Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions?

Practical Ethics Bites

Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility

Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.

Can you choose to be gay?

Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.

The ethics of sexuality

Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos.

Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?

Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war? 23 10

Is there such a thing as a just war?

Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.

The rights and wrongs of abortion

Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each.

Choosing the sex of your child

In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'.

What is virtue ethics?

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.

Should euthanasia be legal?

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.