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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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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:20260410T032550
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:20260410T032550
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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:20260410T032550
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:20260410T032550
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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:20260410T032550
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20251118T120945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T120955Z
UID:10000753-1763649000-1763652600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper\, “Carbon Offsetting” \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20250911T145438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T133558Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) -  Matthew Brander (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Responsibility\, Causality\, and Carbon Accounting \nAbstract:  Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains\, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal ‘logic’ that underpins this assignment of responsibility\, but this is not explicitly reflected on or discussed within carbon accounting standards\, nor the related academic literature. As well as being an interesting question in its own right\, the answer may be useful for guiding the development of carbon accounting standards. E.g. under ‘market-based’ accounting\, is it appropriate for companies to report emissions based on their purchase of ‘emission attribute certificates’? Or does the allocation of emissions need to conform to some kind of real-world physical or causal relationship between the reporter and the emissions reported? This paper offers an initial exploration of the underpinning intuitions or rationales at play within carbon accounting practice. \nLocation:  Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-matthew-brander-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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-2/2025-11-26/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T123000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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/2025-11-27/
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:20251127T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20250911T152435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T120447Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - His Girl Friday
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Tenth 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 His Girl Friday (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \n\nStanley Cavell – ‘Words for a Conversation’ in Pursuits of Happiness (pp. 1-42). In particular\, pp. 1-8 & pp. 16-34.\nStanley Cavell – ‘His Girl Friday’ in Cities of Words (pp. 340-451).\nOlivia Kiriakou – Notebook Primer: Screwball Comedy.\nDavid Edelstein  – Forget me not: The genius of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.\nClaire Carlisle – ‘Preface’ and ‘Last Words’ in The Marriage Question. \n\n(This review by Victoria Baena is also worth a read.)\n\n\nClare Chambers – ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-8) and ‘6.3 Internal Equality: Sexism’ (pp. 187-199) in Against Marriage.\n\nTo Watch \n\nMovie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).\nVideo: Kazuo Ishiguro on Holiday: ‘Screwball comedies were proto-feminist’.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-his-girl-friday/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251204T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251204T123000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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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-2/
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:20260129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T101250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T101617Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Miguel de la Cal Moreno & Mario Bison (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno – Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change \nAbstract: Many people experience Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as overwhelming and intimidating\, recognising its seriousness and the need to act while feeling unable to determine what to do or how to decide what to do. This paper characterises this experience as moral disorientation. Drawing on Stephen Gardiner’s account of ACC as a “Perfect Moral Storm\,” I argue that its global\, intergenerational\, ecological\, and theoretical dimensions undermine moral clarity on both epistemic and psychological grounds. While Gardiner’s framework helpfully identifies structural difficulties and risks of moral corruption\, it treats these difficulties largely ahistorically.\nTo address this limitation\, I turn to historical work by Naomi Oreskes\, Erik Conway\, and Geoffrey Supran on the deliberate manipulation of climate science and public discourse by the Carbon Industrial Complex. I argue that practices such as doubt-mongering and manipulative framing—particularly those emphasising individual responsibility—have actively contributed to moral disorientation about ACC. Recognising the historically manufactured dimensions of this disorientation helps render it intelligible and identifies normative constraints on how we ought to reason and act. \n4.50-5.30pm: Mario Bison – How to think about empathy\, and why \nAbstract: Empathy is usually cited in connection with altruistic\, or otherwise other-oriented behaviours and attitudes. An empathic approach is usually cited in everyday moral talk as fostering virtues such as forgiveness\, understanding\, and openness. Nevertheless\, there has also been\, at a theoretical level\, an increasing scepticism toward empathy in general. Philosophers have claimed that empathy is neither necessary for making moral judgments nor indeed the best way to go about our moral lives. The matter is complicated by the fact that empathy is variously defined by psychologists\, and no universally agreed-upon definition exists. In this talk I want to look for a solution to these problems by setting aside the immediate debates\, and instead look at the role that this concept has played in the thought of perhaps its most illustrious and influential historical proponent (David Hume)\, who believes that our moral judgments are fundamentally influenced by ‘sympathy’. By critically analysing this concept in context\, and by setting it against modern critics\, I will try to understand what specific need Hume (and his followers) may have felt for invoking empathy\, or related concepts\, in trying to understand morality. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-miguel-de-la-cal-moreno-mario-bison-university-of-st-andrews-and-university-of-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260204T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260126T112157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T112158Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Wittgenstein – Lecture on Ethics (p.42-51 in this edition.) \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T101622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T114332Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews and Stirling) & Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Viviante Fairbank – The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism \nAbstract: On the traditional\, so-called Informational Model of journalism\, the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with true information about a certain range of important topics. Although this model is appealing\, I argue that it is unsatisfactory; importantly\, it does not allow us to properly criticize those journalists who publish true\, relevant\, and useful information without proper warrant or ethical backing. After discussing two recent case studies\, I argue that journalism is best understood as a distinctive kind of inquiry\, and that this understanding of journalism should lead us to reject any simple\, factive account of journalistic publication norms. I propose\, instead\, the Responsible-Inquiry Model of journalism\, according to which the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with responsibly gathered information while\, in the process\, serving as zetetic models. Good journalists do not only provide useful information; they also conduct (ethically and epistemically) exemplary inquiries into the subject at hand. \nJacob Librizzi – Why Metanormative Constitutivists Should be Voluntarists About Reasons \nAbstract: For two decades\, constitutivist accounts of reasons (CR) have faced the “Shm” (or Shmagency) challenge. I argue that responses so far have misunderstood this challenge. However\, by interpreting CR as a form of voluntarism\, we can render the “Shm” challenge question-begging. In doing so\, we disarm the challenge once and for all. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-and-stirling-jacob-librizzi-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260209T111453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T111453Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer’s recent paper\, “Consequentialism and the Separateness of Persons”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T101809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T111410Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Enrico Galvagni (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hume’s One and Only Definition of Virtue \nAbstract: Hume’s moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand\, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand\, he also says that it is a mental quality that receives moral approbation. Interpreters argue about which of these definitions is more fundamental and try to reconcile them into a unified account. Against such readings\, I argue that Hume has only one definition of virtue as a character trait that generates moral approbation. Utility and agreeableness play a fundamental role in his ethics\, but one that does not relate to his definition of virtue. In turn\, this provide reason to question the now mainstream interpretation of Hume as a virtue ethicist. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260216T143516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T143516Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Jason Kawall’s “Moral Realism and Arbitrariness”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T102009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T155504Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Yoshinari Hattori and Ida Miczske (St Andrews and Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Yoshinari Hattori – Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Reconsidering Their Foundations \nAbstract: This presentation argues that the practice of blaming wrongdoers—especially directing resentment or indignation towards them—is rationally indispensable for us. Pereboom contends that directing resentment or indignation at others is a form of harming them and is unjustified. As an alternative\, he proposes that when morally wrong actions are performed\, we should respond with disappointment or sadness. Against this proposal\, I argue that there are social functions that cannot be achieved by disappointment or sadness but are fulfilled only by directing resentment or indignation. The fact that we have strong reason to secure the fulfilment of these functions makes the practice of directing resentment or indignation rationally indispensable for us. In particular\, I argue that responding with disappointment or sadness fails\, first\, to treat others as moral agents and\, second\, to exercise the normative force required to compel them to stand in a space of answerability. \nIda Miczske – When love met morality: anonymity\, irreplaceability\, and partial self-effacement \nAbstract: Most of us value relationships such as friendship and love. Surprisingly\, it is not so easy to reconcile the demands they pose on us with living a moral life. In this presentation I want to identify one source of this tension and\, if time allows\, propose a solution based on partial self-effacement. \nI argue that the tension emerges because certain relationships require de re motivation grounded in the identity of an irreplaceable object\, while moral justification abstracts from particular identities. I propose to explicate the latter claim in terms of the requirement of justification anonymity\, and show that it conflicts with de re motivation.\nA common response to the conflict between relationships and morality has been to introduce self-effacement. However\, as full self-effacement is problematic\, I propose that moral theories should instead be partially self-effacing. Drawing on that\, I argue that partial self-effacement allows us to reconcile de re motivation with moral justification.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-yoshinari-hattori-and-ida-miczske-st-andrews-and-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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UID:10000898-1772035200-1772040600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Aliza Ashraf will lead us in discussing Eugene Marshall’s paper\, “Spinoza on the Problem of Akrasia”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Omar Ruiz Rivera and Craig Ferrie (St Andrews and Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Omar Ruiz Rivera – Moral Skill \nAbstract: This talk is about moral skill—the capacity for morally excellent behaviour. In particular\, I engage with Shepherd’s (2022) view that moral skill is “limited in scope\, and precarious” (p. 713). To defend this view\, Shepherd relies on a distinction between global and local moral skill. The former involves the action domains that structure human life\, whereas the latter is restricted to specific areas of human life. His claim is that global moral skill is “practically impossible for human agents” (p. 725)\, while local moral skill is possible but precarious. I will argue that Shepherd’s own account of skill supports a more complex picture of moral skill than he allows. Drawing on Shepherd’s (2021) account of skill\, I propose a third model of moral skill—“mid-level moral skill”—which is less demanding than global moral skill but broader in scope than local moral skill. If this claim is correct\, it would entail that framing moral skill exclusively in terms of global or local moral skill risks overlooking alternative perspectives that might lead to a more nuanced conclusion than Shepherd’s (2022) characterisation of moral skill as limited and precarious. \nCraig Ferrie – Normative (Un)knowability and the Hybrid Theory of Normative Truth \nAbstract: There is some plausibility to the idea that if a normative claim\, p\, is true then it should be possible to know p. If correct\, this makes normative truth quite different from natural truth\, which seems capable of outrunning our knowability. This view\, however\, runs up against counterexamples. It seems\, for instance\, that the people of Pompeii had most reason to evacuate in order to escape the eruption of Mt Vesuvius\, but no one could have known that they did. I am interested in whether the truth pluralist is in a unique position to overcome such counterexamples\, provided they accept a hybrid theory\, which treats them as conjunctions\, one part normative and one part natural. To do so\, it needs to be explained why these cases are exempt from the knowability condition on normative truth (which I will try do to!). \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-omar-ruiz-rivera-st-andrews-and-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260311T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260311T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260306T124631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T125310Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Rae Langton’s paper\, “Objective and Unconditioned Value” \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T102224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T200129Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Katie McShane (Colorado State University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Relational Value: Problems and Prospects \nAbstract: The concept of “relational value” is widely used in the environmental ethics and policy literatures. In this talk\, I will critically assess this use\, considering what relational value might add to our existing value categories and what problems it might produce for our thinking about the value of the natural world. I first discuss the history of the concept: why early authors considered it a necessary addition to other value concepts and which claims about the natural environment they thought it was particularly well positioned to capture. I next discuss criticisms of the concept: that the need for it was demonstrated by misrepresenting other categories of value and that it distorts our thinking about them. Finally\, I consider what would be a fruitful way forward given these concerns.  While the concept of relational value might be here to stay\, we would do well to think more carefully about both its meaning and its use.  \nLocation: Online on teams and streamed in Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-katie-mcshane-colorado-state-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260318T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260318T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260316T132830Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: For next week’s MPRG session\, Jenny Mace will lead us in discussing the paper\, “Locating Animals in Political Philosophy”\, by Kymlicka and Donaldson \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T102419Z
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SUMMARY:The Possibility of Respect book workshop with Remy Debes (University of Memphis)
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 19 March\, under the auspices of CEPPA\, there will be an ‘author meets critics’ event on The Possibility of Respect: Human Dignity and the Ethics of Difference by Remy Debes (Memphis). The book was published by OUP late last year\, and is available via the Library here.\n\n\n\nHere’s an abstract of the book’s argument:\n\nThis book defends a radical new theory of respect against the backdrop of a critical analysis of Western claims to moral progress. Drawing from a wide range of typically marginalized voices both past and present\, and often working through real-life reflections on the experience of disrespect\, it demonstrates the ways that our existing ideas about respect—though inspiring—have misled our efforts to validate the equal human dignity of persons. We grow up being told that respecting persons requires focusing on the ways that all persons are alike in virtue of their equal capacity for agency\, autonomy\, and rights. However\, this book argues that sometimes respecting persons requires de-emphasizing what they have in common with all other persons\, in favor of what is different about them. According to this alternative theory\, it is not a person’s autonomy or rights that matter most\, but their unique\, individual perspective on the world. And the way we respect or recognize this perspective is by trying to understand it. Hence the central thesis of this book: understanding persons sometimes constitutes a way of respecting them. Only if we start thinking about respect in this way\, the book concludes\, can we break free of Western myths of progress that continue to stymie our fundamental moral aspirations.\n\nFeaturing Adam Etinson (St Andrews)\, Michael Cholbi (Edinburgh)\, and Emma Gordon (Glasgow) \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-workshop-with-remy-debes-university-of-memphis/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260325T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260325T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260126T111951Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading:tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4/2026-03-25/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
CREATED:20260123T103340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T153406Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Office Space (1999) with Ben Sachs-Cobbe
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Eleventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). \nDear all\,\nNext Thursday (March 26th) you are all invited to the Eleventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). With this event\, we start a special series highlighting the research being conducted in CEPPA. This time\, we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Office Space (1999) with our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe\, who will introduce us to some of the aspects of his research on the future of work project through this film. You can see the trailer here. As per usual\, there will be drinks and snacks from Luvians. Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo watch:\n\n\nFor a few years\, Alex and Ben were head of something called The Future of Work and Income Research Network. As part of that\, the two of them\, along with a SASP PhD student\, Deryn Thomas\, produced a series of four animated videos on topics regarding work. Those videos\, along with other videos we produced as part of the Network’s activities\, can all be found on YouTube’s Future of Work and Income page. Ben recommends people scroll down to where it says “animations” and watch those videos\, but of course they might stumble upon other things on that page that catch their interest.\n\n\nTo Read:\n\nKathi Weeks\, The Problem with Work\, Ch. 1. Available online through the library.\nDavid Graeber Bullshit Jobs: A Theory Chs. 5-6.\nJ.E. Penner ‘Aristotle\, Arendt and the Gentleman‘ in The Right to Work (ed. Mantouvalou). Available online through the library.\n\nSee you then!\n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-office-space-1999-with-ben-sachs-cobbe/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260401T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260401T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T032550
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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