SIO23: Is It Morally Acceptable to Have Children? with Travis Rieder

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🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joining us today is Travis Rieder! Travis is a philosopher at Johns Hopkins who deals with Population Ethics and related questions. Find his academic page here. Given the uncertainty of outcomes of our potential children, and given the many problems humanity faces due to overpopulation, is it morally acceptable to have children? Travis and I discuss that question and many related ones in a fascinating philosophy edition of SIO! Here are Travis's main works on these questions, for further reading: 1. Adoption and Procreation 2. Population Engineering 3. Small Family Ethic (book) Highest-impact Media Pieces: 4. NPR Profile 5. Response to Critics Leave us a Voicemail: (916) 750-4746! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected] Questions, Suggestions, Episode ideas? email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:36.0	All right, got a really fascinating episode for you today.
0:39.0	An interview with philosopher Travis Reader
0:42.1	about population ethics
0:44.4	and whether it's morally acceptable to reproduce.
0:47.6	It's a weird thing we humans do.
0:49.7	This is particularly relevant to me
0:52.4	because as I sort of let drop in the last
0:54.4	episode I realized I hadn't made any sort of official announcement not that I
0:57.9	intend to make a big deal about it but Lydia and I are due to have a baby
1:02.4	August 20th, very excited about it.
1:05.7	And actually just for fun, the artwork for this episode that you may see,
1:10.9	depending on, I don't know, your podcat podcatcher whatever it seems like it's not
1:14.4	always visible that's actually our ultrasound so just for fun I know it doesn't really it
1:19.7	all it just looks like some weird alien skeleton thing so there's no
1:23.4	particular relevance to my ultrasound versus someone else's but I thought we could do
1:28.8	it so why not want to put it up so there you go anyway very interesting interview and I'll just get right over to it
1:50.3	joining Joining me right now is Travis Reader bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University and he's here today to talk to us about population ethics.
1:54.5	How are you doing, Travis?
1:55.5	I'm doing great.
1:56.6	Thanks for having me on the show, Thomas.
1:58.4	Hey, thanks so much for taking the time
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