Part of UMass Boston's Philosophy Department, the Applied Ethics Center promotes research, teaching, and awareness of ethics in public life. In this podcast, Applied Ethics Center Director Nir Eisikovits hosts conversations on the intersection of ethics, politics, and technology.
How should we understand efforts at school integration? And how are they related to the idea of equal education? Larry and I consider different histor...
The New York Times 2017 front page story about UAP's (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena) spotted by Navy pilots, and the recent report to Congress by The O...
What happens when the ties between the people who study psychiatric drugs and the companies who make them become too cozy? A discussion with UMass Bos...
Adam and I discuss the famous, moving passage at the end of the Iliad describing the meeting between Achilles and Priam. We talk quite a bit about A...
Israel has signed normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain. These are the first Middle East peace agreements in two and a half decades. Why n...
Israel has signed normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain. These are the first Middle East peace agreements in two and a half decades. Why n...
The US seems more polarized than it's been in decades. Can we communicate across ideological and political chasms? What does it mean to have a dialogu...
The US seems more polarized than it's been in decades. Can we communicate across ideological and political chasms? What does it mean to have a dialogu...
In the last few months, in the wake of recent protests against systemic racism, Confederate and other monuments have been torn down and defaced. What ...
In the last few months, in the wake of recent protests against systemic racism, Confederate and other monuments have been torn down and defaced. What ...