Data centers' impact on energy and water supply is well documented, but a series of new studies have revealed another potential impact.

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social, we’re asking whether people can really have genuine emotional reactions to artificial intelligence. Catch this and previous episodes at ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics-maste... or your usual podcast provider.

What’s the main idea in my book Romantic Agency?

It’s International Day of Families and Sophie Goddard is asking: should we reimagine the family? Read here: ethics-untangled.ghost.io

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

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CfP: Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence Deadline 31st July 2026. More info and submission here: think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I just gave this talk. I still have one more paper on Kantian forgiveness in me and revisiting it for this talk has motivated me to finish it #Kant

"Datacenters provide a physical place and focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires," write @astra.bsky.social and Saul Levin.

Simon Kirchin spoke to Business Talk about his edited collection The Future of Normativity. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YL...

The newest episode of Ethics untangled came out on Monday and sees Jim speaking with Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril about long Covid and how it is changing how we think about disability, care and community

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

#NewArticle The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice | Christopher Bennett #OpenAccess Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Philsky #Philosophy @sheffielduni.bsky.social

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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik

Hmmm. It’s much more common for authors to cite work they disagree with than work they agree with. And sometimes I find myself cited with inaccurate accounts of what I said because the author wants to make their position look more original. But if they understood me they wouldn’t cite me.

Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals - @matildacarter.bsky.social is hosting a workshop about her recently published book on the 14th of May. It's free to attend. Details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

We need philosophers because they teach us how to think deeply and clearly about the most fundamental questions: what matters, what’s true, and how we should live. #TalkAboutHumanities

Awesome image from Artemis. Big!

We’re often beguiled by the idea that the mind is a computer, and that consciousness is just a matter of running the right code. | https://bit.ly/3PIjCez But Peter Godfrey-Smith uses recent research into animal minds to argue that only living brains can truly be conscious.

When AI causes harm and responsibility is unclear, can our concept of moral responsibility be preserved — or must it change? Jim speaks with Enrico Galvagni and Fabio Tollon (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) on @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Listen here: buff.ly/gMN0ii7

Dr Carl Fox from @idea will talking about the (many) philosophical issues raised by the classic film version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Get to Hyde Park Picture House on Sunday 12th of April at 14:30pm. hpph.co.uk/films/willy-...

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📣MA funding at @leedsprhs.bsky.social!📣 My School has some Masters scholarships for Philosophy students. University of Leeds offers many further opportunities, inc. 500 scholarships to support eligible international students. Please spread the word! #philosophy ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/n...

Our @pausat25.bsky.social on forgiveness and the moral value of remembrance.

50 year anniversary of the last military coup in Argentina. To commemorate below is my article Remembrance beyond Forgiveness arguing that the moral value of remembrance imposes limits the possibility and desirability of forgiveness: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Missed out on our Philosophy Valentines event? Or just want to relive the talks? Now you can! Georgie, Colette, Gerald and Isobel’s talks are now available on Spotify (and Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music…) - search Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships💕

In this new @ctp-leeds.bsky.social blog, Dr Andrew Kirton shares why we shouldn’t be too quick to outsource our writing jobs to AI. As he argues, if we use GenAI to think and write we do lose something. Find out what it is in this blog. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-theor...

Tomorrow!

We’re so excited to be putting on another public Valentines event this year with Leeds PhilSoc!💕💕 Promises to be a great evening - get your tickets before they’re gone! universe.com/events/love-pain-filrting-breakups-an-apres-valentines-event-tickets-832QDX

Books galore out of @idea-leeds.bsky.social at the moment, including new work on consent! 👇🏻

Really enjoyable conversation in today's episode with @lisamherzog.bsky.social, on a topic which is important and pressing in all sorts of ways....

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...