Jim Baxter

Ethics Untangled

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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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Jim Baxter

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Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 6]: The performing arts - philosophical insights from an expert’s view 16.03.2023 27:22

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to Rebecca Schorsch, lecturer at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Her experience has taken her to teach master classes at different universities around the world, including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Here we explore some of the philosophical insights that can be found in the performing arts, establis...

Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 7]: The real trolley problems, the doctrine of double effect, and the Covid-19 pandemic 16.03.2023 36:30

Send us Fan Mail Join us for a discussion with Dr David Molyneux, medical doctor, medical ethics tutor and current postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. In this episode we introduce the thought experiment of the trolley problem and the doctrine of double effect to discuss three cases of 'real trolley problems' we have seen in the Covid-19 pandemic. We explore the issues of...