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Episode 170: Judgment

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

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Episode 169: Responsibility

How, and for what, are we responsible?

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Episode 168: Authority

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

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Episode 166: Virtue

Is “virtue” an outdated concept?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

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Episode 165: Kant’s Categorical Imperative

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)

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

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Episode 163: Justice

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

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Episode158: Does God Exist?

Are you there God? It’s us, Hotel Bar Sessions.

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Episode 157: The Ethics of Refusal (with Devonya Havis)

When is it right, or even necessary, to say “no”?

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Episode 152: Evidence

What counts as evidence? What makes it good or bad? How do we know?

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