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The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union organized the world's first news conference featuring nine AI-enabled humanoid robots. Guest: Dr. Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Applied Ethics Center at the University of Boston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seg 1: The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union organized the world's first news conference featuring nine AI-enabled humanoid robots. Guest: Dr. Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Applied Ethics Center at the University of Boston Seg 2: Tom Cruise has now been playing Ethan hunt for 27 YEARS! And he's not done, MI8 is set to come out in less than a year from now, June 28 2024. Guest: Scott Shantz, Contributor for Mornings with Simi Seg 3: View From Victoria: The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines. Guest: Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun Columnist Seg 4: What role will Canada play in the NATO Summit? Guest: David Akin, Global National Chief Political Correspondent Seg 5: Can we all learn to sleep better? With sleep affecting every organ in the body should people focus more of their time on sleep? Guest: CKNW Contributor Scott Shantz with Dr. Raj Dasgupta, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep specialist. He is quadruple board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Raj is an active clinical researcher. Seg 6: The eligibility threshold has been raised for the BC Climate Tax. Guest: Katrine Conroy, BC's Minister of Finance Seg 7: Monday Morning Quarterbacks with Coach Rick Campbell It was a 35-19 win over Montreal as Vernon Adams Jr. bounces back going 20/25 for 283 yards and a touchdown pass. Guest: Rick Campbell, Head Coach of the BC Lions Seg 8: Dr. Troy Grennan is co-leading a clinical trial in Vancouver looking to determine if the antibiotic doxycycline can prevent bacterial STIs. Guest: Dr. Troy Grennan, Physician Lead for the Provincial HIV/STI Program at the BC Centre for Disease Control and Clinical Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia Seg 9: Misinformation about library content has increased on social media, leading to an increase in book ban movements. Guest: Richard Beaudry, ​​Program Coordinator of the Teacher Librarian Program at the University of British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Codcast, Jennifer Smith explores artificial intelligence's growing prominence in our everyday lives with Dr. Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Eisikovits founded the school's Applied Ethics Center (https://www.umb.edu/ethics) and has spent the past years thinking about the impact of AI on moral decision making and its unique relationship to work and creativity.

Faneuil Hall, one of Boston's most celebrated public spaces and tourist attractions, is named after Peter Faneuil - an 18th century merchant and slave trader. Nir Eisikovits and UConn's Dana Miranda discuss the debate around renaming Faneuil Hall and place it in the context of the national debate around problematic monuments and memorials - from Charlottesville to Yawkey Way.  Dana Francisco Miranda  is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and a Research Fellow at UMass Boston's Applied Ethics Center. His research is in political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and 19th century and contemporary European thought. His research includes examining the political and narrative role of monumentalization. In particular, he has analyzed the reconciliatory significance of the Verdun Monument, the mutable narratives of the Bunker Hill Monument, and the difficulties that arise when dealing with racist monuments. His dissertation investigates the philosophical significance of suicide, depression and well-being for members of the Africana Diaspora. He also currently serves as the secretary of graduate outreach and chair of architectonics for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  

Nir Eisikovits hosts Thomas Brudholm of the University of Copenhagen for a discussion about the philosophy of hate, anger, and resentment. The two discuss whether there are more and less legitimate forms of hate, whether it should be understood as an emotion or as an attitude, and whether a philosophical understanding of hate can help us make better sense of these very tense political times. Resources for Further Reading:‘’Hatred Beyond Bigotry," in Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate, Oxford University Press, co-edited with B.S. Johansen, forthcoming May 2018."Pondering Hatred" (co-authored with B.S. Johansen), in Emotions and Mass Atrocity, Cambridge University Press, co-edited with J. Lang, forthcoming April 2018."Conceptualizing Hatred Globally: Is Hate Crime a Human Rights Violation?" in J. Schweppe and M.A. Walters (eds.), The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime?, Oxford University Press, 2016."Hatred as Attitude," Philosophical Paper 39: 3, 289-313 (2010).Resentment’s Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive, Temple University Press, 2008. 

Nir Eisikovits and Ken Greenberg talk about the prominent role of honor in the antebellum south and its relationship to the institution of slavery. They also discuss Greenberg’s recent work on Nat Turner’s rebellion and the challenges of creating a historical account from necessarily incomplete evidence and records.

Nir Eisikovits and Ken Greenberg talk about the prominent role of honor in the antebellum south and its relationship to the institution of slavery. They also discuss Greenberg’s recent work on Nat Turner’s rebellion and the challenges of creating a historical account from necessarily incomplete evidence and records.

Nir Eisikovits hosts Thomas Brudholm of the University of Copenhagen for a discussion about the philosophy of hate, anger, and resentment. The two discuss whether there are more and less legitimate forms of hate, whether it should be understood as an emotion or as an attitude, and whether a philosophical understanding of hate can help us make better sense of these very tense political times.

Nir Eisikovits hosts Thomas Brudholm of the University of Copenhagen for a discussion about the philosophy of hate, anger, and resentment. The two discuss whether there are more and less legitimate forms of hate, whether it should be understood as an emotion or as an attitude, and whether a philosophical understanding of hate can help us make better sense of these very tense political times.

Debating confederate monuments and Civil War monuments in light of the violence in Charlottesville

Nir Eisikovits teaches legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, where he co-founded and directs the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. His teaching and writing focus on how countries emerge from war and how they come to terms with their past. He is a senior fellow at the International Center for Conciliation and author of "Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation. His talk is co-sponsored with Peace and Conflict Studies."