The Ethical Frontier

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyMarcus Arvan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Tampa.Website: https://www.marcusarvan.net/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Its-OK-Be-Moderate-ebook/dp/B0DHV391V9Summary:In this interview, Marcus Arvan shows how many of history’s worst evils have resulted from far-right and far-left radicalism, and how many widely hailed social and political achievements have been achieved by moderates and radicals working in constructive tension with each other.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyHanno Sauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University.Website: https://www.hannosauer.com/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Good-Evil-History-Morality/dp/0197790259Summary:In this interview, we discuss Sauer's book on the invention of good and evil. Essentially, the book offers a new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values. With philosophical expertise and empirical data, Sauer explains how processes of biological, cultural, social, and historical evolution shaped the moral grammar that defines...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyConly is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Bowdoin College.Website: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/sconly/Book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-limits-of-liberty-9780197812372?cc=cn&lang=en&Summary:In this interview, we discuss Conly's book, The Limits of Liberty, in which she argues that liberty is much less valuable than traditionally believed. Conly posits that liberty only has value for its consequences, so liberties that bring good things have value, but liberties that bring bad consequences have no...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophySerena Parekh is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at Northeastern University.Website: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/serena-parekh/Book: https://www.amazon.com/No-Refuge-Ethics-Global-Refugee/dp/0197507999Summary:Parekh argues that we need a moral response to these crises--one that assumes the humanity of refugees in addition to the challenges that states have when they accept refugees. Only once we grasp that the global refugee crisis has these two dimensions--the asylum crisis for Western states and...

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

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyBen Bradley is Allan and Anita Sutton Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University.Website: https://benbradleyweb.com/Summary:In this interview, we discuss the arguments in favor and against anti-natalism, which is the view that it's wrong to have kids. We also discuss how anti-natalism compares to deprivationism, which is a theory of the prudential value or disvalue of death.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyTomas Bogardus is a Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tbogardus/Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Nature-of-the-Sexes-Why-Biology-Matters/Bogardus/p/book/9781041029533Summary:In this interview, we discuss Bogardus' new book on the nature of the sexes. He argues that the sexes are particular kinds of functions—activated higher-order functions—of entire organisms, coded in master programs specifying the development, organization, and maintenance of components themselves programmed to produce (and transport, etc.) some type of anisogamous game...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyDr. Heidi Klessig is a retired anesthesiologist.Website: https://www.respectforhumanlife.com/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Death-Fallacy-Heidi-Klessig/dp/B0CL5VKJGYSummary:In this interview, Dr. Klessig describes a number of issues regarding the concept of brain death that ultimately suggest that brain-dead patients are not actually dead.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyTom Cochrane is a British-Australian philosopher working at Flinders University in Adelaide.Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tomcochranephilosophy/Summary:In this interview, we discuss how we can address the fear of death. Cochrane argues that our fear of death comes from our will to live; hence, one way to address the fear is to change this underlying motivation. He argues that we can encourage a natural tendency for the will to live to decline as we approach death. We also talk...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyTony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions. Website: https://sci.usc.edu/personnel/tony-mcaleer/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Hate-Supremacists-Extremism-Compassion/dp/1551527693Summary:In this interview, we discuss McAleer's journey into the white supremacist movement. He states that he experienced toxic shame and that this shame led him to search for acceptance from others. We also discuss some pivotal moments in his life that led him to leave the...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyThaddeus Metz is a professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria.Website: https://www.up.ac.za/philosophy/article/2923571/prof-thaddeus-metzBook: https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Life-Thaddeus-Metz/dp/0198748019 Summary: In this interview, we discuss the distinction between meaning in life and the meaning of life, what contributes to a meaningful life, and how it relates to well-being and morality. We also discuss the role of spirituality in meaning. Ultimately, Metz believes that meaningfulness in life comes from actively orienting one’s...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyEric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London.Website: https://ericheinze.com/Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049580/coming-clean/Summary:Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its “wokeness.”In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyRichard Yetter Chappell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.Website: http://yetterchappell.net/Richard/Summary:In this interview, we discuss the ethics of effective altruism (EA)—its central tenets and criticisms. Everyone wants to do good, but many ways of doing good are ineffective. The EA community is focused on finding ways of doing good that actually work.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyJoseph Tsang is an immigration attorney. Website: https://tsangslaw.com/Summary:In this interview, we discuss ICE, immigration, and deportations. I ask him about how ICE targets people, whether Trump is introducing new immigration laws or just enforcing them more strictly, and whether those detained by ICE get due process.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyRivka Weinberg is a professor of philosophy at Scripps College. Website: https://www.rivkaweinberg.com/Summary:In this interview, we discuss the distinction between the different types of meaning, the different aspects of meaning, and how death affects meaning. Among other interesting claims, Weinberg does not believe our lives have an ultimate meaning. She believes this is metaphysically impossible. We also discuss the relationship between meaning and well-being and how much they overlap.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyMollie Gerver is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, focusing on consent and immigration ethics.Website: https://molliegerver.weebly.com/Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4679723Summary:In this interview, we discuss Gerver's experiment in which she and her team tested the effect of nudging people to donate money even after they declined to be nudged. We also discuss the general nature of nudges and when it would be...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyReiff is a political, legal, and moral philosopher. His main areas of interest include economic justice, liberalism and its critics, the law and ethics of war and warfare, the nature of causal and moral reasoning, and theories of punishment, compensation, and responsibility.Website: https://www.markreiff.org/Summary:In this interview, Reiff proposes a libertarian argument for reparations. In contrast to other theories, his argument focuses on the fact that some property and wealth have been acquired unjustly. Reiff argues that since...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyJennifer Kling, PhD is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.Website: https://philosophy.uccs.edu/directory/faculty/klingBook: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Protest-Fighting-Justice-without/dp/1786613204Summary:In this interview, we discuss Kling's argument for when nonlethal violent protest can be justified. We address specific questions regarding what violence means and what criteria a nonlethal violent protest must meet in order for it to be justified. We also...

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophySamuel Director is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies.Website: https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/samueldirector/homeSummary:In this interview, we discuss how informed consent in the medical context requires knowledge of how much the medical intervention will cost. According to Director, both plausible standards for informed consent would say that knowledge of price is required for consent to be informed.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyAlfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.Website: https://www.alfiekohn.org/Summary:According to Kohn, standardized tests assess less meaningful outcomes of an education. He is anti-test but not anti-assessment, assuming the assessments truly measure how much students have learned meaningful lessons and skills. We also discuss why standardized testing is so...