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The Dissenter#1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue******Support the channel******Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenterPayPal: paypal.me/thedissenterPayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuyPayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9lPayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpzPayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9mPayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ******Follow me on******Website: https://www.thedissenter.net/The Dissenter Goodreads list: https://shorturl.at/7BMoBFacebook: https://www.f...2025-03-281h 04
Ethical Theory ReviewFanaticism, Devotion, and NihilismDiscussion of fanaticism, devotion, and nihilism with Paul Katsafanas of Boston University. When someone becomes a fanatic about their worldview is that always a bad thing? Should fanatics moderate themselves to become better and more civil? Or is fanaticism sometimes a good thing, as Heather Battaly argues in "Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue?" 2024-05-2845 minEthical Theory ReviewVeganism and Free-ridingDo you have a moral obligation to go Vegan? If so, why? If not, why not? Brad and Tristram McPherson (Ohio State) discuss a new argument that we are obligated to go Vegan in order to avoid wrongful free-riding. Additional discussion of other arguments and future directions in debates about the ethics of eating meat.
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Ethical Theory ReviewHow to Do Things with Emotions: Owen FlanaganAre our emotional reactions natural or malleable? Which moral emotions are useful in our increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? What kinds of anger should we give up? Does shame get a bad wrap? -- Interview with Owen Flanagan about his book How to Do Things with Emotions2022-04-0555 minEthical Theory ReviewConfucianism, Morality, and Well-beingWhat different views on human nature inform ethical theory in the Confucian tradition? What kinds of rituals do Confucians think we need to engage in to achieve flourishing lives or high levels of well-being? What kinds of rituals today might be inhibiting our flourishing and moral growth? -- a Discussion with Richard Kim about his book Confucianism and the Philosophy of Well-being.2022-03-161h 03Ethical Theory ReviewEthics of Gamete Donation and the Value of Genetic KnowledgeIf you conceive a child with a donated egg or sperm (gamete), are you morally required to tell the child how they were conceived? Do children need knowledge of their genetic parents to develop a healthy self-understanding or identity? Or is the desire for such genetic knowledge a reflection of morally suspect cultural norms?
Interview with Daniel Groll about his new book Conceiving People (OUP, 2021).2022-02-161h 01Ethical Theory ReviewProphetic Pragmatism: Cornel West, Hope, and the Philosophy of RaceWhat is Cornel West's Prophetic Pragmatism? How can we be honest about the legacy of racism in the USA and not lose hope? What role can and should philosophers play in promoting progress and democratic values? Interview with Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob Goodson about their book Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism.2022-02-0154 minEthical Theory ReviewGrief: A Philosophic GuideFor whom do we grieve? When we grieve, what are we grieving about? Is there any benefit we should aim to get from grieving? Is grieving sometimes morally required? And what additional questions about grief are philosophers exploring? -- Interview with Michael Cholbi about these questions and his new book Grief: A Philosophic Guide 2022-01-1356 minEthical Theory ReviewFreedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of MoralsWould the discovery that determinism is true undermine moral responsibility? Should it? In this episode I interview Pamela Hieronymi about her new book Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals, which offers a new interpretation of P.F. Strawson's influential argument that the discovery of determinism would and should not threaten our practices of moral responsibility. 2021-04-211h 07Ethical Theory ReviewReligion and Human Development (Jennifer Herdt)Humanists argue that there is something special about human beings and that to live well we must grow up, overcome our childish and brutish temptations, and become fully human. Secular Enlightenment humanists think this is something human beings can and should try to pull off on their own – through personal and collective human efforts. Religious Humanists raise worries about this secular program and emphasize the need for humility and divine agency or assistance.
I interview Jennifer Herdt (Yale Divinity School) about her new book, Forming Humanity, which explores what we can learn from German Enlightenment intellectuals and thei...2020-07-0859 min
The Moral Science PodcastMorality Amid COVID-19 with Bengt Brülde, Bradford Cokelet, Debra Lieberman, Richard Shweder, and Liane YoungIn this episode, five scholars of morality talk about their observations of ethics during the coronavirus pandemic. These scholars include Bengt Brülde, an Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg and University West in Sweden, where he studies well-being, bioethics, and business ethics; Bradford Cokelet, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas where he researches comparative ethics, character, and agency; Debra Lieberman, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami, where she uses principles of evolutionary biology to understand disgust and altruism; Richard Shweder, Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Human Development at t...2020-06-161h 20Ethical Theory ReviewVirtue and Meaning -- an Interview with David McPhersonInterview with David McPherson, Associate Professor at Creighton University. We discuss his new book, Virtue and Meaning, which develops and defends a new theory of human nature – the human being as the meaning seeking creature – and explores its implications for ethical theory. We discuss David's criticism of Aristotelian Naturalists such as Foot, Hursthouse, and MacIntyre, his alternative account of moral virtue and the good life, and his view that Aristotelian moral philosophers need to develop accounts of the cosmic meaning of human life and of human spirituality.2020-05-051h 13The Moral Science PodcastEthics of the East Part 2 with Bradford CokeletDr. Bradford Cokelet is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. His work focuses on Eastern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and applied ethics. In this podcast, Brad returns to finish discussing Eastern Ethical traditions—how they compare with one another, and how they contrast with Western Ethical traditions.
Transcript available at: APA citation: https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep23-bradcokelet
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2020, January 21). Ethics of the East Part 2 with Bradford Cokelet [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.ambercazzell.com/post/msp-ep23-bradcokelet2020-01-211h 10The Moral Science PodcastEthics of the East and West with Bradford CokeletDr. Bradford Cokelet is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He has written and coedited three books, including the Moral Psychology of Guilt, which is to be published this month. He is also the recipient of two Templeton Foundation grants to study character, virtue, and motivation. His work concerns Eastern philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and applied ethics. In this podcast, Brad and I talk about ethical traditions of the East and West, and begin to discuss how to meaningfully compare and contrast traditions.
APA citation: Cazzell, A. R. (Host). (2019, October 22). Ethics of...2019-10-221h 10