#1261 Neal Hebert & Jon Cogburn: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism
Dr. Neal Hebert is an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Grambling State University. More»
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#1260 Émile Torres: The Risks of AI and Climate Change
Dr. Émile Torres is an affiliate at Data and Society. Their work over the past decade has centered around a single theme: eschatology, whether religious, secular, or scientific. Recently, their work has been focused on the nature and causes of human extinction, its ethical implications, and the history of the idea. They are the author of Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks, and their latest book is Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation, a sprawling work of intellectual history, ethics, and population axiology. More»
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#1256 Nathan King - The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life
Dr. Nathan King is Professor of Philosophy and Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University. His scholarly work addresses such topics as intellectual virtue, business ethics, the philosophy of education, civil discourse, the epistemology of disagreement, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life. More»
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#1255 Teresa Baron: The Ethics of Procreation, Pronatalism, and Antinatalism
Dr. Teresa Baron is an Assistant Professor at Nottingham University working on reproductive ethics and philosophy of parenthood. She is the author of The Philosopher's Guide to Parenthood, Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility (with Dr. Christopher Cowley), and The Artificial Womb on Trial. She is currently writing on the ethics of ectogenic research and editing a new Handbook of Philosophy and the Family for Routledge. More»
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#1252 David Benatar - The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Dr. David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is best known for his advocacy of antinatalism in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, in which he argues that coming into existence is a serious harm, regardless of the feelings of the existing being once brought into existence, and that, as a consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings. He’s also the author of The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (2017). More»
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#1251 Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees
Dr. Bradley Hillier-Smith is an Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. His main research interests are in global justice, human rights, migration ethics, obligations towards refugees, as well as ethical issues behind pressing social and political problems. His research aims to make a positive difference to people’s lives, wellbeing and rights through improving public policy and our social and political institutions. He is the author of The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees. More»
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#1250 Quill Kukla - Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
Dr. Quill Kukla is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Visiting Fellow at Leibniz University Hannover. They are the author of Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone. More»
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#1249 Melissa Shew: Women and Intellectual Joy
Dr. Melissa Shew has her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oregon. She is currently the Associate Director of Teaching Excellence at Marquette University, where she is also the Faculty Director of their Executive MBA Program. She is the author (together with Kimberly Garchar) of Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought. More»
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#1246 Rivka Weinberg: Does Life Have Meaning?
Dr. Rivka Weinberg is a professor of philosophy at Scripps College in Claremont, California. As a philosopher and bioethicist, Dr. Weinberg specializes in ethical and metaphysical issues regarding birth, death, and meaning. Her latest book is The Meaning of It All: Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time. More»
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#1245 Jacob Stegenga - Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry
Dr. Jacob Stegenga is a Professor of Philosophy at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Most of his research has been in general philosophy of science and philosophy of medicine, though he has worked on a wide range of other topics, including stereotypes, just war theory, and science in a time of crisis. His latest book is Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry. More»