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Nov 2023
17m 18s

Agnes Callard on Sex

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
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What happens when people have sexual desires for one another? Agnes Callard from the University of Chicago discusses sex, eroticism, and much more in conversation with Nigel Warburton. 

Not surprisingly, this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast involves mention of sex.

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