Show overview
Practical Ethics Bites launched in 2014 and has put out 9 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 3 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 18 min and 20 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-UK-language Education show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 10.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2014, with 8 episodes published. Published by Oxford University.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
Can you choose to be gay?
Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.
The ethics of sexuality
Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.
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.
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
The rights and wrongs of abortion
Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.
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.
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?
What is virtue ethics?
In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'.
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.