The Dilemma Podcast features prominent thinkers discussing a different moral dilemma in every episode. Hosted by Jay Shapiro & Coleman Hughes with moral dilemmas to soothe your existential dread.
#001: Fire At The Lourve
Paul is a scholar of Renaissance art history and a curator at the Louvre in Paris. One morning, a fire sweeps through the museum. As people are evacuating the museum, Paul has an important decision to make. Should he risk his own life by attempting to rescue anything?
#002: Star Trek's Prime Directive
In the long running science fiction show, Star Trek, the federation has a guiding principle referred to as the Prime Directive which instructs federation ships with advanced technology to not interfere with primitive evolving civilizations in such a way where the intervention is detected.
#003: Do I Smell Donuts?
In 2012, Dunkin Donuts piloted a new form of advertising on public buses in South Korea. The idea was called “Flavor Radio”. When the bus was about to pass a Dunkin’ Donuts shop on the road an advertisement for the chain was played over the speakers and a small spritzer installed in the seats of the buses sprayed a pleasing aroma of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee into the atmosphere for riders to inhale.
#004: Listen To The Music
What do you do when your favourite artists aren’t who they appear to be? Our dilemma hosts tackle how difficult and how easy it is to separate an artist’s music from their personal life.
#005: GMO Warning Labels
Join us as we investigate the “virtue signaling” around food choices and why people buy things because of the labels attached.
#006: Conscious Robots
Is HAL a philosophical zombie or is it a conscious ‘being’ that has value? Join us as we enter the mysterious world of consciousness, philosophical zombies and artificial consciousness.
#007: Religion At The Hospital
Is HAL a philosophical zombie or is it a conscious ‘being’ that has value? Join us as we enter the mysterious world of consciousness, philosophical zombies and artificial consciousness.
#008: Friendbot
Is HAL a philosophical zombie or is it a conscious ‘being’ that has value? Join us as we enter the mysterious world of consciousness, philosophical zombies and artificial consciousness.
