The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce Kristin Rodier will be featured on the CBC Radio Program Ideas, Friday, February 6 @ 9 pm (also available as podcast after air date)
IDEAS FROM THE TRENCHES - OUT OF HABIT
There are 50,000 PhD candidates in Canada, toiling away on things their friends and families often don't understand. Part of our continuing series turning a young scholar's work into radio, Tom Howell and Nicola Luksic meet Kristin Rodier -- a newly minted philosophy PhD at the University of Alberta. She studies how we think about habit. Habits are normally understood as either virtue or vice, but as a philosopher she looks at what happens when those habits are disrupted with an eye to social change.