Ethics Untangled

By Jim Baxter

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Episodes: 98

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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.


Episode Date
60. How should long covid change how we think about disability? With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
May 04, 2026
59. How should we care for people living with dementia? With Matilda Carter
Apr 20, 2026
58. Do we need to rethink competence to consent? With Danielle Bromwich
Apr 06, 2026
57. Does AI mean we need to change our concept of moral responsibility? With Enrico Galvagni and Fabio Tollon
Mar 16, 2026
56. Does drill rap cause violence? With Tareeq Jalloh
Mar 02, 2026
55. Should pornography be authentic? With Rosa Vince
Feb 16, 2026
54. Do we need more time? With Lisa Herzog
Feb 02, 2026
53. How should social media platforms regulate AI-generated content? With Jeffrey Howard
Jan 19, 2026
52. Should we all be activists? With Josh Hobbs
Jan 05, 2026
51. What can a shallow pond teach us about ethics? With David Edmonds
Dec 15, 2025
50. What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch
Dec 01, 2025
49. Are We Deceiving Future Generations About Environmental Crises? With Catriona McKinnon
Nov 17, 2025
48. How should you act as an in-house lawyer? With Sharon Bridglalsingh
Nov 03, 2025
47. Should we be worried about cancel culture? With Alfred Archer and Georgie Mills
Oct 20, 2025
46. Should we be worried about words changing their meaning? With Robbie Morgan
Oct 06, 2025
45. Are ethicists paying enough attention to social class? With Orla Carlin
Sep 15, 2025
44. Do large language models gossip? With Lucy Osler
Sep 01, 2025
43. How do you assure AI for bias and accessibility in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
Jul 21, 2025
42. How should clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties? With Lisa Bortolotti
Jul 07, 2025
41. How should we rebuild trust in journalism? With Tim Watkin
Jun 16, 2025
40. How do you decide whether law enforcement and national security operations are ethically justified? With Joe Fogarty
Jun 02, 2025
39. How should we motivate cosmopolitanism? With Luke Ulas and Josh Hobbs
May 19, 2025
38. Should we be using AI to predict patient preferences? With Nicholas Makins
May 05, 2025
37. What is relationship anarchy? With Natasha McKeever and Luke Brunning
Apr 21, 2025
36. Is drag problematic? With Simon Kirchin
Apr 07, 2025
35. What should we do about disruptive speech? With Carl Fox
Mar 17, 2025
34. Is AI stealing artists' labour? With Trystan Goetze
Mar 03, 2025
33. Is Internet access a human right? With Merten Reglitz
Feb 17, 2025
32. Where's the harm in health and safety? With Simon Cassin
Feb 03, 2025
31. Why is sex work so gendered? With Natasha McKeever
Jan 20, 2025
30. What should doctors be doing with your data? With Jon Fistein
Jan 06, 2025
29. What is touching through? With Robbie Morgan and Will Hornett
Dec 02, 2024
28. What's wrong with conspiracy theories? With Patrick Stokes
Nov 18, 2024
27. How do you assure AI in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
Nov 04, 2024
26. Should we be worried about teledildonics? With Robbie Arrell
Oct 21, 2024
25. Should lawyers be fighting for a cause? With Alex Batesmith
Oct 07, 2024
24. Is your gender like your name? With Graham Bex-Priestley
Sep 16, 2024
23. What is trust? With Christopher McClean
Sep 02, 2024
22. How should we think about informal political representation? With Wendy Salkin
Jul 15, 2024
21. Should we be worried about academic freedom and no-platforming? With Gerald Lang
Jul 01, 2024
20. What's the meaning of life? With Predrag Cicovacki
Jun 17, 2024
19. What is technological bias and what should we do about it? With Meredith Broussard
Jun 03, 2024
18. Do the dead have rights? With Joseph Bowen
May 20, 2024
17. Does love transcend time? With Troy Jollimore
May 06, 2024
16. Are Africans unfairly excluded from discussions about environmental ethics? With Munamato Chemhuru
Apr 15, 2024
15. Do politicians with dirty hands owe reparations to victims? With Christina Nick
Apr 01, 2024
LLM1. Finn Mackay on Queer Identities and Attraction [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM2. Tom O’Shea on Whether We Can Be Responsible For Our Attractions [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM3. Dating and Attraction Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM7. Troy Jollimore on Whether We Love For Reasons [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM8. MM McCabe on Love and Desire in Plato’s Symposium [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM9. Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM10. Brian Earp on the Ethics of Psychedelically-Assisted Relationship Therapy [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM11. Robbie Arrell on Consent Issues Raised by Teledildonic Technology [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM12. The Future of Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM4 Kate Lister on Whether We Evolved to be Monogamous [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM5. Pilar Lopez Cantero on Experiences of Breakup and How To Move On Well [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
LLM6. Relationships Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
Introducing Leeds Love Month [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Mar 18, 2024
14. Is there ever anything wrong with praising people? With Jules Holroyd
Mar 04, 2024
13. Could rationing help to mitigate climate change? With Rob Lawlor
Feb 19, 2024
12. Can omissions cause? With David Molyneux
Feb 05, 2024
11. What should we do about the beauty ideal? With Heather Widdows
Jan 15, 2024
10. What's it like being a podcast host and ethics consultant? With Kevin Macnish
Jan 01, 2024
9. What's wrong (or right) with monogamy? With Luke Brunning
Dec 04, 2023
8. Is unjust enrichment a thing? With Duncan Sheehan
Nov 06, 2023
7. Should we use aesthetic techniques in persuasive speech? With Jamie Dow
Oct 02, 2023
6. What's interesting about punishment, forgiveness and revenge? With Paula Satne and Krisanna Scheiter
Sep 04, 2023
5. How should we act in political campaigns? With Joseph Lacey
Aug 06, 2023
4. What is sexualisation? With Robbie Morgan
Jul 02, 2023
3. Can humans and robots be friends? With Ruby Hornsby
Jun 05, 2023
2. What is a mother? With Fiona Woollard
May 01, 2023
1: How should we behave online? With Joe Saunders
Apr 02, 2023
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 1]: Can mandating moral enhancement for health care professionals as a means to deal with racism and implicit biases in the field be ethically justified?
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 2]: Moral responsibility and the psychopath: the value of others (Part 1)
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 3]: Moral responsibility and the psychopath: the value of others (Part 2)
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 4]: Borderline personality disorder
Mar 16, 2023
Ethics Untangled: Trailer
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 8]: Needs and reflective equilibrium: possible solutions to the trolley problems in the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 1]: Should information about a patient’s genetic condition be strictly confidential?
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 2]: Enron and corporate responsibility
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 3]: In search of a ‘good death’ – How best should doctors care for dying patients?
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 4]: The ethics of policing
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 5]: Is it permissible to incentivise the sterilisation of addicts?
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 6]: AI and Philosophy Workshop
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 7]: Integrity
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 8]: What's wrong with formalising ethics for AI?
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 1]: The impact of Covid-19 on sex workers’ health
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 2]: Outreach services for sex work in Nottingham
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 3]: The gender power imbalance in cis-hetero sexual transactions
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 4]: The potential harms of sex work
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 5]: Reflecting on the ethics of sex work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 2]: Healthcare and key workers – What do we owe to them? Ethical worries and the Covid-19 crisis
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 3]: Challenges and pitfalls of data privacy during the pandemic (Part 1)
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 4]: Challenges and pitfalls of data privacy during the pandemic (Part 2)
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 5]: Love drugs and chemically enhanced break-ups: Vulnerability, trust, and love
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 6]: The performing arts - philosophical insights from an expert’s view
Mar 16, 2023
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 7]: The real trolley problems, the doctrine of double effect, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 16, 2023