MIT Compass

MIT Compass: Thinking & Talking About Being Human is a show about exploring fundamental questions: What do we value – and why? What do we know – and how do we know it? What do we owe to each other? Hosted by MIT professors from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences, each episode takes on the moral and social questions of the human experience.

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What is value?

February 03, 2025 • MIT Compass • Episode 1

This episode explores the question “What is value?” with MIT professors from philosophy, science, technology and society (STS), history, electrical engineering and computer science.

Featuring: Sally Haslanger, Professor of Philosophy (host); Munther Dahleh, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; William Deringer, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and, Caroline A Jones, Professor of History, Theory, Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT.

This podcast was created as part of the MIT Compass Initiative, 21.01: “Love, Death, and Taxes.” For more information about Compass check out⁠compass.mit.edu⁠⁠.

This podcast was recorded at the MIT AV Studios, and produced by Adina Karp.