Samantha Ong is a senior in philosophy at UCLA.
Kim Swaneveld, a senior theater-philosophy major, has worked summers as a magician's assistant.
David Avital, the acting senior editor of philosophy at Continuum Books, and previously at the academic publisher Routledge, has witnessed the growth of popular- philosophy publishing over the past decade.
More importantly, this would be all the more reason to endeavour to get more women into senior positions in philosophy, since there is no reason to suppose the traditional priorities are superior.
NIGEL WARBURTON Academic Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, Warburton shares his philosophical insights via a range of digital media: in podcast form on the website Philosophy Bites, or written form at Virtual Philosopher, or in 140-character tweets.
Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One-Dimensional Woman Secularism for me is the house that is Southall Black Sisters, where black and minority women, of all cultures and religions and none, co-exist freely in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect.
Journalist and TV presenter Miriam O'Reilly, who won a landmark ageism case against the BBC, discusses media misogyny with Nina Power, a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One Dimensional Woman, a discussion of the contemporary portrayal of women.
The guests have titles like "associate professor in philosophy and senior fellow in the public understanding of philosophy at the University of Warwick".
Right now, he said, his main focus had better be on finishing his senior thesis on political philosophy and ethics, due in a few weeks.
