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.
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.
Ethics Untangled
Latest Episodes
70. Why do dating apps suck and what can we do about it? With Luke Brunning
Dating apps have transformed the way people meet each other, allowing them to meet more people more quickly, to meet people who don't live near them and, in theory at least, generally to have a much greater choice of potential partner, and to f...
69. What lessons about climate change can we learn from the abolition of slavery? With Rob Lawlor
Rob Lawlor is interested in what historical comparisons can tell us about how we should approach the fight against climate change. In his previous appearance on Ethics Untangled, he talked about rationing as a possible approach to the reduction...
68. Are videogames bad for you? With Alex Fisher
Alex Fisher is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. One of his research interests concerns videogames. Specifically, in this conversation, we talk about whether people who play gam...
67. Is structural injustice a thing? With Sonny Kim
The idea of structural injustice - broadly, injustice that results from social structures rather than from the wrongdoing of individuals - is something that has a lot of currency nowadays, but it presents a bit of an ethical puzzle. Basically t...
66. Should we be worried about voice synthesis? With Matilde Nanni
One of the many technological advances that have been made in recent years is the ability of computers to synthesise people's voices to a very high standard. Voice synthesis can produce new, entirely synthetic voices, but it can also reproduce ...