Challis Lecture in Philosophy - The new sciences of sex and reproduction
Paul E. Griffiths, Challis Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities
Luara Ferracioli, Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities
Hosted by Natasha Mitchell, ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas
Society has traditionally categorised people as male and female, parent and child using simple biological criteria. The emergence of new social identities and new possibilities for medical intervention have both challenged this practice. Today we must explicitly debate and make choices about how these categories should be understood.
Philosophers Paul Griffiths and Luara Ferracioli are contributing to these debates through their research. Griffiths is examining how the relatively simple biology of reproduction gives rise to the complexities and indeterminacies of individual sex, and how new ways of changing human bodies add to that complexity. Ferracioli is examining how new reproductive technologies, including the realistic prospect of babies gestated entirely outside a human body, impact the legal and ethical assignment of parenthood.
https://soh-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/challis-09-08-2023/
