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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency \nAbstract: This paper argues that Kant’s theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized\, shared and institutional\, agency. In section 1\, I illustrate the paradoxicality of radical evil and the novelty of Kant’s “empowering” conception focused on human agency. In section 2\, I argue that radical evil entails a normative variety of unintelligibility\, signaling lack of self-knowledge and self-alienation. In section 3\, I show that the (moral) opacity of maxims does not undermine one’s awareness of the moral law\, does not prevent self and co-legislation\, and therefore does not preclude the exercise of moral agency. In section 4\, I account for the distinctive functions of hope and faith\, denying that they are complementary. In sections 5 and 6\, I argue that the reliance on hope or faith points to different modes of contrasting evil by organizing human agency in institutional forms. In section 7\, I conclude that the most powerful response to radical evil is the organization of shared agency – a communal\, ethical\, political\, and institutional enterprise. \nLocation: Online but streamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-carla-bagnoli-university-of-modena-and-reggio-emilia/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
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SUMMARY:Philosophy of Climate Science Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please register by 25 April at the latest by filling out this form. Registration is free\, but spaces are limited\, so register quickly if you want to be sure of a spot! \nPhiCliSci Workshop 2025\nMay 6 & 7\nSt Mary’s College\, lecture room 2 (catering in Seminar Room 2) \nDay 1\n9.00-9.20 Coffee\n9.20-9.30 Workshop Welcome (Mara van der Lugt) \nPanel I: Usability & Modelling\n9.30–10.50 Talk I: Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews): Principles and Uncertainties in Climate Modelling\nand Climate Change Projections \n10.50-11.20 Coffee \n11.20–12.40 Talk II: Julie Jebeile (Bern): Values\, perspectives\, and diversity in climate science \n12.40-14.00 Lunch Break \nPanel II: Projection & Measurement\n14.00–15.20 Talk III: Michael Byrne (St Andrews): Theory and the Future of (Land-)Climate Science \n15.20-15.50 Coffee \n15.50-17.10 Talk IV: Margherita Harris (Hannover): From False Precision to Blind Caution: The Case\nfor Taking Quantifauxation Seriously \nDrinks (Pub)\, followed by workshop dinner \n  \nDay 2\n9.15-9.30 Coffee \nPanel III: Tipping Points\n9.30–10.50 Talk V: James Rae (St Andrews): Using climate change in the past to illuminate and communicate an uncertain future \n10.50-11.20 Coffee \n11.20–12.40 Talk VI: Hannah Hilligardt (Bern) Assessing Strategic Communication in Science: the Case of\nClimate Tipping Points \n12.40-14.00 Lunch Break \nCollective Deliberation\n14.00-15.00 James Hutton (TU Delft): Gathering Thoughts \n15.00–16.00 Coffee & Illustrations with Ben Nightingale [changing set-up] \n16.00–17.00 Round Table Discussion (led by James Hutton) \nReception at Edgecliffe
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/philosophy-of-climate-science-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250513T152551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152646Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: We’ll be reading ‘Moral Grandstanding’ by Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250130T201612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T201612Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Clotilde Torregrossa (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism \nAbstract: TBC \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-clotilde-torregrossa-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250130T201701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152322Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Merely Imagined Moralities\n \nAbstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films\, novels\, operas\, pop songs\, etc.) often express heroic\, pessimistic\, melancholy\, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as ‘perspectives’). Sometimes\, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may\, for instance\, describe a work as “feminist” or “patriotic” according to the worldview it expresses. Drawing on Elisabeth Camp’s and Nelson Goodman’s work\, I propose that when artworks express worldviews\, they (i) represent sets of mental dispositions for interpreting and reacting to the real world\, and (ii) they achieve this by leading the audience to temporarily inhabit those dispositions. This view has at least two important implications: first\, it makes little sense to morally evaluate artworks for expressing worldviews\, because representing mental dispositions does not amount to endorsing them. Secondly\, the expression of worldviews through artworks and other cultural products nevertheless plays a specific\, underappreciated role in political discourse. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-vid-simoniti-university-of-liverpool/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T193000
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CREATED:20240524T092108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T092108Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Ethics Cup Finals
DESCRIPTION:12 teams from high schools across Britain converge on St. Andrews for a 1-day competition to determine who takes home the cup!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2025-ethics-cup-finals/
LOCATION:United College\, St. Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T104130Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Fest 2025
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHere is the Schedule: \n\n\n\n\n10 – 10.30am \n\n\nTea/coffee (Butts Wynd 10) \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n10.30 – 11.30 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nBradley Hillier-Smith\, “Artificial Intelligence\, Basic Income\, and Migration” \n\n\n\n\n11.30 – 12.30pm \n\n\nWorkshop sessions \n\n\n1. Lynette Heng\, How to be a Non-reductive Expressivist \n2. Victoria Wang\, On the unfairness of the ‘fair-share principle’ for health research \n3. Luca Stroppa\, Soritical Superiority \n\n\n\n\n12.30 – 2 \n\n\nLunch \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n2 – 3 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nPetronella Randell\, “Imprecise Values and Desires” \n\n\n\n\n3 – 4 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nJoel Joseph\, “Diachronic Deontology” \n\n\n\n\n4 – 4.30 \n\n\nTea/coffee (Butts Wynd 10) \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n4.30 – 5.30 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nJustin Snedegar\, “Setting Boundaries on Blame”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-fest-3/
LOCATION:Butts Wynd Building Room 10\, Butts Wynd\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250825T095841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T115104Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Bel Colburn (University of Glasgow)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Moral Blackmail \nAbstract: 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 less effective\, depending on the features of the interactions that I listed above\, and they will also attract different moral evaluations\, not settled wholly by their effectiveness. In this talk\, I explore a (generally effective and usually problematic) mechanism which has mostly been ignored\, namely moral blackmail. Someone is morally blackmailed when they act as they do because all the alternatives have been made morally unacceptable. Moral blackmail is in this sense analogous to coercion\, on a plausible understanding of the latter. I defend this way of thinking from some objections\, and show that moral blackmail is a real and problematic phenomenon in global challenges of the largest scale\, including how we deal with global poverty and climate change. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-bel-colburn-university-of-glasgow/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250915T115643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T135440Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper\, “Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2/2025-09-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T151853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T152359Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo Read: \nOn Feminist and Queer Theory:\nClara Bradbury-Rance – “Lesbian legibility and queer legacy in Céline Sciamma’s Portrat de la jeune file en feu (2019)”\nEmma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige – “Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploreing Queerness and Freedom through Portait of a Lady on Fire”\nTom Knoblach – “This is How You See Me?”: Collisions of Influence and Feminocentric Canon Building in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire”\n\nOn the look and the gaze:\nJohn Berger – Ways of Seeing Ch 1 and 3 (and if feeling cheeky also ch 4) [also available on video!]\nMichel Foucault – Las Meninas (ch 1 of The Order of Things)\nLaura Mulvey – Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema\nJean Paul Sartre – First Attitude towards Others\, (Part 3 Ch 1 of Being and Nothingness) (especially the bit discussing Proust; p 364-370 in this edition)\n\nTo Watch: \nFilms:\nBrainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes\, 2022)\nVertigo (Alfred Hitchcock\, 1958)\n\nVideos: \nCatherine Grant – Semblance (Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Vertigo)\nBroey Deschanel – What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About “the Gaze”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T150041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T152606Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thomas Hurka – The Well Rounded Life \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T143754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T113730Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition \nAbstract: 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 should abandon it—absent of special evidence—in favour of the norm of sufficiency\, which encourages one to perform merely well enough in one’s pursuits. This move is motivated by two problems confronting the norm of excellence: that living by it likely leads to mishandling one’s moral duties; and that living by it carries risk of significant psychological harm to oneself and others. I defend the norm of sufficiency by arguing that its widespread default acceptance would by and large avoid such harms and still allow for excellent achievement to arise\, thus leading to a world no worse and likely better than a world in which the norm of excellence enjoys widespread default acceptance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nLink for the Handout
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-federico-luzzi-university-of-aberdeen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T150250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T104946Z
UID:10000614-1760020200-1760023800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Peter Singer – Famine\, Affluence\, and Morality \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T144159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T105930Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Michael Otsuka (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How nonexistence is worse for us \nAbstract: \n\nI 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 multitude of merely possible people who are never brought into existence and who therefore have complaints against us for not procreating them. I respond to this objection by defending the following asymmetry\, which consists of an affirmation of the first\, combined with the denial of the second\, of these two claims: \n\n\nClaim 1. If p actually exists with a life worth living\, then: if (contrary to fact) p had not existed\, that would have been worse for p. \n\n\nClaim 2. If p does not actually exist\, then this is worse for p than if (contrary to fact) p had existed with a life worth living. \n\n\nI also defend the view that an appeal to the fact that a person’s life is better for her than her nonexistence can provide a response to the complaint that it is not going as well as it could. \n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-michael-otsuka-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250915T115643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T135440Z
UID:10000750-1760544000-1760547600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper\, “Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
UID:10000808-1760612400-1760617800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-16/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T152157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T101934Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The VVitch
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Ninth 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 VVitch  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings: \nTo Read:\nVictoria Madden — “ ‘Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?’: Gothic Feminism and the Final Girl in Robert Eggers’ The Witch”\n\nCristina Casado Presa — “Monsters\, Women\, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch (2015)”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-the-vvitch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251027T143141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T143142Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: \nFor next week’s MPRG\, we are returning to Abelard Podgorski’s paper\, “Complaints and Tournament Population Ethics”. Our new PhD colleague\, Ida Miczke\, will guide the discussion. Please find the paper attached\, or by accessing the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12860. \n\nBelow are some suggested questions from Ida to help us focus in on different aspects of the paper. \n\nWhat do you think of the claim that there can be no victimless wrongs? Is it possible to commit a wrongdoing without wronging anyone?\n⁠Is the idea of morality based on complaints intuitive? What about morality based on gratitude?\nWhat are your intuitions about the neutrality condition – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither obligatory nor wrong? What if we phrase it in axiological terms instead – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither good nor bad?\nCan we really bite the bullet on the non-identity problem?\nCan all of ethics be a tournament\, or is it just population ethics?\n\n\nSee you all next Wednesday\, October 29th\, from 4-5pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-30/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T144357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T130027Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Alice Murphy (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature \nAbstract: This talk explores the intersection of environmental science and environmental aesthetics\, focusing on the discourse surrounding “invasive” species. I will present the ways that debates on invasive species reflect broader issues in the philosophy of science\, particularly concerning the role of moral and political values in scientific practice. I will then discuss how aesthetic judgments also shape this discourse\, influencing research\, management decisions\, and public perceptions. I argue that the intertwined nature of aesthetic and moral values in invasion science challenges traditional approaches to the “new demarcation problem”\, which seeks to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate value influences. Further\, this complicates views in environmental aesthetics that privilege scientific knowledge as the foundation for aesthetic judgments of nature. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alice-murphy-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T144910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T153059Z
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SUMMARY:CLIMATE ETHICS: CEPPA + COAST (in-person) - Wim Carton on 'Overshoot'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday (5 Nov) 3.30-5pm please join us at School V for a special event co-hosted by CEPPA with the Climate\, Ocean\, and Atmosphere at St Andrews (COASt) research group and the newly founded St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates. This event will be in-person only. \nWe will be welcoming Wim Carton (Lund) to discuss the book\, co-written with Andreas Malm\, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. After a short introduction we will hold an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with panellists Derek Ball\, Graeme MacGilchrist\, James Rae\, and Mara van der Lugt\, and questions from the audience. All welcome!\n\nOn Overshoot:\n \nThe world is on the cusp of 1.5 degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Even before 1.5\, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating force\, and yet a notion has taken hold that the cause is now lost: the intolerable has become unavoidable. The limit will be overshot – perhaps two degrees as well – and the best we can do is cool down the Earth at some later point\, towards the end of the century\, by means of technologies not yet proven.\n\n\nHow did this happen? How could the idea of overshoot gain such traction? What forces are driving us into a climate that people – particularly poor people in the global South – won’t be able to cope with? In Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown\, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton present a history of the present phase of the crisis\, likely to extend decades into the future\, as the fossil fuel industry swims in the largest profits ever made. Money continues to flow into the construction of pipelines\, platforms\, terminals\, mines – assets that will have to be destroyed for the planet to remain liveable. Too much heat has become officially acceptable because such revolutionary destruction is not. But should the rest of us abide by that priority? \nUnflinchingly critical of business-as-usual and the calls for surrender to it\, sweeping in scope\, stirring and sobering\, Overshoot lays out the stakes for the climate struggle in the years ahead. \n\n\nFind more information about the book here.\nLocation: School V
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/climate-ethics-ceppa-coast-in-person-andreas-malm-and-wim-carton-on-overshoot/
LOCATION:School V
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251104T112740Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: \nThis Wednesday\, we are discussing the paper “The Women of Trachis: Fictions\, Pessimism\, Ethics” by Bernard Williams \nSee you all next Wednesday\, November 5th\, from 5-6pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T145123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T113129Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) - Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork)
DESCRIPTION:Title: What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society? \nAbstract: Normative philosophers (inter alia\, political theorists\, moral philosophers\, applied ethicists) develop arguments which link normative positions to practical (and theoretical) judgments or conclusions. This might sound anodyne\, but I use it as a basis to explain what normative philosophers can add to policy discussions as well as to the moral reasoning of members of the public as a whole. The goal is to motivate a conceptually interesting ground for several forms of public philosophy. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-kian-mintz-woo-university-college-cork/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251111T131716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T131717Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Keshav Singh’s paper\, “What’s in an Aim?”. This paper discusses a central issue for positions that attempt to ground normativity in constitutive features of agency. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-11-13/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20250911T145310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T124836Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online and in-person) - Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Co-forming feelings in therapy \nAbstract: This paper opens a project within philosophy of therapy\, on the question of how feelings are formed in the context of interactions between clients and therapists. There is a common assumption within many therapeutic approaches that feelings are formed by individuals in their lives outside therapy\, and then clients come to therapy to understand\, process\, and/or cope with their feelings. Is therapy the setting where we come to identify\, understand\, reflect on\, or cope with feelings? Or do we in some cases depend on the therapeutic relationship for feeling formation?  If we are willing to entertain that idea – what are the risks\, and what are the ethical implications? \nLocation: Online on Teams and streamed in Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-and-in-person-ami-harbin-oakland-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T040707
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-11-20/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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