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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. Ethics Untangled is also the long-form online presence of IDEA , edited by Danielle Bromwich and Luke Brunning , where we make room for longer interviews, staff and student profiles, articles and other forms of content. Both are brought to you by IDEA, the Ethics Centre , a specialist unit for teaching, research, training and consultancy in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds. IDEA offers Masters programmes in
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Signup to Generate a PitchEthics 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. Ethics Untangled is also the long-form online presence of IDEA, edited by Danielle Bromwich and Luke Brunning, where we make room for longer interviews, staff and student profiles, articles and other forms of content.
Ethics Untangled is hosted by Jim Baxter. The show has published 107 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "69. What lessons about climate change can we learn from the abolition of slavery? With Rob Lawlor" (19 October 2026, 46 minutes), "68. Are videogames bad for you? With Alex Fisher" (5 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "67. Is structural injustice a thing? With Sonny Kim" (21 September 2026, 48 minutes).
Ethics Untangled publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 107 episodes.
Booking probability for Ethics Untangled is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ethics Untangled requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ethics Untangled's contact route on record: public web form.
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Jim Baxter hosts Ethics Untangled, a society podcast with 107 episodes published.
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Send us Fan Mail Rob Lawlor is interested in what historical comparisons can tell us about how we should approach the fight against climate change. In his previous appearance on Ethics Untangled, he talked about...
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Send us Fan Mail Alex Fisher is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. One of his research interests concerns videogames. Specifically, in this conversation, we talk about whether people who play...
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Send us Fan Mail The idea of structural injustice - broadly, injustice that results from social structures rather than from the wrongdoing of individuals - is something that has a lot of currency nowadays, but it...
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Send us Fan Mail One of the many technological advances that have been made in recent years is the ability of computers to synthesise people's voices to a very high standard. Voice synthesis can produce new, entirely...
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Send us Fan Mail There are many children in the world who either do not have parents, or do not have parents who can look after them, and who would benefit greatly from being placed with adoptive families. Some...
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Send us Fan Mail Content warning : This episode contains frank discussion of death and of various forms of body disposal, which some might find distressing. Sarah Carter-Walshaw , Lecturer in Applied and...
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Send us Fan Mail Is it ever morally acceptable to keep pets? While most of us take pet-keeping for granted and think of it as a source of affection, companionship, and care, it is possible to see it very differently...
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Send us Fan Mail Can organisations themselves be trustworthy, or is trustworthiness only a quality of individuals? This question matters for how we think about public institutions, businesses, and charities – and about...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re asking whether people can really have genuine emotional reactions to artificial intelligence. Many of us already feel things towards AIs – whether that’s frustration with a...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re looking at the ethics of long COVID and the ways it is reshaping how we think about disability, care, and community. Long COVID has left millions of people living with chronic...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm talking to Matilda Carter , a lecturer in Applied Ethics at IDEA The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, about the ethics of dementia care, and asking what justice requires...
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Send us Fan Mail In medical ethics, competence (sometimes called decision-making capacity ) refers to a person’s ability to make informed choices about their own healthcare. It is a central concept because respect for...
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Send us Fan Mail People who think and write about the ethics of artificial intelligence sometimes talk about a 'responsibility gap'. The thought is that there are instances of harm resulting from the use of AI systems...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’re diving into the ethics of drill rap - a genre that has been celebrated for its creativity and authenticity but also heavily criticised for its alleged links to violence. Drill is...
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Send us Fan Mail Content note: This episode discusses pornography in an academic context, focusing on ethical and philosophical arguments. Feminist critiques of pornography have a long history and take many different...
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Send us Fan Mail Lisa Herzog is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The subject of this conversation is time, not in the...
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Send us Fan Mail AI-generated content is a familiar and increasingly prevalent feature of social media. Users post text, video, audio and images which have been created by AI, sometimes being clear that this is what...
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Send us Fan Mail Josh Hobbs is back in this episode for his second appearance. Again the subject is political. This time we're discussing whether we should all be activists. More specifically, does the existence of...
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Send us Fan Mail Imagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You’re the only...
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Send us Fan Mail A really interesting conversation with Simon Meisch this week. Simon is a Senior Lecturer for Applied Ethics at the Ethics Centre of the University of Tubingen, and until recently was also a visiting...
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