CAPEd Conversations

Nancy Sherman is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She has an affiliate appointment with Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law. A New York Times Notable Author, her most recent book is Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience (2021). Her forthcoming title is Feed the Soul: Lessons from Aristotle on Living Well (Ya...

Mark LeBar is a professor of philosophy at Florida State University . In this episode of CAPEd Conversations LeBar discusses his recent work in ethics, political and social philosophy, and metaethics. LeBar's book, “The Value of Living Well,” (Oxford University Press, 2013) is a development of contemporary eudaimonist virtue ethical theory. His most recent book, “Just People,” (Oxford Univers...

Wanting and liking for pleasant rewards usually go together.  But the brain separates wanting and liking mechanisms, creating potential for the two to diverge. Addictive desires can arise even without expectation of pleasure or actual pleasure when reward is received.  I’ll show a laboratory example as 'wanting for what hurts’, which can also create narrowly focused addictions. Counterintuiti...