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Practical Ethics Bites

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 Philos... Read more

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Can you choose to be gay?

Can you choose to be gay?

Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.

14 Jul 2015

10mins

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The ethics of sexuality

The ethics of sexuality

Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good no... Read more

4 Nov 2014

17mins

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