Moral Philosophy Reading Group

Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected] We will meet in a hybrid format (online and in Edgecliffe G03) to discuss Eric Marcus’s article ‘Wanting and willing’ Eric Marcus, ‘Wanting and Willing’, abstract: How homogenous are the sources of human motivation? Textbook Humeans hold that every human action is motivated by desire, thus any heterogeneity derives … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

this week will have a Work in Progress session discussing Bradley Hillier-Smith’s draft paper, ‘The Egalitarian Case for Open Borders: Moral Arbitrariness’. Abstract: This paper argues that recent debates on egalitarian objections to immigration restrictions overlook a crucial, powerful normative principle that underpins objections to inequalities: any inequalities between morally equal persons – whether in goods, resources, welfare but also … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

This week we will discuss Tyler Cowen’s ‘What Do We Learn From The Repugnant Conclusion?’. Luca notes that if people find Section 3 hard to read, he is very happy to explain it at the MPRG. Additionally, he mentions that ‘(1) section 5 is not essential (but it is extremely fun) and (2) it is absolutely unnecessary to … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

This week, our visiting scholar B.V.E. Hyde (Leeds) will convene a special Work-in-Progress session on the topic of “Ethical Debates on Human Challenge Trials”. Hyde will present for around 5 minutes, providing a short explainer on some of the ethical debates surrounding controlled human infection models, which are a type of clinical trial in which patients are directly … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

This week we will be discussing the first chapter from Jonathan Birch “The Edge of Sentience” called ‘A walk along the edge’. Jonathan will be there as well. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]

CEPPA Calendar spring 2024

CEPPA Talks (4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon) Week 1 (18 Jan) – online and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Selim Berker (Harvard) ‘Is there Anti-Fittingness?’   Week 2 (25 Jan) – Edgecliffe G03 Thom Brooks (Durham) ‘Justice and the Problem of Alienation’   Week 3 (1 Feb) – Edgecliffe G03 Jonathan Birch (LSE) ‘Debating proportionality at the … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

This week we will be discussing Selim Berker, ‘The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting”. ahead of their CEPPA talk right after this reading group. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]