Making a Better World
July 6, 2025
Some philosophers think that morality boils down to one idea: we should make the world…
Ethics Tagged Episodes
Spinoza
November 24, 2024
Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century Dutch philosopher who laid the foundations for the Enlightenment.…
The Rhetoric of Big Tech
June 11, 2023
Big tech is known for its “disruption” of established industries and changing fundamental aspects of…
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…
Weapons of Mass Destruction
December 11, 2016
The United States recently threatened military action against Syria in response to the Syrian government’s…
Bioethics: Myths and Realities
October 11, 2015
Recent advances in mapping the human genome suggest a vision of the future that might…
The Nature of Wilderness
April 5, 2015
Nowadays we think of wilderness as a fully natural environment that contrasts sharply with the designed…
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