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Academic perspectives featured in this episode include:
Miri Albahari is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self and has published most recently on topics around the metaphysics of consciousness. She loves spending time in India and is working on a book-project that bridges mysticism with the philosophy of mind.
Yarran Hominh is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College, NY, USA. He grew up in and around Sydney. Prior to completing his PhD at Columbia University, Yarran taught philosophy and law at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. He is writing a book called The Problem of Unfreedom. He serves on the editorial board of The Philosopher, and was co-editor (with A. Minh Nguyen) of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies from 2019-2025.
Dr Supriya Subramani is a lecturer in Sydney Health Ethics and a scholar of ethics, philosophy, and qualitative inquiry, working at the intersections of embodiment, structural injustice, and the politics of knowledge. Her work is informed by informed by liberation, anti-caste, and anti-racist philosophy and sits within applied ethics, health humanities, and social and political philosophy.
