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Lionel Shriver on Abominations
Season 4 Episode 15
Should we remove offensive monuments at the cost of erasing history? Is there an unacceptable cost to open borders? And what would a just tax system …
3 years, 8 months ago
We Should Be More Pragmatic about Ethics | Andrew Sepielli
Season 3
Are moral facts baked into reality, the way facts about socks or rocks are? Or should we think about morality in a more pragmatic way: that it doesn’…
3 years, 8 months ago
Do the guilty deserve punishment? | John Martin Fischer
Why should we punish the guilty? Is it because they’ve done something wrong, to remove them from society, or to dissuade others from wrongdoing?
Pre…
3 years, 8 months ago
African Ethics: A Superior Moral Framework? | Thaddeus Metz
Utilitarians and Kantians struggle to account for the care we should provide loved ones over strangers.
Can Ubuntu, or African Ethics, provide a fr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Putnam on the Brain in a Vat | David Macarthur
Could we be systematically mistaken about the world around us? Would we be wrong about everything if we turned out to be a brain in a vat, a mind man…
3 years, 8 months ago
Hillary Putnam on Morality | Mario de Caro
Is lying ever justified? Is it permissible to kill one innocent person to save many others? Learn more about the views of one of the greatest philoso…
3 years, 9 months ago
Using AI to Fight Crime | David Boonin
Is racial profiling always wrong, even if used by an AI to decrease crime? Should we use AI to judge criminal cases, recommend sentences for the gui…
3 years, 9 months ago
Freedom of the Press | Toby Young
Do reporters have special moral obligations? Is it ever justified for governments to shut down newspapers? Should private companies like Paypal be al…
3 years, 9 months ago
Why it's okay to eat meat - or is it? | Dan Shahar
Season 4 Episode 13
Dan Shahar defends the view that eating meat is permissible, even though meat farming is not. Is this a coherent position?
Presenters: Mark Oppenhe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Is Your Gender Up to You? | Shaun Stanley
Is gender a social construct? Is gender distinct from sex? And can you be wrong in your beliefs about your own gender?
Presenters: Mark Oppenheimer a…
3 years, 10 months ago