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Podcast Profile: Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges

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6 episodes
2017
Median: 52 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast presents public lectures in practical ethics that apply analytic philosophy to contemporary social and political problems, aiming to clarify concepts and evaluate competing arguments in an accessible way. Across the episodes, the focus is on equality and fairness: what it means to treat people equally, why equal status matters, and how to justify (and interpret) equality of opportunity. The lectures examine different dimensions of “equality” as a moral and political ideal, separating related but distinct claims and exploring when inequality is unjust and when it may be harder to assess.

Another major strand is the ethical and social framework governing sex and gender relations. The podcast engages with debates shaped by the history of feminism while emphasizing ongoing conceptual disagreements about what a fair arrangement between the sexes would look like. It considers how public arguments can be muddled by ambiguous terms and unexamined assumptions, and it attempts to disentangle those confusions to better assess claims about sex equality, the nature of women and men, ideology, and the aims of feminist politics.

Technological change—especially developments in reproductive technology—appears as a complicating factor that can disrupt settled norms and push moral reasoning into new territory, raising questions about how ethical principles should respond to shifting social realities.

Some installments also include discussion formats alongside the lectures, bringing multiple philosophers into conversation to probe and challenge the arguments presented.