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Back to SearchTim Lewens on Selling Organs (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Can it ever be acceptable to sell human body parts. Tim Lewens discusses this increasingly pertinent moral question with Nigel Warburton. This episod…
13 years, 6 months ago
John Tomasi on Free Market Fairness
Is free market fairness an oxymoron? John Tomasi, author of Free Market Fairness, argues that economic freedom and social justice are compatible. In …
13 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics (originally on Bioethics Bites)
How should health resources be distributed? Jonathan Wolff discusses this and related questions in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. This…
13 years, 7 months ago
Fiery Cushman on Moral Luck
Should morality be immune from luck? It seems so. Yet outcomes beyond participants' control seem to affect our judgements of culpability. Fiery Cushm…
13 years, 7 months ago
Onora O'Neill on Trust (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Trust is crucial in areas of medicine and health. But what sort of explicit consent should doctors obtain before medical treatment? Onora O'Neill dis…
13 years, 7 months ago
Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
Some recent research in neuroscience seems to point to the conclusion that free will is an illusion. That's certainly the conclusion that some have d…
13 years, 7 months ago
NIck Bostrom on the Status Quo Bias
Are we systematically biases against changing the status quo? It seems that we are. In this interview, originally released as part of the Bioethics B…
13 years, 8 months ago
Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
Could everything that exists have experiences? Is there something that it is like to be an electron? This sounds unlikey on first hearing, but in thi…
13 years, 8 months ago
Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)
How should doctors, patients and family make end of life decisions? Peter Singer explores questions about euthanasia, abortion and autonomy in conver…
13 years, 8 months ago
Philip Pettit on Republicanism
What is republicanism? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Philip Pettit outlines the key features of this important strand in political …
13 years, 8 months ago