Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
mdlcm1 How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space … Read more
Next week, hundreds of policymakers from all over the world will meet at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York for the first Summit for the Future. By the end of it, the UN will adopt the Pact for the Future, a document outlining what steps the organisation and its members will take to … Read more
We are pleased to announce the winner of the fourth annual competition for the Haldane Essay Prize in Philosophy and Public Affairs. This competition, which is being administered by the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs (CEPPA), awards £250 to the best essay that applies philosophy to a matter of public concern. This year the winner is Anna Videbaek Smith, for an … Read more
Did you miss Elizabeth Anderson’s 2024 Knox Lecture? Perhaps you were too busy enjoying the Scottish sunshine, figuring out how to register to vote, or maybe you don’t even live in Scotland. Worry not, you can now watch the recording of it online: We are also relaunching ‘CEPPA Chats’, short interviews with CEPPA speakers, and the first … Read more
Sophie Grace Chappell’s new book ‘A Philosopher Looks at Friendship’ is now out! For those of you keeping count at home thats her third book this year. Buy it online or at your nearest (preferably independent) bookshop.
Some weeks ago during our Climate Justice Workshop, the wonderful Ben Nightingale from Babatat Studio captured the talks in these gorgeous posters. Climate Justice Workshop in St Andrews on the 29th and 30th of May 2024 organised by Krushil Watene, Mara van der Lugt, and James Rae. You can download a PDF with all of … Read more
CEPPA’s (and Glasgow’s) very own Joe Slater (@JoeSlater87) has not one but TWO new papers out. One called ‘ChatGPT is bullshit’ and another called ‘Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties’. You can find them here: ‘ChatGPT is bullshit’: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 ‘Kant and Overdemandingness I; The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties’: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/phc3.12998 Congratulations Joe!
To the prints! Our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith’s new book ‘The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees’ will be coming out later this summer. The book provides an ethical analysis of the policies and practices that states use in response to refugees and develops an understanding of what an ethical response to refugees would be. … Read more
We are delighted to invite you to two public lectures on Climate Justice, which will be held during St Andrews’ inaugural Climate Week: Wed 29 May 5-6.30pm (St Salvator’s, School II) Prof. Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington) Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are … Read more
The 2024 Knox Lecture is only a couple of weeks from us. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Elisabeth Anderson the Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. The talk is titled: ‘Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem’. … Read more