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Jun 2022
22m 47s

Clare Chambers on the Unmodified Body

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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We all make some modifications to our bodies. But often this is in response to social pressures. So is there something to say for the largely unmodified body? Clare Chambers thinks so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she spells out why. The interviewer is David Edmonds. 

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