Ethics Untangled

About Ethics Untangled

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 (http://ethics-untangled.ghost.io/), edited by Danielle Bromwich (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/staff/4795/dr-danielle-bromwich?ref=ethics-untangled.ghost.io) and Luke Brunning (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/4900/dr-luke-brunning?ref=ethics-untangled.ghost.io), 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 (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics?ref=ethics-untangled.ghost.io), a specialist unit for teaching, research, training and consultancy in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds. IDEA offers Masters programmes (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-masters) in Healthcare Ethics and Applied and Professional Ethics, research degrees (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-research-degrees) and consultancy services (https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/consultancy-training). The Ethics Untangled podcast is edited by Mark Smith at Leeds Media Services. Music is by Kate Wood.

Publisher

Jim Baxter

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Mar 2023

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

106 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   68. Are videogames bad for you? With Alex Fisher

   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 games might experience imaginative contagion, a process by which thoughts, attitudes and emotions which people take on imaginatively while playing games might bleed through into their real life. Alex considers the evidence that this is something that happens and the question of wh...

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   21 Sept 2026

   67. Is structural injustice a thing? With Sonny Kim

   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 presents a bit of an ethical puzzle. Basically the puzzle is this: if it doesn't involve wrongdoing by anyone, then in what way is it injustice, but if it does involve wrongdoing by people, in what way is it structural? Sonny Kim is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield Co...

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   7 Sept 2026

   66. Should we be worried about voice synthesis? With Matilde Nanni

   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 synthetic voices, but it can also reproduce the voices of real people, to the point where it's difficult if not impossible to tell the synthetic voice apart from the real one. Matilde Nanni, who is based at the University of Inland Norway in Lillehammer, thinks voice donors, i.e....

Who has been a guest on Ethics Untangled

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lisa Bortolotti
• Tim Watkin
• Joe Fogarty

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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