For whom do we grieve? When we grieve, what are we grieving about? Is there any benefit we should aim to get from grieving? Is grieving sometimes morally required? And what additional questions about grief are philosophers exploring?
Interview with Michael Cholbi about his new book Grief: A Philosophic Guide
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Is there are Ethical Obligation to go Vegan? If so, what basis does it have? If not, is it ethically admirable to go Vegan?
In this episode I talk with Tristram McPherson (Ohio State) about various arguments for Ethical Veganism. We start out with a critical discussion of Ethical Veganism and Free-Riding by Jacob Barrett and Sarah Zoe Raskoff (Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2023).
If it is discovered that all human actions are determined, how would or should this affect our practices of holding people morally responsible?
In this episode I talk with Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) about her recent book Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals which provides a new interpretation and development of P.F. Strawson’s famous arguement that the truth of determinism would and should not threaten our practices of responsibility.
Is religion needed for moral and human development?
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I discuss German enlightenment debates about this, along with contemporary implications, with Jennifer Herdt (Yale Divinity) — this is the topic of her recent book Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition
Click here for a Syndicate Network symposium on Forming Humanity
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David McPherson and I discuss his new book, Virtue and Meaning, which develops and defends a new theory of human nature – the human being as the meaning seeking creature – and explores its implications for ethical theory.