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  • 2025 Ethics Cup Finals

    United College St. Andrews, United Kingdom

    12 teams from high schools across Britain converge on St. Andrews for a 1-day competition to determine who takes home the cup!

  • CEPPA Fest 2025

    Butts Wynd Building Room 10 Butts Wynd, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    CEPPA Fest, its annual celebration of all things CEPPA, on 16 June in St. Andrews. We have a great set of speakers lined up across the whole range of topics within ethics and public affairs, so please consider coming along. Registration is free, but required, and can be done here. Here is the Schedule: 10 ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Bel Colburn (University of Glasgow)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Moral Blackmail Abstract: Suppose I want you to do something. How can I make you do it? Depending on me, you, our context, and the nature of the thing I want you to do, I have various options: rational or emotional persuasion; manipulation; coercion; physical compulsion; maybe more. Different mechanisms will be more or ... Read more

  • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    We are proud to present the Eigth 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 Portrait Of A Lady On Fire  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. To Read:  On Feminist and Queer ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title:  Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition Abstract: This paper investigates norms of ambition, which set the level of achievement one ought to aspire to. I critically examine the widely accepted norm of excellence, which encourages one to seek excellence in one’s pursuits. I argue that while this norm is accepted by default, we ... Read more

  • Cover-to-cover Reading Group

    Cover-to-cover Reading Group

    CEPPA/Arché Seminar room 17 – 19 College Street, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Michael Otsuka (Rutgers University)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: How nonexistence is worse for us Abstract: I defend the view that, when a person’s life is worth living, her existence is not merely good for her. It is also better for her than her never existing. I defend this view against the objection that it absurdly implies that nonexistence is bad for the ... Read more