Travis Rieder, faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss our everyday challenges and the moral quandaries they put us in, and how to do the decent thing in a global and complex world.
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Nurse Kristen McConnell discusses the decisions families must grapple with when a critically-ill family member faces a recovery that’s far from a functioning life.
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Philosopher Peter Singer talks about how we can make choices that lead to what he calls “maximum good.”
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Claire Dederer discusses the lens #metoo has put on work created by flawed men, and how we balance our sense of morality and ethics with a love of what are widely considered masterpieces.
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Nurse Kristen McConnell discusses the decisions families must grapple with when a critically-ill family member faces a recovery that’s far from a functioning life.
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Writer George Saunders discusses his newest collection of short stories – many with dystopian themes – and his process for writing them.
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Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, and she joins us to talk about how pride, narcissism and toxic masculinity are hallmarks of abusers, and how these men have created a world that largely shields them from responsibility.
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Brian D. Earp joins us to argue that drugs that can help strengthen – and sever – relationships are out there now, and it’s time to understand the ethics and morals behind their use.
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Stanford Law professor Deborah L. Rhode joins us to discuss our predilection to cheat.
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This hour, we’ll talk about creating healthy environments for children with panelists from SMU’s upcoming “Tipping the Scales for Children: From Ethics to Action to Wellbeing” conference.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the ethics of changing who we are – and about how these technologies could redefine what it is to be human – with Vanderbilt history professor Michael Bess, author of “Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how what we know about businesses affects how we spend our money with a panel of business ethics professors.
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