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#76 - What Makes You Male or Female? | Tomas Bogardus
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- The Ethical Frontier
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- Sep 28, 2025
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Summary
You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Tomas Bogardus is a Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/tbogardus/ Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Nature-of-the-Sexes-Why-Biology-Matters/Bogardus/p/book/9781041029533 Summary:In this interview, we discuss Bogardus' new book on the nature of the sexes. He argues that the sexes are particular kinds of functions—activated higher-order functions—of entire organisms, coded in master programs specifying the development, organization, and maintenance of components themselves programmed to produce (and transport, etc.) some type of anisogamous gamete, e.g. sperm or ova. Other topics discussed include biological functions and whether humans can change their sex.