Brian is a philosopher and psychologist based at the University of Oxford, with interests in sex and sexuality, love, gender, relationships, and related issues.

Brian holds a doctorate in philosophy and psychology from Yale University, and is the co-author of Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships with Julian Savulescu. With Clare Chambers and Lori Watson, Brian is editor of the The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, which serves as the basis for a major series of podcast episodes often co-hosted with Clare and Lori.

Brian has appeared on numerous popular podcasts along with local and national radio programs, from NPR to the BBC. Outside of formal academic journals, where Brian has published more than 100 peer-reviewed essays in philosophy, psychology, and bioethics, Brian's writing has featured in venues as diverse as The Atlantic, New Scientist, New Humanist, Aeon, The Philosopher, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Huffington Post.

For more on Brian's academic work, publications, and educational background, visit brianearp.com, researchgate.net, or academia.edu.

You can follow Brian on Twitter at @briandavidearp. Please considider supporting Brian's work in public philosophy by becoming a Patreon subscriber, where you'll get early access to podcast episodes, bonus material, and more.

Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the author of Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Allen Lane / Penguin, 2022); Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State (Oxford University Press, 2017); Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, 2008); Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (with Phil Parvin, Hodder, 2012); and numerous articles and chapters on political philosophy, gender, and bioethics.

Clare is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality (with Brian D. Earp and Lori Watson, Routledge, 2022) and Editor-in-Chief of Res Publica, the journal of legal, moral, and social philosophy (with Sune Laegaard). She regularly appears on radio, including BBC Radio 4 (PM, Broadcasting House, Woman’s Hour, Sweet Reason, How To Disagree); BBC Radio 3 (Free Thinking); BBC World Service (Deeply Human) and has also been featured on the BBC website, on Radio 5 Live, on BBC local radio, on Times Radio and on the cross-platform BBC Rethink series.

Her research has featured in print and online media as diverse as the Guardian, the New Statesman, El País, la Repubblica, iNews, The Times of India, the Times Literary Supplement, The American Conservative, Metro, Slate, Philosophy 24/7, Philosophy Bites, Daily Nous, and Aeon.