This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 25 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin.Empathy is the capacity to see how things are for someone else from their perspective. It is treated in management self-help books a

Public Lecture: Christopher Cowley - The Ethics of Ignorance and Clumsiness

May 22nd, 2020 39m 12s

This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 18 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin. A previous episode of this podcast was a short interview with Prof Crowley on the topic of this lecture.If somebody harms me deliber

Public Lecture: Maeve Cooke - Ethics in the Age of Climate Change

May 20th, 2020 42m 5s

This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 11 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin.In this talk I propose a certain kind of ethical perspective for orienting socio-political thinking and practice in the age of climat

Public Lecture: Brian O'Connor -Work and Idleness

May 19th, 2020 43m 28s

This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 4 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin.During the age of Enlightenment new types of criticisms of idleness began to appear. Philosophers opposed idleness not on the traditio

Interview: Silvia Panizza - What It Means to Pay Attention

Apr 24th, 2020 20m 5s

Dr Silvia Panizza gives an interview with Dr Christopher Cowley about the public lecture she was going to give as part of the CEPL series, on the deeper ethical import of what you pay attention to and how you do it. How can attention be morally

Interview: Christopher Cowley - The Ethics of Ignorance and Clumsiness

Apr 21st, 2020 13m 58s

Dr Christopher Cowley gives an interview with Dr Silvia Panizza about his talk on The Ethics of Ignorance and Clumsiness. If somebody harms me deliberately, I blame them. Now for blame to 'work', I have to assume that they understood enough of

Rate