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Practical Ethics Bites

Oxford University

Practical Ethics Bites is a series of audio podcasts on practical ethics targeted specifically at pupils studying philosophy in UK schools. It is produced by the team behind the popular podcast Philosophy Bites, David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. Philosophy Bites has had over 21 million downloads. David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and all the interviewees are academics linked to the Uehiro Centre. The series aims to be a free educational resource for teachers. Each interview is around 20 minutes long.

  • 10 minutes 50 seconds
    Can you choose to be gay?
    Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.
    14 July 2015, 8:46 am
  • 17 minutes 37 seconds
    The ethics of sexuality
    Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.
    4 November 2014, 10:18 am
  • 19 minutes 47 seconds
    Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?
    Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos.
    28 October 2014, 11:38 am
  • 23 minutes 10 seconds
    Is there such a thing as a just war?
    Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war? 23 10
    21 October 2014, 12:09 pm
  • 18 minutes 58 seconds
    The rights and wrongs of abortion
    Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.
    14 October 2014, 10:57 am
  • 15 minutes 32 seconds
    Choosing the sex of your child
    Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each.
    6 October 2014, 2:16 pm
  • 20 minutes 21 seconds
    Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility
    Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions?
    29 September 2014, 10:11 am
  • 18 minutes 43 seconds
    What is virtue ethics?
    In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'.
    22 September 2014, 10:17 am
  • 21 minutes 58 seconds
    Should euthanasia be legal?
    Dr Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, explores the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia and asks whether it should be made legal.
    22 July 2014, 1:29 pm
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