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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jeff McMahan (Oxford University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Compensation for Wrongful Life” \nAbstract: In a recent case in the UK\, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother’s physician for failing to advise her to take folic acid supplements for several months before becoming pregnant. The court ruled in the woman’s favor\, accepting her claim that\, had the physician not acted negligently\, the mother would have had a healthy child. Yet this healthy child would have been a different child. So the physician’s omission was not worse\, or on balance bad\, for the plaintiff\, who has a life that is well worth living. If anything\, it benefited her. So on what basis can she claim a right to compensation\, or damages? I consider whether the court might have justified its decision by appealing to Parfit’s “No-Difference View\,” which asserts that it makes no moral difference whether a bad effect is worse for anyone. I will consider as well whether there is a requirement to cause a better-off individual to exist rather than a different\, less well-off individual\, or whether it might be permissible to cause the less well-off individual to exist. Also\, do an agent’s intentions matter to whether the agent is liable to pay damages in a case of wrongful life? Finally\, is a claim of wrongful life better grounded if the explanation of why the individual ought not to have been caused to exist concerns suffering in the individual’s life rather than a comparative lack of benefits?
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-jeff-mcmahan-oxford-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T165153Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: How to Build Morality into AI \nAbstract: AI is spreading fast. We humans need to figure out the best way to prevent AI from making the worst decisions\, which are harmful\, unfair\, or otherwise morally wrong. One way is to design AI to predict what humans would judge to be immoral if they were informed\, rational\, and impartial. Then the AI can use that information when making its choices. This talk will illustrate this method in a test case of who gets the kidney when two patients need a transplant but only one kidney is available. This same approach can be extended to other areas of morality\, including end-of-life decisions in medicine\, hiring and promotion in business\, pretrial release in criminal law\, and autonomous vehicles and weapons. The result will be AI that aligns with our deepest values.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-walter-sinnott-armstrong-duke-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220421T120000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20220225T155313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T150818Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Stephanie Collins (Monash University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account\n(co-authored with David Tan (Deakin University)) \nAbstract: Does the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so\, how can that intent be known by outsiders? Existing theories of legislative intent can be divided into three camps: skepticism\, constructivism\, and realism. This paper begins by outlining problems for existing realist accounts. The paper then offers a new realist theory of legislative intent: the rational unity account. The paper explains how this account avoids the problems with existing versions of realism\, while also capturing the sense in which the legislature is a rational agent with intentions that can be distinguished from the intentions of individual legislators. We explain what evidence outsiders can\, and should\, use when attributing intentions to the legislature. \nCo-Hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-stephanie-collins-monash-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brown":MAILTO:jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20220225T154946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T075532Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – David Christensen (Brown University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Epistemic Akrasia: No Apology Required \nAbstract: It is natural to think that rationality imposes some relationship between what a person believes\, and what she believes about what she’s rational to believe. Epistemic akrasia—for example\, believing P while believing that P is not rational to believe in your situation—is often seen as intrinsically irrational. This paper argues otherwise. In certain cases\, akrasia is intuitively rational. Understanding why akratic beliefs in those case are indeed rational provides a deeper explanation how typical akratic beliefs are irrational—an explanation that does not flow from akrasia per se. This understanding also allows us to diagnose where general anti-akratic arguments go wrong. We can then see why even principles designed to allow only moderate akrasia fail\, and also why recognizing the possibility of rational akratic beliefs does not call for finding some other epistemic defect in agents who believe akratically. Believing akratically\, in itself\, is nothing to apologize for.\nCo-Hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-david-christensen-brown-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T150505Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Kristie Dotson (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond the Now: Epistemic Oppression and the “Common” Sense of Incarceration \nAbstract: In this presentation\, I narrate an encounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and the difficulty of insisting on accountability while avoiding the worst parts of the state-run criminal justice system. Ultimately\, I demonstrate that\, at times\, when a situation calls for accountability for a serious wrongdoing in the U.S. one can find oneself trapped in a “now” that has been constructed by 1) ineffective carceral imaginations\, 2) insufficient structural options for accountability\, and 3) inadequate lexicons of permissibility. I conclude by suggesting key questions for exploration in the U.S. carceral state are: what are the communities we want to build with the accountability options on which we rely? How can we make the current “common” sense of incarceration “uncommon?” \nCo-Hosted with ECT and FPST \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-kristie-dotson/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T213527Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt-University)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Ought and the Transmission of Reasons \nAbstract: According to the widely held Weightiest Reasons view about how reasons for action and the practical ought are related to one another\, \n(WR)  an agent ought to φ if\, and only if\, the reasons for φ are weightier than the reasons for every incompatible alternative to φ. \nI show that complementing (WR) in a way that results in an extensionally adequate account is surprisingly difficult and compromises intuitive plausibility. In particular\, it turns out that (WR) only returns correct results when it is combined with principles of reasons transmission some of which entail an implausible proliferation of reasons. Even so\, the theoretical package that friends of (WR) must accept is to be preferred over competing views.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-thomas-schmidt/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20220113T195455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T171405Z
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SUMMARY:Lara Jost - CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Labours of Chronic Illness \nAbstract: In this presentation\, I aim to explain the three types of labour- administrative labour\, hermeneutic labour and epistemic labour- that chronically ill people have to engage in to get good care. The goal is to highlight why being chronically ill is often considered by many chronically ill people to be a full-time or part-time job\, often without being recognized as such by others. I focus on the epistemic labour and the hermeneutic labour and explain why they are disproportionately higher when it comes to certain chronic illnesses. I argue that this higher cost is in part the result of a deep disagreement about how these patients should testify about their illness\, caused by a cluster of types of epistemic injustices. To illustrate this dynamic\, I attend to the applied case of endometriosis\, a gynaecological chronic illness causing pelvic pain and infertility. Finally\, I offer some avenues for improvement that the healthcare system could focus on to lessen the epistemic and hermeneutic labour of chronic illness and improve the lives of chronically ill people.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lara-jost-ceppa-work-in-progress-talk/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210930T163726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T163726Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Michael Huemer (University of Colorado Boulder)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Justice Before Role Obligations \nAbstract: Many believe that agents in the justice system are morally constrained to follow certain assigned roles\, understood as excluding the exercise of moral judgement: lawyers to serve the interests of their clients\, judges to enforce the law as written by the legislature\, and juries to assess the factual evidence and apply the law as directed by the judge. These roles\, however\, often entail knowingly bringing about serious\, unjust harms. I argue that agents in the justice system should ignore putative role obligations that conflict with justice.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-michael-huemer-university-of-colorado-boulder/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Luca Stroppa":MAILTO:ls330@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211216T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211216T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T153341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211207T104022Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania)
DESCRIPTION:Title: An Agential Account of Poverty \nAbstract: Poverty has traditionally been conceived as a state of deprivation. To be poor is to lack something that is essential to human flourishing. How that something is conceived—in terms of welfare\, resources\, or capabilities—and how it is to be measured—in absolute terms or as relative to a social standard—has been the subject of much debate within development circles. Though many philosophers have written about our obligations to the poor\, relatively little philosophical attention has been devoted to thinking of poverty as a phenomenon ripe for philosophical analysis. In this paper\, I put forward a theory of poverty rooted in the philosophy of action. I argue that to be poor is to be in a context in which an agent’s capacity for long-term deliberation is systemically undermined by rational pressure to engage in efficient short-term deliberation. In other words\, to be poor is to have to constantly turn one’s mind to the immediate satisfaction of current needs and desires at the expense of deliberating about the pursuit of long-term projects and ends that one deeply values.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-jennifer-morton-university-of-pennsylvania/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T153109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T170202Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change\, COVID-19\, Justice\, and Quality of Life \nAbstract: Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time\, however\, a prevalent material conception of quality of life has led many to assume that taking on this burden would require diminishing the quality of life—and associated level of well-being or happiness—enjoyed in the most-developed countries. For such societies fully to accept this burden therefore seems unlikely to achieve the social and political support it would need. However\, I will argue that a material conception of quality of life is at odds with what can be learned from an extensive body of evidence regarding “subjective well-being”—an imperfect though informative empirical measure of how people experience and evaluate their lives. This evidence suggests an account of the sources and nature of subjective well-being that is compatible with more sustainable levels of resource utilization and more equitable global distribution. The COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a stress-test for responses to global climate change\, and it has witnessed wide differences in the health outcomes for countries that are not simply a function of the level of material wealth or available technological or medical resources. Effective social policies\, institutions\, and practices have been accompanied by better and fairer health outcomes with less disruption of daily life\, suggesting that the purported “health vs. economy” or “health vs. personal freedom” trade-offs in the most-developed societies have been misconceived. Might something similar be true of the supposed costs to the quality of life of more effective environmental policies and practices on the part of the most-developed societies?
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-peter-railton-university-of-michigan/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-12-01/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-24/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T152729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T082104Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Linda Martín Alcoff (City University of New York)
DESCRIPTION:Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. \nTitle: Extractivist epistemologies \nAbstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or rural healer concerning the medicinal potential of a given plant\, or an artifact from an indigenous funeral site. The extractivist approach to knowledge treats this epistemic resource as a piece of knowledge that can be separated from the social context and identities of its origin without epistemic loss. In so doing\, extractivist practices change the items that are abstracted. I will show how this is this is an epistemic problem and not simply an ethical problem.\n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-linda-martin-alcoff-city-university-of-new-york/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-17/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T152450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210906T083237Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known” \nAbstract: In this paper\, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of “being known” and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations of the “right to know\,” I argue that victims of gross violations and injustices not only have the right to know what happened\, but also the right to be known—to be a giver of knowledge to others about their own experiences. I show how such victims can suffer epistemic wrongs by being rendered invisible\, vilified or demonized\, or systematically distorted\, and that these ways of not being known demand epistemic reparations. While there are traditional reparations that are epistemic in nature\, such as memorialization and education\, I argue that there is a prior and arguably more important epistemic reparation—knowing victims of gross violations and injustices in the sense of bearing witness. I conclude by sketching an epistemological picture to underwrite this notion of epistemic reparations\, one that significantly expands the traditional picture by including epistemic duties that are imperfect in nature and concern actions in addition to beliefs.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-jennifer-lackey-northwestern-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brown":MAILTO:jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-10/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T152234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T162546Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Against ‘Good For\,’ Against ‘Well-Being'”\n\nAbstract: This paper challenges the widely held view that ‘good for’\, ‘well- being’\, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for ethics and separate from ‘simply good’ as used by G.E. Moore and others. More specifically\, it argues that there’s no philosophically useful good-for or well-being concept that’s neither merely descriptive in the sense of naturalistic nor reducible to ‘simply good’. The paper distinguishes two interpretations of the common claim that the value ‘good for’ expresses is distinctively ‘subject-relative’. Neither interpretation\, the paper argues\, yields a significantly distinct evaluative concept. The ethically fundamental such concept is just ‘simply good’.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-thomas-hurka-university-of-toronto/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Enrico Galvagni":MAILTO:eg240@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-03/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T151914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T201129Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health \nAbstract: In this talk\, I’ll give a brief overview of the project I call ‘ameliorative skepticism’. Sally Haslanger has argued that\, in doing social ontology\, we can sometimes approach the question ‘what is x?’ by asking question ‘what do we want x to be?’. I argue that sometimes the only way to answer this question is to answer it skeptically: that what we want x to be is something it can’t be. But I suggest that there’s a version of skepticism we can bring to questions like this that is substantially weaker than error theory or eliminativism. I use the case of health as an example.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-elizabeth-barnes-university-of-virginia/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000331-1635346800-1635350400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-27/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T151648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T130910Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Rachel Fraser (University of Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘The limits of ideology critique’ \nAbstract: The tradition of ideology critique promises a lot. It promises to be critical of the existing social order. (Good!) But it promises to generate this critique without appealing to ‘external’ normative standards. In this talk I argue on meta-normative grounds that ideology critique cannot make good on these promises.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-rachel-fraser-university-of-oxford/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T160000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
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UID:10000329-1634137200-1634140800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211007T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T151408Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Value Capture \nAbstract: Value capture occurs when an agent enters a social environment which presents external expressions of value — which are often simplified\, standardized\, and quantified — and those external versions come to dominate our reasoning and motivations. Examples include becoming motivated by Twitter Likes and Retweets\, citation rates\, ranked lists of best schools\, and Grade Point Averages. We are vulnerable to value capture because of the competitive advantage that such pre-packaged value expressions have in our reasoning and our communications. But when we internalize such metrics\, we damage our own autonomy. In value capture\, we outsource the process of deliberating on our values. And that outsourcing cuts off one of the key benefits of personal deliberation. When we tailor our values to ourselves\, we can fine-tune them to fit our own particular psychology and place in the world. But in value capture\, we buy our values off the rack.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-thi-nguyen-university-of-utah/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
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UID:10000328-1633532400-1633536000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-06/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000327-1632927600-1632931200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-09-29/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210923T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T151007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T080137Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization\n \nAbstract: The arrival of “big data” promises new degrees of precision in understanding human behavior. Could it also make it possible to draw a finer line between individual choices and circumstances that operate in the background? In a culture in which individual responsibility continues to be celebrated\, this raises questions about new opportunities for institutional design with a stronger focus on individual responsibility. But what is it that can be drawn from big data? In this paper I argue that we should not expect a “god’s eye’s view” on choice and circumstances from big data. “Responsibility” is a social construct that depends on the logic of different social situations\, as well as our epistemic access to certain counterfactuals (e.g. whether an agent “could have acted differently”). It is this epistemic dimension that changes with the arrival of big data. But while it might help overcome some epistemic barriers\, it might also create new problems\, e.g. because of polluted data. This is not just a theoretical problem; it is directly connected to questions about the regulation of the insurance industry\, for which “big data” has been described as a “game changer.” I argue that this development forces us to directly confront questions about mutualist versus solidaristic forms of insurance\, and more generally speaking about how much weight to ascribe to individual responsibility\, given all we know about unequal background circumstances.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-lisa-herzog-university-of-groningen/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000326-1632322800-1632326400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-09-22/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210924
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210125T125602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T174547Z
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SUMMARY:Wild Animal Ethics Conference
DESCRIPTION:Wild Animal Ethics Conference
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/wild-animal-ethics-conference/
ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210916T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T044313
CREATED:20210830T150635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T091657Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: ‘Interactional Wrongs and Vices’\n\nABSTRACT: This paper explores a domain of action that we often regard as a minor moral matter\, the domain of ordinary interactions. Yet\, ordinary interactions are morally significant for two reasons: they are the primary vehicle through which 1) we show respect and disrespect for each other\, and 2) we either grease the wheels or put a spanner in the wheels of healthy human sociability. Interactional ethics concerns both our first-order conduct within a given interaction and our second-order management of our interactional lives. At both levels\, we can act well or badly and thereby do great good\, harm\, justice\, and injustice. This paper homes in on first-order and second-order interactional wrongs. It isolates distinct wrongs that we can do at each of the three key stages of an interaction – the initiation stage\, execution stage\, and conclusion stage – including\, notably\, engage in interactional outsourcing. It then examines specific second-order patterns of wrongdoing – interactional vices – that we can display as we manage our interactional lives.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-kimberley-brownlee-university-of-british-columbia/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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