Examining Ethics

Examining Ethics


Latest Episodes

Kat Schrier: Using Games to Teach Ethics
January 04, 2022

 If you don’t know much about gaming, it can be easy to dismiss video games as violent wastes of time or to think of board games as something you pull out when there’s nothing else...

Transparency is Surveillance: C. Thi Nguyen
December 15, 2021

Calls for increased transparency and oversight are common in public life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that transparency is a form of surveillance.

The Ethics of Giving with Shariq Siddiqui
November 30, 2021

Giving away money and resources is great, right? What harm could it do? Philanthropy expert Shariq Ahmed Siddiqui, who is a professor at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, joins u

The Weight of Whiteness with Alison Bailey
November 16, 2021

Alison Bailey opens her new book, The Weight of Whiteness with an invitation to “wade slowly and mindfully into the weight of whiteness, and to attend to the ways white supremacy has misshapen our nat

Uncivil Disobedience with Candice Delmas
November 03, 2021

The last time philosopher Candice Delmas was on the show, we explored civil disobedience. On today’s episode, we’re discussing the uncivil side of disobedience. She explains that the very reasons that

Democratic Deliberation with Sheron Fraser-Burgess
October 20, 2021

Deliberative democracy is a school of political thought in which conversation takes on a central role. It’s different from representative democracy, which involves voting and polling, because it focus

Policing and Ethics with Ekow Yankah
October 05, 2021

Legal scholar Ekow Yankah discusses the ethics of policing on today's episode of Examining Ethics.

Thinking While Walking with Martin Bunzl
September 14, 2021

Nature has always fascinated the philosopher Martin Bunzl. For him, this spectacular setting proved to be fertile ground for reflecting on philosophical puzzles and questions about nature and ethics.

Just Immigration with Allison Wolf
September 01, 2021

On this episode of Examining Ethics, the philosopher Allison Wolf explains how feminism, and its focus on oppression, sheds light on immigration injustice.

Naomi Zack: Government Should Be Boring
July 28, 2021

The subject of identity politics is part of a constellation of heated issues in the United States. Politics in general has been fraught with conflict in the last decade or so. Naomi Zack, professor of