All Episodes
Ethics Untangled — 104 episodes
66. Should we be worried about voice synthesis? With Matilde Nanni
65. Is it wrong to procreate when there are children who need adoptive parents? With Giuli Cavaliere
64. Should we dispose of bodies in a more environmentally friendly way? With Sarah Carter-Walshaw
63. Should we stop keeping pets? With Angie Pepper and Richard Healey
62. Can organisations be trustworthy? With Matt Clark
61. Do we really react emotionally to AI? With Rebecca Wallbank
60. How should long covid change how we think about disability? With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
59. How should we care for people living with dementia? With Matilda Carter
58. Do we need to rethink competence to consent? With Danielle Bromwich
57. Does AI mean we need to change our concept of moral responsibility? With Enrico Galvagni and Fabio Tollon
56. Does drill rap cause violence? With Tareeq Jalloh
55. Should pornography be authentic? With Rosa Vince
54. Do we need more time? With Lisa Herzog
53. How should social media platforms regulate AI-generated content? With Jeffrey Howard
52. Should we all be activists? With Josh Hobbs
51. What can a shallow pond teach us about ethics? With David Edmonds
50. What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch
49. Are We Deceiving Future Generations About Environmental Crises? With Catriona McKinnon
48. How should you act as an in-house lawyer? With Sharon Bridglalsingh
47. Should we be worried about cancel culture? With Alfred Archer and Georgie Mills
46. Should we be worried about words changing their meaning? With Robbie Morgan
45. Are ethicists paying enough attention to social class? With Orla Carlin
44. Do large language models gossip? With Lucy Osler
43. How do you assure AI for bias and accessibility in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
42. How should clinicians communicate with young people experiencing mental health difficulties? With Lisa Bortolotti
41. How should we rebuild trust in journalism? With Tim Watkin
40. How do you decide whether law enforcement and national security operations are ethically justified? With Joe Fogarty
39. How should we motivate cosmopolitanism? With Luke Ulas and Josh Hobbs
38. Should we be using AI to predict patient preferences? With Nicholas Makins
37. What is relationship anarchy? With Natasha McKeever and Luke Brunning
36. Is drag problematic? With Simon Kirchin
35. What should we do about disruptive speech? With Carl Fox
34. Is AI stealing artists' labour? With Trystan Goetze
33. Is Internet access a human right? With Merten Reglitz
32. Where's the harm in health and safety? With Simon Cassin
31. Why is sex work so gendered? With Natasha McKeever
30. What should doctors be doing with your data? With Jon Fistein
29. What is touching through? With Robbie Morgan and Will Hornett
28. What's wrong with conspiracy theories? With Patrick Stokes
27. How do you assure AI in the NHS? With Adam Byfield
26. Should we be worried about teledildonics? With Robbie Arrell
25. Should lawyers be fighting for a cause? With Alex Batesmith
24. Is your gender like your name? With Graham Bex-Priestley
23. What is trust? With Christopher McClean
22. How should we think about informal political representation? With Wendy Salkin
21. Should we be worried about academic freedom and no-platforming? With Gerald Lang
20. What's the meaning of life? With Predrag Cicovacki
19. What is technological bias and what should we do about it? With Meredith Broussard
18. Do the dead have rights? With Joseph Bowen
17. Does love transcend time? With Troy Jollimore
16. Are Africans unfairly excluded from discussions about environmental ethics? With Munamato Chemhuru
15. Do politicians with dirty hands owe reparations to victims? With Christina Nick
LLM6. Relationships Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM5. Pilar Lopez Cantero on Experiences of Breakup and How To Move On Well [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM4 Kate Lister on Whether We Evolved to be Monogamous [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM12. The Future of Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM11. Robbie Arrell on Consent Issues Raised by Teledildonic Technology [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM10. Brian Earp on the Ethics of Psychedelically-Assisted Relationship Therapy [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM9. Love Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM8. MM McCabe on Love and Desire in Plato’s Symposium [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM7. Troy Jollimore on Whether We Love For Reasons [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM3. Dating and Attraction Q&A [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM2. Tom O’Shea on Whether We Can Be Responsible For Our Attractions [Leeds Love Month special episode]
LLM1. Finn Mackay on Queer Identities and Attraction [Leeds Love Month special episode]
Introducing Leeds Love Month [Leeds Love Month special episode]
14. Is there ever anything wrong with praising people? With Jules Holroyd
13. Could rationing help to mitigate climate change? With Rob Lawlor
12. Can omissions cause? With David Molyneux
11. What should we do about the beauty ideal? With Heather Widdows
10. What's it like being a podcast host and ethics consultant? With Kevin Macnish
9. What's wrong (or right) with monogamy? With Luke Brunning
8. Is unjust enrichment a thing? With Duncan Sheehan
7. Should we use aesthetic techniques in persuasive speech? With Jamie Dow
6. What's interesting about punishment, forgiveness and revenge? With Paula Satne and Krisanna Scheiter
5. How should we act in political campaigns? With Joseph Lacey
4. What is sexualisation? With Robbie Morgan
3. Can humans and robots be friends? With Ruby Hornsby
2. What is a mother? With Fiona Woollard
1: How should we behave online? With Joe Saunders
Ethics Untangled: Trailer
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 4]: Borderline personality disorder
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 3]: Moral responsibility and the psychopath: the value of others (Part 2)
Archive episode [Season 4 Episode 2]: Moral responsibility and the psychopath: the value of others (Part 1)
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?
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 5]: Reflecting on the ethics of sex work in the Covid-19 pandemic
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 4]: The potential harms of sex work
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 3]: The gender power imbalance in cis-hetero sexual transactions
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 2]: Outreach services for sex work in Nottingham
Archive episode [Season 3 Episode 1]: The impact of Covid-19 on sex workers’ health
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 8]: What's wrong with formalising ethics for AI?
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 7]: Integrity
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 6]: AI and Philosophy Workshop
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 5]: Is it permissible to incentivise the sterilisation of addicts?
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 4]: The ethics of policing
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 3]: In search of a ‘good death’ – How best should doctors care for dying patients?
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 2]: Enron and corporate responsibility
Archive episode [Season 2 Episode 1]: Should information about a patient’s genetic condition be strictly confidential?
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 8]: Needs and reflective equilibrium: possible solutions to the trolley problems in the Covid-19 pandemic
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 7]: The real trolley problems, the doctrine of double effect, and the Covid-19 pandemic
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 6]: The performing arts - philosophical insights from an expert’s view
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 5]: Love drugs and chemically enhanced break-ups: Vulnerability, trust, and love
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 4]: Challenges and pitfalls of data privacy during the pandemic (Part 2)
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 3]: Challenges and pitfalls of data privacy during the pandemic (Part 1)
Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 2]: Healthcare and key workers – What do we owe to them? Ethical worries and the Covid-19 crisis