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Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

Many questions in practical ethics turn on questions of moral status. In this bonus episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (originally released on Bioethics Bites), Jeff McMahan explores the issues surrounding the moral status of foetuses, those in persistent vegetative states, and non-human animals. This episode of Philosophy Bites was made in association with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Jeff McMahan on Killing in War

 

Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies

Should we select advantageous genes and deselect disadvantageous ones when having children? Julian Savulescu believes that we should. Find out why in this bonus episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (originally released on Bioethics Bites and made in association with the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, and made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust).

Listen to Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies

Previously on Philosophy Bites:

Julian Savulescu on the Yuk Factor

On Virtual Philosopher: 

Julian Savulescu on Moral Enhancement

Julian Savulescu and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discuss Addiction

Julian Savulescu on Craig Venter's synthetic bacterium

 

Bio-Ethics Bites series launched

A new 10-part podcast series, Bio-Ethics Bites, funded by the Wellcome Institute and made in association with the Oxford University Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics has just launched, made by the Philosophy Bites team Daivd Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. Interviews with Jeff McMahan and Julian Savulescu are already available, with Peter Singer, Nick Bostrom,  Onora O'Neill and others in the pipeline. Episodes will be released monthly.

Find out more about Bio-Ethics Bites

Listen to Jeff McMahan on Moral Status

Listen to Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies