Human Centered

A Social Science of Caregiving

Episode Summary

Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]

Episode Notes

Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]

Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio

Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)

Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy

Anne-Marie Slaughter:  New America bio

Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)

Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)