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Episode 180: Foucault’s “Fearless Speech” (Parrhesia)

April 18, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Who, if anyone, is speaking truth to power?

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Episode 179: Are Universals “Real”?

April 11, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Do universals exist? Are they “real”? And why are we talking about porcupines?!

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Episode 174: Decorum

March 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When does decorum keep us civil—and when does it keep us silent?

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Episode 170: Judgment

February 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Who gets to judge right and wrong? And on what grounds?

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Episode 169: Responsibility

January 31, 2025 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How, and for what, are we responsible?

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Episode 168: Authority

January 24, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Is ChatGPT usurping the authority of the “Author”? Or is it just a pretender to the throne?

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Episode 166: Virtue

January 10, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Is “virtue” an outdated concept? And why is there a bear in this classroom?!

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Episode 165: Kant’s Categorical Imperative

December 20, 2024 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

What if morality was law-governed in the same way that logic and physics are?

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Episode 164: The Significance Impulse (with Josh Glasgow)

December 13, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

What if our cosmic unimportance is itself not all that important?

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Episode 163: Justice

December 6, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

The HBS hosts survey theories of justice from the ancients to the present.

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