Should professors share their political views with their students? What happens to students when they do? Today's show is about how decisions around disclosure affect teaching, learning, and trust.
Featuring Harry Brighouse and Tony Laden with Daisy Jagoditsh, Max Patterson, and Avra Reddy.
Produced by Jennifer McCord and Carrie Welsh. Written by Jennifer McCord.
In this special collaborative episode with the L&S Exchange Podcast, we explore how college changes what we trust and what higher ed can do to become more trustworthy.
With special guest philosopher Tony Laden, author of Networks of Trust: The Social Costs of Higher Education and What We Can Do About Them (2024).
Aftershow featuring the L&S Instructional Design Collaborative and UW–Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse.
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Produced by Carrie Welsh and Jennifer McCord. Thanks to Avrie Marsolek, James Dempsey, and Tony Laden. And a special thanks to the L&S Exchange for collaborating with us on this episode. We are grateful to Merit library at UW–Madison for the use of their recording space.
College students need good mentorship. Here's why those mentors should be university teachers.
With Harry Brighouse and Diamond Lannaman.
Based on a paper by Harry Brighouse, "The Mentoring Responsibilities of University Teachers" (unpublished), 2023.
Produced by Carrie Welsh and Jennifer McCord. Special thanks to Diamond Lannaman.
Why all the whispering? What should kids know about sex? And how can we think better about sex ed – so we can do better – by kids, by ourselves, and by each other?
With Lisa Andersen and Lauren Bialystok.
Produced by Carrie Welsh, Anna Nelson, Teresa Nelson, and Jennifer McCord.
Harry Brighouse and Hannah Bounds interview Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson about their book, Can College Level the Playing Field?: Higher Education in an Unequal Society (2022).
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Produced by Harry Brighouse, Hannah Bounds, and Carrie Welsh. Music by Fred Table and the Chairs.
Website: https://ethicsandeducation.wceruw.org/podcast/can-college-level-the-playing-field/
This is the third episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry.
This episode is about faculty using social media, hosted by Jacob Fay (Open Mind) and featuring the voices of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire), TJ Stewart (Iowa State University), and Harry Brighouse (UW-Madison).
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This episode was produced by Rebecca Taylor, Ashley Floyd Kuntz, Jessica Harless, and Carrie Welsh. Music is Physics by Ketsa. Used under a creative commons license.
This episode was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Spencer Foundation (#202000229) and support from the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation or the University of Illinois.
This is the second episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry.
This episode is about the ethical dilemmas that HBCUs face, featuring the voices of host John Torrey (Buffalo State) and guests Joyce E. King (Georgia State University), Felecia Commodore (Old Dominion University), and Corey Reed (Butler University).
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This episode was produced by Rebecca Taylor, Ashley Floyd Kuntz, Jessica Harless, and Carrie Welsh. Music is "Test Case" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.
This episode was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Spencer Foundation (#202000229) and support from the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation or the University of Illinois.
This is the first episode in a miniseries co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz. Rebecca and Ashley are the editors of Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry.
This episode is about "divisive concepts" and features Sigal Ben-Porath (University of Pennsylvania) and Laura Dinehart (Florida International University).
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This episode was produced by Rebecca Taylor, Ashley Floyd Kuntz, Jessica Harless, and Carrie Welsh. Music is No-Wing by Ketsa. Used under a creative commons license.
This episode was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Spencer Foundation (#202000229) and support from the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation or the University of Illinois.
Introducing a miniseries about ethical issues in higher ed. Co-produced by Rebecca M. Taylor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Ashley Floyd Kuntz (Florida International University), this series is based on their new book, Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry.
In this series, we cover "divisive concepts," HBCUs, and faculty use of social media. We also made teaching guides for each episode, based on chapters of the book.
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This episode was produced by Rebecca M. Taylor, Ashley Floyd Kuntz, Jessica Harless, and Carrie Welsh. Music is Physics by Ketsa. Used under a creative commons license.
This episode was made possible (in part) by a grant from the Spencer Foundation (#202000229) and support from the Campus Research Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation or the University of Illinois.
Where is the contrast between the aims of American prisons and the aims of college in prison programs? This piece is about those ethical dilemmas.
Featuring the voices of: philosophers John Fantuzzo, Jennifer Lackey, and Daniel Wodak; and brothers Freedom and Lee Horton.
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Produced by John Fantuzzo, Téa Luckenbill, and Carrie Welsh.
Music is "Built From Nothing" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.
Interviews recorded remotely in 2022.
Imagine you call a plumber.
This episode is about becoming a better college teacher (if you're lucky), featuring UW-Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse and Oakland middle school teacher Grace Gecewicz.
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Produced by Carrie Welsh, with editorial help from Anna Nelson, Hannah Bounds, Trinity Giese, and Harry Brighouse.
Recorded in June 2021.
The true costs of college go way beyond simple frugality. The costs are serious, and they are often overlooked by universities.
Hosted by UW-Madison grad Natnael Shiferaw, this episode features a conversation with ethnographers Nancy Kendall and Matthew Wolfgram, two of the authors of the 2020 book, "The True Costs of College."
This is part of our series on higher education.
Conversation recorded remotely June 2021.
Music is "Wind It Up" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license.
Jon Boeckenstedt is the Vice Provost of Enrollment Management at Oregon State University. He has thoughts about how we do--and should do--admissions. Here he is in conversation with philosopher of education Harry Brighouse.
and more.
To learn more about Jon's work:
This is part of our series on higher education.
Conversation recorded remotely July 2021.
Music is "Aced It" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license.
Do we have a right to higher education? A conversation between philosophers of education Harry Brighouse and Christopher Martin.
This is part of our series on the ethics of higher education.
Further reading:
Recorded remotely in July 2021.
Music is "We Know" by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive, used under a creative commons license.
What should the aims of higher education be? We asked undergrads, grad students, and philosophy professors what they think.
This is the first episode in our series on the ethics of higher education.
Special thanks to UW-Madison philosophy majors Ria Dhingra and Anna Nelson, who collected responses from the 2021 NAAPE Conference (North American Association for Philosophy & Education) and with a few of their friends. And gratitude to everyone they talked to who shared their thoughts.
Music is "Dream Teachers" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.
Recorded in October 2022.
At the Center for Ethics & Education, we (obviously) think a lot about the ethical dimensions of teaching. But what about the ethical dimensions of *not* teaching?
We invited labor scholar Eleni Schirmer into conversation with philosopher Tony Laden to talk about what makes successful teacher strikes successful, strikes as direct action, what the bargaining process does to trust, and a great chicken analogy.
Recorded remotely September 2021. Music is Wavy Glass by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.
Why is it weird to talk about loving your students? A great conversation about love and teaching. Featuring philosopher Meghan Sullivan in conversation with Maria Salazar about what it means to bring love into the classroom and why more philosophers should study love.
The Good Life Method book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624476/the-good-life-method-by-meghan-sullivan-and-paul-blaschko/
Conversation recorded remotely on December 15, 2021.
Music is Hip Hop Instrumental 2 by Ketsa from the Free Music Archive. Used under a creative commons license.
Navigating educational equal opportunity is hard. Christopher Jencks's five principles for equal education opportunity make navigating equal education a little bit easier - once we understand the principles, of course.
In this episode, Avra Reddy interviews Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida) about how we can use moral principles to understand theories of justice in Jencks's paper. They explore questions like: why do principles matter? What is the difference between weak and strong humane justice? How do we pick the best principle? Plus an analogy to help you better understand how principles can help us navigate our lives.
Are you teaching Jencks in your education or philosophy class? There's a study guide for this episode!
Article discussed in this episode: Jencks, Christopher. “Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to Be Equal?” Ethics, vol. 98, no. 3, University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 518–33, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2380965.
Produced by Avra Reddy and Carrie Welsh. Interview recorded in September 2021. Music is "Frieden" by Ketsa, from the Free Music Archive.
How and why should we punish schoolchildren--if at all? That's the guiding question of the Pedagogies of Punishment project. This episode features the project's PIs, John Tillson (Liverpool Hope University) and Winston C. Thompson (The Ohio State University).
Pedagogies of Punishment: https://www.pedagogiesofpunishment.com/
This project was a grantee of the Center for Ethics & Education! We're proud.
Recorded July 2021.
Producer: Carrie Welsh. Music is "Wavy Glass" by Podington Bear and "Stay With Me" by Ketsa, used under a creative commons license.
What can we learn from conversation that we can't learn on our own? Agnes Callard (Philosophy, University of Chicago) talks about the paradox of learning through conversation, the secret to asking a good question, chatting with the ghost of Aristotle, and that time her lecture notes were stolen and it ended up being a good thing for her teaching.
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Pairs well with: Reasoning by Anthony Simon Laden
Recorded in Chicago, July 2021.
Thanks to Agnes Callard and Sol Miller.
Producer: Carrie Welsh. Music is "Wavy Glass" and "Good Times" by Podington Bear, used under a creative commons license.
