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Luc Bovens on Catholicism and HIV

Luc Bovens of the London School of Economics, maintains that the Catholic church should permit condom use for discordant heterosexual couples (those where one partner has HIV and the other doesn't) on grounds of consistency with other doctrines, such as that of Double Effect.

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Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's Ethics

In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Peter Singer explains why the Victorian philosopher Henry Sidgwick, who died in 1900, is so important to the utilitarian tradition.

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National Portrait Gallery 'Picturing Philosophers' a free tour

Nigel Warburton will be leading a free tour of portraits of philosophers at the National Portrait Gallery, London at 7.30 pm on Thursday 14th July and Friday 29th July. View further details and download a pdf of the booklet accompanying the tour.

 

Victor Tadros on Punishment

Why should people be punished for their crimes? Is it bad that those punished suffer? Victor Tadros explores these questions in discussion with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

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