There’s 5 year olds who’ve been locked up in a Texas ICE camp for over 8 months. That’s where they sent little Liam Ramos. He’s not being “protected”. He’s incarcerated. He did nothing wrong. His parents did nothing wrong. They were applying for asylum. Release the children.

Why Kant’s 250-Year-Old Ideas Are Exactly What We Need Right Now In his new book Kant: A Revolution in Thinking, Prof. Marcus Willaschek shows how the great philosopher’s ethical insights are more relevant than ever. www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ide... #Kant #today #PhilosophySky #philsky

CFA: fully-funded PhD studentship within the ERC/UKRI Advanced Grant 'Kantian Justice: A Desert-sensitive Responsibility-enhancing Theory' [KantianDESERT] that I lead at the University of Liverpool. Open to candidates from all over the world: sbaiasu.wordpress.com Please share and distribute widely!

Feels like a good time to be releasing this episode featuring Jeffrey Howard of @uclspeechlab.bsky.social. How should social media platforms regulate AI-Generated Content? (Spoiler: it's not by allowing people to use AI to create non-consensual sexualised images.) www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Check out Josh's excellent piece for the Conversation on the same topic as this week's podcast here: theconversation.com/three-ways-t...

About time

Freedom and fate Choice, blame, and the brain iai.tv/video/freedo... #freedom #will #compatibilism #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

Just heard the words ‘doing evil gives such a sense of being powerful.’ Explains so much.

Ethics Untangled Episode 50 is out today! What can comics such as Heartstopper teach us about ethics? With Simon Meisch www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Shallow Pond is on Ethics Untangled. Thanks to Jim Baxter and the Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds @princetonupress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

This is horrific

AI is everywhere – but who’s making sure it’s ethical? Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society. Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly. 🔗 bit.ly/4oucNJf #AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Ethics Untangled guest Christina Nick's paper on whether politicians with dirty hands owe reparations to victims has been published. If you've got access, you can read it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi.... The ep (no. 15) is here: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis... Congrats Christina!

New episode this morning with the fantasic Catriona McKinnon, highlighting a point in environmental ethics that has gone under-, or even unappreciated.

Great blog post by IDEA's Matilda Carter on Power, Status and the Dementia Care Relationship. cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/powe...

Dr Robbie Arrell has organised a one-day workshop on Sex, Deception, and Consent held at @idea-leeds.bsky.social on the 3rd of December. Learn more and sign up for free www.eventbrite.ie/e/sex-decept...

Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

Was great to talk to Jim Baxter of the @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social podcast about my and Georgie Mill's work on cancelling.

New paper in @the-joap.bsky.social together with @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social on political apologies that consign injustice to the past.

I've been trying to get deskilling into AI ethics for probably five years, and this Appiah essay trying to do this is a total mess www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Registration is open for two events happening 3rd & 4th December at Leeds @idea-leeds.bsky.social! Objectification & Sexualisation: philevents.org/event/show/1... Sex, Deception and Consent: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sex-decept... These events mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

Wonderful news and a discount code until the end of November!!

So excited to be starting my research with CLSR! I’ve loved being here for my undergraduate and master’s degrees, and I’m really looking forward to continuing to work alongside such an amazing community🫶🫶

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

#NewArticle Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education: A Critique of Moral Arguments and Policy Implications | Karl de Fine Licht #philsky #philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UHQUJW...

Ethicists have raised concerns about these systems, and these concerns are worth taking seriously, but Dr Nick Makins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, thinks they can be answered, & that the use of these systems can be justified, at least in some circumstances.

Have you booked your space on our public lecture with Gavin Esler?

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Jim Baxter speaks to Luke Ulas, University of Sheffield and Josh Hobbs from IDEA about Cosmopolitanism - "the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."

Join us for a 20th anniversary lecture by journalist & author Gavin Esler, examining the crisis of trust in politics & media. He'll discuss themes from his book, Britain Is Better Than This, focusing on "the politics of distraction" & ways to rebuild trust in public life. book here: buff.ly/lGAbhA2

New Issue of Journal of Applied Philosophy with a Special Issue on Commemorating Evildoers edited by me and Oliver Hallich #philsky #philosophy @idea-leeds.bsky.social

Read on Spurs’ big night for today’s @thelondonstandard.bsky.social. What it means, how they did it and where they — and Postecoglou — might go from here: www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

Tottenham's Europa League Championship is more than just a peice of silverware. It's a fundamental reshaping of the club and what it means to be Spurs.

philpapers.org/rec/SATMDR-2 I argue that the Kantian project of moral transformation, which involves repenting immoral maxims, can also be understood as a form of flourishing and self-affirmation, which includes the pursuit of happiness as one of its components.

The introduction to the Special Issue 'Commemorating Evildoers' is out (pre-view). I am told the whole issue will come out soon. Co-edited with Hallich for Journal of Applied Philosophy #ethics @idea-leeds.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Public lecture at @idea-leeds.bsky.social by Journalist Gavin Esler. He’ll be asking how to restore trust to public life. Free to attend!

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized. The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

🎙️ What makes the master’s dominance over the slave morally wrong? In this episode of Daybreak we sit down with @joe-saunders.bsky.social to break open Hegel's master-slave dialectic 🔥 #philsky #PhilosophyMatters 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2KPe...

And on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Fantastic opportunity for prospective PhD students! phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/383-...

As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Heather Widdows who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "The Future of Applied Ethics and the role and Progress of IDEA". please book your space at this Eventbrite link: https://buff.ly/4aAuWjt

As part of IDEA The Ethics Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to welcome Gavin Esler who will be presenting a public lecture entitled "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying & Truth Decay".

I think this is going to be great!

New article @idea-leeds.bsky.social Moral Development Repentance Self-Affirmation in Public Reason Journal of Political and Moral Philosophy I say more similarities between Kant and Nietzsche (than you think) and repentance can be a form of self-affirmation (in Kant) publicreason.ro/articol/171

Every year, @leedsprhs.bsky.social and @idea-leeds.bsky.social host a distinguished visiting speaker for a series of four lectures on a topic in theoretical philosophy. Over two weeks they are immersed in our community, and talk with students, staff, and the general public.

Super excited of participating and speaking in this fantastic conference in a couple of weeks!!!