The Ethical Frontier

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Ben Bradley is Allan and Anita Sutton Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Website: https://benbradleyweb.com/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss the arguments in favor and against anti-natalism, which is the view that it's wrong to have kids. We also discuss how anti-natalism compares to deprivationism, which...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Tomas Bogardus is a Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tbogardus/ Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Nature-of-the-Sexes-Why-Biology-Matters/Bogardus/p/book/9781041029533 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Bogardus' new book on the nature of the sexes. He argues that...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Dr. Heidi Klessig is a retired anesthesiologist. Website: https://www.respectforhumanlife.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Death-Fallacy-Heidi-Klessig/dp/B0CL5VKJGY Summary:In this interview, Dr. Klessig describes a number of issues regarding the concept of brain death that ultimately suggest that brain-dead patients are...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Tom Cochrane is a British-Australian philosopher working at Flinders University in Adelaide. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tomcochranephilosophy/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss how we can address the fear of death. Cochrane argues that our fear of death comes from our will to live; hence, one way to address the f...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Tony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions. Website: https://sci.usc.edu/personnel/tony-mcaleer/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Hate-Supremacists-Extremism-Compassion/dp/1551527693 Summary:In this interview, we discuss McAleer's journey into...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Thaddeus Metz is a professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Website: https://www.up.ac.za/philosophy/article/2923571/prof-thaddeus-metz Book: https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Life-Thaddeus-Metz/dp/0198748019 Summary: In this interview, we discuss the distinction between meaning in life and the meaning of life, what c...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. Website: https://ericheinze.com/ Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049580/coming-clean/ Summary:Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gr...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Richard Yetter Chappell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. Website: http://yetterchappell.net/Richard/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss the ethics of effective altruism (EA)—its central tenets and criticisms. Everyone wants to do good, but many ways of doing good are ineffective. The EA comm...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Joseph Tsang is an immigration attorney. Website: https://tsangslaw.com/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss ICE, immigration, and deportations. I ask him about how ICE targets people, whether Trump is introducing new immigration laws or just enforcing them more strictly, and whether those detained by ICE get due process.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Rivka Weinberg is a professor of philosophy at Scripps College. Website: https://www.rivkaweinberg.com/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss the distinction between the different types of meaning, the different aspects of meaning, and how death affects meaning. Among other interesting claims, Weinberg does not believe our lives...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Mollie Gerver is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, focusing on consent and immigration ethics. Website: https://molliegerver.weebly.com/ Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4679723 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Gerver's experiment in whi...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Reiff is a political, legal, and moral philosopher. His main areas of interest include economic justice, liberalism and its critics, the law and ethics of war and warfare, the nature of causal and moral reasoning, and theories of punishment, compensation, and responsibility. Website: https://www.markreiff.org/ Summary:In this in...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Jennifer Kling, PhD is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Website: https://philosophy.uccs.edu/directory/faculty/kling Book: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Protest-Fighting-Justice-without/dp/1786613204 Summary:In this interview, we d...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Samuel Director is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies. Website: https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/samueldirector/home Summary:In this interview, we discuss how informed consent in the medical context requires knowledge of how much the medical interventio...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Website: https://www.alfiekohn.org/ Summary:According to Kohn, standardized tests assess less...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Aaron Benanav is an assistant professor at Syracuse University. Website: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/aaron-benanav Book: https://www.amazon.com/Automation-Future-Work-Aaron-Benanav/dp/1839761296 Summary:Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists, and social critics have united in arguing that we are on the cu...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond. Website: https://jepson.richmond.edu/faculty/bios/jflaniga/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Debating-Sex-Work-Ethics/dp/0190659890 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Flanigan's libertarian defense of the decriminal...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Western Ontario and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Website: http://politicalscience.uwo.ca/people/faculty/full-time_faculty/elizabeth_finneron-burns.html Book: https://www.amazon.com/What-Future-P...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. Website: https://ericheinze.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Human-Right-Speech-Everything/dp/0262547244/ Summary:In this interview, Heinze explains why free speech is a necessary right to have any other right. We also discuss the distinctio...

You can support me on Patreon: htt ps://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Website: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/walter.sinnott-armstrong Book: https://www.amazon.com/Moral-AI-Walter-Sinnott-Armstrong/dp/0241454743/ Summary:In this inter...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Erik Angner is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, where he directs the PPE Program. As a result of serious mission creep, he holds two PhDs – one in Economics and one in History and Philosophy of Science – both from the University of Pittsburgh. Website: https://www.erikangner.com/ Book: https://www.amazo...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Philip Goff is a philosophy professor at Durham University, UK. Website: https://philipgoffphilosophy.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Purpose-Universe-Philip-Goff/dp/0198883765 Summary: In this interview, we discuss Goff's book about whether there's a purpose of the universe. Goff believes there's some middle g...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Raffael Fasel is Yates Glazebrook Fellow, College Assistant Professor, and Director of Studies in Law (Part IB) at Jesus College, and Affiliated Lecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty. Website: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/rn-fasel/77852 Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/more-equal-than-others-97801989074...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Roger Crisp is a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. Website: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/roger-crisp Summary: In this interview, we discuss hedonism. Among other topics, we address why hedonism is appealing, how it relates to other theories of well-being, the distinction between higher and lowe...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Joseph Moore is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. Website: https://www.josephmoore.net/ Summary: In this interview, we discuss the why and the how of measuring well-being. Moore believes that since public policy is affected by how we measure well-being, we should try to...