Podcasts about applied philosophy

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 39:34

This is the first part of our discussions with Dr Emily Ryall where we explore foundational questions about meaning of sport in human life. Sport is clearly trivial: we cannot survive without food and shelter, but we can easily survive without sport. Why, then, are so many people across the globe passionately involved in sport? And if sport is trivial, should we take it seriously, and how seriously? What happens if we take sport too seriously? And finally, we delve to critiques of elite sport and the role of sport/exercise technology in possibly distorting our relationship with movement and our bodies. Dr Emily Ryall is a reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire who enjoys wrestling with the deep and complex questions about the role of sport in human life. She has written on a range of philosophical and ethical questions in sport and enjoys teaching in relation to these issues as well as philosophy of science, critical thinking and the logic of arguments.

'Acts of speech' and how people recieve them

UCL Uncovering Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 33:35

Today we are examining speech acts and uptake. A central contribution from J. L. Austin has been the idea that our speech sometimes doesn't only say things – sometimes it does things. When we speak, we don't only convey content or information. We sometimes also - for instance - promise, name, refuse, or order: in short, our speech sometimes acts.And that has prompted a great deal of philosophical debate over when speech acts are successfully performed, and whether that depends on the effects on the audience. This might sound like an esoteric matter, but philosophers think that thinking about how – and when- speech does things has implications for what we should think of pornography, and for when people really consent to sex. Our guest today is Dr Sarah Fisher, a Research Fellow here in the department of political science on a cross-disciplinary project on the ethics of content moderation on social media and the future of free speech online, funded by UKRI. Mentioned in this episode:Sarah A. Fisher, Kathryn B. Francis & Leo Townsend (2023) An empirical investigation of intuitions about uptake, Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2023.2220359Langton, Rae. “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 22, no. 4, 1993, pp. 293–330. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2265469 Some references suggested by Sarah for further reading: Townsend, L. and Townsend, D.L. (2020). Consultation, Consent, and the Silencing of Indigenous Communities. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 37: 781-798. DOI: 10.1111/japp.12438Townsend, L. and Lupin, D. (2021). Representation and Epistemic Violence. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 29(4): 577-594. DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2021.1997398Francis, K. B., Beaman, P., & Hansen, N. (2019). Stakes, scales, and skepticism. Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy. DOI: 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.016

Break on through to the other side of PIF

The PAPERs podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2023 30:33

In this episode, Lara brings a book chapter to the discussion which asks if we need to think differently about professional identity formation (PIF). The hosts discuss the strengths and weaknesses of current ways of thinking about PIF and they review the concept of subjectification and how this concept might help the field move to new, and exciting new ways of thinking about being a clinician.Episode host: Lara VarpioBook chapter: Verwer, S., & van Braak, M. (2022). Subjectification in Health Professions Education: Why We Should Look Beyond the Idea of Professional Identity Formation. In M. E. L. Brown, M. Veen, & G. M. Finn (Eds.), Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding (pp. 23–37). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19Episode webpageHosts: Lara Varpio, Jason Frank, Jonathan Sherbino, Linda SnellTechnical Producer: Samuel LundbergExecutive Producer: Teresa SöröProduction of Unit for teaching and learning at Karolinska Institutet

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#010 Cadavers, Simulation and Philosophy

Let Me Ask You Something

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2023 55:13

We discuss "The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography" by Anna MacLeod, Victoria Luong, Paula Cameron, George Kovacs, Molly Fredeen, Lucy Patrick, Olga Kits & Jonathan Tummons. You can download the open access article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10401334.2022.2092111 This is the 10th installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal -- it will also appear as a book chapter in our upcoming book Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Springer, forthcoming 2023). Anna MacLeod is Professor and Director of Education Research in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax Canada. She is also the Unit Head for Dalhousie's Research in Medicine program. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars in 2018, Anna is known for her innovative approaches to exploring medical education. She has held uninterrupted Tri-Council funding as Principal Investigator since taking up her faculty position, with more than 2.5 million dollars in funding to support her ethnographic studies of medical education. Anna publishes widely in medical and higher education. Her award-winning contributions are enriching the discourse of medical education, incorporating critical social science perspectives and broadening theory, while making a significant practical contribution to the design and delivery of medical education locally, nationally and around the world. Victoria Luong is a PhD student and Research Associate in the Department of Continuing Professional Development at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research has included ethnographic and phenomenological explorations of the medical education community's practices, and her graduate work draws on the philosophy of medicine to unpack medical student underperformance. Anna, Victoria and co-authors recently also published another paper on the topic: Case-Informed Learning in Medical Education: A Call for Ontological Fidelity by Anna MacLeod, Victoria Luong, Paula Cameron, Sarah Burm, Simon Field, Olga Kits, Stephen Miller, Wendy A. Stewart https://pmejournal.org/articles/10.5334/pme.47 Professor Gabrielle Finn is the Vice-Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students for the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. She is Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medical Sciences. Mario Veen (@MarioVeen) is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Mario is action editor for the Philosophy in Medical Education series of the journal Teaching & Learning in Medicine and co-editor of the first two books about philosophy and medical education: Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding with Megan Brown and Gabrielle Finn (Springer, 2022) and Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2023). He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something, and Life From Plato's Cave. If you have any questions about this episode, let me know! https://twitter.com/MarioVeen and https://marioveen.com/ Mario

54 - Luvell Anderson: Slurs, Hate Speech, and The Philosophy of Humor

Robinson's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2023 90:09

Luvell Anderson is a professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, where he's also an affiliate faculty member of Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race and the soon-to-be-released Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language. He is also currently working on a book about the philosophy of humor—The Ethics of Racial Humor—which is the topic of this episode. After beginning with a discussion of just what humor is, Luvell and Robinson move on to the distinction between racial and racist humor, Dave Chappelle, the ethics of roasting, what makes comedy human, and more. You can keep up with Luvell at andersonluvell.weebly.com and through his Twitter account, @luvell_anderson. linktree: https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt OUTLINE 00:00 In This Episode 00:28 Introduction 3:05 Luvell's Interest in Comedy 5:32 What is Humor? 12:22 Slurs and Hate Speech 17:45 Is Humor Uniquely Human? 23:32 Racial Humor and Racist Humor 32:48 Sexist Humor 38:51 Dave Chappelle 44:05 Roasting Ethics 53:05 A Genetic Approach to Comedy 59:12 Horror and Humor 1:05:15 Comedy, Connection, and Progressive Change 1:09:40 What Makes Comedy Human 1:14:03 Audience Sensitivity 1:17:56 Humor and Media Psychology 1:21:54 Laughing With and Laughing At Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support

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03. Black Spirituality in Justice Movements with Ash Williams

Accessible Yoga Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2023 42:26

Ash Williams is an anti-carceral and reproductive justice organizer. He received his BA in Philosophy from UNC Charlotte in 2015 and his MA in Ethics and Applied Philosophy from UNC Charlotte in 2016. For the last five years, Ash has been vigorously fighting to expand abortion access by funding abortions and training other people to become abortion doulas. In this episode, Ash and Anjali discuss: • How Black queer and trans folks have been and are at the frontlines of justice and liberatory movements • Abortion and the medical industrial complex • Decolonizing birth and learning from reproductive justice history • How we can refuse binaries • How each of us can disrupt and heal from carceral logic and lean into Abolition • Building solidarity across movements: How can we show up as allies? Connect with Ash on Instagram @ashwilliamclt CALLS TO ACTION: • Donate to your local abortion fund. • Seek out your local abortion doula collective to find out how you can support them. Also, thank you to the support of our partner Offering Tree! Check them out offeringtree.com/accessibleyoga to get a discount today!

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Episode 29 - Philosophy of Science with Rani Lill Anjum

Life From Plato's Cave

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 58:43

Rani Lill Anjum is a philosopher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), working in philosophy of science and medicine. She leads the Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science (NMBU CAPS), together with Yevgeniya Tomkiv. Her expertise is in the philosophy of causality, complexity, probability and risk, and other philosophical biases in science that influence choice of theory, method, policy and practice. She uses Twitter for professional networking. She loves experimenting in her teaching and she made a syllabus in podcast episodes for her Introduction to Philosophy class, to reduce screen time when teaching went digital. She has written about her experience with teaching during the pandemic for Daily Nous. Sources: We refer to this drawing of Plato's allegory I published my first article as an independent researcher. It is about my vision on the climate crisis, and you can read it here: https://futurebased.org/topics/earthucation-using-interdisciplinary-philosophy-education-and-science-communication-to-understand-the-climate-crisis/ This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

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Are International Surrogates Exploited with Stephen Wilkinson

Taboo Trades

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 68:07

In today's episode, UVA Law 3Ls, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli join me to continue our discussion with Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee.Much of his work is about reproductive ethics and the regulation of reproductive technologies, especially the ethics of selective reproduction. A book on this topic (Choosing Tomorrow's Children, Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. Since then, particular interests have included ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation, non-invasive pre-natal testing, mitochondrial replacement, new sources of eggs and sperm, genome editing, surrogacy, and public funding for infertility treatment.Another abiding interest is the commercial exploitation of the human body, which was the subject of his first book, Bodies for Sale (Routledge, 2003), which we discuss in this episode, together with his 2016 article, Exploitation in international paid surrogacy arrangements, which appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Professor Stephen Wilkinson Bio, Lancaster University: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/stephen-wilkinson Exploitation in international paid surrogacy arrangementsWilkinson, S. 05/2016 In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 33, 2, p. 125-145 Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body tradeWilkinson, S. 2003 New York : Routledge. 248 p. ISBN: 9780415266253 .

#19 Lessons in pandemic pharmacovigilance – Elena Rocca

Drug Safety Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 33:11

The COVID-19 pandemic forced pharmacovigilance experts to revisit their processes to deal with unprecedented volumes of data and catch unexpected safety issues. Elena Rocca from Oslo Metropolitan University reviews the challenges of a global healthcare emergency – and what it can teach us about the science of drug safety.Tune in to find out:How to handle uncertain evidenceWhy clinical expertise matters in the age of big dataWhy pharmacovigilance requires interdisciplinary thinking Want to know more?In the article that inspired this episode, Elena Rocca and Birgitta Grundmark describe the practical, conceptual, and ethical challenges pharmacovigilance experts were faced with during the pandemic. See also this review by Annette Rudolph and colleagues at Uppsala Monitoring Centre on the unique challenges of a global vaccination campaign.Elena's reflections on big data pharmacovigilance and its ethical implications were inspired by Sabina Leonelli's work on big data biology and mathematician Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction.The CauseHealth Pharmacovigilance project, a collaboration between UMC and the NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science in Norway, ran between 2018 and 2021.For more philosophical inspiration, revisit this interview with Eugene van Puijenbroek on intuition in pharmacovigilance or this Uppsala Reports Long Read on new approaches to causality.Join the conversation on social mediaFollow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and share your thoughts about the show with the hashtag #DrugSafetyMatters.Got a story to share?We're always looking for new content and interesting people to interview. If you have a great idea for a show, get in touch!About UMCRead more about Uppsala Monitoring Centre and how we work to advance medicines safety.

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International Surrogacy with Stephen Wilkinson

Taboo Trades

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 40:57

My guest today is Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson and I'm joined by two UVA Law 3L co-hosts, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee.Much of his work is about reproductive ethics and the regulation of reproductive technologies, especially the ethics of selective reproduction. A book on this topic (Choosing Tomorrow's Children, Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. Since then, particular interests have included ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation, non-invasive pre-natal testing, mitochondrial replacement, new sources of eggs and sperm, genome editing, surrogacy, and public funding for infertility treatment.Another abiding interest is the commercial exploitation of the human body, which was the subject of his first book, Bodies for Sale (Routledge, 2003), which we discuss in this episode, together with his 2016 article, Exploitation in international paid surrogacy arrangements, which appeared in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Professor Stephen Wilkinson Bio, Lancaster University: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/stephen-wilkinson Exploitation in international paid surrogacy arrangementsWilkinson, S. 05/2016 In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 33, 2, p. 125-145 Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body tradeWilkinson, S. 2003 New York : Routledge. 248 p. ISBN: 9780415266253 .

TAVERNA: Entrevista Michele Luz | POR QUE o Bolsonarismo é TÃO POPULAR? 01

Canal do Slow

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 129:59

Como explicar a popularidade do bolsonarismo? Como um político do baixo clero, que sempre esteve nos bastidores, recebeu tantos holofotes e engajou tantos seguidores pelo país? No episódio de hoje, conversaremos com a incrível Michele Luz, que mergulhou na sua tese de doutorado "o bolsonarismo à luz das teorias contemporâneas do populismo", para entendermos melhor essa questão. Se preparem pra essa baita entrevista, que o papo será muito bom! Mini bio da Michele: Doutora em Ciência Política pelo Instituto de Filosofia, Sociologia e Política da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (IFISP/UFPel) com período sanduíche (PDSE/CAPES) junto ao Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, Reino Unido. Mestra em Ciência Política (2017) e Bacharela em Ciências Sociais (2015) pela mesma Instituição. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa "Ideologia e Análise de Discurso (IdAD/UFPel)" e do Projeto "Transnational Populism" (CAPPE/University of Brighton). Pesquisa nas áreas do populismo, teoria do discurso, redes sociais e comunicação política ✌ Inscreva-Se ✔ Curtir ✔ Compartilhar✔ Comentar ✔ A sobrevivência do projeto depende do apoio de vocês! Participe da nossa comunidade de apoiadores e ganhe vários benefícios! ✅ APOIA SE: https://apoia.se/canaldoslow ✅ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/canaldoslow ✅ PADRIM: https://www.padrim.com.br/canaldoslow Para contribuições avulsas:

Episode 16 - In Conversation with Prof Miranda Fricker and Prof Havi Carel

Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2022 51:01

Ian and Dieter talk with Prof Miranda Fricker and Prof Havi Carel about epistemic injustice, harms in health contexts, and the connections that philosophical thinking has with literature and art. Miranda Fricker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research is primarily in Ethics and Social Epistemology with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007); co-author and editor of Reading Ethics: Selected texts with interactive commentary (2009); and co-editor of a number of collections, the most recent of which is The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology (2019). She was Director of the Mind Association from 2010-2015; Assistant Editor of the Journal of the APA from 2014-2020; and since 2015 has served as Moral Philosopher on the Spoliation Advisory Panel, a UK government-appointed body of expert advisers that considers claims concerning loss of cultural property during the Nazi era. She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This year she was elected President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) 2022-23. Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where she also teaches medical students. In 2020 she completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, leading a five-year project, the Life of Breath. She was awarded the Health Humanities' Inspiration Award 2018 for her work on the project. Havi won the IJPS 2021 PERITIA Prize for her paper ‘When Institutional Opacity Meets Individual Vulnerability: Institutional Testimonial Injustice' (co-authored with Ian Kidd), published in International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Her third monograph was published by Oxford University Press in 2016, entitled Phenomenology of Illness. Havi was voted by students as a ‘Best of Bristol' lecturer in 2016. Havi is the author of Illness (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is the co-editor of Health, Illness and Disease (2012) and of What Philosophy Is (2004). She uses film in teaching and has co-edited a volume entitled New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010). She also co-edited a special issue of Philosophy on ‘Human Experience and Nature' (2013). She previously published on the embodied experience of illness, epistemic injustice in healthcare, vulnerability, wellbeing within illness, transformative experience, death, and on the experience of respiratory illness in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and in edited collections.

Episode 104: Part two of the conversation with Thomas Attig on his book, "Catching your breath in grief."

The Hospice Chaplaincy Show with Saul Ebema

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2022 31:10

Tom is also a well-known speaker, having offered conference programs across the United States, Canada, and Japan and in England, Australia, Israel, and Germany as well as innumerable talks and workshops for nurses, physicians, funeral directors, clinical psychologists, social service providers, gerontologists, hospice workers, bereavement coordinators, clergy, educators, civic organizations and the general public.He taught philosophy at Bowling Green State University for nearly twenty-five years, serving as Department Chair for eleven years and leading efforts to establish the first Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy in the world in 1987. Tom left as Professor Emeritus in Philosophy in 1995 to become an independent applied philosopher. A Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, he also served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

A conversation with Thomas Attig on his book, "Catching your breath in grief."

The Hospice Chaplaincy Show with Saul Ebema

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 38:54

Tom is also a well-known speaker, having offered conference programs across the United States, Canada, and Japan and in England, Australia, Israel, and Germany as well as innumerable talks and workshops for nurses, physicians, funeral directors, clinical psychologists, social service providers, gerontologists, hospice workers, bereavement coordinators, clergy, educators, civic organizations and the general public.He taught philosophy at Bowling Green State University for nearly twenty-five years, serving as Department Chair for eleven years and leading efforts to establish the first Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy in the world in 1987. Tom left as Professor Emeritus in Philosophy in 1995 to become an independent applied philosopher. A Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, he also served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement.

Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education - Megan Brown, Mario Veen & Gabrielle Finn

Life From Plato's Cave

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2022 88:30

The book Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education by Megan Brown, Mario Veen and Gabrielle Finn considers the practical application of philosophical concepts to teaching, learning, and research, covers philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Practical Wisdom, and includes practice points for educators within each chapter of the book. *To skip to a specific presentation, scroll down to the end for all the times* In this episode (and if you're a regular listener of this podcast you may skip to another episode unless you are interested in this topic) some of the authors present their chapter. We invite you to our book launch conference on September 13th, 7pm-9pm BST. It's free and you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsH_0JJ0tu1Zy8b-DpNdvP9mvVixSFyBVHE21diIXElUalGQ/viewform The book launch will be dedicated to discussion between attending authors and those who sign up. We've had fantastic interest from our contributing authors regarding attending the launch, so it looks set to be a rich and practical discussion regarding how we can "philosophize" health professions education. The book is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3 If you are interested in philosophy and education after listening to this episode, I invite you to listen to Episode 22 of this podcast: World-Centered Education with Gert Biesta https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ios0v1c7SvA5Q3vLRSfMr?si=lz5FfBltQOS1CBz6muOEUw&utm_source=whatsapp&nd=1 If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us on twitter. After all, the only stupid question is the one you did not ask: Megan Brown: https://twitter.com/Megan_EL_Brown Mario Veen: https://twitter.com/MarioVeen Gabrielle finn: https://twitter.com/gabs_finn Timecodes of the presentations in this episode: 2:58 Chapter 2 Philosophy of Education: Towards a Practical Philosophy of Educational Practice Wouter Pols, Joop Berding 9:55 Chapter 3 Subjectification in Health Professions Education: Why We Should Look Beyond the Idea of Professional Identity Formation Simon Verwer, Marije van Braak 17:55 Chapter 4 The Serious Healer: Developing an Ethic of Ambiguity Within Health Professions Education Mario Veen, Megan E. L. Brown 25:02 Chapter 5 Acknowledgement: The Antidote to Skillification (of Empathy) in Health Professions Education Anne de la Croix, Grace Peters, William F. Laughey 30:22 Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Social Justice: Lessons for Achieving Progress in Health Professions Education Through Meaningful Inclusion Angelique N. Dueñas, Marina Politis, Adam Danquah 33:16 Chapter 10 The Future of Healthcare is Feminist: Philosophical Feminism in Health Professions Education Lena Wånggren, Gabrielle Maria Finn 39:19 Chapter 12 “What Does It Mean to Be?”: Ontology and Responsibility in Health Professions Education Tasha R. Wyatt, Rola Ajjawi, Mario Veen 47:24 Chapter 15 Ethics Education in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 50:12 Chapter 23 Teaching Dignity in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 53:11 Chapter 16 Climate Change and Health Care Education Cristina Richie 58:41 Chapter 18 Philosophy as Therapy: Rebalancing Technology and Care in Health Professions Education Martina Ann Kelly, Tim Dornan, Tinu Ruparell 1:04:10 Chapter 20 Phronesis in Medical Practice: The Will and the Skill Needed to Do the Right Thing Margaret Plews-Ogan, Kenneth E. Sharpe 1:12:20 Chapter 21 In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education Sven Schaepkens, Camillo Coccia 1:18:04 Chapter 22 The Application of Stoicism to Health Professions Education Alexander MacLellan, Megan E. L. Brown, Tim LeBon, Neil Guha 1:25:18 Chapter 24 The Ambiguities of Humility: A Conceptual and Historical Exploration in the Context of Health Professions Education Barret Michalec, Frederic W. Hafferty, Nicole Piemonte, Jon C. Tilburt

Episode #009 - Technology, Trust and Assessment

Let Me Ask You Something

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2022 50:04

We discuss "A Matter of Trust: Online Proctored Exams and the Integration of Technologies of Assessment in Medical Education" by Tim Fawns and Sven Schaepkens. You can download the open access article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10401334.2022.2048832 This is the 9th installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal -- it will also appear as a book chapter in our upcoming book Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Springer, forthcoming 2022). *at around 20 minutes into the podcast, we refer to Nguyen's work on trust, and he uses the example of the climbing rope: https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUTAA Tim Fawns (@timbocob) is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is Deputy Programme Director of the online MSc Clinical Education, Director of the international Edinburgh Summer School in Clinical Education and also run a course in “Postdigital Society” for the Edinburgh Futures Institute. His main academic interests are in teaching, learning and assessment (mostly in healthcare and professional education but often with a strong focus on technology and online and blended modalities). He also researches autobiographical memory in relation to technology and media (mostly photography). Before his current role, he was a learning technologist, and a graphic and web designer before that. He's an Australian who went travelling one day and forgot to go back, married an Edinburgher and now has three kids who think they're Scottish. Selected papers include: - Fawns, T. (2022). An Entangled Pedagogy: Looking Beyond the Pedagogy—Technology Dichotomy. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00302-7. - Fawns, T., Aitken, G., Jones, D. (Eds.) (2021). Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World.: Beyond Technology. Cham: Springer. - Fawns, T. (2019). Postdigital education in design and practice. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0021-8. Sven Schaepkens (@SvenSchaepkens) is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. He studies ‘reflection in practice' in the Dutch GP specialty training since 2019, and holds a double Master's degree in philosophy and media studies, and has an MA in Education of Philosophy. Before he started his PhD work, he was a teaching fellow at the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Selected papers include: - Schaepkens SPC, Veen M, de la Croix A. Is reflection like soap? a critical narrative umbrella review of approaches to reflection in medical education research. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2022 May;27(2):537-551. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10459-021-10082-7 - Schaepkens, S.P.C., Coccia, C.Q.H. (2022). In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education. In: Brown, M.E.L., Veen, M., Finn, G.M. (eds) Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3_21 Dr.Komal Atta (@DrKomalA) is currently serving as Director Medical Education , University Medical and Dental College, The University of Faisalabad , Pakistan. Her academic interests include Social Media in medical education, Technology Enhanced Learning, Curriculum Developement , Professional identity formation and faculty deveopment. She has won multiple grants and awards in the field and likes to explore Medical Education as an intersection between philosphy, medicine, art and comics. Selected publications include: - Is it better to “Zoom out” than to fade away? Combating burnout created by online teaching https://harvardmacy.org/index.php/hmi/is-it-better-to-zoom - Ahmed SA, Hegazy NN, Kumar AP, Abouzeid E, Wasfy NF, Atta K, Wael D, Hamdy H. A guide to best practice in faculty development for health professions schools: a qualitative analysis. BMC medical education. 2022 Dec;22(1):1-6. https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-022-03208-x - Atta K, Passby L, Edwards S, Baker KA, El-Sbahi H, Kathrecha N, Mitchell B, Najim Z, Orr E, Phillips A, Soltan MA. Developing channel-based online teaching. The clinical teacher. 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tct.13509 Mario Veen (@MarioVeen) is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Mario is action editor for the Philosophy in Medical Education series of the journal Teaching & Learning in Medicine and co-editor of the first two books about philosophy and medical education: Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding (Springer, 2022) and Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2022). He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something, and Life From Plato's Cave. If you have any questions about this episode, let me know! https://twitter.com/MarioVeen and https://marioveen.com/ Mario

Episode 18 - How Doctors Think with Camillo Coccia

Life From Plato's Cave

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 109:58

Camillo is a medical doctor from South Africa. Currently he works as a senior house officer at Letterkenny University Hospital department of Hematology. He has a special interests in existentialist philosophy, German idealism and phenomenology. We published a paper together called "Because We Care: a philosophical investigation into the spirit of medical education". We discuss that paper at length in another podcast, [link will appear here when it is out]. Camillo also published a book chapter with Sven Schaepkens, called "In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into kairos and reflection in medical practice and health professions education" This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. Sources: Camillo Coccia & Mario Veen (2022) Because We Care: A Philosophical Investigation into the Spirit of Medical Education, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2056744 Schaepkens, S.P.C., Coccia, C.Q.H. (2022). In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education. In: Brown, M.E.L., Veen, M., Finn, G.M. (eds) Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3_21 Veen, M., Skelton, J. & de la Croix, A. Knowledge, skills and beetles: respecting the privacy of private experiences in medical education. Perspect Med Educ 9, 111–116 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00565-5 Hannah Arendt (2021) film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt_(film) I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Ep90 Jes Harfeld on ethics, breaking down disciplinary boundaries, & the importance of finding out why we are thinking as we are thinking right now

WeBuzz by AnimalConcepts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2022 82:57

“I think one of the things we should do, and that I am experiencing more and more, is that, in order to think differently we have to look to the past, to find out why we are thinking as we are thinking right now”. Let us welcome Jes Lynning Harfeld, an associate professor of applied ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark. Currently, his research focuses on the connections between animal welfare and ethics in the realm of human-animal interactions and the way that language interacts with thinking and character. It was not until Jes's PhD when he came across Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, did he develop an interest in the ethical dilemmas regarding animal welfare. As such, he focused his thesis on the ethical dilemmas of modern agriculture. Querying, what it means to have a find and the different approaches of ethics and how it relates to animals. “Animal welfare understandings as types of interpretations, reading their signals then jumping to conclusions." Jes and Sabrina then discuss the ethics and the varying interpretations of animal welfare, an intrinsically subjective phenomenon, across different audiences. Jes then, using a couple of his papers, explains the development of animal welfare sciences. “Making barriers between disciplines is one of the things that is not a good thing for animal welfare science, we have to break down disciplinary boundaries to do even better animal welfare science” Read about ‘What is animal happiness' HERERead about ‘Rights, solidarity, and the animal welfare state' HERERead about ‘Bearing Witness' by Class Kirchelle HERE Become a member HERE

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FBL48: Nolen Gertz - The Nihilism and Philosophy of Technology

Singularity University Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 55:32

This week our guest is Nolen Gertz, who is an Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and the author of several books including “Nihilism and Technology.” In this episode we really focus on the philosophical side of technology, exploring related concepts of hedonism, the need for struggle, apathy for the world's challenges, and much more. Ultimately, Nolen proposes that technology is allowing us to stay comfortable and nihilistic while the world burns around us and that we need to embrace responsibility in order to restore a balance to our lives. Following Nolen and his work at twitter.com/ethicistforhire ** Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter Music by: Amine el Filali

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Episode #006 - Phenomenological research

Let Me Ask You Something

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 50:55

What makes a study phenomenological? What is the difference between phenomenological and a non-phenomenological research? And what makes it valuable for medical education? We discuss the sixth installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal -- "Phenomenological Research In Health Professions Education: Tunneling from both ends" by Chris Rietmeijer and Mario Veen. You can download the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2021.1971989 Chris Rietmeijer has been a family doctor for over 20 years. He is now working as a teacher and curriculum designer for Dutch training of family physicians. Chris is also a PhD student, researching direct observation in postgraduate training relationships. And he lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Anna Cianciolo is an associate professor of medical education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Editor in Chief of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, home of the Philosophy in Medical Education series. Mario Veen (@MarioVeen) is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Mario is action editor for the Philosophy in Medical Education series of the journal Teaching & Learning in Medicine and co-editor of the first two books about philosophy and medical education: Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding (Springer, 2022) and Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2022). He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something, and Life From Plato's Cave. If you have any questions about this episode, let me know! https://twitter.com/MarioVeen and https://marioveen.com/ Mario

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Scientists have Exposed the False Theory of Climate Change

Climate Breaking News ALLATRA

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 10:42

The most important speculation of our time is that people are blamed for climate change due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As an argument, there is a consensus of scientists on this issue, which, supposedly, accounts for 99%. But this is a lie. Those who actively promote the key role of the anthropogenic factor in climate change are silent that this consensus has no scientific basis. This belief is artificially created by not giving a voice to scientists who have a different opinion. And the theory of climate change as a result of CO2 emissions does not have a scientific evidence base. It is built on climate models that are unable to reconstruct past temperatures or explain the rise in global temperatures today. However, despite the strongest pressure on the scientific community, there are real heroes among scientists who do not compromise their principles for profit. And several of them gave detailed comments exclusively for the conference “Global Crisis. Time for the Truth." Hans Borge (Norway) Ph.D. in industrial mathematics, General Director of The Climate Realists Ole Henrik Ellestad (Norway) Professor of Chemistry, MSc in Physical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Jan-Erik Solheim (Norway) Professor Emeritus of The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at University of Oslo Gregory Wrightstone Geologist (BS and MS in Geology), Executive Director of CO2 coalition, bestselling author (Inconvenient Facts), and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6). Dr. H.STERLING Burnett Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy, Senior Fellow on environmental policy and Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News Now the world is on the verge of climate collapse, and while we are being distracted from real climate change with lies about CO2, the Truth is more important than ever. Even for people who have been mistaken for a long time about the causes of climate change, it is now important to show their human qualities and set things right. Because only by understanding the true reasons for what is happening, we will be able to understand how to resist the threat of the death of the entire civilization.

Episode 10 - Applied Philosophy, Unconscious Obsessions, The CUP Gurus (Special)

Certain Uncertainty Podcast (CUP)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2021 41:03

Episode 10 (Spotify & Apple Podcasts)Jon and Joe discuss topics on:0:00 - Jon & Joe Personal philosophies and why we started this podcast9:30 - Idealogical masterpieces in the philosophies that have lasted over centuries and strive for artistic mastery16:44 - How do we transcend our unconscious obsessions rather than follow known paths in life?25:13 - How do we filter out poor and/or redundant advice and learning in the era of overstimulation of information?34:22 - How do we quantify the quality of modern ideas as they arise?Every Monday at 12:00 pm (PST)

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Episode 331 - Susan Feldman‘s Counterfact Conspiracy Theories

The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 47:50

Josh and Me review "Counterfact Conspiracy Theories" by Susan Feldman, as published in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy in 2011. — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

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Episode 173: Directed panspermia with Gary O'Brien

Knowing Animals

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2021 26:11

On this episode of Knowing Animals, we talk to Gary O'Brien (a DPhil student in Philosophy at the University of Oxford) about his paper "Directed Panspermia, Wild Animal Suffering, and the Ethics of World Creation", which was published "online first" in the Journal of Applied Philosophy earlier in 2021. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA (the Australasian Animal Studies Association). You can join AASA today! It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press. Take a look at their list of animal studies books on the Sydney University Press website.

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The Qualitative Research Series - Critical of what? Opening up possibilities through the lens of critical theory with Dr Anna Rajala

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 61:06

Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.Thanks again to all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon – your support is making these episodes and this qualitative research series possible. And you can visit the Patreon here if you'd like to support the show.So, we're up to episode seven of this qualitative research series, and today I'm speaking with Dr Anna Rajala about critical theory.Anna originally trained as a Physiotherapist (Pirkanmaa University of Applied Sciences in Finland), and then pursued Master of Art's in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health (UCL in London).She recently completed her PhD in Humanities, at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, at the University of Brighton, UK. Her thesis analysed the relationship between theory and practice of the critical theorist Theodor Adorno's philosophy and her work re-reads the relationship in the context of ethical theories and concepts used in physiotherapy.Anna is currently working as a Researcher in the Academy of Finland funded project Assembling Postcapitalist International Political Economy at Tampere University in Finland, in which she is analysing global physiotherapy discourses on dementia, politics, and economics. She is Co-chair of Critical Physiotherapy Network, co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal of the Finnish Death Studies Association, and co-founder of a mental health physiotherapy webpage. Read more about Anna's work in her blog hereAnna's research interests include German and French philosophy, medical humanities, ethics, politics of affect, and philosophy and global political economy of dementia, mental health, incontinence, and rehabilitation.She has published on the embodied value of long-term care and critical physiotherapy ethics, and she is currently preparing both single- and co-authored publications on Critical Discourse Analysis and diverse economies of dementia rehabilitation, deconstructive readings of incontinence-related political economy, and a critical reading of Shakespeare's character Richard III.So she perfectly qualified to walk us through critical theory.In this episode we speak about: Critical theory as a framework for pursing qualitative research (see book here by Jerry Willis that we mention in our chat). The reach of critical theory into political, social and economic life. How qualitative research which is situated in critical theory looks to challenge the taken for granted assumptions, social norms and practices and the understanding of discourses and power inequalities. How critical theory is also critical of itself and has gone some way to evolving away from its Marxist roots. How critical research tries to go beyond merely describing the social world and its problems but has a moral focus on change, action and emancipation as a result of the knowledge it generates. Finally Anna shares some of her own research using her critical theory lens and offers advice for those wanting to begin to explore and think with critical theory (see here). So this was such an interesting and enlightening conversation with Anna. As you'll hear, I was somewhat daunted by the theoretical, social and political weight and breadth of critical theory and I was concerned I would feel like a child lost in an amusement park when trying to convey its history and relevance to qualitative work – but fortunately Anna held my hand firmly and skilfully guided me through the conversation.While we didn't dive deep into critical theory, as we would have never likely never surfaced – I think that we covered sufficient ground to introduce some of its major premises and positions and hope it provide an entrance point for those wanting to learn more – I know it certainly did for me.Find Anna on Twitter @AnnaIlonaRajala You can support the show and contribute via Patreon hereIf you liked the podcast, you'll love The Words Matter online course and mentoring to develop your clinical expertise - ideal for all MSK therapists.Follow Words Matter on:Instagram @Wordsmatter_education @TheWordsMatterPodcastTwitter @WordsClinicalFacebook Words Matter - Improving Clinical Communication★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Nihilism with Nolen Gertz

Hermitix

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 47:33

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, in this episode we discuss his book Nihilism, alongside topics such as meaning, pessimism, active and passive nihilism, as well as the films Office Space and Falling Down. Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix Discord Support Hermitix: Subscribe Hermitix Patreon Hermitix Merchandise One off Donations at Ko-Fi Hermitix Twitter Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0xfd2bbe86d6070004b9Cbf682aB2F25170046A996

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Nihilism with Nolen Gertz

Hermitix

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 47:33

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, in this episode we discuss his book Nihilism, alongside topics such as meaning, pessimism, active and passive nihilism, as well as the films Office Space and Falling Down. Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix Discord Support Hermitix: Subscribe Hermitix Patreon Hermitix Merchandise One off Donations at Ko-Fi Hermitix Twitter Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0xfd2bbe86d6070004b9Cbf682aB2F25170046A996

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PodChatLive Episode 93 with Rani Lill Anjum & Alex Murray [Causation in Podiatry] Part 1

PodChatLive - Live Podiatry Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021 50:00

Live podiatry chats with Craig Payne and Ian Griffiths. In this episode we were joined by Rani Lill Anjum & Alex Murray. Rani is a research fellow and leader for the Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is also the PI for CauseHealth, a project focused on rethinking causality, complexity and evidence in health sciences. Alex is a Podiatrist based in Canberra. He is the Director of Podiatry Systems, a company dedicated to producing high quality CPD for Podiatrists, and is a communication/education partner of CauseHealth. They both joined us to muse about how confident we can/should be about the causes and effects we see in clinic, the context within which we should view the conclusions of RCTs, and how we should embrace patient uniqueness and complexity when formulating management plans.

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PodChatLive Episode 93 with Rani Lill Anjum & Alex Murray [Causation in Podiatry] Part 2

PodChatLive - Live Podiatry Discussion

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021 39:51

Live podiatry chats with Craig Payne and Ian Griffiths. In this episode we were joined by Rani Lill Anjum & Alex Murray. Rani is a research fellow and leader for the Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is also the PI for CauseHealth, a project focused on rethinking causality, complexity and evidence in health sciences. Alex is a Podiatrist based in Canberra. He is the Director of Podiatry Systems, a company dedicated to producing high quality CPD for Podiatrists, and is a communication/education partner of CauseHealth. They both joined us to muse about how confident we can/should be about the causes and effects we see in clinic, the context within which we should view the conclusions of RCTs, and how we should embrace patient uniqueness and complexity when formulating management plans.

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Applied Philosophy, applied

The Unionists

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2021 4:31

The essence of "life" as giving away His life in, and within, our lives.

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5. Peter Singer - Global Access To Knowledge

Utility + Function

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2020 61:04

Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism and his essay “Famine, Affluence and Morality”, in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global por. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian. On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004 Singer was recognized as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. In 2005. The Sydney Morning Herald placed him among Australia’s ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer is a cofounder of Animals Australia and the founder of The Life You Can Save. Journalists have tagged him as the ‘world’s most influential living philosopher’ as Singer’s work on ethics behind the treatment of animals have been credited to starting the modern animal rights movements. He is a known critic of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics. Several key figures in the animal movement have said that his book Animal Liberation, led them to get involved in the struggle to reduce the vast amount of suffering we inflict on animals. To that end, he co-founded the Australian Federation of Animal Societies, now Animals Australia, the country's largest and most effective animal organization. He and his wife, Renata, stopped eating meat in 1971. He is the founder of The Life You Can Save, an organization based on his book. It aims to spread Peter’s ideas about why we should be doing much more to improve the lives of people living in extreme poverty, and how we can best do this. You can view his TED talk on this topic here. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek.)

Meaningful Sport – Dr Emily Ryall (Pt3) | Technology | Sport Philosophy | Heidegger | Fairness | Safety

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2020 42:13

It is difficult to imagine any sporting activity that is devoid of technology. But how do new sporting technologies affect the values we ascribe to sport? In this new episode with Dr Emily Ryall, we revisit some of our discussion in a previous episode about the intrinsic/extrinsic values of sport and start exploring how technology can make sport and sport performance appear less meaningful.Technology is often introduced to make sport safer and fairer. Does it always do this? While in some cases yes, we can also see ‘revenge effects’ of technology whereby it actually increases other risks by giving athletes a false sense of safety.While we explore the potential adverse effects of technology, we also note how it has enable sport to be more inclusive, particularly in adaptive and disability sports, and has created opportunities for more people to have meaningful experiences in sport. Dr Emily Ryall is Reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire who enjoys wrestling with the deep and complex questions about the role of sport in human life. She has written on a range of philosophical and ethical questions in sport and enjoys teaching in relation to these issues as well as philosophy of science, critical thinking and the logic of arguments.

Should Robots Have Rights? With Rob Sparrow

Brain in a Vat

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2020 70:01

Is it wrong to destroy an AI if it can have a conversation with a human being? If a robot expresses suffering is it wrong to torture it? Should we mourn the death of a robot lover? Sparrow, R. 2004. The Turing triage test. Ethics and Information Technology 6(4): 203-213. Sparrow, R. 2007. Killer robots. Journal of Applied Philosophy 24(1): 62-77, March. Sparrow, R. 2020. Virtue and vice in our relationships with robots: Is there an asymmetry and how might it be explained? International Journal of Social Robotics

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#20 - Implicit Biases: The Undercurrent of Social Injustices with Dr. Madva

The Elements of Being Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2020 71:17

Welcome to “The Elements of Being” podcast, where I dissect and explore the minds and habits of psychologists, filmmakers, writers, and industry icons. Essentially, we learn what makes them flip the switch to achieve great feats, goals, and milestones…and a chance to geek out over the psychology behind human behavior.So, what is this podcast specifically about? I examine the mental and emotional narratives and processes that have steered writers, filmmakers, psychologists, and industry icons down their paths in life. Each episode is also a glimpse into the trends and patterns of human behavior and the underlying influences that navigate us into different directions. Whether we primarily focus on nutrition or the unconscious, guests share insights, thought-provoking lessons, the nuances of creativity, and the elements of being….us.Today, I explore the relationship between racism and implicit biases with Dr. Alex Madva, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the California Center for Ethics & Policy at Cal Poly Pomona. He recently co-edited the volume, An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind with his colleague Erin Beeghly, and took the time break down systemic racism and the implicit biases that not only pervade the recent cases involving George Floyd and Kyle Rittenhouse but also steer our perception of such matters. Essentially, we are digging into the unconscious and examining how simple labels of racism may not account for the underlying complexity of these situations.Dr. Madva's research and teaching explore how developments in social psychology inform the philosophy of mind, philosophy of race and feminism, and applied ethics, especially prejudice and discrimination. He has written on these topics for journals including Ethics, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Cognitive Science, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Ergo, Mind and Language, and several more. Dr. Madva is currently co-editing another, The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives.Dr. Madva has taught numerous classes on Race and Racism, Social and Political Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Feminist Philosophy of Science, Contemporary Moral Problems, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, and upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on social psychology and philosophy, including a new course he developed at CPP, The Philosophy & Science of Implicit Bias.Dr. Madva is also actively engaged in collaborative empirical research. One ongoing project, funded by the NSF, is testing interventions to reduce achievement gaps and increase belonging for underrepresented groups at Cal Poly Pomona, in disciplines such as physics, economics, mathematics, biology, and philosophy. His published empirical research has appeared in journals, including Ratio and the International Journal of STEM Education. He is also collaborating with computer scientists, engineers, and social scientists to study the spread of misinformation and prejudice across social media, ultimately to counteract these trends. Folks, Dr. Madva, has literally written the textbook on implicit bias.In our interview, here's what we specifically discussed:-The intersection of Dr. Madva's philosophy, psychology, and sociology studies and the evolution of his interest in implicit biases.-Epistemic humility and the connection to the recent cases regarding police officers in the media.-The evolutionary function of implicit biases.-The reasons why unconscious prejudices still exist despite conscious commitments to be fair and unprejudiced.-How to determine when implicit biases are serving our personal needs and honoring individuals outside of us appropriately.-How to test our hidden biases.-How to use debiasing tools, like “If-Then” Plans and the “Common-Ground Mindsets” Tool, to bridge the gap between intention and action.-The relationship between “trusting our gut” and implicit biases.-How ingroup-outgroup distinctions and status preferences contribute to our sets of unconscious beliefs.-How to create structural reform with a cross-experiential approach.***To learn more about Dr. Alex Madva and implicit biases, visit http://www.alexmadva.com/.***Interested in sponsoring the podcast or being a guest? Please visit https://www.theelementsofbeing.com/psychology-podcast-contact-us.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/Itunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and other listeners and guests definitely appreciate them!

Meaningful Sport – Dr Emily Ryall (Pt2) | Sport Philosophy | Authenticity | Existentialism | Being a Substitute

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2020 30:33

What does it mean to be authentic in sport? Are there different threats to authenticity in team and individual sports? Does sport culture promote bad faith? This is the second part of our discussion with Emily Ryall. Our starting point is her article "Being-on-the-Bench: An Existential Analysis of the Substitute in Sport" published in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (2008).Dr Emily Ryall is a reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire who enjoys wrestling with the deep and complex questions about the role of sport in human life. She has written on a range of philosophical and ethical questions in sport and enjoys teaching in relation to these issues as well as philosophy of science, critical thinking and the logic of arguments.

Causation in complexity - Philosophy for practice with Dr Rani Lill Anjum

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2020 82:58

Welcome to episode 16 of The Words Matter Podcast.On this episode I speak with philosopher Dr Rani Lill Anjum.Rani is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Many of you will be aware of the research project she leads called Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences, AKA CauseHealth. She is one of the leaders of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science. In this episode: Rani takes us through the CauseHealth project and one of its major outputs 'the Book' named ‘Rethinking causality, complexity and evidence for the unique patient (see here). This is excellent resource, with contributions from philosophers and clinicians to help tackle with the philosophical biases that tacitly motivate evidence-based and person-centered clinical practice. She helps us dip our toe into the concept of causation and the different ways it can be conceptualised, and the importance of these conceptions with how we recognise evidence in relation to our clinical practice. We talk about what is a paradigm and the dominance of the scientific paradigm which underpins many of the assumptions of evidence-based practice. We touch on the reliance of RCTs in generating causal evidence and the potential contribution of other methods, including qualitative research to contribute to a better understanding of casual relationships. So it all gets pretty philosophical, and this episode might require more than one listen. This sort of philosophy is hard. I know when editing the episode, and re-listening, the excellent information and philosophical concepts sunk deeper into my brain and became more obvious- so please stick with it- it's well worth it.I cannot recommend the CauseHealth book highly enough- it's a fantastic resource and can be downloaded for free from Springer. Rani also has an excellent video on Youtube presenting these ideas in more detail- the video is here and is well worth watching to get a grip of this important area.Find Rani on Twitter @ranilillanjum and @Cause_HealthSee here for more about RaniIf you liked the podcast, you'll love the Words Matter online course on effective language and communication when managing back pain - ideal for all MSK therapists and students.Help the podcast grow and don't miss an episode- Subscribe, Rate and Share. Instagram @Wordsmatter_education and @ThewordsmatterpodcastTwitter @WordsClinicalFacebook Words Matter - Improving Clinical Communication ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Meaningful Sport – Dr Emily Ryall (Pt1) | Sport and Good Life | Seriousness | Triviality

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 39:34

This is the first part of our discussions with Dr Emily Ryall where we explore foundational questions about meaning of sport in human life. Sport is clearly trivial: we cannot survive without food and shelter, but we can easily survive without sport. Why, then, are so many people across the globe passionately involved in sport? And if sport is trivial, should we take it seriously, and how seriously? What happens if we take sport too seriously?And finally, we delve to critiques of elite sport and the role of sport/exercise technology in possibly distorting our relationship with movement and our bodies.Dr Emily Ryall is a reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire who enjoys wrestling with the deep and complex questions about the role of sport in human life. She has written on a range of philosophical and ethical questions in sport and enjoys teaching in relation to these issues as well as philosophy of science, critical thinking and the logic of arguments.

Ep73: Fact vs Fiction: why do people believe fake news?

That's what I call Science!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2020 27:50

What is misinformation and why do people believe it?Niamh and Kate chat about misinformation in the digital age with UTAS Philosopher and senior lecturer, Dr David Coady. We ask David about the debate around climate change and he gives us insights into conspiracy theories (and if we should really call them that), rumours and information spread.This is part of a 3-part series for National Science Week Tasmania 2020. The team are running a webinar with leading experts in science, technology and engineering to discuss how we arm ourselves against fake news and phonies! More info:https://www.facebook.com/events/316633542792311/ Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHosts: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS) & Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles) & Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Olivia Holloway (@LivHolloway_) & Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)

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David Coady's "Conspiracy Theories and Official Stories"

The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 59:44

Josh and M review David Coady's 2003 paper, “Conspiracy Theories and Official Stories” (International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 17:2, pp. 197–209). — Josh is @monkeyfluids and M is @conspiracism on Twitter You can also contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com You can learn more about M's academic work at: http://mrxdentith.com Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/podcastersguidetotheconspiracy or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79

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Thinking About Morality with Peter Singer (Ep.12)

Conversations With Coleman

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 57:53

For exclusive member-only content become a CwC subscriber via https://colemanhughes.org/In this episode, Coleman interviews Peter Singer, an Australian moral philosopher, professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Peter is known for his book, ‘Animal Liberation' in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality' in which he argues in favor of donating to the global poor. During this episode they talk about whether moral obligations depend on where you happen to be in the world, whether human happiness is comparative or absolute, Tyler Cowen's book Stubborn Attachments, hedonic adaptations and whether the human race is happier now than it was a thousand years ago, and more.

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Tarred & feathered - talking with Robert Young about the emergence of applied ethics in the 1970s

Undisciplinary

Play Episode Play 33 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 36:22 Transcription Available

In this episode we talk with Prof Robert Young from La Trobe University about the changing nature of philosophy in the 1970s, emergence of applied ethics, and early days of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria.ReferencesYoung, Robert. "Some Criteria for Making Decisions Concerning the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources." Theory and Decision 6, no. 4 (1975): 439-55.Young, Robert. "Voluntary and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia." The Monist (1976): 264-83.Young, Robert. "Voluntary Euthanasia." Medical Journal of Australia 142, no. 2 (1985): 166-66.Music & PhotoCity Plaza - Dan BodanImage modified "Bill Nye's History of the United States. Illustrated by F. Opper"

Thinking About Morality (Ep.12)

Conversations With Coleman

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 57:24

For exclusive member-only content become a CwC subscriber via https://colemanhughes.org/ In this episode, Coleman interviews Peter Singer, an Australian moral philosopher, professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Peter is known for his book, ‘Animal Liberation’ in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ in which he argues in favor of donating to the global poor. During this episode they talk about whether moral obligations depend on where you happen to be in the world, whether human happiness is comparative or absolute, Tyler Cowen’s book Stubborn Attachments, hedonic adaptations and whether the human race is happier now than it was a thousand years ago, and more.

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Dr Clare Woodford: what’s it like to study politics and philosophy at Brighton?

University of Brighton

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 47:59

Dr Clare Woodford, Principal Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) talks about the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the same name and discusses some of the issues in politics today. Find out more about the undergraduate and postgraduate courses Clare teaches on.

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Clive Hamilton’s ‘Hidden Hand’

Overnight with Michael McLaren

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 21:01

Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, joins Michael to discuss his latest book ‘Hidden Hand’, which exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence & subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. Professor Hamilton comprehensively reveals the covert techniques used by the CCP for its influence and interference operations within universities, big business, think tanks and in diplomatic service. The insights into the influence in the UK in particular will provoke new debate in a region that still lags a long way behind us here in Australia in understanding the nature and extent of Chinese interference.

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China threatens an economic boycott

Wake Up Australia: Highlights

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 13:30

Michael is joined by Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, following Ambassador Jingye Cheng suggesting the Chinese public may boycott Australian products, or decide not to visit Australia in the future, if the Australia continues its push for an independent inquiry into the spread of COVID-19. "Maybe also the ordinary people will say why should we drink Australian wine or to eat Australian beef?" China’s ambassador said in a recent interview with the Australian Financial Review.

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5 Does Static Electricity Damage Wind Turbines?

The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 32:31

Static electricity can be a big problem for wind turbines. As the blades spin in adverse conditions like snow, static charge builds up quickly. Companies like Applied Philosophy have created systems to discharge this energy, and in this episode we touch on their SLPS for Gamesa blades. Learn more about Weather Guard Lightning Tech’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast? Email us! Check out the companies we discuss during this podcast:Applied Philosophy - http://appliedphilo.com/slps.html 3:48 Why the Applied Philosophy SLPS is necessary 5:33 Static electricity why is it a big deal 8:47 How does a blade create static electricity 16:05 Static affects the blade dielectric and creates burn marks Transcript: EP5 Does Static Electricity Damage Wind Turbines? 00:00:08 - 00:05:08 Welcome back this is the Uptime Podcasts I'm your co-host Dan Blewett. I'm joined here remotely by lightning protection expert Allen Hall. Allen, How are you. Great Dan how are you doing? I'm good actually well. I had my My pride was damaged the other day but I made two separate trips to the grocery store to two separate grocery stores. I turned away both times. The North door turns your way the security. Do you know why? No mask. No mask. I didn't have a mask on. Yep. Is that is that the law of the land down in Washington Dc right now? I was asking myself that same question because I was like was I supposed to know this. I mean obviously I like walk it was a ten minute walk for the first one and then a farther walked to the next one later in the day. But I don't know how I know the official decree. It sounds like maybe it is. I don't know wanna be no one more tuned into social media the new so. I'm surprised that you didn't know that well I do follow Mayor Bowser here in DC. And they've been doing a really good job in instances are still pretty low here in DC. I appreciate that they're doing. I couldn't really mad like obviously I was irritated because I just like wasted a Twenty-five minute round trip beyond that. It's like you can't be mad at him like all right. I gotta go make a mask and then I made a mask and it was just terrible experiences. I went to the grocery store because I cut up a T. shirt. I duck taped the ends together of this fabric. And then throw it over my headband. And not stay up. I was like Oh this will work fine and did not work fine so I was just going to the grocery store struggling to keep this above my nose. The whole time and Just getting really frustrated by but I guess I see. We'll have you seen the little online. I think I saw it on Youtube about how to make your own mask with the two rubber bands and the paper towel. Yeah I gotta get in a grocery store. I buy rubber bands chicken before the mask thing. Here we go to the store and buy couple mask and put it in the mail and get it over to you so you can go to the grocery store or you're getting mail is mail person coming into the complex there or what. Yeah Yeah I actually got A. I got a new plant featured in the background of the of the video. A mail order plant mail order plant. It's one of those. I'm sure you've seen a good. Indoor plants called snake plants wide leaves and apparently abused them and they keep on going. But I'm taking great care of the little guy but a filter my air out a little bit you know have a companion. That's your corona virus filter. Yeah he's my buddy thoughts awesome. Okay yeah so but no I mean all that stuff still going. I try not to go to the post office because there's a really tight it's like A. It's like three phone booths combined is the size of my post office five blocks away and wow not great in there. They're not usually the most efficient places. So an original post office from George Washington time. Or just what's going on?

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30/3/2020: Dana Nelkin on Equal Opportunity

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 70:49

Dana Kay Nelkin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an Affiliate Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Her areas of research include moral psychology, ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2011), and a number of articles on a variety of topics, including self-deception, friendship, the lottery paradox, psychopathy, forgiveness, moral luck, and praise and blame. She is also a co-editor of the The Ethics and Law of Omissions, The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, and Forgiveness: New Essays. Her work in moral psychology includes participation in an interdisciplinary research collaboration of philosophers and psychologists, The Moral Judgements Project, which brings together normative and descriptive enquiries about the use of moral principles such as the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing and the Doctrine of Double Effect. Other roles include membership of the advisory board of the UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics, service as the North American representative to the Society of Applied Philosophy, and on the Academic Advisory Board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Nelkin's talk - 'Equal Opportunity' - at the Aristotelian Society on 30 March 2020. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution?

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2019 31:43

In this talk, Prof. Peter Sandøe argues that, from an ethical viewpoint, gene editing is the best solution to produce hornless cattle. There are, however, regulatory hurdles. Presented at the workshop 'Gene Editing and Animal Welfare, 19 Nov. 2019, Oxford - organised by the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy.

Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution?

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2019 31:43

In this talk, Prof. Peter Sandøe argues that, from an ethical viewpoint, gene editing is the best solution to produce hornless cattle. There are, however, regulatory hurdles. Presented at the workshop 'Gene Editing and Animal Welfare, 19 Nov. 2019, Oxford - organised by the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy.

Technology for Good: Entrepreneurs Making A Difference in the Lives of Others w/ Leila Janah

Powerful Conversations: Insights from leaders, coaches, and entrepreneurs on living a life that matters

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 54:03

What is the power of using the Internet to lift 30,000 people out of poverty through the creation of jobs? That is what did with SamaSource and that is just the beginning. She is the Founder and CEO of Sama Group and Laxmi and an award-winning social entrepreneur. She created an international nonprofit that is now a consortium of three organizations, created jobs, crowdfunds medical procedures, and trains employees at job centers in the US and in Kenya. Join us as she shares her growth from nonprofit to for-profit, the challenges, and risks of entrepreneurship, and the lessons she has learned along the way. About Leila Janah: Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Sama Group and an award-winning social entrepreneur. Prior to Sama Group, Leila was a visiting scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public ethics. She was a founding director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo. Leila is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA, a 2012 TechFellow, recipient of the inaugural Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award, and in 2014, was the youngest person to win a Heinz Award. She received a BA from Harvard and lives in San Francisco. Links: Follow Leila on | | | Find Powerful Conversations on | | |

Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science!

Creation Article Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2019 8:35

In an encouraging turn of events, a secular peer-reviewed paper published in eLIFE, written by a team from the NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, backs up this understanding of the importance of worldviews. In their article, the authors make some very salient observations that few other secularists seem to like to openly discuss. By Paul Price Originally published June, 2019 Helpful resources The Genesis Academy Christianity for Skeptics Creation Magazine Links and show notes Original article: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! Faith and Facts Atheism Is More Rational? Monkey Minds Atheism Philosophy Questions and Answers Christian Apologetics Questions and Answers Atheism, Godless Religions Questions and Answers

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#196 Peter Singer: Ethics, Veganism, And Effective Altruism

The Dissenter

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2019 68:37

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Anchor (podcast): https://anchor.fm/thedissenter Dr. Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor. He has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason) and The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek). His writings have appeared in more than 25 languages. In this episode, we first get into how we morality can be objective, and issues regarding our evolved morality and its conflicting features, the limitations of reason, and if it is possible to derive moral values from science. We talk about how personality might influence the philosophies that people develop, and if it would be acceptable to nudge people's behavior through environmental tweaks. We then discuss effective altruism and its several flavors, and if we should eliminate all suffering. In the latter part of the interview, we talk about some specific subjects, like veganism, human enhancement, and euthanasia. Toward the end, we also discuss moral foundations theory, and if it should influence the way people do moral philosophy. -- Follow Dr. Singer's work: Website: https://bit.ly/2CxGqpS Faculty page (Princeton): https://bit.ly/2Jh9fdA Faculty page (Melbourne): https://bit.ly/2XttGv3 Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Llq3CL Twitter handle: @PeterSinger -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, AIRES ALMEIDA, BERNARDO SEIXAS, HERBERT GINTIS, RUTGER VOS, AND RICARDO VLADIMIRO! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, ROSEY, AND JIM FRANK!

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29/4/2019: Cheshire Calhoun on Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2019 53:57

Cheshire Calhoun is CLAS Trustee Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and chair of the American Philosophical Association’s board of officers. Her work spans the philosophical subdisciplines of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, feminist philosophy, and gay and lesbian philosophy. She has recently published a collection of previously published essays under the title Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP 2016), and a new book titled Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living (OUP 2018). She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy. Her essay “Geographies of Meaningful Living” won the 2015 Journal of Applied Philosophy essay prize; and her essays on forgiveness and civility were included in the Philosopher’s Annual as one of the ten best philosophy essays published in a year (1992, 2000). This podcast is an audio recording of Professor Calhoun's talk - 'Responsibilities and Taking On Responsibility' - at the Aristotelian Society on 29 April 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

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#167 Rani Lill Anjum: Philosophy of Causation, Scientific Models, And Medicine

The Dissenter

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2019 50:34

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/the-dissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT Anchor (podcast): https://anchor.fm/thedissenter Dr. Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) School of Economics and Business, and Leader of the CAPS – Center for Applied Philosophy of Science since 2018. She spent two years at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Stephen Mumford on dispositions and causation from 2007 to 2009. Together they developed a new theory of causation. After Nottingham, she got funding from FRIPRO NFR for a 4-year research project, Causation in Science (CauSci), hosted by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) from January 2011. In May 2014 she was offered a permanent contract as Research Fellow at HH NMBU. In December 2014 her new research project Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth) got funded by FRIPRO and started up in the spring 2015 at NMBU. In 2018 she established NMBU CAPS – Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science. Dr. Lill Anjum has coauthored 4 books with Dr. Stephen Mumford: Getting Causes from Powers (2011), Causation: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (2018), and What Tends to Be: The Philosophy of Dispositional Modality (2018). In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of causation, and a new approach to causation in philosophy and science developed by Dr. Lilla Anjum in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Mumford, base on a metaphysics of powers or dispositions. We discuss how we should think about causality when there are we get several factors acting on a particular phenomenon; the intrinsic limitations of scientific models of the world; how can shifting from neuron diagram of causal relations to vectors might improve those same models; and reductionism and emergentism. Throughout the interview, Dr. Lill Anjum illustrates all of these issues with examples coming from medicine, an area she has been focusing a lot of her work on causation recently. -- Follow Dr. Lill Anjum's work: Personal Website: https://ranilillanjum.wordpress.com/ Rani blogs about causation Blog: https://bit.ly/2ECdaid Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2EitXpm -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BRIAN RIVERA, ADRIANO ANDRADE, YEVHEN BODRENKO, SERGIU CODREANU, ADAM BJERRE, JUSTIN WATERS, AND ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FIRST PRODUCER, Yzar Wehbe!

Scandinavian Leadership & Ideas w/ Morten Albæk

Inspirational minds

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2019 76:06

SEASON 1: SCANDINAVIAN LEADERSHIP AND IDEAS EPISODE 1 – Morten Albæk We have named our first season Scandinavian leadership and ideas. In America there is a buzz about Scandinavian leadership. But what is Scandinavian leadership? At BI Norwegian Business School, they state that the Scandinavian leadership model to be the following on their webpage: "At first you might find Scandinavians both arrogant and cold. It can be difficult to see how the same people can be among the happiest and most productive employees in the world. But don't judge a book by its cover. Norwegian leadership is characterized by a flat organizational structure, employees who enjoy a high degree of influence, and a healthy balance between work life and private life" This may in part be true but in certain aspects we could not disagree more. In our first episode we will share the idea that there is not a healthy balance between work and private life. First and foremost, it’s about a balance in life, where work life is not separated from one’s private life, but instead an intimate part of life. Which in turn, demand more of our leaders. Our first guest in the podcast will in details explain how life cannot be separated in work life and private life. He will also challenge the statement that Scandinavians are amongst the happiest people in the world. If this was true, why have the number of people suffering for anxiety, stress and depression never been higher? This great paradox will be highlighted in depth during out first interview with Morten Albæk. We are utterly proud and honored to welcome you to our first season of ten episodes where we will present our perspective on modern Scandinavian leadership through our inspirational mind’s interviews. Welcome! Music by Ørjan Egeland BIO: Morten Albæk Morten Albæk is a Danish philosopher, business executive, author and public speaker. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of a Danish advisory firm, Voluntās. He holds a Master`s Degree in History and philosophy from Aarhus University. In 2008, he was named an Honorary Professor in Philosophy and Education in Aalborg University. He is further the co-founder of the first institute for Applied Philosophy in the Nordic region. Albæk started his career in Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest financial institution, undertaking various marketing and business development functions before being appointed as SVP of the department for Idea Generation & Innovation. At Danske Bank, he pioneered the Financial Literacy Program, later to be included as a case in the UN Global Compact’s yearbook of 2011. Subsequently, Group SVP for Global Marketing, Communication & Corporate Relations and member of the Executive Committee at Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer. At Vestas, he envisioned and developed WindMade, the world’s first global consumer label identifying products produced with wind energy – the first consumer label to be endorsed by the United Nations. Additionally, Morten Albæk launched Wind for Prosperity, a business model bringing affordable and reliable electricity to impoverished and remote rural, but wind rich populations. In 2015, Albæk founded advisory firm Voluntās (Latin for “will, purpose, goal, meaning”) specializing in purposeful investment strategies and meaningful strategy and policy development. Morten Albæk is a frequent participant and writer in Danish public life on a variety of topics and is the author of four books, including the recent Danish best-seller, ‘Ét liv. Én tid. Ét menneske.’ (‘One Life. The art of living a meaningful life’). Additionally, he is the only Scandinavian to be selected 5 times for The Internationalist’s list of the “100 Most Influential CMOs in the World” (in 2011-2015).

Tony Dufresne, PhD: "Surrounded By Idiots … Get Your Ass In Gear"

READ MY LIPS with host akaRadioRed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2018 61:00

Tony Dufresne, Ph.D. is the author of Surrounded By Idiots: Drop the Distractions, Embrace Your Purpose and Get Your Ass In Gear. He describes himself as a Millennial Mentor, Leadership and Success Coach, Life Strategist, speaker, single dad, multiple All-You-Can-Drink Ovaltine contest winner and an Entrepreneur who considers coffee to be its own food group. He spent 3 seasons as a Disneyland Submarine Captain. Who knew! The fancily-written documents on Tony's wall include a Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy, a Master's in Psychology and a CPT Personal Training certification with specialization in Behavioral Change through the National Association of Sports Medicine. After 20+ years of study and research, Tony Dufresne created the Surrounded by Idiots Radio Podcast and Java Bud, an online coaching and resource site that has helped countless human beings (and one enthusiastic feral cat) to get really clear on what they want their life to be about and giving them the tools to make it happen. A self-proclaimed non-conformist, Tony never wanted to fit into the mold of a traditional therapist or life coach. This is reflected in his non-sugar-coated, direct, snarky, and dry-witted approachto educating and motivating his clients to make their own unique mark on this world. The best piece of feedback Tony ever received from a client: "Your constant comic relief was very good for someone like me who gets SO emotional in terms of learning about myself. Finding one's true self can be incredibly scary and emotional and you make it light-hearted, funny and a big (but gentle) slap in the face." Info: www.javabud.com

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Peter Singer

What You Will Learn

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 35:34

We visited Peter Singer (AC), the world's most famous and most influential living philosopher. Singer's career started over four decades ago with the publication of his book 'Animal Liberation' in 1975. He essentially kicked off the animal rights movement and his since applied his utilitarian philosophy to things like charitable giving, poverty, and bioethics. He is currently the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre of Applied Philosophy at Melbourne University. Check him out at http://www.petersinger.info/ and at https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/

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178: Peter Singer

The One You Feed

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2017 45:48

Please Support The Show With a Donation This week we talk to Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer, is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation, in which he argues in favor of vegetarianism, and his essay Famine, Affluence, and Morality, in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he announced in The Point of View of the Universe that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian. On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996 he stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004 Singer was recognized as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies, and in 2006 he was voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer is a cofounder of Animals Australia and the founder of The Life You Can Save. In This Interview, Peter Singer and I Discuss... His book, Ethics and the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter How he's widely considered the most famous living philosopher Utilitarian philosophy The importance of preventing unnecessary suffering How the world is better today than it's ever been The reasons why we don't donate to help save children across the world Where to find highly vetted charity organizations to donate to How we've evolved to respond to help the person right in front of us but not yet to respond to someone who needs help on the other side of the world The science of measuring happiness Which is a better, more important question: asking people if they're satisfied with their lives or enjoying their lives moment to moment Reducing unavoidable suffering vs. making people happier The link between happiness and money at various levels of society The importance of living in accordance with your values The importance of believing that your life has some purpose Personal identity or the idea of self The public good as a value and then individual liberty as another value Physician-assisted suicide His views on animal rights The value of starting new things later in life and taking on things you may not be great at Please Support The Show with a Donation It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

0929 Interview with Peter Singer

tbs eFM Highlights (101.3MHz)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2016 10:46

tbs eFM Highlights Interview with Peter Singer tbs eFM This Morning interviews the legend, Peter Singer 2016.9.29 [Bringing and Bearing the Moral Law] Peter Singer is a philosophy Professor at Princeton University and considered controversial for not shying away from today's tough issues, from abortion to burkinis. Hear what he has to say on This Morning. Now, influential, controversial, practical, some words to describe the philosopher Peter Singer who's pioneered discussions in the world of ethics on very sensitive topics from coming to the rescue of children in peril to abortion, from animal rights to global poverty. To celebrate our new fall or autumn season at tbs eFM, we can now bring in professor Singer. Good morning to you from Seoul. -Good morning, good to talk to you. Wonderful to have you on the line. Just a quick bit of background, you are a professor of bioethics at Princeton University in the United States, laureate professor at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne Australia, and your books include ‘Animal Liberation' and ‘The Most Good You Can Do'. And that's keeping it brief, so it's a great honor to have you on the line with us. I mean, this book, ‘The Most Good You Can Do' the title in itself sends a clear message to us, doesn't it? That we should perhaps be doing what we can to help others? -Yes, certainly. But not only just something to help others, but whatever we are doing to help others, whether it's giving our time or our money, that we should be thinking about will it be doing the most good we can? Because there are many different choices that we face and some of them are much better than others, and very often people just make emotional choices on this without a lot of thought. I'm arguing we should combine the head and the heart to make sure that we do the most good that we can. Now it I may venture just a little into the way of philosophy, why should we help others? I'm sure many of us do have the urge to do so, but why? -Well, I think one way of looking at it would be to say that other people are like us in a very important way and that is that their lives can go well or badly, and if we look at the world as the whole, if we detach ourselves a little from our own interests, I think we can see from that larger perspective we should be caring about the welfare of others as well as ourselves. We are not that different from others and if we think that our pain is a bad thing, that our suffering is a bad thing and conversely that it is a good thing when we are happy, then I think it's very hard for us to deny that the pain of others is a bad thing and the happiness of others is a good thing. No doubt, but for example, some of us will have a religion, have a divine belief that will help us along with that, help us solidify this need to help others, perhaps knowing or suspecting that there will be some sort of retribution if we are not as good as we can be or at least if we are evil, that there could be very negative effects. For those who have no such belief system, as long as things are going well for them, how can they rationally turn around and not help others? -I mean I don't have the kind of belief system that you mentioned. I think that we can do this simply on the basis of using our reason to see that we are one person among others, and that if we care about our own wellbeing, then to not care about the wellbeing of others, especially when we can quite easily make a big difference to their well being at either no cost or a very modest cost to ourselves. But that's just a kind of a bias, just as we reject biases on the grounds of race or sex or something like that. I don't think we should say this is me and that's you or that's them. I don't think that that's a good enough reason for saying their welfare doesn't count. And again, that scenario we could probably devote a long time to, but it's interesting to hear your thoughts on it. Another area, for example that you've urged people to help children when you are able to help them, but by the same token, you do not oppose abortion, as somebody who has several children myself, I think, imagine if we had gone down the abortion route, this lovely child of mine would never exist today. How do you square that? -Well, I mean it's true that that child would never exist, equally that child would never have existed if you had not had sex in the particular occasion when that child was conceived. You might have had sex on a different occasion and a different child might have been conceived. Just as if a pregnancy had been at an inconvenient time, you might have not had that child but you might have later on had another child, perhaps just as many children as you now have. So I mean to me the point is that, when you have an abortion, you end a life before it's really got going from the subjective point of view of that life, that is there is no being who is aware of it's own life, who wants to go on living, who has plans. In fact, for the overwhelming majority of abortions there isn't even a being who can feel pain; the brain is not developed enough for a sense of pain. So I see that as a stage at which it is ethically acceptable to decide that that life has not begun well, it has not begun at a convenient time and that it doesn't have to continue at that point. Once you have a being who has all those capacities, who is more aware of their own life, then you have a very different sort of situation, and that's the point at which I think you do want to protect life and save life and especially of course if the baby is a cherished one whose parents love and care for that baby. And if that baby then dies from some preventable cause, let's say malaria, that's a tragedy, both for the child and for the parents. And if a relatively modest donation to the Against Malaria Foundation for example would have enabled that child to be protected by a bed net and not to get malaria, not to die, that would have been money very well spent. I mean, self-awareness is a controversial issue, but one might argue that even a newborn has very little self-awareness compared with an embryo. -Well one might, certainly, and one might therefore argue that the death of a newborn is not the same as the death of an older child. Of course it may still be a tragedy for the parents who want that child, but I don't, you know, perhaps for legal purposes we need to have a clear line and birth is the line that is mostly used. But that's not the case in all cultures. Some cultures have had some ceremony at some stage after birth to accept the child into the community, and I think there's some area there, there's some margin where you could say that decision is a tolerable one because there isn't a life in the same sense as there is later on. Yeah. And I just want to clarify for the record, when we speak of existence before, that in itself is a whole area that would warrant further discussion, but professor Singer, one thing that is already coming out in this discussion is that you don't shy away from sensitive topics. In fact, we can bring you into the sphere of current affairs, because you have weighed in on the whole burkini argument, this idea of Muslim women being able to wear certain clothes, whatever they want really when they go to the beach. It's a discussion that has gone from France to Australia and beyond, what are your thoughts, can you clarify them for us? -Yes, I think that we should not try to prevent people from, women in this case, from participating in all areas of life on the grounds that they may have certain beliefs that they don't want to go out in public with certain parts of their body uncovered. And if we have a law that says you can't wear this garment known as a burkini on the beach, which is a kind of a swimsuit that is designed to cover the parts of a woman's body that according to her religion she believes she may not display in public, then you affectively are preventing her from going to the beach. And I think that that's a penalty that we ought not to impose. The burkini actually developed in Australia, which is where I'm from originally, precisely because an immigrant from a Muslim background felt that it was a pity that girls could not participate in Australia's beach culture. It's important to Australians in the summer that the beach is a place where you socialize with your friends, where kids play. If Muslim girls are excluded from that, then that's going to create a lack of integration in society. And if we want different groups with different cultures and different beliefs to actually integrate and come together in the community, it's a mistake to say you have to expose the same parts of you body as other people from different religions or no religions. Yes. -I don't see why we should enforce that. Well, it was your article on this that drew you today to our attention, but of course you are renowned in the world of philosophy and its been fascinating to look at your work, it's a shame we don't have more time to go through some of that. One quick not on the burkini, of course in Australia you also have some swimsuits to protect from the sun that aren't so different, don't you? Which gives us some pause for thought. -Absolutely, because we are worried about skin cancer and a lot of kids who are not Muslims cover up as well. And rightly so. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. -Good. Your welcome. Thank you. As I said, renowned professor Peter Singer joining us on the line. You can have your say right now on this topic, on any of those topics we've discussed there and more, pound or sharp 1013 for 50 won per message, you can tweet us @efmthismorning.

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Episode 1 - What Is Ready 2 Sakshi

Ready 2 Sakshi

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2016 21:00

We both happen to be good friends and share mutual ideas. One of these fine evenings, I met Nathan for dinner and this idea came to our mind. World has changed. Vinyl tapes have become mp3s and blogs have become vlogs. During the rise of such technology, the one, which has captured most of the listeners are the present day podcasts. There are hundreds and thousands of podcasts which reaches to millions and billions every day. However, majority of them are in English or other international languages. There are few which cater to Hindi speaking audience as well, but most of them are secular in ideas or absolutely religious in nature. So we have planned to come up with response for this nonexistence of information for our Hindi speaking listeners. I and Nathan, come April 2016, will be hosting a brand new video/audio podcast. This podcast is for encouraging and equipping Christians by answering their questions for the reason for their hope in our risen LORD. Since there is already a tonne of programmes in English, this programme shall be in Hindi and dubbed in English. The name of the programme - "Ready 2 Sakshi!" We will be taking questions sent to us on: ready2sakshi@gmail.com. The name literally means "Ready to Testify" in English. Our job will be to help you, to prep you up to testify of our living God. Let this be a question which has bothered you from long or just recently, or a question which someone in church asked you or an outsider asked you... we will be answering the same in as articulate a way as possible, in as simple language as possible with all due references and quotes. Plus, you can always post a follow-up question which will be taken up in the next broadcast. We are experimenting with this format of recording and broadcasting. We are looking forward to your participation and most importantly, your prayers that this will fall on the ears of the one who is truly searching for the Almighty... Please share this video, post it on Facebook, Tweet about it and on… With regards to the programs that we are planning to consider wide range of topics, which could be from the following list: Creation – Christianity , Study of Genesis, Age of Earth, Creationist Arguments, Neo creationism - Intelligent Design, Evolution, Old Earth Creationism - Young earth creationism (definitions only), Creation Ex Nihilio, Matter creation etc. Cults – Jehovah Witnesses and the watchtower, The church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormonism), Branhamism, Oneness Pentecostalism, Christian Science, Unity etc. Social Issues – Current affairs, who is who, News updates etc. Interviews – Occasional guests Apologetics – The Etymology and discussion at random on ongoing apologetic movement, Worldviews. Philosophy – Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Branches, History, Major Traditions, Applied Philosophy etc. Christianity – Historical Reliability of Gospels, Existence of proof of God, Miracles, Errors in Bible, Objections etc. Ready 2 Sakshi believe in 1 Peter 3:15, which says, “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” We look forward to provide a Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith in the present days. We are very excited to share this information to our Hindi speaking listeners. We will be open for questions and intend to respond to few of them taken from social platforms as well as personal communication at random. What do you think about this idea? Please let us know by mailing us at ready2sakshi@gmail.com

Episode 098 | Kevlin Henney - Applied Philosophy

Developer On Fire

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2016 57:03

Guest: Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/developer-on-fire-098-kevlin-henney-applied-philosophy

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772: Patrick Gentempo: Bringing the foundations of ‘applied philosophy’ to money, capitalism, and value creation

Archive 3 of Entrepreneurs On Fire

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2015 36:29

Patrick is the founder and CEO of Action Potential Holdings. He is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and sold several successful businesses. He is sometimes referred to as the Philosopher/Entrepreneur as he brings the foundations of what he refers to as applied philosophy to money, capitalism, and value creation.

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Patrick Gentempo: Bringing the foundations of applied philosophy to money, capitalism, and value creation

Entrepreneurs on Fire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2014 36:50

Patrick is the founder and CEO of Action Potential Holdings. He is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and sold several successful businesses. He is sometimes referred to as the Philosopher/Entrepreneur as he brings the foundations of what he refers to as applied philosophy to money, capitalism, and value creation.

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Panel - Human Existence Doesn't Matter (And What Is It Anyhow?) (Festival of Dangerous ideas)

Ideas at the House

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2014 59:01

With the threat of climate change and damage to other elements of the biosphere, we may be in the process of creating a world where human existence is marginalised and modern civilisation is crushed. Even if we manage to cling to the more hospitable corners of this grave new world, nuclear war, bioterrorism or malicious use of nanotechnology or artificial intelligence could render human beings extinct. From the point of view of the universe, human existence doesn’t matter. Are we doomed to come round to this perspective ourselves, or will we inevitably cling to our human-centred picture of world?Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A work of fiction, and her latest nonfiction effort, Plato at the Googleplex.Francesca Minerva is a philosopher and medical/bio ethicist. She is currently the Deputy Director of CAPPE Melbourne (Centre of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics).Huw Price is the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk.

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Cybersecurity- Mapping The Ethical Terrain

Experience ANU

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2014 63:36

Governments and society are increasingly reliant on cyber systems. That reliance makes us vulnerable to cyber attacks, which can have powerful impacts on people's lives. Because of this, in liberal democratic societies governments have a duty to ensure cybersecurity in order to protect their citizens and, arguably, the people of other nations. But as recent events following the revelations of Edward Snowden have demonstrated, there is a risk that their pursuit of cybersecurity might overstep the mark and subvert the fundamental right to privacy. In this NSC seminar, the presenters will demonstrate that managing the risks of cybersecurity involves trade-offs: between security and privacy; individual rights and the good of a society; and between the types of burdens placed on particular groups in order to protect others. These trade-offs are often ethical in nature, involving questions of how we act, what values we should aim to promote, and what means of anticipating and responding to the risks are reasonably -- and publicly -- justifiable. Associate Professor Mick Keelty is an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, CSU in canberra. He was commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) from 2001 to 2009. He served two terms as AFP commissioner and has thirty five years of policing experience at local, national and international levels. Dr Adam Henschke works in the areas of ethics and cybersecurity. He is a Research Fellow at the National Security College, Australian National University, a Research Associate with the Centre of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, CSU Canberra, and was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong. He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War and is currently co-editing a book on the ethics of cyber warfare. Mr Shannon Brandt Ford is a Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies with the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, CSU Canberra. He spent ten years as a Defence Strategist and Intelligence Analyst, and has taught at the Australian National University, the Australian Defence Force Academy (University of NSW) and the Australian Defence College. Mr Ford was the Chief Investigator on a recent National Security College funded research project on the ethics of cybersecurity.

Episode 107, Forced Fatherhood??? When 1 night turns into 18 years!

FOR THE PEOPLE... law in plain language

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2014 79:32

This week on ... For the People... law in plain language with Debra D. Rainey, Esq. FORCED FATHERHOOD? When 1 night turns into 18 years! Is it really FORCED FATHERHOOD, if a man takes all precautions but the woman still gets pregnant? After all when folks lay down to “indulge” they know the risks. The FTP FAM and special guest Walter Rodriguez tackle this issue from all angles: abstinence, birth-control, vasectomies and much more. The Feminists on the FAM were raging! You gotta Tune in to hear this explosive conversation! “If women’s partial responsibility for pregnancy does not obligate them to support a fetus, then men’s partial responsibility for pregnancy does not them to support a resulting child!” Elizabeth Brake, Feminist & Political Philosopher, 2005 Journal of Applied Philosophy Studio Line 215-609-4301 TEXT LINE 215-435-4099 Listen. CALL. talk LIVE. DiScUsS. TUESDAY'S 8-9:30 PM (EST) Host: Debra D. Rainey, The Compassionate Lawyer Cohosts: Blaq aka the “Broke Poet and Chamara aka "Cheddar" Cotton Executive Producer: Renee Norris-Jones Managing Producer: Chamara Cotton aka ‘Ladygohard' Assistant Producer: Robbin K. Stanton, aka “Aunt Robbin” FTP Team: Senorita Nora Norris Introducing: BreeAyre Andersons aka “Breeze” FTP team member hopeful! This episode was produced by Robbin K. Stanton Weekly Podcasts: iTunes & Podomatic Like us FACEBOOK ~ Follow us TWITTER Air date: March 25, 2014 ~ LISTEN with the TUNEIN APP on your SMARTPHONE ~

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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Specifying the Limits of the Robustness of Associative Duties across Change

Limits of Duty

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2013 31:28

Paper given by Robbie Arrell (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne). Special relationships generate associative duties that exhibit robustness across change. It seems insufficient for friendship, for example, if I am only disposed to fulfil associative duties towards you as things stand here and now. However, robustness is not required across all variations. Were you to become monstrously cruel towards me, we might expect that my associative duties towards you would not be robust across that kind of change. The question then is this: is there any principled way of distinguishing those variations that require robustness of the disposition to fulfil associative duties from those that don’t? In this paper I suggest a way of answering this question that draws on the distinction between how things have value, and how we value things – a distinction that is central to the broader account of the sources and generation of associative duties that I propose.

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Counter-terrorism and its Ethical Hazards

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2012 85:00

Since the terrorist attacks by Islamic militants upon the US and UK in the early 2000s, a host of anti-terrorist measures have been introduced which raise conceptual and ethical issues that have serious implications for practical politics. Since the terrorist attacks by Islamic militants upon the United States (and Great Britain) in the early 2000s, the drive to prevent further such attacks has produced a host of anti-terrorist governmental measures, including new laws and amendments to old ones, torture, wars and military strikes to name but a few. All these raise both conceptual and ethical issues that have serious implications for practical politics, and will be discussed in this seminar. Seminar 3 of 3 in the Series 'The Meaning of Terrorism - philosophical perspectives' Tony Coady is one of Australia's best-known philosophers. He has an outstanding international reputation for his writings on epistemology and on political violence and political ethics. Coady's best-known work, Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992), relates to the epistemological problems posed by testimony. In addition to his academic work, he is a regular contributor to public debate on topics having to do with ethical and philosophical dimensions of current affairs. A professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, he has served as the founding director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues and the deputy director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and head of its University of Melbourne division. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on practical ethics at Oxford University which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics. His most recent publication is Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008).

Philosophical Theory and the Justification of Terrorism

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2012 90:00

There is widespread belief that terrorism can never be morally justified, ut this belief is not widespread amongst philosophers; they offer a variety of justifications for some terrorist acts. Seminar 2 of 3 in the Series 'The Meaning of Terrorism - philosophical perspectives' Tony Coady is one of Australia's best-known philosophers. He has an outstanding international reputation for his writings on epistemology and on political violence and political ethics. Coady's best-known work, Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992), relates to the epistemological problems posed by testimony. In addition to his academic work, he is a regular contributor to public debate on topics having to do with ethical and philosophical dimensions of current affairs. A professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, he has served as the founding director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues and the deputy director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and head of its University of Melbourne division. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on practical ethics at Oxford University which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics. His most recent publication is Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008).

Rethinking Geoengineering and the Meaning of the Climate Crisis

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2011 55:52

Professor Clive Hamilton delivers a critique of the consequentialist approach to the ethics of geoengineering, the approach that deploys assessment of costs and benefits in a risk framework to justify climatic intervention. Professor Hamilton argues that there is a strong case for preferring the natural, and that the unique and highly threatening character of global warming renders the standard approach to the ethics of climate change unsustainable. Moreover, the unstated metaphysical assumption of conventional ethical, economic and policy thinking - modernity's idea of the autonomous human subject analysing and acting on an inert external world - is the basis for the kind of "technological thinking" that lies at the heart of the climate crisis. Technological thinking both projects a systems framework onto the natural world and frames it as a catalogue of resources for the benefit of humans. Recent discoveries by Earth system science itself - the arrival of the Anthropocene, the prevalence of non-linearities, and the deep complexity of the earth's processes - hint at the inborn flaws in this kind of thinking. The grip of technological thinking explains why it has been so difficult for us to heed the warnings of climate science and why the idea of using technology to take control of the earth's atmosphere is immediately appealing. Professor Clive Hamilton is a Visiting Academic, Department of Philosophy, and Senior Visiting Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment. He is Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and holds the newly created Vice-Chancellor's Chair at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He was the Founder and for 14 years the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a public interest think tank. He is well known in Australia as a public intellectual and for his contributions to public policy debate. His extensive publications include writings on climate change policy, overconsumption, welfare policy and the effects of commercialisation. Recent publications include The Freedom Paradox: Towards a post-secular ethics and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change.

Aldo Leopold Symposium Final Plenary: Leopold for the 21st Century

Aldo Leopold

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2009 79:13

Leopold for the 21st Century: What Would He Say to the Yale FES Class of 2009? Moderated by Mary Evelyn Tucker. Discussion by Sally Collins, Clive Hamilton, Wes Jackson, Bruce Jennings, Gene Likens and Melina Shannon DiPietro. The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies hosted a Symposium on April 3rd, 2009 honoring the centennial of the graduation of Aldo Leopold from the school and his acclaimed contributions to environmental conservation. Leopold became a leading and radical voice in American conservation, launching his land ethic in his celebrated book, “A Sand County Almanac.” The day-long symposium appraised the Leopold legacy, examined his relevance today, and explored how his land ethic might be reformulated for the global environmental and social challenges of the 21st century. This is a recording of the final plenary: Leopold for the 21st Century: What Would He Say to the Yale FES Class of 2009? The discussion was moderated by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale and Co-Founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Discussants were: Sally Collins, Director of Office of Ecosystem Services & Markets, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Clive Hamilton, author of “Growth Fetish” and co-author of “Affluenza,” and Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra, Australia; Wes Jackson, the Founder and President of the Land Institute and a MacArthur fellowship recipient; Bruce Jennings, Director of the Center for Humans and Nature in New York; Gene Likens, an ecologist and Founding Director and President Emeritus of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies; and Melina Shannon-DiPietro, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2009 37:21

Peter Singer has been called "the world’s most influential living philosopher," by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in “The Time 100,” their annual listing of the world’s 100 most influential people. He is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He writes a regular column for Free Inquiry magazine, and is the author of dozens of books, including Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and Animal Liberation (which has sold more than a half million copies), Writings on an Ethical Life, One World: Ethics and Globalization, The President of Good and Evil (about George W. Bush), and The Way We Eat. His most recent book is The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Peter Singer details how twenty-six thousand children die each day of preventable diseases and poverty worldwide, and contrasts this toll with the public's moral outrage over the blackest days in our history, such as 9/11/2001. He talks about the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth regarding the poor, and questions why most Christians today have seemed not to make ending world poverty a priority, instead focusing on issues such as abortion and homosexuality, which are not mentioned by Jesus. Singer argues that when people in affluent societies value even small luxuries more highly than saving the lives of the world's poor, that it is morally equivalent to standing by when one could easily save someone from drowning. He says that "if you're not doing something serious to end world poverty, that you're not living an ethical life." He suggests that much philanthropy, such as charitable giving to the arts, should be less of a priority than fighting world poverty. He recommends various aid organizations that merit financial support, such as Oxfam International, and highlights GiveWell, whose purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of other aid organizations. He suggests that it is often more efficient for private organizations to administer aid than it is for governments to provide poverty relief. He argues against various challenges to his position: that giving to the poor may foster their dependence, that charity should begin at home, that the poor deserve their lot, and that our lack of concern about the world's poor may be a natural function of our evolved human nature to care primarily about our own kin. He argues that while his ethics is informed by the worldview based in the sciences and Darwinism, that it is not derived from Darwinism, and he argues against "Social Darwinism," and "the survival of the fittest." He explores the strategic implications that the demanding nature of his ethics has for its more widespread adoption in society. He talks about the meaning and sense of purpose that fighting to end world poverty may create in one's life. And he expresses the hope that skeptical and nonreligious people will become more motivated to fight world poverty, even without religious incentives, and that they will become part of a new culture of giving.

Peter Singer - Vegetarianism and the Scientific Outlook

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2008 28:38

One of the most controversial and influential philosophers alive today, Peter Singer is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He writes a regular column for Free Inquiry magazine, and is the author of dozens of books, including Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, Animal Liberation, and Writings on an Ethical Life. In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Peter Singer defends vegetarianism, arguing that we should give equal consideration to all "beings who have interests." He draws ethical distinctions between human fetuses and animals, such as dogs and cats. He argues against "dominionism," which is the idea that humanity is special, and that other animals were made by God for humanity's benefit. He attacks "speciesism," and explains why he did not sign the Humanist Manifesto 2000. He describes factory farming, and the commercial imperatives that he says cause animals to be treated as mere property. He talks about the decision to become a vegetarian, and what keeps secularists and scientists from making the decision, in terms of the question he posed to Richard Dawkins at a recent Center for Inquiry conference. And he considers how working with the religious may advance vegetarianism in society.

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Peter Singer - Ethics in an Age of Darwin

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2008 34:30

One of the most controversial and influential philosophers alive today, Peter Singer is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He writes a regular column for Free Inquiry magazine, and is the author of dozens of books, including Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, Animal Liberation, and Writings on an Ethical Life. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Peter Singer explores how controversial or compatible his views are with religious thought and in what sense his ethics is informed by a naturalistic or Darwinian understanding of the origins of life. He discusses the value of human life as regards end-of-life questions such as doctor-assisted suicide, and offers justification for the involuntary euthanasia of severely disabled infants. He details what it means to be genuinely "pro-life." And he shares his views on stem cell research and abortion, arguing how that even though abortion is killing a human life, it is not unethical. He also explains what qualities of life would make killing it unethical.

Elliot D. Cohen / August 21, 2007

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2007

Elliot D. Cohen discusses his book "Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship." Cohen shows how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America. He details how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us have been systematically manipulated, deceived, and divested of our freedom. Cohen is the editor-in-chief of the "International Journal of Applied Philosophy," ethics editor for "Free Inquiry" magazine, and the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics, and philosophical counseling, including "News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy," and "Philosophical Issues in Journalism." He was the first prize recipient of the 2007 Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting on the corporate takeover of the Internet.

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