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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230406T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Catherine Elgin (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Epistemic Dynamics \nAbstract: Epistemic agents are finite and fallible.  Our range is limited and some of what we accept is\, no doubt\, flawed.  To achieve our epistemic and practical objectives\, we devise methods and practices that foster correction\, refinement\, and expansion of our current epistemic commitments. Traditional epistemology maintains that epistemic acceptability requires non-fortuitously justified true belief\, where non-fortuitousness insures that the justification and the truth maker align. If so\, reflective equilibrium is at best indicative of acceptability.  I argue otherwise.   Reflective equilibrium is constitutive of epistemic acceptability.  Because a network of cognitive commitments in reflective equilibrium is as reasonable as any available alternative in the epistemic circumstances\, it is worthy of acceptance.  That does not make it perfect or permanently acceptable.  Such a network is susceptible of and probably in need of improvement.  But it is the best we can currently do and provides a suitable platform for improvement.  I argue that such a network should be designed to foster\, not merely to allow for\, further gains.  It should support epistemic leveraging.  That requires that it enable critical reflection about its own ends and means\, enabling epistemic agents to recognize opportunities for and obstacles to improvement. \nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-only-elgin/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Viviane Fairbank":MAILTO:vf45@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221017T104741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T072304Z
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SUMMARY:Special MPRG: Mattia Cecchinato
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: “The Mind that Matters: Degrees of Sentience and Moral Status”. \nAbstract: It is often argued that the capacity for conscious experience is necessary for a creature to morally matter for its own sake and thus have moral status. Entities that lack the capacity for consciousness\, such as chairs\, philosophical zombies\, or anencephalic infants\, seem to lack all subjectivity and welfare concerns—nothing can be good or bad for them. But is the morally relevant property the general fact of being (phenomenally) conscious as such\, or is it a particular kind of consciousness that matters? According to a long and widespread philosophical tradition\, Narrow Sentientism\, the ground of moral status is the capacity for affective consciousness (i.e. emotions\, pleasure\, and pain). David Chalmers (2022)\, however\, has recently challenged this view by arguing for Broad Sentientism\, according to which the capacity for phenomenal consciousness alone suffices for moral status\, even in cases where the capacity for affect is absent. \nIn this talk\, I examine both views in light of recent evolutionary and philosophical arguments concerning the possibility of degrees of consciousness (Tye 2021; Lee 2022). I propose that the most compelling understandings of Narrow and Broad Sentientism are scalar versions of each. But I also argue that if (i) we can distinguish between affective and phenomenal consciousness\, and if (ii) both are gradable\, then trade-offs reveal the inadequacy of Scalar-Broad Sentientism. A highly conscious creature with a low degree of affect would not score well in terms of moral status. The view of moral status that better tracks our intuitions across a range of cases\, I argue\, is a version of Scalar-Narrow Sentientism. It is a function of the degree of affect weighted by the size of the phenomenal repertoire possessed by the relevant conscious creature. Finally\, I investigate the practical implications of this novel view for our treatment of non-human animals\, our fellows humans\, and artificial sentience.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/special-mprg-mattia-cecchinato/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230413T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221207T205510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T051645Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Values as Vectors \nAbstract: Often\, two things seem tied in value\, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values\, rather than being like precise numbers\, must be imprecise\, giving rise to a special nontransitive value relation\, which Chang calls parity. But parity is notoriously hard to pin down\, and imprecise values are neither necessary nor sufficient for modeling sweetening. I propose instead to model overall values as many-dimensional vectors. The result is a fresh and flexible framework for the stranger side of ethics—as well as an elegant definition of parity as a tie between things of nonfungible value.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-munoz/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230419T181902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T181902Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference (St Andrews) – 30-31 May\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference  \n30-31 May\, 2023\, at the University of St Andrews  \n\nThe Centre for Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Public Affairs (CEPPA) is proud to host the 5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference at the University of St Andrews (UCO: School V). The event will be held in-person with the option for spectators to join online. Registration will open once the schedule has been finalised (hopefully\, by the end of April). A book of abstracts\, too\, will be made available on this page.  \n\nKeynote speakers:   \n\nDr Lucy McDonald (Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. John’s College\, University of Cambridge)\nDr Barry Maguire (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Edinburgh)\n\nThis page will be updated with a list of confirmed postgraduate speakers shortly. Please direct any inquiries to ceppaconference@st-andrews.ac.uk. \nBest wishes from the organisers\, \nPatrick J. Winther-Larsen and Katherine Crone\nPhD Students at the University of St Andrews & Stirling (SASP)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/5th-annual-ceppa-graduate-conference-st-andrews-30-31-may-2023/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230419T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230412T161357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T161357Z
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SUMMARY:Special MPRG - Bart Streumer (Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: QUASI-REALISM FOR REALISTS \nAbstract: Reductive realists think that normative properties are identical to descriptive properties. But they are often charged with being relativists: it is often argued that their view implies that when two people make conflicting normative judgements\, these judgements can both be true. I will argue that reductive realists can answer this charge by copying the quasi-realist moves that many expressivists make. \nIn §1 I will outline the two main versions of realism\, reductive realism and robust realism\, and I will explain why reductive realists are often charged with being relativists. In §2 I will outline the quasi-realist moves that many expressivists make. In §3 I will argue that if these moves work\, reductive realists can copy them in order to answer the charge that they are relativists. In §4 I will discuss the assumptions behind these moves. In §5 I will discuss robust realists’ doubts about these moves. In §6 I will show that if my arguments are sound\, expressivism is closer to relativism than is often assumed.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/special-mprg-bart-streumer-groningen/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221207T205805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T084853Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Bart Streumer (University of Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: “Superspreading the Word”.\n\nAbstract: Quasi-realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism\, however\, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi-realism. I will argue that quasi-realists can undermine this thought by defending a version of quasi-realism that I will call super-quasi-realism. This version seems indistinguishable from realism\, but I will argue that this is a mistaken impression that arises because we cannot believe super-quasi-realism.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-bart-streumer-university-of-groningen/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221207T210146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T200550Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Humorlessness and Moral Recognition \nAbstract: We’re often quick to point fingers at people who fail to find humor in themselves. And our accusations have a moral tinge: we decry people for being sanctimonious buzzkills\, and command them to  ‘get over themselves’. But are these moralized reactions justified? And what\, if anything\, justifies them? In this paper I argue that humourlessness often is a moral failing. This is because humorlessness often involves a disrespectful failure or refusal to engage with other peoples’ perspectives. I’ll then explore what implication this account has for accusations of humorlessness in oppressive social contexts\, and I’ll argue that one of the harms of oppression is that it makes having a sense of humor towards oneself morally risky.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-jordan-mackenzie/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230504T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221209T070749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230325T134455Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Eric Martin (Baylor)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Scientism and Humanities Education \nAbstract: In this talk I discuss a pedagogical implication of scientism. Because scientism elevates science and derogates what is deemed non-scientific\, the arts and humanities become\, on such a view\, less valuable parts of university curricula. I survey some of the current data on declining study of the humanities and explain how scientism may contribute to a trend disparaging the arts and humanities\, suggesting some problems with this view.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-eric-martin-baylor/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20221207T210436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T103852Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Guy Fletcher (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: All’s Well that Ends Well? \nAbstract: Distinguish how well someone’s life is going at a particular point — their momentary well-being — from how well their life went as a whole\, their lifetime well-being. How are these related? \nThe simplest answer is that lifetime well-being is just aggregate momentary well-being. Theories that deny this are forms of holism about lifetime well-being. Recent discussions of holism\, inspired by David Velleman\, have focused mainly on one particular species of it\, the so-called “shape of a life” hypothesis. This is the claim that having an “uphill” distribution of momentary well-being contributes to lifetime well-being and does so over and above the instrumental effects that such a distribution might have upon momentary well-being. In this paper I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the shape of a life hypothesis before introducing an alternative view\, one which avoids those weaknesses\, and argue for its independent plausibility.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-guy-fletcher-edinburgh/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Luca Stroppa":MAILTO:ls330@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230523T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230523T184500
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20220704T091810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T150133Z
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SUMMARY:Knox Lecture 2023 – Sally Haslanger (MIT)
DESCRIPTION:Location: School III in-person and Teams online (for online attendees\, headphones should be worn to prevent a feedback loop from occurring) \nTitle: Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care \nAbstract: For decades\, socialist feminists have insisted that an adequate approach to any economy\, and especially to capitalism\, must involve attention to social reproduction\, i.e.\, to “the activities and attitudes\, behaviors and emotions\, and responsibilities and relationships directly involved in maintaining life\, on a daily basis and intergenerationally” (Brenner and Laslett 1991). Debates over social reproduction typically begin with a critique of Marxism\, arguing that wage labor crucially depends on the production of the laborer\, which is done mainly by women\, but mostly ignored by Marx. One approach to social reproduction is to locate it within patriarchy\, which is thought to be one of several interacting systems (others include capitalism and White supremacy). In this talk\, I will argue it is better to understand our current social formation as a single (patriarchal\, capitalist\, White supremacist) system\, and will discuss why this matters for developing a political agenda around care work. \nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2MwZTg1YWUtNWI2ZC00MDViLTg4YTMtYzJmNjc1NWQzOGM0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22%3A%22f85626cb-0da8-49d3-aa58-64ef678ef01a%22%2C%22Oid%22%3A%2251bd815f-5519-4c20-81c7-4701c95594b5%22%2C%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3Atrue%2C%22role%22%3A%22a%22%7D&btype=a&role=a \nFor online attendees\, headphones should be worn to prevent a feedback loop from occurring.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/knox-lecture-2023-sally-haslanger-mit/
CATEGORIES:Knox Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230525T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230525T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230514T091217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230514T091217Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics Cup finals
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ethics-cup-finals/
LOCATION:United College\, St. Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230601
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230419T182859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230518T152630Z
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SUMMARY:5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference (St Andrews) – 30-31 May\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference  \n30-31 May\, 2023\, at the University of St Andrews  \nThe Centre for Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Public Affairs (CEPPA) is proud to host the 5th Annual CEPPA Graduate Conference at the University of St Andrews (UCO: School V). The event will be held in-person with the option for spectators to join online. Interested parties can email us at ceppaconference@st-andrews.ac.uk to register. \nBOOK OF ABSTRACTS \nCONFERENCE POSTER \nKeynote speakers:   \n\nDr Lucy McDonald (Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. John’s College\, University of Cambridge)\nDr Barry Maguire (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy\, University of Edinburgh)\n\nPostgraduate speakers: \n\nLeora Sung (UCL)\, “Should I Save or Give?”\nPaloma Morales (LSE)\, “What Do Bedtime Stories Have to Do with It? Social Norms and Family Relationships”\nNate Oppel (University of Toronto)\, “Rebuke\, Blame\, and Internalism”\nPyro Suarez (University of Bristol & Southampton)\, “Virtuous Moral Deliberation: Moral Knowledge through Oppression”\nRutger van Oeveren (UT Austin)\, “Higher-Order Judgement Aggregation: An Impossibility Result”\nDavid Molyneux (University of Leeds)\, “Causal and Moral Responsibility for Doings and Allowings”\n\nThis page will be updated again shortly. Please direct any inquiries to ceppaconference@st-andrews.ac.uk. \nBest wishes from the organiser\, \nPatrick J. Winther-Larsen\nPhD Student at the University of St Andrews & Stirling (SASP) \n  \nFor financial support\, we are grateful to:
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/5th-annual-ceppa-graduate-conference-st-andrews-30-31-may-2023-2/
LOCATION:School V
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230605T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230606T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20220802T171347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230726T112026Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Fest
DESCRIPTION:Registration Required: contact tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk to register\nLocation: Edgecliffe 104 (5 The Scores\, St Andrews KY16 9AL) \nMonday 5 June\n\n10:00am – 11:15am — Julia Driver (UT Austin/St Andrews) “Undermining Promises”\nCoffee/tea break\n11:30am – 12:45pm — Jeff McMahan (Oxford) “The Counterfactual Problem in Gene Editing”\n12:45pm – 1:30pm — lunch\n1:30pm – 2:45pm — Joe Horton (UCL) “Practical Reason and Permissible Preference”\nCoffee/tea break\n3:00pm – 4:15pm — Rahul Kumar (Queen’s) “Morality and the Value of Mutual Recognition”\n6pm — Conference Dinner (for speakers and special guests only)\n\nTuesday 6 June\n\n11:15am — Coffee/tea\n11:30am – 12:45pm — Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s) “The Costs of Rescue”\n12:45pm – 1:30pm — lunch\n1:30pm – 2:45pm — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke) “Mental Illnesses as Failures of Attention”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-fest/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference,CEPPA Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230609
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20220802T172420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230602T084722Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Ethics Panel (at Energy Ethics 2023)
DESCRIPTION:Panel on Climate Ethics at the Energy Ethics 2023 Conference.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/climate-ethics-conference/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230705T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230705T143000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230602T084044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T123417Z
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SUMMARY:Special MPRG (in person) - Mark Oppenheimer (Johannesburg Bar)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe 104 \nTitle: Should hate speech be against the law? \nAbstract: Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent\, fuelled by social media\, political polarization\, and the rise of extremist groups. It can have a profoundly negative impact on individuals and communities\, causing harm\, inciting violence\, and perpetuating discrimination. However\, hate speech is notoriously difficult to define and regulate. We will discuss real life court cases involving offensive flags\, demands for an end to gay marriage\, and songs calling for the slaughter of ethnic minorities. Along the way we will uncover the value of freedom of expression and determine whether it should ever be limited. \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/special-mprg-in-person-mark-oppenheimer-johannesburg-bar/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230914T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230914T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T162505Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Joel Joseph will be leading a discussion on Thomas Hurka’s forthcoming paper ‘Moral Demands and Permissions’. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230914T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230914T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230602T084940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T152733Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Frances Kamm (Rutgers)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Superogation \nAbstract: This paper considers the relation between supererogation and duties (also here referred to as obligations) from a nonconsequentialist point of view. It first considers whether supererogation may sometimes take precedence over positive and negative duties and how this relates to personal costs (including efforts) required to perform one’s duty. It then considers how acquiescence to having large costs imposed on one (even permissibly) can be supererogatory. Finally\, it considers how what are usually duties can become supererogatory and how what is usually supererogatory can become dutiful. The relation between these topics and the trolley problem and the so-called “all or nothing problem” are examined.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-frances-kamm-rutgers/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T091630Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week Miguel de la Cal Moreno will be leading a discussion on Simon Hope’s “Normative Disorientation and a Limitation of Human Rights”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T101014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T091823Z
UID:10000427-1695312000-1695317400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person)  – Simon Hope (Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Climate Change as a Philosophical Problem \nCommentator: Quân Nguyen (Edinburgh) \nAbstract: \nThe paper this talk belongs to speaks to two main points. One is that the onrushing climate catastrophe renders the modern liberal value of personal autonomy unintelligible as a concept to live by. Originally\, that was the only point I planned to argue for: I would then conclude that because Kant never once predicates autonomy of individuals\, selves\, or persons\, Kant’s practical philosophy is immune to this difficulty and offers a better approach to climate ethics and justice. But – here is the second point – it then struck me how this conclusion only follows if you already accept Kant’s practical philosophy. If instead you think it mere empty formalism\, well\, rising sea levels won’t make it less so. This got me trying to think about how normative disorientation arising from the unintelligibility of ethical concepts can trap us in a particularly dire reflective predicament. I’ll try to outline this predicament\, and say something about how we might get out of it. \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-simon-hope-stirling/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230927
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230913T152941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T152941Z
UID:10000432-1695600000-1695772799@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Location: Parliament Hall and online\nRregistration and more info:\nhttps://sagcap20466992.wordpress.com/
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/st-andrews-graduate-conference-in-ancient-philosophy/
LOCATION:Parliament Hall\, South Street\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY169AH
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142224Z
UID:10000414-1695911400-1695915000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nThis week we will be reading Judith Lichtenberg ‘s paper ‘Negative Duties\, Positive Duties\, and the “New Harms”‘. \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-09-28/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230921T201156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142045Z
UID:10000434-1695916800-1695922200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA TALK (in person) - Carl Mildenberger (Universität Zürich)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: The Quest for Additionality \nAbstract: Many people aim to make the world a better place by spending their money in certain ways. The school of “effective altruism” teaches that\, if one donates one’s money wisely\, one can have a positive impact. Currently\, many people want to make us believe that if one invests one’s money wisely\, one will also have a positive impact. I argue that\, for virtually everybody\, this latter promise cannot come true.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-carl-mildenberger-zurich/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142140Z
UID:10000415-1696516200-1696519800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05/2023-10-05/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230602T085741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T124622Z
UID:10000396-1696521600-1696527000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) & Tom McClelland (Cambridge)
DESCRIPTION:Title: On seeing women as objects: objectification and affordance perception \nLocation: Teams (online only)\, the talk will be streamed from Edgecliffe G03 \nAbstract: Objectification is a central topic in feminist philosophy theorising. But what is it for someone to objectify another person? A common theme is that objectification involves treating and viewing the other person as an object. Thus\, consider the following quotes: \n‘A man\, for example\, who objectifies women will view them and treat them as having a nature which makes them what he desires them to be…’ (Haslanger\, p.73) \n‘The most subtle and deniable way sexualized evaluation is enacted – and arguably the most ubiquitous – is through gaze\, or visual inspection of the body .… when objectified\, women are treated as bodies – and in particular\, as bodies that exist for the use and pleasure of others.’ (Fredrickson and Roberts\, p.175) \nIn a classic paper\, Nussbaum has unpacked the various aspects of “treating someone as an object”. What has received less attention is the role of perception in objectification. It is striking that in describing what objectification involves\, the language of “seeing”\, of “gaze”\, of “looking” is central. Is this purely metaphorical talk? Or is there something literally visual going on? \nOur aim in this paper is to answer this question: can we make sense of  objectification as a phenomenon with a genuinely visual component? We suggest that the notion of affordance perception – the idea that we perceive possibilities for action – allows us to do so. We draw out some consequences for the moral psychology of objectification as well as for the act of looking as a tool of oppression.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-paulina-sliwa-vienna/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Johannes Nickl":MAILTO:jmn20@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T142205Z
UID:10000426-1697121000-1697124600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nThis week we’ll be discussing ‘Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-12/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20231002T145119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T142023Z
UID:10000435-1697126400-1697131800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (In person) - Joel Joseph (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nAbstract: Consider the following pair of cases  \nRoughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do not make it in time\, you will die. However\, Victim is lying in the only road that will get you there in time. Although Victim is not physically obstructing your path\, they are too heavy for you to move aside. You can therefore save yourself only by driving over Victim en route to the hospital\, thereby killing her.  \nObstruction. The case is similar to Roughshod. However\, this time you cannot simply drive over Victim on your way to the hospital. This is because her presence in the road is physically obstructing your path. You can therefore save yourself only by getting out of your car and detonating a bomb next to Victim that will blow her to smithereens\, thereby clearing the road ahead.  \nIt seems impermissible to kill Victim in either case. However\, many find it intuitively plausible that killing Victim in Obstruction is harder to justify killing than it is in Roughshod. The Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) is the only discussed explanation of the moral difference between these two cases. However\, many non-consequentialists find DDE implausible.  \nIn this paper\, I argue that we can distinguish morally between Roughshod and Obstruction without appealing to DDE. I first argue that DDE does not get to the heart of the intuitive moral difference between Roughshod and Obstruction. I then offer an alternative explanation of the moral difference between Roughshod and Obstruction that is extensionally superior to DDE. Finally\, I argue that endorsing my account over DDE is not only theoretically significant\, but that it also has implications for the morality of abortion that differ importantly from DDE. 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-joel-joseph-st-andrews/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142140Z
UID:10000416-1697725800-1697729400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05/2023-10-19/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20231023T191439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T191812Z
UID:10000417-1698330600-1698334200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss Joseph Heath’s chapter ‘Positive Social Time Preference’\, from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter’s a bit long\, but readers can comfortably skip sections 6.2-6.5 and the equations. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20230907T101801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T124833Z
UID:10000428-1698336000-1698341400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Positive interest rates block green transitions\, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero \nCommentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alexander-douglas-st-andrews/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T033623
CREATED:20231031T111303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T111304Z
UID:10000418-1698935400-1698939000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article\,’Equality Versus Priority’ \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-3/
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