critical thinking

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 167: Revenge

The HBS hosts unpack the complexities of a dish best served cold.

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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Is “virtue” an outdated concept?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 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 154: Aristotle and Feminist Materialism, Troubled (with Emanuela Bianchi)

Philosophy has traditionally associated the feminine with matter, implying passivity. Why? And to what ends?

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Episode 153: The Gutenberg Parenthesis (with Jeff Jarvis)

Are we nearing the end of the Age of “Print”? And, if so, what comes next?

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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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