Examining Ethics

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Kat Schrier: Using Games to Teach Ethics
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
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
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
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
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
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
Legal scholar Ekow Yankah discusses the ethics of policing on today's episode of Examining Ethics.
Thinking While Walking with Martin Bunzl
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
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
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