This week, Scott sits down with Dominic Wilkinson, Professor of Medical Ethics at Oxford. He is the author of Death or Disability?, Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children, and Pandemic Ethics: From COVID-19 to Disease X. His work uniquely combines hands-on neonatal care with ethical analysis of emerging technologies like AI in medicine. Enjoy!

In this episode, Scott is joined by Professor Ignacio Cofone, Oxford’s Professor of Law and Regulation of AI and a member of both the Institute for Ethics in AI and Reuben College. Author of The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy, Professor Cofone’s research examines privacy, fairness, and responsibility, focusing on how the law should govern new harms created by AI-enabled inference, prediction, and profiling. He and Scott explore surveillance, prediction, and responsibility while entertaining various real and hypothetical scenarios.

Today, Scott is joined by Professor Armand D’Angour, an Oxford classicist and Fellow of Jesus College. Armand’s work spans ancient Greek music, lyric poetry, and the cultural imagination of the classical world. He’s the author of The Greeks and the New, Socrates in Love, How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking, and How to Talk About Love: Plato’s Symposium.

This week, Scott sits down with Nigel Biggar. Nigel Biggar is the Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and the author of more than a dozen books, including Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), What’s Wrong with Rights? (2020), and In Defence of War (2013). He chairs the board of the Free Speech Union, lectures internationally, and writes regularly for major newspapers and magazines. Enjoy!

This week on Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Scott sits down with Dr. Marie Kawthar Daouda, a French literature scholar and Lecturer at Oriel College. They discuss the romantic, the absurd, COVID, and the scapegoat, focusing on Girard and Camus, among others. Happy listening!

This week on Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Scott interviews Dr. Harold Carter, a historian at Oxford University specializing in economic and social history, as well as a farmer and community philanthropy leader. He previously worked as a strategy consultant, banker, and think tank director before moving into academia and public service. In addition to his academic work, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce.

This week, Scott sits down with Sam Crowe, a Rhodes Scholar and recent graduate from UVA, where he was the first undergraduate student to lead an observing program with the James Webb Space Telescope. Today, they dive into astrophysics, star formation, black holes, and more. Enjoy!

This week, Scott sits down with Edward Hadas, a Lecturer at Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education, with over 25 years of experience as a financial analyst and journalist. He is a writer, academic, and philosopher--with a taste for theology. In this episode, he and Scott talk about the Philosophy of Money. Enjoy!