Global Awareness 101: Recent Episodes
Amos Wollen
Is monogamy wrong? Should we try to be polyamorous? With me to discuss are Harry Chalmers and Kyle York, two philosophers with an ongoing dispute about the ethics of monogamy. Chalmer's says it's wrong, York says it's fine. Harry Chalmers is a philosopher who works on various topics in metaethics, especially normative authority, as well as philosophy of sex, love, and friendship. He got his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2019. Kyle York is a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His area of focus is applied ethics, especially animal ethics and the ethics of love. He also has interest in many areas of philosophy, including normative ethics, philosophy of psychology and psychiatry, and the meaning(fulness) of life.Further reading: Chalmers, H. (2019). Is monogamy morally permissible?. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 53(2), 225-241.York, K. (2020). Why monogamy is morally permissible: A defense of some common justifications for monogamy. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 54(4), 539-552.Chalmers, H. (2022). Monogamy Unredeemed. Philosophia, 50(3), 1009-1034.York, Kyle. 2023. “ A Couple of Reasons in Favor of Monogamy.” Journal of Social Philosophy 1–18.