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  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Reading: Lea Bourguignon & Milan Mossé's 'How to Count Sore Throats'. Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    We are proud to present the Sixth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The Killing of a Sacred Deer  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings/videos. Videos: "Iphigenia at Aulis" summary Readings:    Euripides, Iphigenia ... Read more

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Reading: this week we will discuss Mark Johnstone: ‘Anarchic Souls: Plato’s Depiction of the “Democratic Man”’ in Phronesis 58 (2013)   Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Daniela Dover (UCLA)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the Republic is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading ... Read more

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Reading:  Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein ‘Hypocrisy and Moral Authority’, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Tom Sinclair (Oxford)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to ... Read more

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Reading: Crisp, Roger, and Christopher Cowton. “Hypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.” Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katherine Snow (Princeton)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using necessity. Scientific naturalism presents logical causal necessity as constituting how nature "makes" things exist, and it presents necessity in the more general or abstract sense ... Read more