21 of the Digital Dialogue. The impetus…

Digital Dialogue 20: Sophocles in Utah

December 1, 2009

Michael Shaw, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Utah Valley University, and Marina McCoy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College join me for episode 20 of the Digital Dialogue. This podcast was recorded at Sundance, UT, where we gathered…

Digital Dialogue 19: Politics After Rights

November 24, 2009

Adriel Trott, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Pan American joins me for episode 19 of the Digital Dialogue. Adriel received her PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University in 2008 with a dissertation entitled "The Challenge of Physis: Reconciling Nature and Reason…

Digital Dialogue 18: Political Unconscious

November 17, 2009

Noëlle McAfee, Research Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, joins me for episode 18 of the Digital Dialogue which is another special SPEP edition. Noëlle has numerous publications in the area of democratic political theory, social/political philosophy, feminist…

Digital Dialogue 17: Parmenides

November 10, 2009

Rose Cherubin, Associate Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, joins me and a special panel of colleagues from the Ancient Philosophy Society for a special SPEP edition of the Digital Dialogue. We gathered together in Arlington, VA to discuss the paper Rose Cherubin gave…

Digital Dialogue 16: Emerson and Self-Culture

November 3, 2009

John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, joins me for the first of three special SPEP 2009 editions of the Digital Dialogue recorded in Arlington, VA at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy. John's research focuses on philosophical…

Digital Dialogue 15: Plato’s Analogical Thinking

October 26, 2009

Holly Moore, who defended her dissertation, entitled "Plato's Analogical Thought" at DePaul University on October 12th, 2009, joins me for episode 15 of the Digital Dialogue. Dr. Moore is a graduate of Penn State's Undergraduate Program in Philosophy. She did her honors thesis with Professor…

Digital Dialogue 14: Politics of Persons

October 13, 2009

John Christman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Political Science and Women's Studies at Penn State, joins me for episode 14 of the Digital Dialogue. In this episode, we discuss the social-historical conception of the self, John's view of autonomy as it relates to deliberative democracy and…

Digital Dialogue 13: Psychology and Politics

September 29, 2009

Sara Brill, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, joins me for episode 13 of the Digital Dialogue. Sara graduated from the Philosophy Department here at Penn State in 2004, where she wrote her dissertation with John Sallis entitled, Hygieia: Health and Medicine in Plato's…

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