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Ethics Untangled is a series of conversations about the ethical issues that affect all of us, with academics who have spent some time thinking about them.
Ethics Untangled is also the long-form online presence of IDEA, edited by Danielle Bromwich and Luke Brunning, where we make room for longer interviews, staff and student profiles, articles and other forms of content.
Both are brought to you by IDEA, the Ethics Centre, a specialist unit for teaching, research, training and consultancy in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds. IDEA offers Masters programmes in Healthcare Ethics and Applied and Professional Ethics, research degrees and consultancy services.
The Ethics Untangled podcast is edited by Mark Smith at Leeds Media Services.
Music is by Kate Wood.
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62. Can organisations be trustworthy? With Matt Clark
Send us Fan MailCan organisations themselves be trustworthy, or is trustworthiness only a quality of individuals? This question matters for how we think about public institutions, businesses, and…
61. Do we really react emotionally to AI? With Rebecca Wallbank
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we’re asking whether people can really have genuine emotional reactions to artificial intelligence. Many of us already feel things towards AIs – whether that’s…
60. How should long covid change how we think about disability? With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we’re looking at the ethics of long COVID and the ways it is reshaping how we think about disability, care, and community. Long COVID has left millions of people…
59. How should we care for people living with dementia? With Matilda Carter
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, I'm talking to Matilda Carter, a lecturer in Applied Ethics at IDEA The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, about the ethics of dementia care, and asking what…
58. Do we need to rethink competence to consent? With Danielle Bromwich
Send us Fan MailIn medical ethics, competence (sometimes called decision-making capacity) refers to a person’s ability to make informed choices about their own healthcare. It is a central concept…
57. Does AI mean we need to change our concept of moral responsibility? With Enrico Galvagni and Fabio Tollon
Send us Fan MailPeople who think and write about the ethics of artificial intelligence sometimes talk about a 'responsibility gap'. The thought is that there are instances of harm resulting from the…
56. Does drill rap cause violence? With Tareeq Jalloh
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we’re diving into the ethics of drill rap - a genre that has been celebrated for its creativity and authenticity but also heavily criticised for its alleged links to…
55. Should pornography be authentic? With Rosa Vince
Send us Fan MailContent note: This episode discusses pornography in an academic context, focusing on ethical and philosophical arguments.Feminist critiques of pornography have a long history and take…
54. Do we need more time? With Lisa Herzog
Send us Fan MailLisa Herzog is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The subject of this conversation is…
53. How should social media platforms regulate AI-generated content? With Jeffrey Howard
Send us Fan MailAI-generated content is a familiar and increasingly prevalent feature of social media. Users post text, video, audio and images which have been created by AI, sometimes being clear…
52. Should we all be activists? With Josh Hobbs
Send us Fan MailJosh Hobbs is back in this episode for his second appearance. Again the subject is political. This time we're discussing whether we should all be activists. More specifically, does…
51. What can a shallow pond teach us about ethics? With David Edmonds
Send us Fan MailImagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there.…
50. What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch
Send us Fan MailA really interesting conversation with Simon Meisch this week. Simon is a Senior Lecturer for Applied Ethics at the Ethics Centre of the University of Tubingen, and until recently was…
49. Are We Deceiving Future Generations About Environmental Crises? With Catriona McKinnon
Send us Fan MailIn this episode I talk to Professor Catriona McKinnon, a political philosopher based at the University of Exeter. The topic is the various environmental crises facing humanity today.…
48. How should you act as an in-house lawyer? With Sharon Bridglalsingh
Send us Fan MailFor the last year and a half, Jim Baxter and the consulting team at IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, have been working with the Law Society of England and Wales on…
47. Should we be worried about cancel culture? With Alfred Archer and Georgie Mills
Send us Fan MailCancelling and cancel culture are terms that we hear a lot these days, and it's one of the many areas where there seems to be more heat than light. The phenomenon of cancelling has…
46. Should we be worried about words changing their meaning? With Robbie Morgan
Send us Fan MailWords such as 'woke', 'emotional labour' and 'gaslighting' get bandied around a lot, especially in online discourse. And as they get bandied around, their meaning can change over…
45. Are ethicists paying enough attention to social class? With Orla Carlin
Send us Fan MailEpistemic injustice is a broad category of injustice relating to knowledge. It can involve people from marginalised or oppressed groups being excluded, silenced, misrepresented, or…
44. Do large language models gossip? With Lucy Osler
Send us Fan MailGossip is an ethically interesting phenomenon when humans do it. It creates a bond between the people doing the gossiping, but it does so by implicitly excluding the person being…
43. How do you assure AI for bias and accessibility in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
Send us Fan MailAdam Byfield is a Principal Technical Assurance Specialist at NHS England. After his previous appearance on the podcast, discussing providing ethical assurance for AI applications in…
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