The Ethical Frontier

You can support me on Patreon: ht tps://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Samuel Moyn is Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Website: https://history.yale.edu/people/samuel-moyn Book: https://www.amazon.com/Gerontocracy-America-Hoarding-Power-Wealth_and/dp/0374607648 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Moyn's argument about how we live in a gerontocracy, meaning a society ruled by...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Raja Halwani is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Website: https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/raja-el-halwani Summary:In this interview, we discuss the concept of sexual racism. Halwani argues that what matters is not necessarily how people got their racia...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Charles Camosy is an associate professor of moral theology/ethics at The Catholic University of America. Website: https://www.charlescamosy.com/ Summary:Charlie Camosy argues that using IVF is wrong because, by using it, we treat our children like products to be optimized and customized to our liking. Instead of seeing children...

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://a.co/d/3iv1vpm Summary:In Pharmaceutical Freedom, Jessica Flanigan defends patients' rights of self-medication. Flanigan argues that public...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Kevin Richardson is a professor of philosophy at Duke University. Website: https://kevinrichardson.org/ Book: https://academic.oup.com/book/61709 Summary:There is an emerging shift away from identifying with the standard binary gender (male/female) and sexual orientation (gay/straight) categories. This shift has frightened some...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Gwen Bradford is Associate Professor & Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Website: https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/gwen-bradford/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss theories of ill-being that correspond to each of the four major theories of well-being: hedonism, desire-satisf...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Hannah Maslen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, where she leads the Centre’s Programme on Policing Ethics. Website: https://hannahmaslen.wordpress.com/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss the topic of police ethics and Maslen's role as a police ethics consultant. She describe...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy John Sanbonmatsu is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Website: https://www.johnsanbonmatsu.com/ Book: https://nyupress.org/9781479825967/the-omnivores-deception/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss three deceptions surrounding our relationship to animals. The first one is that we beli...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Richard Kim is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Website: https://www.luc.edu/philosophy/profiles/richardkimphd.shtml Summary:In this interview, we discuss the similarities between Eastern and Western philosophy. Specifically, we discuss how there is shared discussion about virtue, human nature, and...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Miriam Lindner is an assistant Teaching Professor at The University of Rhode Island. Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N92qPuIAAAAJ&hl=en In this interview, we discuss what incels are and what underlies their psychology. Lindner argues that due to evolution, women are the pickier sex and that males have a ps...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Hedy S. Wald, PhD is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program, and Commissioner, Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. https://vivo.brown.edu/display/hwald David Shuster is director of the Medic...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Neil Levy is a professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Website: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-neil-levy Summary:In this interview, we discuss the distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access co...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Luke Hunt is a former FBI agent and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama. Website: https://philosophy.ua.edu/people/luke-hunt/ Summary:In this interview, Luke Hunt expresses concerns over ICE's tactics that have led to unnecessary deaths. He also discusses how ICE is relying on administrative war...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Christine Reyna is a professor of psychology at DePaul University. Website: https://csh.depaul.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/psychology/christine-reyna.aspx Summary: In this interview, we discuss the roots of prejudice and how it relates to different types of phobias. We talk extensively about the combination of in-group f...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Marcus Arvan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tampa. Website: https://www.marcusarvan.net/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Its-OK-Be-Moderate-ebook/dp/B0DHV391V9 Summary:In this interview, Marcus Arvan shows how many of history’s worst evils have resulted from far-right and far-left radicalism, and how...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Hanno Sauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University. Website: https://www.hannosauer.com/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Good-Evil-History-Morality/dp/0197790259 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Sauer's book on the invention of good and evil. Essentially, the book offers a new history of human...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Conly is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Bowdoin College. Website: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/sconly/ Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-limits-of-liberty-9780197812372?cc=cn&lang=en& Summary:In this interview, we discuss Conly's book, The Limits of Liberty, in which she argues that li...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Serena Parekh is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at Northeastern University. Website: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/serena-parekh/ Book: https://www.amazon.com/No-Refuge-Ethics-Global-Refugee/dp/0197507999 Summary:Parekh argues that we need a moral response to these crises--o...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Jacqui Frost is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Website: https://www.jacquifrost.com/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss the nature of atheist churches and how they serve many of the same purposes as religious churches. Their growth is evidence that religious decline does not necessarily mean a decli...

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...