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!!!

Help researchers better understand young people’s attitudes towards dating: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VFD7SQZ

Next month we will be hosting a small but awesome workshop on the future of intimacy.

There is still lots of time to submit an abstract. Share with anyone working on intimacy. 💕

As part of British Philosophy Fortnight I’ll be talking about my project exploring the ethics of dating apps. #philosophymatters #philfortnight2025

The British Philosophical Association launches the first annual Philosophy Fortnight #philofortnight2025 in the Westminster Parliament today. #PhilosophyMatters

Hi, hope you're all having excellent Wednesdays. Just popping up at the midpoint of the week to announce that Ethics Untangled is now available on YouTube, here: www.youtube.com/@ethicsuntan.... So if listening to audio podcasts through a video site is your thing - and why wouldn't it be? - enjoy!

What is relationship anarchy and how can this approach to intimacy learn from political anarchy? Listen to @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social discuss on the new @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social episode: ethicsuntangled.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Great day yesterday. Thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social for hosting us and everyone who came and contributed. #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025

If you work on practical ethics consider submitting a paper to IDEA's September conference on the Future of Practical Ethics, part of IDEA 20 YEARS celebrations....

This promises to be great!

Today's Ethics Untangled episode features Trystan Goetze (@errantcanadian.com) talking about whether AI art is stealing artists' labour: www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

Another timely discussion this week. Carl Fox, from IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds, discussing the different forms of disruptive speech and what we should do about them.

New episode out today! Simon Kirchin considers whether drag is offensive to women. www.buzzsprout.com/2113237/epis...

My first post here! Our Ethics Untangled podcast conversing with Jim Baxter about our coedited book (with Krisanna Scheiter) on Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment.