Nurturing Minds

Dr Amy Reed-Sandoval — writer, philosophy professor, and founder of two different Philosophy for Children initiatives — joins Rachel and Vance to discuss how adults can encourage young children’s philosophical curiosity, and why adults would want to do that.
Listen to learn about:
• What it means to say that children are “natural philosophers”
• Why encouraging children to raise questions can enrich a parent-child relationship
• Prof Reed-Sandoval’s work with the Oaxaca Philosophy for Children Initiative and with the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program
Guest Expert:
Amy Reed-Sandoval, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Welcome to Nurturing Minds, a lively discussion co-hosted by a philosopher (Dr. Vance Ricks) and a social scientist (Dr. Rachel Riskind) about how scholarly research can shed calm light on charged topics. Unlike parenting advice podcasts, this podcast will draw on research from many disciplines and open up possibilities for how the world could be.
 
Nurturing Minds is for anyone who wants to feel energized and empowered about parenthood. It's for anyone who wishes they could go back to college--but skip the tests. And it's for anyone who is, was, knows, might be, wants to be, will never, or doesn't want to be a parent.
 
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Special guest expert Selena Wolf-Berkley helps us understand racism as a social determinant of health during pregnancy and childbirth, and how we can make institutional changes to better support pregnant people and their families.
 
Listen to learn about:
How the biopsychosocial model explains pregnancy and postpartum experiences
Why maternal mortality disparities can't be explained by income or education alone
How doulas help advocate for patients facing medical discrimination
Structural changes needed to make childbirth safer for everyone
 
Guest Expert:
Selena Wolf-Berkley, Assistant Director of Learning and Writing Center at Guilford College, doula and birth worker
 
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In the pilot episode of Nurturing Minds, co-hosts Rachel and Vance briefly introduce themselves and discuss parenthood and childhood as topics of philosophical interest and importance.Listen to learn about:• Modern-day philosophical views of what makes someone a parent• An argument for anti-natalism (the view that it’s bad to be born or to cause someone else to be born)• Why parents and children might have obligations or responsibilities to each other• Why societies might have responsibilities to parents and (separately) to childrenSubscribe to the Nurturing Minds newsletter: https://nurturing-minds.beehiiv.com