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SUMMARY:Book Workshop (in person) - Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Daniel Muñoz’s forthcoming book What We Owe to Ourselves\n\nDate: 15 May 2024\nLocation: Edgecliffe 104\nRegistration required: email Theron Pummer (tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk)\n \nProvisional Schedule \n945am: Coffee/tea\, welcome\n10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech)\n1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University)\n1225pm: Lunch\n130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University)\n240pm: Coffee/tea\n300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s University)\n415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds)\n5:25pm: Walk around town or go to pub\n630pm: Dinner\n \nAbout the Workshop\nThis is a pre-read event. The book manuscript will be circulated to all participants by 15 April. There are 20 spaces available at the catered workshop\, and 10 spaces available at the dinner. Please let me (tgp4) know if you have any access requirements I should be aware of which will help you attend this event.\n \nAbout the Book\nWhat We Owe to Ourselves is under contract with OUP. The book aims to unify\, in a fresh and systematic way\, the two main concepts in deontological morality. “Restrictions” forbid us from harming others for the greater good; “prerogatives” permit us not to harm ourselves. Muñoz argues that both concepts share a source in obligations. Restrictions consist in unwaived obligations to others\, and prerogatives are waivable obligations we have to ourselves. Just as you owe it to me not to harm me for someone else’s greater good\, you owe it to yourself not to harm yourself.\n \nThe key to this project is a thesis that Muñoz calls the Self-Other Symmetry: we owe the same basic things to ourselves as to a relevantly similar other. In the past\, Symmetry has been criticized as being too restrictive\, since we clearly have extensive freedoms when it comes to our own bodies and things. For me to slap your arm would be morally wrong; for me to slap my own is merely foolish. But the right way to understand this issue\, Muñoz argues\, is not by invoking a mysterious moral asymmetry between self and other. There is a simpler explanation: when I harm others\, I might very well lack their consent\, but I am always a willing party to my own intentional choices. Rather than a moral anomaly\, our relation to ourselves is fundamentally like our relation to a consenting other. The limits of what I may do to myself can be derived from the limits of consent in general.\n \nWhat’s more\, the book is the first Self-Other Symmetric take on restrictions and prerogatives. The standard view is that prerogatives come from the special goodness of self-interest\, while restrictions come from the special nastiness of blood on one’s own hands. This makes the moral agent seem rather self-centered\, caring more about a good time and clean hands than about\, say\, reducing global poverty. Muñoz wants to turn this picture inside-out. You should care about everybody equally. But the choice of what happens to your body is still yours. This follows from the obligations that people owe you. I may not take your spare kidney (even if I need it more)\, since I am restricted by my obligations to you. You may keep the kidney if you wish\, since you owe this to yourself. But the optimal choice—the “supererogatory” deed beyond the call—is to waive the obligations that you are owed for the sake of someone else’s greater good. Equal concern for all beings is the ideal\, but when the sacrifice falls on you\, the choice belongs to no one else.\n \nFunding and Support\nFor supporting this workshop\, we are grateful to the Scots Philosophical Association\, the Society for Applied Philosophy\, the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews\, and CEPPA.\n\n\n\nRegistration\nAgain\, to reserve a spot at the workshop\, please register by emailing Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-workshop-in-person-daniel-munoz-unc-chapel-hill/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism \nAbstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments for pleasure fundamentalism and discusses the form of naturalism they arise from. According to the Reliability Argument\, all processes generating moral belief are unreliable\, except for phenomenal introspection which tells us that pleasure is good. According to the Universality Argument\, pleasure is universal moral value\, because of its qualitative identity with the pleasure in the minds of all possible perceivers of moral value. Both arguments are available within an Einsteinian naturalism combining empiricism with a spacetime ontology\, and avoiding behaviorism in favor of a more Humean psychology. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-neil-sinhababu-national-university-of-singapore/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T184500
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20230731T093630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T124934Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Knox Lecture - Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem”\n\n\nAbstract: Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of “categorical inequality.” In this framework\, entire social groups enjoy superior power\, social esteem\, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners\, men over women\, blacks over whites in the U.S.\, Brahmins over Dalits in India\, etc. Theorists of “intersectionality” challenge such simple models by noting that everyone has multiple social identities that have non-additive interactions. This fact upsets attempts to reduce all inequalities to a linear system of social stratification. I shall argue that\, once we incorporate Rousseau’s argument that the desire for superior esteem drives the creation of social hierarchy\, even intersectional theories fail to capture the myriad ways social inequality resolves into much finer-grained social inequalities. I discuss some of the normative implications of these facts. Among these are that “privilege” frames (e.g.\, “white privilege”) are not just inaccurate and politically self-defeating\, but grant far too much credence to the inegalitarian ideologies deployed to rationalize the very hierarchies that privilege frames aim to discredit. Rousseau had a better idea: to persuade people that even the purported winners of hierarchical systems ultimately become losers\, because such systems have no internal brakes against ever-rising inequality.\n\n\nA recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DflT8ty82I
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2024-knox-lecture-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:School III\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Knox Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240522T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240522T120000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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SUMMARY:2024 Knox Seminar - Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2024-knox-seminar-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T193000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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SUMMARY:2024 Ethics Cup Finals
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2024-ethics-cup-finals/
LOCATION:United College\, St. Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240527T193806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240527T193806Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop Climate Justice: Transdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Conversations
DESCRIPTION:How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared\nwith the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC\, and global\nagenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local\nlevels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space\nand time)? And how can we inspire action and responsibility-taking toward flourishing collective\n(human-nature and planetary) futures? \nYou can find the whole schedule here: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Justice-Final-Schedule.pdf
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/workshop-climate-justice-transdisciplinary-and-cross-cultural-conversations/
LOCATION:Younger Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T183000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240517T182925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T183308Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations \nAbstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations\, in part because there is a governance gap when it comes to promoting intergenerational concern. This gap facilitates a tyranny of the contemporary that puts the young and other future generations at risk. Climate change is a prime example. To confront intergenerational tyranny\, humanity needs more than merely a Summit for the Future. It needs a global constitutional convention focused on future generations.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/public-lecture-steven-gardiner-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:School II (St. Salvator’s)
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240517T183207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T183207Z
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Tahseen Jafry (Glasgow Caledonian University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? \nAbstract: In July 2023\, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled with unprecedented rainfall\, triggering ecological and socioeconomic upheaval. However\, impacts aren’t equally distributed\, those who contribute minimally to carbon emissions\, find themselves on the frontline of these erratic weather extremes.  \nDespite being on our doorstep\, the reality of climate disparities and injustices remains largely hidden. Scotland must prepare to connect with and apply a climate justice framework. This talk will explore how to embrace the changes we are witnessing in our climate and delve into a positive dialogue on what we needs to be made to combat climate inequality\, ensuring well-being and economic prosperity for all.  \n  \n The second lecture will be followed by a wine reception (location to be announced) – all are very welcome to attend!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/public-lecture-tahseen-jafry-glasgow-caledonian-university/
LOCATION:School II (St. Salvator’s)
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240531T190000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Film Club: Children of Men
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the first session of CEPPA Film Club\, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week)\, when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuarón’s classic dystopian film Children of Men (see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with a short introduction over drinks and snacks from Luvians\, before the viewing begins. Afterwards the floor is open for discussion! \nSuggested prewatch/prereads (with spoiler alert!):\n\n\nchapter 1 of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism\n\n\nThe short film ‘The possibility of Hope’\, which was a companion short directed by Cuarón featuring interviews with ‘thinkers’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)\n\n\nŽižek on Children of men (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)\n\n\nE. Ann Kaplan\, Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction\, chapter 3: ‘Pretrauma Political Thrillers: Children of Men – with Reference to Soylent Green and The Handmaid’s Tale‘\n\n\nSamuel Scheffler\, ‘Afterlife’ lectures I and II\n\n\nP.D. James\, The Children of Men (the original novel\, arguably not as good as the movie though!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-film-club-children-of-men/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T094911Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Fest
DESCRIPTION:Programme \n10.00 – 10.05 Welcome\n10.05 – 10.55 Justin Snedegar (St Andrews): Meddlesome Blame and Negotiating Standing\n10.55 – 11.15 Coffee\n11.15 – 12.05 Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews): Valuing and Classification\n12.10 – 13.00 Lisa Bastian (VU Amsterdam): What’s Wrong With Doxastic Wronging\n13.00 – 14.00 Catered lunch in Edgecliffe\n14.05 – 14.55 Jessica Brown (St Andrews): Bratman on Institutional Agency\n15.00 – 15.50 Joe Slater (Glasgow): Should You Befriend Bad People?\n15.50 – 16.10 Coffee\n16.10 – 17.00 Mark Schroeder (USC): Illusions of Ill Will\n17.00+ Drinks & pizza reception and Edgecliffe Party
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-fest-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T100749Z
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SUMMARY:Sophie Grace Chappell 'Trans figured' book launch.
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Grace Chappell will present her new book Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World – followed by bubbles to celebrate!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/sophie-grace-chappell-trans-figured-book-launch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240912T182200Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will meet to discuss Koshka Duff’s article ‘Just Police Violence: Liberal ideology and the critique of violence from Walter Benjamin to Black Lives Matter’\, available here. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240912T181903Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Koshka Duff (Nottingham)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Strip-searching as Abjectification: Racism and Sexual Violence in British Policing \nAbstract: Co-authored with Tom Kemp (Criminology\, University of Nottingham)\, this paper examines police strip-searching practices in the UK. Drawing on newly acquired Freedom of Information data\, publicly available testimonies\, thematic analysis of official literature and media reports\, and first-hand experience\, we advance three arguments. First\, strip-searching is used systematically\, not exceptionally\, and targets young people and people of colour\, especially Black young men and boys. Second\, strip-searching in practice is demonstrably excessive when measured against its stated rationales of ‘crime’ detection and ‘caring’ for detainees; we unpick the circular logics through which it is legitimized in official and public discourse. Third\, drawing on Sharpe’s notion of the abject\, we argue that strip-searching\, as a form of normalized sexual violence folded into the rubric of ‘care’\, is part of a project of abjectification that aims to exclude the individuals and groups it targets from social and political subjecthood \nLocation: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-koshka-duff-nottingham/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240920T101253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T101254Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week the Moral Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Kai Spiekermann’s paper ‘Irreversible Loss’. \nAbstract: This chapter offers three reasons for trying to avoid some irreversible losses. First\, there is a prudential reason for avoiding irreversible loss in order to keep options open in the future in the face of uncertainty. Second\, humans have reasons to care about the preservation of some goods\, even beyond their own life. Third\, present generations may have duties towards future generations to avoid some irreversible losses\, though spelling out such theories of intergenerational ethics or justice is challenging. Finally\, the chapter responds to the objection that – in a certain sense – all processes are irreversible and the notion therefore empty. A sensible conception of irreversibility is offered that avoids this concern. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240912T182503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T101646Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Derek Ball (St Andrews) & Caroline Touburg (Umeå University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Philosophical Foundations of Green-House Gas Accounting \nAbstract: International agreements such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement require countries to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions.  Companies (as well as universities and other organisations) are required by governmental regulations or their own net-zero goals to do the same.  Greenhouse gas accounting is the project of measuring and tracking GHG emissions.  Although there are a range of standards and guidelines governing GHG accounting practice\, a number of issues remain unresolved in the literature\, including how to account for emissions of short-lived but potent GHGs such as methane\, and how (and indeed whether) to account for temporary storage of CO2 (for example\, in wood products); and standard approaches to these issues are\, in our view\, seriously flawed.   Our talk has two aims\, one technical\, the other theoretical.  The technical aim is to sketch a framework that provides a principled resolution of these issues.  The theoretical aim is to discuss the normative presuppositions of the framework.  Notably\, the framework relies on the idea that in some cases\, we should focus on the preservation of some valuable thing – avoiding loss and minimizing damage – rather than on some aggregable value (such as money\, or well-being).  This shift in focus puts us in a position to avoid some of the problems we see in extant approaches\, and has potential for application in other areas of moral philosophy. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-derek-ball-st-andrews-caroline-touburg-umea-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
CREATED:20240927T115205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T115550Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi’s ‘Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism’.\nHere is the abstract: In his 1982 article\, T. M. Scanlon noted that\, despite the widespread attention to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice\, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that\, nearly thirty years later\, despite the widespread attention to Scanlon’s work\, this appeal is still largely under-appreciated. In this paper\, I try to present Scanlon’s appealing answer to what he once called “the question of motivation” and the relation of this answer to the more metaethical “question of subject matter.” I then defend Scanlon’s view against various\, standard objections\, which\, I claim\, typically misunderstand it. I close by considering what it would take to wed Scanlon’s attractive answer to the question of motivation to another\, non-contractualist\, theory. I conclude that\, even if the marriage could be arranged\, a good part of the appeal of contractualism would inevitably be lost. In particular\, the marriage would sacrifice the central place in Scanlon’s theory for what might be called liberty of conscience.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T115012Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Barry Maguire (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Two Moralities of Recognition \nAbstract: According to moralities of recognition\, fundamental moral norms are norms for living together. Moral norms explain how living in unity is possible despite being separate individuals\, they explain how we can relate to each other as persons that are more than mere sources of benefits and burdens\, obstacles and opportunities. Those who relate to each other according to these norms stand in relations of mutual recognition. By contrast\, some moral theories are atomistic — they deny that fundamental moral norms are communal norms. The paper explains the appeal of morality of recognition and elaborates a distinction between two kinds of moralities of recognition. Some envision a community founded on respect; according to these theories\, mutual recognition is mutual respect. Others offer a fundamentally different vision of the moral community\, namely\, one founded on concern; according to these theories\, mutual recognition is mutual concern. We examine T. M. Scanlon’s contractualism as a fully developed\, influential\, and relatively recent version of respect morality and argue that Scanlon’s morality of respect has certain distinctive structural features. We then articulate the contours of an alternative\, morality of concern\, which offers a different idea of moral community and has a distinctively different structure. Our goal is not to present an argument for morality of concern\, but to explain what makes it attractive and to make clear that choosing between the two kinds of moralities of recognition involves choosing between two substantively different visions of how to live together. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-barry-maguire-edinburgh-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T200000
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Princess Mononoke
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Second Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 4:30pm onwards to watch and discuss Studio Ghibli’s absolute classic ‘Princess Mononoke’ (see trailer here). \nThe movie will start SHARP at 5pm. \nPlease see below for some suggested prereads/prewatches\, suggested by Miguel. If you’d like to volunteer to lead a Film Club in the future\, please let our Film Club convenor Miguel (cc’d) know!\n\nVideos/movies:\n\n\nLady Eboshi is wrong by Ian Danskin: https://vimeo.com/357117766\n\n\nHayao Miyazaki – The Essence of Humanity by Lewis Bond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTq_D5aFy-M\n\n\nThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013\, dir. Mami Sunada)\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nAnimated Nature: Aesthetics\, Ethics\, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao’s Ecophilosophy by Pamela Gossin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209.pdf)\n\n\nAnimating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992) by Michelle J. Smith & Elizabeth Parsons  (https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2012.630138#d1e255)\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n185 to 188 of Anime A history by Jonathan Clements.\n\n\nIf you read Spanish: Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: La princesa Mononoke by Laura Montero Plata\n\n\nPodcasts:\n\n\nGhibliotheque – A Podcast About Studio Ghibli ep 5: Princess Mononoke (https://shows.acast.com/ghibliotheque/episodes/princessmononoke-ghibliotheque-5)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-princess-mononoke/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9/2024-10-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T212543
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Adrian Walsh (University of New England)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Internal Validity\, External Validity and the Evaluation of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy \nAbstract: Thought experiments clearly play a central role in much contemporary ethical theorising. In the recent literature on thought experiments\, some commentators (e.g. Wilson 2016; Dowding 2019) have criticised the lack of attention paid by moral philosophers to two ideas which are key notions in science. These are internal and external validity. Wilson argues that if thought experiments are indeed a kind of experiment\, then philosophers should begin any plausible search for rigour in the scientific literature on experimental research design. When designing a thought experiment\, Wilson suggests we consider the extent to which ethical judgements that are correct or endorsed in the world of the experiment generalise to the world beyond the experiment. This is an important question to consider. However\, I suggest that Wilson’s approach (i) overstates the connection between real-world scientific experiments and thought experiments (ii) focuses too readily on the formal structure of thought experiments at the expense of the argumentative context. With respect to the former claim\, I suggest that this points towards a more general thesis that it is a mistake to treat the reasoning involved in the use of thought experiments as a subset of scientific reasoning. I shall also consider\, towards the end of the talk\, a more moderate (and plausible) view of the positive role that the concepts of internal and external validity might play in evaluating and assessing the legitimacy of thought experiments. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-adrian-walsh-university-of-new-england/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9/2024-10-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Happy Immoralists and Satisfied Loners: A Pragmatic Perspective on Disagreement about Well-being \nAbstract: Can a morally bad person live well? Can a person without friends achieve well-being? There is long-standing disagreement about the correct answers to these questions. I offer a diagnosis of the debate between those who answer “no” (objectivists about well-being) and those who answer “yes” (subjectivists about well-being). I suggest that the reason people are divided about this question is that the opposing answers represent two different perspectives on well-being that answer to two different sets of practical interests. Given this diagnosis\, the cure is to acknowledge the importance of both perspectives. I discuss different ways of doing this. \nLocation: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-valerie-tiberius-minnesota/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241028T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241028T170000
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SUMMARY:In person Talk by Tom Angier (University of Cape Town)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. \nAbstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle’s conception of human functioning\, which I take to be a viable and illuminating ground for determining human goods. I then look at alternative schemata for the notion of ‘function’ – ones derived from evolutionary theory – and argue that they are not preferable to their Aristotelian rival. I finish the paper by looking at ‘neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism’\, in particular that of Philippa Foot\, and argue that it is not Aristotelian enough.\n\nBio: Tom Angier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He works on neo-Aristotelian ethical and political theory. He is currently completing a monograph entitled “Human Nature\, Human Goods: A Theory of Natural Perfectionism”. It is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/in-person-talk-by-tom-angier-university-of-cape-town/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The brand-new PhiCliSci reading group will discuss Reto Knutti’s article ‘Climate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World’\, available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03\, and online. \nOptional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group:\n\n\nHawkins\, E.\, and R. Sutton. 2009. ‘The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions’. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90 (8): 1095–1108. Here\n\n\nHopster\, J. 2023. ‘Climate Change\, Uncertainty\, and Policy’. In: Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change. Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola (eds.) \, 977–1000. Springer. Here.\n\n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews) and Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on 31 October (4-5.30pm) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group\, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session\, climate scientist Graeme MacGilchrist and philosopher Katharina Bernhard will give presentations on the topic of ‘Uncertainty’ in climate science\, after which the floor is open for discussion. \nTitle: Uncertainty \nLocation: The Stewart Room in Younger Hall
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-katharina-bernhard-st-andrews-and-graeme-macgilchrist-st-andrews/
LOCATION:The Stewart Room in Younger Hall\, Younger Hall\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week Karri Heikkinen will lead a discussion on Kirsten Mann\, “Relevance and nonbinary choices” Ethics (2022). \n Location: Edgecliffe G03 \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Patrick Tomlin (Warwick University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Killing vs Headaches: Wide Proportionality and Limited Aggregation \nAbstract: Philosophers who have discussed ‘limited aggregation’ have focussed discussion on cases in which we must choose which of two groups to save – for example\, whether we should save one person’s life\, or save some enormous number of people from a mild headache. According to one influential view\, which I call the Relevance View\, we should save one person’s life in this case\, since headaches are irrelevant to death. In this paper\, I want to examine what this implies for a different set of cases – cases in which we might inflict harm on some in order to save others from harm. Translating the relevance view from ‘whom-to-save’ to ‘harming-to-save’ cases\, I show\, is not straightforward. We need to consider up to four different ‘relevance rules’\, and to consider the relationships between them. I will further argue that considering the Relevance View in these cases reveals something important about two fundamental principles of preventive morality —  that the proportionality principle is logically prior to\, and constrains the operation of\, the necessity principle \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-patrick-tomlin-warwick-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241113T200000
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - WALL·E
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Third Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and WALL·E (see trailer here). The discussion will be lead by Emma Holmes and Miguel de la Cal Moreno. \nThe movie will start SHARP at 17:30. \nHere is a suggested reading list: \n\n\nDona Haraway ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ pages 4-14 and 58-66 (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_—-_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_….pdf)\n\n\nInterview with writer/director Andrew Stanton (https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/45885-wall%C2%95e-writerdirector-andrew-stanton)\n\n\nLaura Berlant ‘Slow Death (Sovereignty\, Obesity\, Lateral Agency)’  (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521568)\n\n\nConstance Russell et. al. “Fatties Cause Global Warming”: Fat Pedagogy and\nEnvironmental Education (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1061815.pdf)\n\n\nDaniel Engber ‘Fat-E’ (https://slate.com/technology/2008/07/pixar-s-wall-e-sends-the-wrong-message-about-obesity-and-the-environment.html)\n\n\nKylie Caraway & Brett R. Caraway ‘Representing Ecological Crises in Children’s Media: An Analysis of The Lorax and Wall-E’ (https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2019.1710226?src=recsys)\n\n\nIf you’d like to volunteer to lead a Film Club in the future\, please let our Film Club convenor Miguel know!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-wall%c2%b7e/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Ziming Xia will lead the MPRG to discuss ‘Localized Restricted Aggregation’ by Victor Tadros. All welcome!\nArticle available here:\nhttps://academic.oup.com/book/32206/chapter-abstract/268368585?redirectedFrom=fulltext \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – John Barugahare (Makerere University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumah’s Analysis of Neocolonialism. \nAbstract:Background: The foundational contention of this paper is that\, arguably\, the ultimate ethical goal of conducting health research among humans is to provide them with better health opportunities. Because of growing perceptions that ongoing international collaborative health research between the Global North and Africa is colonial in nature\, there is worry that this goal will not be easily met. Hence\, there is an urgent need to decolonize international collaborative health research in Africa. Using Kwame Nkrumah’s analysis of his seminal work on ‘Neocolonialism: the last stage of imperialism’\, the aim of this paper is to reflect on the potential of the current dominant trend in decolonizing health research ethics in Africa to meet the ultimate goal of decolonization. Methods: This is a purely argumentative paper based on Kwame Nkrumah’s views on neocolonialism and decolonization. The paper also uses other secondary sources to corroborate and demonstrate its argument. Results: There is a growing consensus that international collaborative health research is colonial in nature and hence a need to decolonise it. The paper argues that Nkrumah’s analysis of neocolonialism implies that the ultimate goal of decolonizing health research in Africa should be to mitigate and ultimately stop the exploitation of African people in international collaborative health research. Discussion: The paper shows that the outcomes of most decolonizing efforts\, though necessary\, are not enough. Unless conscientiously pursued\, these efforts risk failure at meeting Nkrumah’s ultimate goal of decolonization and arguably are becoming a subtle method for facilitating\, sustaining and entrenching the ultimate goal of neocolonialism—the exploitation of African peoples. Conclusion: The mission of decolonizing health research ethics in Africa needs to clearly demonstrate the potential to mitigate and ultimately end maximin exploitation in health research and be critical enough to avoid the risk of instead facilitating neocolonialism unconsciously. \nJohn Barugahare\, Ph.D.\, is a senior lecturer and Head\, Department of Philosophy at Makerere University\, Kampala – Uganda. He teaches moral philosophy\, human rights and applies these in health care and health-related research. His major interest is in ethics international collaborative research. He is also interest in guiding the development of bioethics in Africa. Lately\, he is exploring concepts and perspectives in the decolonization discussion\, and how these can help shape our understanding of the major ethical issues in international collaborative health research\, hoping to suggest ways these can be eased. \nLocation: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-john-barugahare-makerere-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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