9 Episodes

  1. Can you choose to be gay?

    Published: 7/14/2015

  2. The ethics of sexuality

    Published: 11/4/2014

  3. Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?

    Published: 10/28/2014

  4. Is there such a thing as a just war?

    Published: 10/21/2014

  5. The rights and wrongs of abortion

    Published: 10/14/2014

  6. Choosing the sex of your child

    Published: 10/6/2014

  7. Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility

    Published: 9/29/2014

  8. What is virtue ethics?

    Published: 9/22/2014

  9. Should euthanasia be legal?

    Published: 7/22/2014

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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.