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Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
In this week's podcast we interview Allan Hazlett, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University. Dr. Hazlett shares his thoughts on the intellectual virtues, their relevance for thinking about populism, and why food in New Mexico is so great.
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
This week's podcast features Dr. Kirk Hawkins from Brigham University. Dr. Hawkins is a Political Scientist and one of the world's leading experts on populism. In this podcast he shares his insights into populism as a global phenomenon and also shares the remote place he's ever been to.
Interested in Dr. Hawkins's ideas? Check out some of his recent books:
Contemporary U.S. Populism in Comparative Perspective (with Levente Littvay)
Venezeula's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
This week's podcast features Dr. Heather Battaly from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Battaly is a leading thinker on the study of intellectual virtues and vices. This week Dr. Battaly shares her thoughts concerning close-mindedness as a (mostly) intellectual vice, her recent work on the idea of liberatory virtues, and what sea cucumbers taste like.
Check out some of Dr. Battaly's recent books, Virtue, and Virtue and Vice: Moral and Epistemic
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Greg and George have a discussion with historian Dr. Dale Potts related to environmental ethics.
Monday Apr 08, 2019
Monday Apr 08, 2019
Greg and George discuss Greg's article on intellectual property in the new volume Property Rights in Contemporary Governance, SUNY, 2019.
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
George and Greg interview Dr. Mike Hildreth, Professor at South Dakota State University on the topic of Gene Drives in Mosquitoes
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
George and Greg discuss issues surrounding tech ethics related to artificial intelligence and the workforce.
Saturday Feb 02, 2019
Friday Dec 07, 2018
Saturday Sep 22, 2018