Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
AI and Ethics I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, highlighting both its beneficial uses and its risks to human dignity, personal relationships, moral growth, and authenti…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
AI and Knowledge of the World I Prof. Jordan Wales
Season 12
Prof. Jordan Wales explores how artificial intelligence and neural networks engage with meaning and knowledge, contrasting their statistical methods with the depth of human conceptual understanding r…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Mind, Matter, and Life: Can Machines be People, too? I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines whether machines can possess consciousness or personhood, arguing from philosophical and theological perspectives that artificial intelligence lacks the essential qualitie…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
AI and the Human Person I Prof. Jordan Wales
Season 12
Prof. Jordan Wales critically examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and human personhood through the lens of Christian theology, exploring how AI challenges traditional notions of…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Neuroscience of Vice and Virtue I Dr. Paul LaPenna
Season 12
Dr. Paul LaPenna delves into the neuroscience of vice and virtue, explaining how neuroplasticity, habit formation, and philosophical insights from figures like Aquinas inform our understanding of hum…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Origins of the Christian 'Just War' Tradition in Augustine's Anti-Manichean Works I Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Andrew Hofer explores the origins of the Christian just war tradition through Augustine’s anti-Manichean writings, examining the theological debates around violence, authority, and moral law with…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Drone Warfare and Just War Theory: Aquinas on the Virtuous Use of Violence I Prof. Michael Krom
Season 12
Prof. Michael Krom analyzes the ethics of drone warfare through the lens of Aquinas’s just war tradition and virtue ethics, addressing moral principles of discrimination, proportionality, and the ind…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Just War Theory I Prof. Joseph Capizzi
Season 12
Prof. Joseph Capizzi presents the just war account within the Catholic tradition, arguing that the use of force in war can be a moral act of peacemaking grounded in pursuit of the common good, and em…
Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Render Unto Caesar: Aquinas On the Relationship Between Religion and Politics I Prof. Michael Krom
Season 12
Prof. Michael Krom explores Thomas Aquinas’s view on the relationship between religion and politics, discussing the distinction between obligations to political authority and to God, as reflected in …
Published on 4 months ago
Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature I Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.
Season 12
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel explores the project of literature from the classical to the modern era, highlighting how stories like Anna Karenina shape the moral imagination through themes of virtue, marr…
Published on 4 months ago