Episodes 39
Avg. Duration 59m
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Since Jan 2018
Latest Episode Feb 2025

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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.

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Neural Decoding: A Conversation with Stephen Rainey

Feb 18, 2025 57m

In this ninth episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Stephen Rainey. Dr. Rainey is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Technology at Delft University of Technology,…

Cyborg Ethics: A Conversation with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

Feb 02, 2025 1h 21m

In this eighth episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Dr. Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and…

Brain Pioneers: A Conversation with Sara Goering

Dec 18, 2024 1h 1m

In this seventh episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Sara Goering. Dr. Goering is Professor of Philosophy, and Core Faculty for the Program on Ethics and the…

Deep Brain Stimulation: A Conversation with Frederic Gilbert

Dec 12, 2024 1h 6m

In this sixth episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Frederic Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert is an Associate Professor in Ethics and the Head of the Discipline for Philosophy at…

Brain-to-Brain Interfaces: A Conversation with Luke Roelofs

Nov 16, 2024 1h 4m

In this fifth episode of our mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Luke Roelofs. Dr. Roelofs is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Arlington. He…

Non-Invasive Brain-Controlled Robots: A Conversation with José del R. Millán

Nov 13, 2024 59m

In this fourth episode of the series, we are joined by José del R. Millán. Dr. Millán is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he runs the Clinical Neuroprosthetics and Brain…

Rewiring Emotions: A Conversation with Steffen Steinert

Oct 26, 2024 1h 1m

In this third episode of our mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Steffen Steinert. Dr. Steinert is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics and Philosophy section at Delft…

AI, Consciousness, and the Future Mind: A Conversation with Susan Schneider

Sep 30, 2024 1h 20m

In this second episode of our mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Susan Schneider. Dr. Schneider is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic…

Neuroimaging and Neurorights: A Conversation with Rafael Yuste

Sep 27, 2024 24m

In this inaugural episode of our mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Rafael Yuste. Dr. Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University, where…

The Case for a UBI: A Conversation with Scott Santens

Nov 14, 2023 1h 5m

In our final episode in our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by universal basic income (UBI) advocate and writer Scott Santens. Scott is the founder and president of the Income To…

Breaking Things at Work: A Conversation with Gavin Mueller

Nov 02, 2023 53m

Our fourth episode of our mini-series on the future of work features Gavin Mueller, Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Breaking…

The Value of Idleness: A Conversation with Brian O’Connor

Oct 11, 2023 1h 8m

In the third episode of our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by Brian O'Connor, Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. Brian and I discuss the value of idleness in our…

Meaningful Work: A Conversation with Andrea Veltman

Sep 24, 2023 58m

In our second episode of our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by Andrea Veltman, Professor of Philosophy at James Madison University. We speak with Andrea about what it takes for work…

Making Light Work - A Conversation with David Spencer

Sep 17, 2023 1h 10m

In the first episode of our mini-series on the future of work, we are joined by University of Leeds economist David Spencer. We discuss the experience of alienated labor under contemporary…

Breaking up the United States: A Conversation with Chris Zurn

Jun 20, 2023 1h 3m

Political philosopher Chris Zurn has just published Splitsville USA, a bombshell book arguing for the dissolution of the US. We talk about why Chris thinks this has become necessary, how history…

Regulating Virtual Reality: A Conversation with J Hughes and Alec Stubbs

Mar 28, 2023 53m

The IEET and the UMB Applied Ethics Center recently released a White Paper on the political, moral and psychological questions involved in regulating the metaverse. J Hughes is the Executive Director…

Report from Kyiv: A Conversation with Journalist Alisa Sopova

Jun 07, 2022 1h 17m

We continue our series on the war in Ukraine. In this episode Vlado and I talk to journalist and anthropologist Alisa Sopova about what everyday life feels  like in Ukraine as the war passes the 100…

Reading Between The Lines in Russia and Ukraine: A Conversation with Ambassador Vesko Garcevic

May 12, 2022 52m

We continue our series on the war in Ukraine.  Our guest is Vesko Garcevic, former ambassador of Montenegro to NATO, OSCE, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Vesko is currently…

Making Russia Great Again?

Apr 17, 2022 1h 1m

Vladimir Putin wants to put Russia back on the map as a great power. But what does it even mean to be a great power in the nuclear age? Is that idea still coherent? If it is, can Russia be such a…

Empires Strike Back - Did the “Balance of Power” Just Make a Comeback?: A Conversation with Vladimir Petrovic

Apr 01, 2022 1h 7m

For a while, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we could tell ourselves that the American-led liberal internationalist order was on the rise. That story had some big holes in it, but if we…

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