Huw Price on Backward Causation
Effects can't precede their causes, can they? The direction of causation is forwards not backwards. But this common belief doesn't mesh with every aspect of contemporary physics. In this episode of th...
15 Heinä 201216min
Hanna Pickard on Responsibility and Personality Disorder (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Does a diagnosis of personality disorder exempt an individual from moral responsibility? Hanna Pickard discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Thi...
7 Heinä 201216min
Jonathan Dancy on Moral Particularism
Is morality a matter of applying general principles? Jonathan Dancy, a moral particularist, thinks not. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he defends moral particularism in conversation w...
29 Kesä 201213min
Tim 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 episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast was originally r...
22 Kesä 201218min
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 this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he exp...
16 Kesä 201218min
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 episode was originally released on Bioethics Bites...
10 Kesä 201220min
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 Cushman, a psychologist in the area of experimental phil...
2 Kesä 201214min
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 discusses the place of trust in areas of bioethics wit...
27 Touko 201218min
