ethics

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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Episode 151: Whose Jesus? (with John D. Caputo)

When did Jesus start hating immigrants and gays, loving guns and capitalism?

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Episode 149: Voting

Does voting matter?

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Episode 148: The Future of Journalism (with Andrea Guzman)

What happens when AI takes on the role of human journalists?

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Episode 147: Overcoming Sexuality (with Nir Kedem)

Can queer theory overcome its ties to sexuality?

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Episode 146: Peer Review

The HBS hosts discuss the current peer review crisis.

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Episode 145: Ideology and Self-Emancipation (with William Clare Roberts)

Ideology is said in many ways. Which one is emancipatory?

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Episode 144: The Sublime

The ocean and space and “Ode to Joy” are sublime, of course… but what about an excellent lentil soup? In a confusing twist of etymology, where one would expect “sub” to mean “below,” in the word “sublime” it indicates something above or even beyond. We use it as a superlative, but a superlative of what?…

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