What caused the coronavirus pandemic?

2 April 2020

In this Thinking Out Loud interview, Katrien Devolder talks to philosopher Peter Singer about the causes of the coronavirus outbreak and what ought to be done to prevent future pandemics.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hvLQgK5uuQI

About the Series

Thinking Out Loud provides a series of videos and audio-podcasts produced by Katrien Devolder in which she talks to leading philosophers from around the world on topics related to practical ethics. The podcast and videos are intended for a non-specialist audience.

Katrien is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

You can watch the videos on the Practical Ethics YouTube Channel or listen on Oxford Podcasts.

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Transcript

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Peter Singer

Peter Singer holds the chair of Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He works mostly in practical ethics, and is best known for Animal Liberation and for his writings about global poverty. 

 

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