Talks and interviews by members of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life on ethical questions of wide social interest.
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
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Talks and interviews by members of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life on ethical questions of wide social interest.
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March 7, 2021
Young Irish Philosopher speaks to Ryan Tubridy
<p>Emily Gaines - 15 yr old from Temple Carrig Greystones - and her Philosophy teacher Susan Andrews interviewed on the Ryan Tubridy show.</p>
May 25, 2020
Public Lecture: Rowland Stout - The Role of Empathy in our Moral Life
<p>This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 25 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin.</p> <p>Empathy is the capacity to see how things are for someone else from their perspective. It is treated in management self-help books as a useful skill that enables you to get your way with people and make better deals. It is treated in psychology as a feature of Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Doctors are encouraged to develop their empathy, which in this context is the same as 'bedside manner' in order to be more effective. Relationship counselors work with couples to help them empathise with one another, so that they can stay together. And moral philosophers have often argued that empathy is the basis of the capacity to be a moral agent; it is what enables us to be altruistic in the first place. Recently, though, there has been a backlash against empathy, with an influential book by Paul Bloom arguing that empathy hinders good moral action rather than helping it. This is because empathy leads to partiality. People guided by empathy might be inclined to help only those people they can be empathic towards - thus excluding from their moral concern those who are too different or too far away to be engaged with emotionally. In this talk we will explore whether empathy really is an essential aspect of moral agency.</p> <p>Professor Rowland Stout is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, Director of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life and a Professor in the UCD School of Philosophy. He has written books about the philosophy of mind and numerous papers on ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. His current project is a book on the philosophy of emotions.</p>
May 22, 2020
Public Lecture: Christopher Cowley - The Ethics of Ignorance and Clumsiness
<p>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.</p> <p>If somebody harms me deliberately, I blame them. Now for blame to 'work', I have to assume that they understood enough of what they were doing, and that they were free enough to refrain from doing it. In other words, I assume they chose to harm me. But what if they are ignorant and therefore did not understand what they were doing? Sometimes I blame them, sometimes I might excuse them for their ignorance. How does that work? And what if they are clumsy, or insensitive, or unimaginative, or just plain stupid? How much can I blame them for such cognitive defects? This lecture will look at these kinds of fault, both in morality and in the criminal law.</p> <p>Christopher Cowley teaches the philosophy of law and the philosophy of autobiography at the UCD School of Philosophy.</p>
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