Audio Lectures, podcasts, and other Interviews
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Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Samantha Noll and WCU's Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Matthew Pierlott.
Samantha Noll is The Ryan-Bordander Chair and Associate Professor in The School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She publishes widely on topics in food and environmental ethics and the application of emerging technologies in agriculture, and is the co-author/editor of the Field Guide to Formal Logic (2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City (Routledge, 2019). Her newest book, Ethical Omnivores: Better Eating for Everyone, will be coming out in February of 2025. |
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A simple decision about what to order for lunch can have profound effects on others.
“Food is interesting because it touches so many other communities,” says Samantha Noll, an associate professor of bioethics in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. “When we decide that we’re going to eat that falafel sandwich, or that burger, or that salad, we’re impacting others with that seemingly simple choice.” |
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When students in Samantha Noll’s Honors College course on philosophy and technology raised the issue of ChatGPT and academic cheating, she knew she had to address it.
Noll, associate professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, is the newly appointed Elma Ryan Bornander Honors Distinguished Chair. Recipients are outstanding WSU faculty at the forefront of research, pedagogy, and scholarship, and spend two years in residence at WSU’s Honors College developing courses and teaching and mentoring students. Teaching for honors ChatGPT, the AI program introduced late last fall, caused widespread concern among educators at all levels. Capable of scouring the Web and compiling information, it produces plausible essays even at the college level. Noll had her students ask the chatbot itself about the dangers it might pose and discuss their findings. “One of the things I love about teaching a class on technological innovations is that they’re coming fast and furious and have huge impacts on what we do.” |
Balancing Food Security & Ecological Resilience in the Age of the Anthropocene |
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