Ethics Untangled

Ethics Untangled guest Christina Nick's paper on whether politicians with dirty hands owe reparations to victims has been published. If you've got access, you can read it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi....

The ep (no. 15) is here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Congrats Christina!

47. Should we be worried about cancel culture? With Alfred Archer and Georgie Mills - Ethics Untangled Cancelling 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 become a front in t...

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Great conversation on today's Ethics Untangled podcast with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and Georgie Mills. What is cancelling? What different forms can it take? What are its effects? Who is responsible for those effects? What does all this mean for how we should interact with others online?

Here's a clip of Robbie and me chatting about emotional labour...

Words change their meanings all the time, but what if losing the old meaning means we lose the ability to say something important? Fascinating chat with IDEA's Robbie Morgan here: ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Orla Carlin issues a challenge to academics on the latest Ethics Untangled here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

🎉 What a lovely way to celebrate my first day at Exeter! This fun conversation with Jim Baxter @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social about a paper my now-colleague @joelkrueger.com and I wrote on AI Gossip is now up!

In the podcast we discuss how AI systems might engage in gossip-like behaviour 🙊

Happy September everyone. We're back with a conversation about one of the weirder, more unexpectred and potentially more problematic things that large language models can apparently do - gossip.

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The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025

Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

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27. How Do You Assure AI in the NHS? With Adam Byfield - Ethics Untangled 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 arti...

If you want to listen to my previous episode with Adam you can find it here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Another fascinating conversation this week with Adam Byfield from NHS England. We get a bit more into the weeds in this one, discussing in more detail how to provide ethical assurance for AI applications, specifically in terms of bias and accessibility. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Objectification and sexualisation - submission deadline: 4th of August

Objectification is a core concept in feminist thought, often used for articulating what is going wrong in phenomena like catcalling, sexist advertising, and unwelcome sexual attention. At the same time, treating one another as sexual agents, even sexual objects, has been defended as an often important and joyful part of life. Both concepts have seen a recent resurgence in discussions of newer forms online content-creation, from TikTok to OnlyFans.

We are interested in hearing about any new work on sexualisation and objectification. We welcome contributions on questions such as (but not limited to): What is the difference between sexualisation and objectification? How do we sexualise and objectify others - is it a kind of paying attention? How does this work? What is the relationship, if any, between dehumanisation and objectification? When is objectification benign or good? Is it ever wrong to not sexualise someone? What is the relationship between sexual and non-sexual objectification? Is it possible for a person to objectify themselves? What is the impact of social media on objectification and/or sexualisation?

This event is organised by philosophers, but we welcome applications from those working in other disciplines too. Talks will be 30 minutes, with 15 minutes for questions. This will be an in-person event, but we aim to provide provision for speakers who cannot travel to join us online.

Are you working on sexualisation or objectification? Come share your research at our December workshop!

The Future of Practical Ethics conference - part of @idea-leeds.bsky.social's 20th anniversary celebrations - is happening on 8-10 September. It will be good and you should come to it if you are at all interested in practical ethics, i.e. if you are a human. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

Supporting young people with their mental health - University of Birmingham In a podcast for Ethics Untangled and a leaflet with McPin, Lisa Bortolotti shares how professionals can support young people facing mental health difficulties.

News article here about @lisabortolotti.com's fantastic project and, less importantly, her Ethics Untangled interview about it! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/su...

New podcast out today featuring @lisabortolotti.com, a brilliant philosopher discussing a great interdisciplinary project with a very practical intent: improving the way clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

New podcast out today featuring @lisabortolotti.com, a brilliant philosopher discussing a great interdisciplinary project with a very practical intent: improving the way clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties. ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

It's trust in the media week at IDEA! Great chat with Tim Watkin on the podcast (see below) and our public event with Gavin Essler tomorrow night. Book your free place here: www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/e...

Joe Fogarty has spent over 30 years working in national security and law enforcement, in the UK and elsewhere. He's currently working on cyber-security risks and organised crime for the UK's central government, as the Head of the Government's Cyber Resilience Centre.

In many ways, Joe is an ideal guest for the podcast, in the way he combines formidable practical expertise with the analytic lens you only get from studying philosophical ethics. Hope you enjoy! And if you fancy a bit of that yourself, check out our study options here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-masters

40. How do you decide whether law enforcement and national security operations are ethically justified? With Joe Fogarty - Ethics Untangled Joe Fogarty has spent over 30 years working in national security and law enforcement, in the UK and elsewhere. He's currently working on cyber-security risks and organised crime for the UK's central g...

This week's podcast features Joe Fogarty, who a) works on cyber-security risks and organised crime as the Head of the Government's Cyber Resilience Centre, and b) has been studying moral philosophy with us here at IDEA The Ethics Centre (@idea-leeds.bsky.social).

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This was fun to record. Two great interviewees, really interesting chat, and thanks to Sheffield University for letting us use their excellent podcast studio!

New episode out today, in which Josh Hobbs and Luke Ulas give me their thoughts on cosmopolitanism. What is it? Should we be cosmopolitans? Does anyone want to be a cosmopolitan? What might make want to be a cosmopolitan?

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Reminder about this week's Ethics Untangled episode.

Looking forward to this year's Mangoletsi-Potts lectures. More info below...

Poster for podcast episode reading ‘Relationship anarchy: What is it? Is it different from polyamory? How does it relate to political anarchy?’

What is relationship anarchy and how can this approach to intimacy learn from political anarchy? Listen to @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social discuss on the new @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode: ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Love being told by YouTube that your content violates their policies, without any explanation of which policy has been violated, and how. Also really enjoyed the appeals process, where you get to click a button and be told that your appeal has been denied, again without any explanation.

New episode out today! Simon Kirchin considers whether drag is offensive to women. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Ethics Untangled Ethics Untangled is a series of conversations about the ethical issues that affect all of us. In each episode, Jim Baxter interviews an academic, usually a philosopher, who has spent some time thinkin...

Hi, hope you're all having excellent Wednesdays. Just popping up at the midpoint of the week to announce that Ethics Untangled is now available on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/@ethicsuntan.... So if listening to audio podcasts through a video site is your thing - and why wouldn't it be? - enjoy!

Lovely to see this! Featuring Simon Kirchin, head of @idea-leeds.bsky.social

As part of British Philosophy Fortnight I’ll be talking about my project exploring the ethics of dating apps. #philosophymatters #philfortnight2025