Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast hosted by two public intellectuals, question mark.

I'm your co-host, Dr. Ellie Anderson. And I'm your co-host, Dr. Ellie Anderson.

And I'm your co-host, Dr. David Pena-Gusman.

Recording from the KSP Studio in Claremont, California.

Shout out to Pomona College.

Ellie, do you feel like an intellectual?

I love that you ask if I feel like an intellectual,

rather than whether I am one. Well, because the answer to whether you're an intellectual. I love that you ask if I feel like an intellectual rather than whether I am one.

Well, because the answer to whether you're an intellectual is obvious enough. And if it weren't,

then your response to my question would prove it. Classic intellectual response pointing to the

question rather than answering it. Okay. Valid point.

But I do like the way that you formulate the question because it makes me think about how

I feel like an intellectual in some context more than in others, as well as in different

ways, right?

Obviously, our professions are about as intellectual as they get.

We're both philosophy professors who writes scholarly works and teach students. And I would say I also feel like an

intellectual in the public work that I do here on the podcast and on YouTube, where we're sharing

ideas to a broader audience. But my sense of being an intellectual is more in the background in a lot of

social context in a way that frankly sometimes makes me feel a little bit uneasy. For instance,

sometimes at dinner parties, I'll think of references to philosophers or have intellectual points

to make. But I hold off from bringing them into the conversation because it feels out of place.

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