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Episode 175: DEI Then and Now (with Paul Breines)

March 14, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Freedom Rider Paul Breines joins us to talk about the three most dangerous letters in the alphabet.

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Episode 172: Ambiguity

February 21, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

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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 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 160: Posthumanism

November 15, 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

What are the limits of the “human”? And what comes after us?

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Episode158: Does God Exist?

November 1, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Technology 0 Comments

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

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Episode 154: Aristotle and Feminist Materialism, Troubled (with Emanuela Bianchi)

October 4, 2024 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

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

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Episode 152: Evidence

September 20, 2024 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 11), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 11), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

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

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