Episodes
Yale University's Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics is pleased to announce that Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will be delivering this year's Castle Lecture Series, entitled "Effective Altruism." Effective altruism is a new movement consisting of many individuals and several independent organizations, all focused on the deceptively simple idea that we should try to do as much good as we can. The...
Published 07/18/13
Yale University's Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics is pleased to announce that Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will be delivering this year's Castle Lecture Series, entitled "Effective Altruism." Effective altruism is a new movement consisting of many individuals and several independent organizations, all focused on the deceptively simple idea that we should try to do as much good as we can. The...
Published 07/18/13
Yale University's Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics is pleased to announce that Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, will be delivering this year's Castle Lecture Series, entitled "Effective Altruism." Effective altruism is a new movement consisting of many individuals and several independent organizations, all focused on the deceptively simple idea that we should try to do as much good as we can. The...
Published 07/18/13
Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the second lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/21/12
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law presented the 2010 Robert Litowitz Lecture for the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics. Professor An-Na’im presented and defended a framework for the constant theoretical and political contestation of the relationship between Islam, the state, politics and society.
Published 02/15/12
Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures presenting evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the first lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/15/12
Samuel Bowles, Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, gave three public lectures where he presented evidence that explicit incentives and constraints often diminish ethical motivations. This is the third lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/15/12
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject. This is the first lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/13/12
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject. This is the second lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/09/12
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University, gave three public lectures where he examined the legal and ethical arguments supporting nonintervention, engaging in a dialogue with John Stuart Mill’s famous remarks on the subject. This is the third lecture of a three-part series.
Published 02/09/12