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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
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
The final program for the St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy is out! Happening on the 25th-26th of September. Featuring Maria Victoria Salazar, Michael Lang, Ashley Lance, Sarah Simmons, Dashan XU, Ron Buenaventura, M.M. McCabe and Dominic Scott. Here’s the link to the website where you can find, among other info, the registration form: … Read more