Morality Tagged Episodes

December 7, 2025

18th-century Korean philosopher Im Yunjidang was the first Confucian to argue for women’s equality in…

July 6, 2025

Some philosophers think that morality boils down to one idea: we should make the world…

June 15, 2025

Philippa Foot invented the thought experiment that famously became known as the Trolley Problem. Despite…

September 3, 2023

What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Josh and Ray talk to the authors…

February 12, 2023

More than a century and a half after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s…

December 25, 2022

Some people think Jesus was the son of God, though many who are skeptical about…

December 18, 2022

Most people agree that it’s good to help others, but philosophers disagree about how much…

October 23, 2022

Philosophy is replete with thought experiments featuring characters like Descartes’ “Evil Genius” and Davidson’s “Swampman.”…

March 28, 2021

We might ban buying or selling horse meat in the US not for the protection…

March 7, 2021

We sometimes think of the domains of ethics and morality as divorced from feeling and…

December 8, 2019

Autonomous vehicles are quickly emerging as the next innovation that will change society in radical…

September 1, 2019

What should you be reading this summer—and how should you be reading it? We’re often…

December 9, 2018

We can all agree that helping others is great, a deed worth doing. But devoting…

May 21, 2017

Doing the right thing is often an extremely difficult task. Yet psychological research indicates that…

January 29, 2017

Imagine discovering that your grandfather was a serial killer. Would you feel guilty about it?…

May 29, 2016

From Aristotle and Kant to Hume and Darwin, philosophers and scientists have long denied the…