Wellbeing and Animal Lives: Part 1
AboutHow does the concept of wellbeing inform animal lives? Wellbeing incorporates and yet extends previous ideas of animal welfare. It envisions in both a scientific and ethical sense how people shou...
15 Maj 1h 22min
Meet the Neighbors with Brandon Keim
Brandon Keim’s latest book is Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World (2024). He draws on the explosion of research into animal cognition to argue that the cities and land...
8 Maj 1h 31min
Mary Midgley: An Introduction
In this episode we explore the thought of ethicist and philosopher Mary Midgley. Midgley was a key scholar of common-sense morality, and the most important ethicist of animals in the last century. Her...
7 Mars 1h 43min
Messaging in Wildlife Protection Ballot Initiatives
Dr. Neimeic shares her research on the factors influencing public support of carnivore protection ballot initiatives. Using moral foundations theory and data from in-person interviews, she demonstrate...
10 Feb 1h 23min
Ethics 101
An introduction to the meaning of ethics, the place of intrinsic value and moral community in ethical understanding, and the distinction between descriptive and normative ethics in public policy.HOSTS...
20 Jan 1h 41min
