Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture: 'Sex and the metaphysics of moral reasoning'

Talk title: Sex and the metaphysics of moral reasoning

Abstract:

The way any moral reasoning proceeds must depend on presuppositions about the fundamental nature of the reality.  This point will be illustrated by arguments at cross purposes in the nineteenth century controversy about The Woman Question, and extended to suggest ways in which the same problems arise, largely unrecognized, in many current political and moral controversies.

Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.  More information about Professor Radcliffe-Richards.