CAPEd Conversations
“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.
CAPEd Conversations
Mark LeBar: Justice as a Virtue and its Challenges
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 virtue of justice.
In addition, LeBar has edited a collection on justice as a virtue, “Justice,” (Oxford University Press, 2018), and co-edited “Equality and Public Policy,” (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
LeBar is the editor of Social Theory and Practice, and has published in journals including Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.