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