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  • Home
  • People
    • Members of CEPPA
    • Professorial Fellows
    • Postgraduate Members
    • CEPPA Advisory Committee
  • Projects
    • Climate Ethics
    • Philosophy of Climate Science
    • Health and Medicine
    • The Future of Work and Income
    • Effective Altruism
    • Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse
    • Human Rights and Global Justice
    • Blame and Responsibility
    • Virtue and Character
    • Past projects
      • Philosophy and Education
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Reading Groups
    • Past CEPPA Talks
    • Knox Lectures 
    • The Ethics Cup
  • Outputs
    • St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    • CEPPA Chats
    • Haldane Prize

Theron Pummer

Values, Voting, and Expertise

January 30, 2018March 23, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Katherine Hawley asks: How far can we trust experts when we’re deciding how to vote?

Categories Commentaries, Knowledge, Democracy and Public Discourse, Virtue and Character Tags Brexit, Democracy, Experts, Katherine Hawley, Trust, Voting

Presidents Club dinner: why good deeds never justify bad actions

January 30, 2018January 30, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Anh Quan Nguyen in The Conversation, on moral licensing.

Categories Commentaries Tags Moral offsetting; moral licensing.

2016 Knox Lecture

August 22, 2016August 22, 2016 by Theron Pummer

Prof Rae Langton on ‘Blocking as Counter-speech’.

Categories Events Tags Freedom of speech, Harmful speech, Knox Lectures, Rae Langton

St Andrews CEPPA Graduate Conference – Abstracts

February 12, 2018January 30, 2016 by Theron Pummer

Abstracts for the St Andrews CEPPA Graduate Conference – 17 and 18 Feb, 2018.

Categories Events Tags Graduate Conference

Population Ethics and Indeterminacy

July 18, 2016March 20, 2015 by Theron Pummer

How should we compare a decrease in average quality of life with a gain in population size? Can invoking indeterminacy help solve the difficult theoretical problems in population ethics?

Categories Commentaries Tags Derek Parfit, Indeterminacy, Oxford Population Ethics Project, Population ethics, Repugnant Conclusion

Practical Philosophy: A Historical Introduction

July 18, 2016April 16, 2009 by Theron Pummer

Excerpt from John Haldane’s *Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Culture and Society* (2009) ‘Introduction’.

Categories Commentaries Tags History of Ethics

Scots thinkers who forged new democracy from the colonies

July 18, 2016April 10, 2008 by Theron Pummer

An article by John Haldane that first appeared in the Scotsman newspaper in 2008.

Categories Commentaries Tags Declaration of Independence, James Wilson, Scottish Enlightenment

Democratic Deficit

July 18, 2016April 16, 2005 by Theron Pummer

Extract from Chapter 1 of past Knox Lecturer Neil MacCormick’s short book *Who’s Afraid of a European Constitution?* (2005).

Categories Commentaries Tags European Union, Neil MacCormick
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