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Thomas Wartenberg

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Joshua Greene

Krista Tippett

Aaron James

Garth Paine

Jeffrey Shaw

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Chris Robichaud

We often take for granted the active process of learning about ethics and morality, so today’s show focuses on the source of ethics education: the educators themselves. We hear from two superstar teachers: Chris Robichaud is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School with an interest in creating moral simulations for education, and Thomas Wartenberg is the creator of the Teaching Children Philosophy program and website. Both share their ideas on learning philosophy and ethics, fiction, and more.  Contact us at examiningethics@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @ExaminingEthics. Follow us on Instagram @examiningethicspodcast. You can also find us on Facebook. For the episode’s transcript, click here. Shownotes Thomas WartenbergTeaching Children Philosophy – a website that provides modules and courses for teaching kids philosophy through picture booksBig Ideas for Little Kids – Tom’s bookChris RobichaudChris’s TwitterChris’s TedTalk on moral simulations Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for designing our logo.  “Lahaina” by Blue Dot SessionsFrom sessions.blueCC BY-NC 4.0 To contact us, email examiningethics@gmail.com. The post Ethics Education with Thomas Wartenberg and Chris Robichaud appeared first on Examining Ethics.

We often take for granted the active process of learning about ethics and morality, so today’s show focuses on the source of ethics education: the educators themselves. We hear from two superstar teachers: Chris Robichaud is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School with an interest in creating moral simulations for education, and Thomas Wartenberg is the creator of the Teaching Children Philosophy program and website. Both share their ideas on learning philosophy and ethics, fiction, and more. Contact us at examiningethics@gmail.com. Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/ExaminingEthics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> @ExaminingEthics. Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/examiningethicspodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> @examiningethicspodcast. You can also find us on Facebook. For the episode’s transcript, click <a href="https://examiningethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Transcript-Episode-41-Ethics-Education.docx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <h2>Shownotes</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/thomas-wartenberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Wartenberg</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teaching Children Philosophy</a> – a website that provides modules and courses for teaching kids philosophy through picture books</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Ideas-Little-Kids-Philosophy/dp/1475804458/ref=asc_df_1475804458/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=312710253827&amp;hvpos=1o2&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=6989071441732517211&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9016102&amp;hvtargid=pla-310177600250&amp;psc=1&amp;tag=&amp;ref=&amp;adgrpid=61681020945&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvadid=312710253827&amp;hvpos=1o2&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=6989071441732517211&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9016102&amp;hvtargid=pla-310177600250" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Big Ideas for Little Kids</a> – Tom’s book</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/chris-robichaud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Robichaud</a><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/cjrobichaud?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris’s Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn_d0oHYVCw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris’s TedTalk</a> on moral simulations</li></ul></li></ul> Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for designing our logo. <ol><li>“<a href="https://www.sessions.blue/?fwp_search=lahaina" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lahaina</a>” by Blue Dot Sessions From <a href="https://www.sessions.blue/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">sessions.blue </a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a></li></ol> To contact us, email examiningethics@gmail.com. The post <a href="https://examiningethics.org/2019/06/41-ethics-education-with-thomas-wartenberg-and-chris-robichaud/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ethics Education with Thomas Wartenberg and Chris Robichaud</a> appeared first on <a href="https://examiningethics.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Examining Ethics</a>.

Ethics Education with Thomas Wartenberg and Chris Robichaud

The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and Film Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016 ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube The debate about whether films can do philosophy has focused predominantly on narrative fiction films. In this talk, I consider documentary as a film genre whose philosophical significance has been underappreciated. I argue that documentary films are capable of doing philosophy albeit in a distinctive manner. In making my case, I invoke the thesis I put forward in Thinking On Screen (2007) that films can do philosophy by addressing a philosophical problem that is also discussed by philosophers. My example of a film that does this is The Third Man (Reed, 1947) which, I argue, illustrates and supplements claims made by Aristotle in regard to the issue of how to dissolve a friendship ethically. To adapt this account to documentary films, I consider The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012). I argue that the film addresses the issue of how people can perform evil actions, an issue theorized by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1964) through the concept of the banality of evil.  The distinctive feature of a documentary film’s philosophical contribution is that, whereas a fiction film usually does philosophy by means of a thought experiment, a documentary can support a thesis by means of providing actual evidence to support it. In so doing, documentaries rely on film’s distinctive manner of presenting reality on screen, a feature of film emphasized by André Bazin and others. International Conference on Philosophy and Film Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations? And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical debates on the real? These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers. The participation at the conference is also possible without the presentation of a paper. The conference will be held in English.

The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and Film Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016 ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube The debate about whether films can do philosophy has focused predominantly on narrative fiction films. In this talk, I consider documentary as a film genre whose philosophical significance has been underappreciated. I argue that documentary films are capable of doing philosophy albeit in a distinctive manner. In making my case, I invoke the thesis I put forward in Thinking On Screen (2007) that films can do philosophy by addressing a philosophical problem that is also discussed by philosophers. My example of a film that does this is The Third Man (Reed, 1947) which, I argue, illustrates and supplements claims made by Aristotle in regard to the issue of how to dissolve a friendship ethically. To adapt this account to documentary films, I consider The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2012). I argue that the film addresses the issue of how people can perform evil actions, an issue theorized by Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1964) through the concept of the banality of evil. The distinctive feature of a documentary film’s philosophical contribution is that, whereas a fiction film usually does philosophy by means of a thought experiment, a documentary can support a thesis by means of providing actual evidence to support it. In so doing, documentaries rely on film’s distinctive manner of presenting reality on screen, a feature of film emphasized by André Bazin and others. International Conference on Philosophy and Film Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations? And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical debates on the real? These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers. The participation at the conference is also possible without the presentation of a paper. The conference will be held in English.

Thomas Wartenberg: Can Documentaries Realize Philosophy? The Act of Killing and the Banality of Evil

Thomas Wartenberg has created an entire program for his philosophy class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.  The program teaches his students how to facilitate a philosophical discussion with grade 1 through 5 students using picture books.  The results are amazing.  Show ID and Intro Interview with Thomas Wartenberg Philosophy for Children    The full length version of this interview is available at Just One More Book!! How to subscribe to Electric Sky – it’s free. Photo: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~twartenb/ 

<a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~twartenb/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Wartenberg</a> has created an entire program for his philosophy class at <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mount Holyoke College</a> in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The program teaches his students how to facilitate a philosophical discussion with grade 1 through 5 students using picture books. The results are amazing. <ul> <li>Show ID and Intro</li> <li>Interview with Thomas Wartenberg <ul> <li><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/omc/kidsphil/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philosophy for Children</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> The <a href="http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/02/05/interview-with-thomas-wartenberg/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">full length version of this interview</a> is available at <a href="http://www.justonemorebook.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Just One More Book!!</a> <a href="http://electricsky.net/how-to-subscribe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to subscribe to Electric Sky – it’s free</a>. Photo: <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~twartenb/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~twartenb/</a>

Thomas Wartenberg and Philosophy for Children