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Academic perspectives featured in this episode include:
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.
Samiksha Goyal is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She grew up in India and moved to Australia for her PhD at Monash University, Melbourne. Her research spans the history of philosophy and moral philosophy, with a particular focus on Indian classical texts and modern Indian thinkers such as Mohandas Gandhi and Rājchandra Rai. Her work examines the moral significance of detachment and its role in ethical life. She has several research articles published in journals such as Journal of Dharma Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and the APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies.
Prof. Swati Arora is an Assistant Professor at IIM Indore, India. She holds a PhD from Macquarie University, Australia, and a Master of Research in Philosophy from the University of Sydney (2021). She previously completed her Master of Philosophy at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, where she was a university gold medalist. Her research interests include feminist ethics, critical race theory, and moral epistemology. She has recently published in Hypatia, a leading journal in feminist philosophy.
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