Paula Satne

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

AI can be your wingman when online dating – but should you let it? Apps and users might be hopeful that Gen-AI can make dating apps fun again.

My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

#NewArticle Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education: A Critique of Moral Arguments and Policy Implications | Karl de Fine Licht #philsky #philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UHQUJW...

Ethicists have raised concerns about these systems, and these concerns are worth taking seriously, but Dr Nick Makins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, thinks they can be answered, & that the use of these systems can be justified, at least in some circumstances.

Have you booked your space on our public lecture with Gavin Esler?

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Jim Baxter speaks to Luke Ulas, University of Sheffield and Josh Hobbs from IDEA about Cosmopolitanism - "the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."

Join us for a 20th anniversary lecture by journalist & author Gavin Esler, examining the crisis of trust in politics & media. He'll discuss themes from his book, Britain Is Better Than This, focusing on "the politics of distraction" & ways to rebuild trust in public life.
book here: buff.ly/lGAbhA2

New Issue of Journal of Applied Philosophy with a Special Issue on Commemorating Evildoers edited by me and Oliver Hallich #philsky #philosophy @idea-leeds.bsky.social

Europa League win changes everything for Spurs as club eye new future Ange Postecoglou makes good on his promise to end 17-year trophy drought on a momentous night in Bilbao

Read on Spurs’ big night for today’s @thelondonstandard.bsky.social. What it means, how they did it and where they — and Postecoglou — might go from here: www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

This means EVERYTHING. Tottenham Hotspur’s Europa League victory is not just silverware. It represents a fundamental reshaping of the club.

Tottenham's Europa League Championship is more than just a peice of silverware. It's a fundamental reshaping of the club and what it means to be Spurs.

It is in fair (or at least fairer) social and political conditions that we can pursue both moral and personal ends and flourish.

Ultimately, in the Kantian picture, the task of moral self-improvement also has a social dimension: we must avoid being complicit with the injustices of our time and instead work towards overturning them.

However, although morality and happiness are not intrinsically incompatible, they are likely to conflict under unstable and unjust external conditions. Thus, the extent to which we can live a completely morally good life is not independent of social and political conditions.

On this reading, far from endorsing an ‘ascetic ideal’ of the moral agent, Kant embraces an ideal of the human life in which there is significant space, and even a duty, to pursue pleasurable endeavours.

Paula Satne, Moral Development, Repentance, and Self-Affirmation - PhilPapers This article engages closely with David Owen’s ‘Autonomy, Self-Respect, and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency.’ Owen argues that Kant tried, but ultimately failed, to resolve the tension between ...

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I argue that the Kantian project of moral transformation, which involves repenting immoral maxims, can also be understood as a form of flourishing and self-affirmation, which includes the pursuit of happiness as one of its components.

Introduction Click on the article title to read more.

The introduction to the Special Issue 'Commemorating Evildoers' is out (pre-view). I am told the whole issue will come out soon. Co-edited with Hallich for Journal of Applied Philosophy #ethics @idea-leeds.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Public lecture at @idea-leeds.bsky.social by Journalist Gavin Esler. He’ll be asking how to restore trust to public life. Free to attend!

American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

🎙️ What makes the master’s dominance over the slave morally wrong? In this episode of Daybreak we sit down with @joe-saunders.bsky.social to break open Hegel's master-slave dialectic 🔥 #philsky #PhilosophyMatters 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2KPe...

Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic Unpacked Podcast Episode · Daybreak · 03/31/2025 · 49m

And on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Fantastic opportunity for prospective PhD students!

phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/383-...

As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Heather Widdows who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "The Future of Applied Ethics and the role and Progress of IDEA". please book your space at this Eventbrite link:
https://buff.ly/4aAuWjt

As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Gavin Esler who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying & Truth Decay".

I think this is going to be great!

New article @idea-leeds.bsky.social

Moral Development Repentance Self-Affirmation
in Public Reason Journal of Political and Moral Philosophy

I say more similarities between Kant and Nietzsche (than you think) and repentance can be a form of self-affirmation (in Kant)

publicreason.ro/articol/171

Every year, @leedsprhs.bsky.social and @idea-leeds.bsky.social host a distinguished visiting speaker for a series of four lectures on a topic in theoretical philosophy. Over two weeks they are immersed in our community, and talk with students, staff, and the general public.

Super excited of participating and speaking in this fantastic conference in a couple of weeks!!!