Ethics Untangled
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. It is brought to you by the IDEA Centre, a specialist unit for teaching, research, training and consultancy in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds.
Find out more about IDEA, including our Masters programmes in Healthcare Ethics and Applied and Professional Ethics, our PhDs and our consultancy services, here:
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics
Ethics Untangled is edited by Mark Smith at Leeds Media Services.
Music is by Kate Wood.
Episodes
63 episodes
25. Should Lawyers be Fighting for a Cause? With Alex Batesmith
Alex Batesmith has had a fascinating career. After beginning as a criminal barrister in Leeds, he went on to work as a United Nations prosecutor in Cambodia and Kosovo, working on cases involving genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes...
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24. Is Your Gender Like Your Name? With Graham Bex-Priestley
Gender is, of course, one of the most contentious ethical and political topics you can find at the moment. There are numerous practical and policy debates - for example those relating to medicine, prisons and sport - which can seem completely i...
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23. What Is Trust? With Christopher McClean
Chris McClean is the global lead for digital ethics at Avanade, a large tech innovation and consulting firm. He's also studying for his PhD at the University of Leeds, spending his time thinking about risk and trust relationships, especially in...
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22. How Should We Think About Informal Political Representation? With Wendy Salkin
For this episode, I spoke to
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21. Should We Be Worried About Academic Freedom and No-platforming? With Gerald Lang
In May 2023, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill received Royal Assent after two years of debate in Parliament. The new Act will strengthen the statutory duty already imposed on English higher education providers by previous legislati...
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20. What's the Meaning of Life? With Predrag Cicovacki
Never let it be said that we don't tackle the big questions on this podcast. This week we're discussing no less a subject than the meaning of life, with Predrag Cicovacki.Predrag is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cros...
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19. What is Technological Bias and What Should We Do About It? With Meredith Broussard
Meredith Broussard is a data journalist and associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, as well as research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. Her book More Than a Glitc...
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18. Do the dead have rights? With Joseph Bowen
Ethical questions about the dead are frequently interesting, puzzling, surprising, and weird. All of these things become clear in this conversation with Dr Joseph Bowen. Joe is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, specialising i...
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17. Does Love Transcend Time? With Troy Jollimore
This episode is an exploration of the relationship between love and time with Troy Jollimore. As well as being a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University, Troy is a successful poet. His first collection of poetry, T...
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16. Are Africans Unfairly Excluded From Discussions About Environmental Ethics? With Munamato Chemhuru
Dr. Munamato Chemhuru is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Great Zimbabwe University in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, and a Senior Research Associate in Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg in South Africa.He has ...
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15. Do Politicians With Dirty Hands Owe Reparations to Victims? With Christina Nick
Politicians sometimes have to make decisions where there is no option that looks good, morally speaking. They may have to get their hands dirty, acting in a way that looks immoral - sometimes powerfully so - in order to avoid some greater evil....
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LLM6. Relationships Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A session with Kate Lister and Pilar Lopez Cantero.
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55:20
LLM5. Pilar Lopez Cantero on Experiences of Breakup and How To Move On Well [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Pilar Lopez Cantero talking about experiences of breakup and how to move on well.https://www.tilbu...
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LLM4 Kate Lister on Whether We Evolved to be Monogamous [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Kate Lister talking about whether we evolved to be monogamous.https://leedstrinity.academia.edu/KateLister
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LLM12. The Future of Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A session with Brian Earp and Robbie Arrell.
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LLM11. Robbie Arrell on Consent Issues Raised by Teledildonic Technology [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Robbie Arrell on consent issues raised by teledildonic technology.https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethi...
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46:48
LLM10. Brian Earp on the Ethics of Psychedelically-Assisted Relationship Therapy [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Brian Earp on the ethics of psychedelically-assisted relationship therapy.https://www.philosophy....
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37:50
LLM9. Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A with MM McCabe and Troy Jollimore.
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28:51
LLM8. MM McCabe on Love and Desire in Plato’s Symposium [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Professor MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium.https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/mm-mccabe
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LLM7. Troy Jollimore on Whether We Love For Reasons [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Troy Jollimore on whether we love for reasons.https://www.troyjollimore.com/
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LLM3. Dating and Attraction Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A session with Finn MacKay and Tom O'Shea.
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LLM2. Tom O’Shea on Whether We Can Be Responsible For Our Attractions [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Tom O’Shea on whether we can be responsible for our attractions.https://www.tomoshea.org/
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LLM1. Finn Mackay on Queer Identities and Attraction [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Finn MacKay on queer identities and attraction.https://www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/about
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Introducing Leeds Love Month [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A quick introduction to our special series of episodes featuring recordings from the Leeds Love Month live events organised by the Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships at the University of Leeds.In October 2023, Centre for Love, Sex and R...
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14. Is There Ever Anything Wrong With Praising People? With Jules Holroyd
Jules Holroyd is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her teaching and research focuses on understanding the nature of, and addressing, injustices. In this conversation, she turns her attention to praise.Philo...
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