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2009 Global Justice Conference Podcasts
Quicktime is required to view the Streaming Video podcasts.
  • Nicole Hassoun - "Libertarian Welfare Rights"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Allen Buchanan - "Innovation and Inequality"
    (Audio| Streaming Video)

  • Stephen Gardiner - "Is Geoengineering the Lesser Evil?"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Mathias Risse - "Who Should Shoulder the Burden? Global Climate Change and Common Ownership of the Earth"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Joel Ngugi - "The Corrosive Effects of Neoliberal Thought on Global Human Rights"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Brad Roth - "Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: Premises of a Pluralist International Legal Order
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Angelina Godoy - "Intellectual Property, Medicines, and Right to Health: A View from Central America"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Thomas Pogge - "The Health Impact Fund: Boosting Innovation Without Obstructing Free Access"
    (Audio | Streaming Video: Part 1 ; Part 2)


2009 Pain and Suffering Conference Podcasts
Quicktime is required to view the Streaming Video podcasts.

  • Conference Introductions
    (Streaming Video: Part 1; Part 2)

  • Robert Arnold - "Palliative Care: Who, What, Where and When"
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

  • Jane Ballantyne - "Denying Opioid Treatment of Pain: Is it Ever Appropriate, and if so, When?
    (Audio | Streaming Video)

Radio Presentation Podcasts

Michael Blake appeared with philosophers Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers on CBC Radio One on Monday, March 16 to discuss excuses and responsibility. The show is called “The Dog Ate My Homework,” and was broadcast on CBC Radio One in Canada and Sirius Radio 137: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20080421_5354.mp3


Michael Blake also appeared on CBC, in discussion with Arthur Ripstein and Simone Chambers on democracy: Two parts - May 11 and May 18 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule3.html

For more information on the show, click here.


Michael Blake discussing the ethics of baseball on KUOW: http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17322


Michael Blake discussing CIA torture non-prosecution on KUOW: http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=17347


Ask the Earth Day Ethicists on Weekday with Michael Blake and Stephen Gardiner
Go to KUOW’s website to listen.
[Originally aired Friday, April 20, 2007 on KUOW]

Michael Blake and Stephen Gardiner joined host Steve Sher on KUOW’s Weekday to discuss a range of environmental issues .


Sticky Situations: Ethics on Weekday
with Michael Blake
Go to KUOW’s website to listen.
[ Originally aired Tuesday, September 5, 2006 on KUOW]

Michael Blake joined host Steve Sher on KUOW’s Weekday to address various ethical quandaries from whether it is permissible to wait for new technologies to solve climate change to how to pick your neighbor’s overgrown blackberries.
> Listen to a back issue [“Weekday: Got Ethics?” July 20, 2006].


Engage Interview (OSU)
with Andrew Light, “Environmental Ethics and Strategies for Sustainability” | mp3

Engage is a podcast program of global culture, transformative concepts, and engaged philosophy hosted by Joseph Orosco and produced by the Department of Philosophy at Oregon State University.  Professor Light joined Dr. Orosco for a discussion on environmental ethics.


Print Presentations

University Week Interview with Andrew Light
[November 9, 2006]

Andrew Light talks about environmental ethics with University Week, the UW faculty and staff newspaper.


Video Presentations

When We Restore Nature, What Do We Owe the Past?
[Recorded: Tuesday, July 18, 2006]
Go to UMT’s Center for Ethics to view.

Andrew Light was an instructor and speaker at the University of Montana Center for Ethics 2006 Environmental Ethics Institute. In this talk, Light discusses the moral obligations to both past and future human communities to retain elements of industrial or agricultural legacies in restorations.


Human Wrongs and Human Rights—A Public Symposium
[Recorded: Monday, April 10, 2006]
View: Broadband or 56k

With Henry Shue (Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Kok-chor Tan (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania), and William Talbott (Philosophy, University of Washington).

Is there a moral standard from which actions can be legitimately critiqued when charges of human rights violations are raised? Sponsored by PonVinS, College of Arts & Sciences, Law School, Comparative Law & Society Studies Center, Simpson Center, Evans School, and Dept. of Political Science to celebrate the publication of Talbott’s book, Which Rights Should be Universal?

Program on Values in Society
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