The Examined Year: 2025
December 28, 2025
What happened over the past year that challenged our assumptions and made us think about…
Ethics Tagged Episodes
Making a Better World
July 6, 2025
Some philosophers think that morality boils down to one idea: we should make the world…
Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
May 4, 2025
The works of Derek Parfit (1942-2017) have had a profound influence on how philosophers understand…
Iris Murdoch
April 13, 2025
Iris Murdoch may be best known for her works of fiction, but her philosophical contributions…
Spinoza
November 24, 2024
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century Dutch philosopher who laid the foundations for the Enlightenment.…
What Would Kant Do?
April 21, 2024
German idealist and moral philosopher Immanuel Kant is probably best known for his “Categorical Imperative,”…
The Ethical Jerk
December 11, 2022
Ethics philosophers are more ethical than the average person — right? Well, maybe not. Studies…
Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
November 20, 2022
In just months the world changed radically, and we have all had to adjust our…
Philosophy and the Superhero
October 23, 2022
Philosophy is replete with thought experiments featuring characters like Descartes’ “Evil Genius” and Davidson’s “Swampman.”…
The Limits of Tolerance
December 19, 2021
In order to reach compromise, people try to be tolerant of others with different beliefs.…
What Do We Owe Future Generations?
September 19, 2021
We talk about owing future generations a better world. We might also think that we…
The Examined Year: 2020
December 27, 2020
The Year in Pandemic Ethics with Karen Stohr from Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar at the…
Monstrous Technologies?
November 1, 2020
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises powerful questions about the responsibilities of scientists to consider the impact…
One Child Too Many
January 13, 2019
The United Nations predicts human population growth will surpass 9 billion around 2050. We know…
Food Justice
October 8, 2017
The number of chronically hungry people in the world is over 800 million, yet developed…
Captivity
April 9, 2017
Whether it’s people incarcerated in prisons, or animals confined in zoos, aquariums, laboratories, farms, and…
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