Philosophically Speaking

Leif Wenar (Stanford) explores the doctrine of effective altruism, explaining why it leads us astray when thinking about our duties to the global poor and to the future. Read the paper at: https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/

Renée Jørgensen (Michigan) explores the ethics of using big data to allocate police attention, and why doing so is morally questionable. Read the paper at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470594X251379074?download=true

Cécile Laborde (Oxford) asks who should be protected by discrimination law, and whether the socially advantaged can be victims of wrongful discrimination. Read the paper at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470594X241283034

Sam Berstler (MIT) explores how merely asking questions can sometimes be morally wrong, violating our rights to privacy. Read the paper at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papa.12249

Jeremy Waldron (NYU) talks through what’s so bad about lying, and why certain lies are distinctively destructive to our political life. Read the paper at: https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/15481/

Join us for a show looking at the best new scholarship in political and social philosophy, featuring lively conversations with leading thinkers. Join hosts Jeffrey Howard and Emily McTernan as they explore some of the thorniest ethical questions of our time.