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Book Workshop (in person) – Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill)

Workshop on Daniel Muñoz's forthcoming book What We Owe to Ourselves Date: 15 May 2024 Location: Edgecliffe 104 Registration required: email Theron Pummer ([email protected])   Provisional Schedule  945am: Coffee/tea, welcome 10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) 1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University) 1225pm: Lunch 130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University) 240pm: Coffee/tea 300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s University) 415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds) ... Read more

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)

Edgecliffe 104

Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: 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 ... Read more

2024 Knox Lecture – Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)

School III St Andrews, United Kingdom

Title: "Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem" Abstract: 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 ... Read more

Workshop Climate Justice: Transdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Conversations

Younger Hall

How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space ... Read more

Public Lecture: Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)

School II (St. Salvator's)

Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Abstract: 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 ... Read more

Public Lecture: Tahseen Jafry (Glasgow Caledonian University)

School II (St. Salvator's)

Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? Abstract: 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 ... Read more

CEPPA Film Club: Children of Men

Edgecliffe 104

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 ... Read more

CEPPA Fest

Edgecliffe 104

Programme 10.00 – 10.05 Welcome 10.05 – 10.55 Justin Snedegar (St Andrews): Meddlesome Blame and Negotiating Standing 10.55 – 11.15 Coffee 11.15 – 12.05 Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews): Valuing and Classification 12.10 – 13.00 Lisa Bastian (VU Amsterdam): What's Wrong With Doxastic Wronging 13.00 – 14.00 Catered lunch in Edgecliffe 14.05 – 14.55 Jessica Brown ... Read more

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