In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast

Dec 12 2023 21 mins 6
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In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast is back with Season 4 of the show. Join your hosts, Professor Paul Formosa and Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, from the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, previously known as the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (or CAVE), as they explore a range of philosophical topics focused on the question of how we can live well as moral agents in an ethically complex world.

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