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Public Ethics Radio

Summary: Public Ethics Radio features scholars and thinkers who engage with ethics in public life. Each show connects vibrant debates in philosophy with real-world politics, on issues such as military intervention, international trade, and political corruption. Hosted by Christian Barry and produced by Matt Peterson, Public Ethics Radio is a production of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

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 Episode 25. Anna Stilz on Occupancy Rights | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

One of the tragic side-effects of the civil war in Syria is that it has produced a mass migration of refugees and other displaced populations. For some, it isn’t even the first time they’ve had to abandon home: The U.N. recently reported that 71,000 Palestinian refugees have fled Syria for Lebanon. This massive reshuffling of […]

 Episode 24. Arash Abizadeh on Immigration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The irony of immigration policy is that most of its targets—all the people outside a given state’s borders—have no say in it. Yet border regimes play a critical role in determining individuals’ life chances. Real democracy, says Arash Abizadeh, means giving a say to those subject to coercively enforced rules of such importance. In other […]

 Episode 23. Kim Ferzan on Preventive Justice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

How can the state protect us from harms that haven’t happened yet? It may be clear that a terrorist or sex offender, for instance, intends to cause harm long before he has actually committed acts of violence. We could try to convict him in criminal court, but by definition, he hasn’t yet caused the harm […]

 Episode 22. Corey Brettschneider on Hate Speech | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

How should states deal with hate speech? The American approach is to protect even the most vile speech. In other liberal democracies, especially in Europe, hate speech is more restricted, and permitting unconstrained speech is seen as a failure to … Continue reading →

 Episode 21. Jon Quong on Self-Defense | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In thinking about the rules of war, the trend in contemporary political philosophy has been to start from individual conduct and scale up. War is just many instances of individual self-defense, so the rules about individual self-defense will frame the … Continue reading →

 Episode 20. Garrett Cullity on Climate Change | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

There is very little any given individual can do to address climate change. How, then, can individuals have a duty to act on carbon emissions? Our guest today, Garrett Cullity, sees a paradox here. He sees a problem drawing a … Continue reading →

 Episode 19. Stuart Green on Property Law | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The claim that illegal downloading is stealing has been a mainstay of the entertainment industry’s campaign against music, movie and software piracy. But especially among young people, this idea doesn’t hold much sway. Downloading an illicit MP3 seems like a … Continue reading →

 Episode 18. Prakash Sethi on Apple’s Labor Standards [FIXED] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[UPDATE: Reposted to fix audio problems] For a famously perfectionist company, the labor standards at Apple’s Chinese factories leave much to be desired. And yet, despite months of bad press, Apple’s sales show no sign of flagging. When the media … Continue reading →

 Episode 18. Prakash Sethi on Apple’s Labor Standards | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

For a famously perfectionist company, the labor standards at Apple’s Chinese factories leave much to be desired. And yet, despite months of bad press, Apple’s sales show no sign of flagging. When the media focus dies out, what forces can … Continue reading →

 Episode 17. Seth Lazar on Self-Defense in War | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Why are soldiers allowed to kill in war? For philosophers who believe in what Seth Lazar calls the “new orthodoxy,” the answer is that soldiers can kill for the same reason anyone can kill: self-defense. War is just individual self-defense writ … Continue reading →

 Episode 16. Samantha Brennan on Microinequalities | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

[UPDATED] In the West, women and men share equal status under the law. But in countless practical ways, women experience inequality on a daily basis. Why is it that a woman can lead a country, yet women are slower to … Continue reading →

 Special Episode: Queens College Part II | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This is the second half of our special episode featuring contributions by the students of Queens College. The students spent the semester in an upper-level philosophy class developing and recording short podcasts. In this two-part episode, we present those student-produced … Continue reading →

 Special Episode: Queens College Part I | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Welcome to a very special episode of Public Ethics Radio. This podcast is the result of a semester-long experiment conducted by a class of students at Queens College of the City University of New York. The students took an upper-level … Continue reading →

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