{"id":9200,"date":"2019-09-25T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:38:53","slug":"philosophy-professor-interviewed-on-i-think-therefore-i-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/25\/philosophy-professor-interviewed-on-i-think-therefore-i-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy professor interviewed on &#8220;I Think, Therefore I Fan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ithinkthereforeifan.com\/\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ithinkthereforeifan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cropped-ITTIF-Banner-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"399\" \/><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/okopal-1.jpg\" alt=\"portrait of Dr. James Okapal\" width=\"250\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/okopal-1-200x244.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/okopal-1.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Okapal, chair of the Department of Philosophy &amp; Religion and the Department of History &amp; Geography, was recently interviewed on the philosophy and pop culture podcast &#8220;I Think Therefore I Fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the Sept. 18 episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/ithinkthereforeifan.com\/2019\/09\/18\/fantastic-friends-and-where-to-find-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Fantastic Friends and Where to Find Them<\/a>,&#8221; Dr. Okapal talks with hosts Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene and Dr. Richard Greene about Aristotle, friendship, science fiction, and fantasy. He elaborates on some of the ideas he developed in his essay \u201c\u2019In Search of \u2026\u2019 Friendship: What We Can Learn from Androids and Vulcans\u201d (in <em>The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates<\/em>\u00a0edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl).<\/p>\n<p>It was Dr. Okapal&#8217;s second appearance on the podcast. On the May 21 episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/ithinkthereforeifan.com\/2019\/05\/21\/from-the-pca-the-purple-replicant-of-cairo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Purple Replicant of Cairo,&#8221;<\/a> he was one of four &#8220;prominent scholars of philosophy and pop culture&#8221; interviewed at the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Okapal&#8217;s research has focused on the intersection of ethics and literature, especially science fiction and fantasy. He has been at 大象传媒 Western since 2005. He earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree at the Ohio State University, a master&#8217;s degree at Bowling Green State University and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><em>大象传媒 is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James Okapal, chair of the Department of Philosophy &amp; Religion and the Department of History &amp; Geography, was recently interviewed on the philosophy and pop culture podcast &#8220;I Think Therefore I Fan.&#8221; On the Sept. 18 episode, &#8220;Fantastic Friends and Where to Find Them,&#8221; Dr. Okapal talks with hosts Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene and Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,49],"tags":[356,997,613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9206,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions\/9206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}