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“CAPEd Conversations,” is the podcast series of Ohio University’s Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. The podcast is hosted by Christoph Hanisch and James Petrik (OU, Department of Philosophy). "CAPEd Conversations" invites guests with an expertise in ethics, moral psychology, and applied moral philosophy. Our goal in the conversations is to highlight the relevance and significance of contemporary debates, not only in the scholarly disciplines of the humanities but to develop, with the help of our guests, a better understanding of the practical challenges that contemporary societies are facing in the light of social and technological innovations.
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Mark LeBar is a professor of philosophy at Florida State University. In this episode of CAPEd Conversations LeBar discusses his recent work in ethics, political and social philosophy, and metaethics. LeBar's book, “The Value of Living Well,” (Oxford University Press, 2013) is a development of contemporary eudaimonist virtue ethical theory. His most recent book, “Just People,” (Oxford University Press 2025), extends that account of eudaimonism to questions about the nature and origin of the vi...
Wanting and liking for pleasant rewards usually go together. But the brain separates wanting and liking mechanisms, creating potential for the two to diverge. Addictive desires can arise even without expectation of pleasure or actual pleasure when reward is received. I’ll show a laboratory example as 'wanting for what hurts’, which can also create narrowly focused addictions. Counterintuitively, reward ‘wanting’ may also overlap in mechanisms with forms of fear. These conclu...
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