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
71 episodes
33. Is Internet Access a Human Right? With Merten Reglitz
When I was doing my undergraduate degree back in the 90s, the Internet was a bit of a novelty. It was fun to play with, and you could see theoretically how it was probably going to be quite important. I'm not sure I would have predicted how com...
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32. Where's the Harm in Health and Safety? With Simon Cassin
After time in the army and the fire service, Simon Cassin became a health and safety professional, and is now the managing director of a training and development consultancy called Ouch. Unusually for someone working in health and safety, he's ...
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31. Why is Sex Work So Gendered? With Natasha McKeever
*CONTENT WARNING: This podcast contains some frank discussion of sex and sex work.*While there are all kinds of sex work, by far the most common scenario involves a man paying a woman for sex. It is, in other words, a highly gendered act...
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30. What Should Doctors Be Doing With Your Data? With Jon Fistein
Do you know what medical information is held about you? Do you know who is allowed to have access to it? Doctors collect lots of data - often quite personal - about their patients. This data needs to be collected, stored, and shared, sometimes ...
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29. What Is Touching Through? With Robbie Morgan and Will Hornett
Today's question is one which you might not immediately recognise as important or, so to speak, pressing. The question is, what is touching through? It also might not be immediately apparent why this is an ethical question. As...
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28. What's Wrong With Conspiracy Theories? With Patrick Stokes
Conspiracy theories seem to be an increasingly prevalent feature of public discourse. No sooner has some significant event taken place, but the internet is full of alternative explanations for that event, involving hidden and nefarious decision...
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27. How Do You Assure AI in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
Adam Byfield is Principal Technical Assurance Specialist at NHS England. His job involves providing ethical assurance for technical systems which are used in the NHS, including those which employ artificial intelligence. It's well known that AI...
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26. Should We Be Worried About Teledildonics? With Robbie Arrell
Should we be worried about teledildonics? *CONTENT WARNING. This episode contains frank descriptions of sexual practices of various kinds, and discussion of sexual assault and rape, including rape by deception.*Teledil...
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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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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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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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