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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Robbie Arrell on consent issues raised by teledildonic technology.

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/staff/2728/robbie-arrell

Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Brian Earp on the ethics of psychedelically-assisted relationship therapy.

https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/brian-d.-earp

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A with MM McCabe and Troy Jollimore.

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Professor MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/mm-mccabe

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Troy Jollimore on whether we love for reasons.

https://www.troyjollimore.com/

Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring a Q&A session with Finn MacKay and Tom O'Shea.

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Tom O’Shea on whether we can be responsible for our attractions.

https://www.tomoshea.org/

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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Dr Finn MacKay on queer identities and attraction.

https://www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/about

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A quick introduction to our special series of episodes featuring recordings from the Leeds Love Month live events organised by the Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships at the University of Leeds.
In October 2023, Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships at the University of Leeds ran a series of events under the Love Month banner. There were some really interesting talks, and we thought we'd release them as a special series of Ethics Untangled episodes. So we're giving you them all in one go, and they won't affect the standard episodes, which will carry on going out according to the usual schedule.

Here's a list of episodes:

Finn MacKay on queer identities and attraction

Tom O’Shea on whether we can be responsible for our attractions

Kate Lister on whether we evolved to be monogamous 

Pilar Lopez-Cantero on experiences of breakup, and how to move on well 

Troy Jollimore on whether we love for reasons 

MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium 

Brian Earp on the ethics of psychedelically-assisted relationship therapy 

Robbie Arrell on consent issues raised by teledildonic technology

Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.

As well as the podcast, Ethics Untangled is also the name for the long-form online presence of IDEA.

Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bluesky.social

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Jules Holroyd is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her teaching and research focuses on understanding the nature of, and addressing, injustices. In this conversation, she turns her attention to praise.

Philosophers have given a lot of attention to blame in the past, but not so much to praise. This might be because praise looks fairly unproblematic on the whole. Praising people is nice! It boosts people's self-confidence, strengthens social bonds, and if we occasionally praise people who don't deserve our praise, who cares? According to Jules Holroyd, a philosopher working at the University of Sheffield, while this attitude is probably right overall, there can be instances in which we praise people in ways that are morally problematic, harmful even, and we should be on the lookout for these cases. In this conversation, we talked about some of the moral norms that govern praise - when it is and isn't appropriate to praise someone - and in particular we looked at the ways in which our acts of praising can signal a commitment to wider social norms, some of which we might not want to endorse.

Jules's paper which forms the basis of this conversation is here:

Holroyd, J. (2021) Oppressive Praise. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/13967

She also has this more recent paper on praise:
Holroyd, J. (2023) Proleptic praise: a social function analysis. Noûs. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nous.12482

Here are some of the papers Jules refers to in the episode:

Coates, Justin. (2019). Gratitude and Resentment: Some Asymmetries. In R. Roberts & D. Telech (Eds.) The Moral Psychology of Gratitude(pp. 160–175). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Jeppsson, S., & Brandenburg, D. (2022). Patronizing Praise. The Journal of Ethics, 26, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-022-09409-2
Khader, S., & Lindauer, M. (2020). The “Daddy Dividend”: The Gender Division of Labour and Regression Towards Patriarchy.APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy,19(2), 6–8. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/ resource/collection/D03EBDAB-82D7-4B28-B897-C050FDC1ACB4/FeminismV19n2.pdf
Lippert-Rasmussen, K. (2022). Praising without standing. The Journal of Ethics, 26,229–246. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-021-09374-2
Shoemaker, D., & Vargas, M. (2019). Moral torch fishing: A signaling theory of blame. Noûs, 55, 581–602. https:// doi.org/10.1111/nous.12316 

Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.

As well as the podcast, Ethics Untangled is also the name for the long-form online presence of IDEA.

Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bluesky.social

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