• Film and Philosophy at CEPPA

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    CEPPA FILM CLUB: Dick Johnson is Dead You can see the trailer here. Recommendations to read: Sigmund Freud - Mourning and Melancholia Sigmund Freud - On Transience Quill Kukla - Holding the Body of another Symposium, 11:2, 2007  Lindemann - On the mend, Journal of Clinical Ethics, 16:4, 2005. Lindemann - 'What and When to Let Go: Identities ... Read more

  • CEPPA talk: Matti Wilks (Edinburgh)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad +1 more

    Title: Who has an expansive moral circle? Abstract:  The moral circle describes who we do and do not think of as worthy of moral concern. In this talk, I will discuss psychological research that aims to understand variability in our moral circles. I will present work across several projects that aims to (a) map out ... Read more

  • CEPPA Kant Colloquium

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    Peter Moser (St Andrews): "Ownership of non-physical things in Kant’s legal philosophy

  • Arché/CEPPA joint seminar: Jenny Saul “Questions and Conversational Complicity: Reflections on the Boghossian Report”

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    This talk—the first outing of a new paper in progress—will begin by considering some under-explored political and ethical issues related to the choice of what question is under discussion.  A particular concern will be whether to accept or alter the Question Under Discussion.  It will apply the insights gained to the recent Boghossian Report into ... Read more

  • CEPPA TALK: Alex Fisher (Leeds)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Alex Fisher (Leeds) will give a talk entitled 'QAnon, Crosswords, and Videogames: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Inquiry. Abstract: The value of many aesthetic practices comes from working stuff out. Detective novels, cryptic paintings, and crosswords require us to deduce hidden content. I outline how various recent “knowledge-based” videogames and other media also generate aesthetic ... Read more