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  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Miguel de la Cal Moreno & Mario Bison (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno - Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change Abstract: 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. ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews and Stirling) & Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Viviante Fairbank - The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism Abstract: 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 ... Read more

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer’s recent paper, “Consequentialism and the Separateness of Persons”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Enrico Galvagni (University of Edinburgh)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Hume’s One and Only Definition of Virtue Abstract: 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 ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Yoshinari Hattori and Ida Miczske (St Andrews and Stirling)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Yoshinari Hattori - Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Reconsidering Their Foundations Abstract: 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 ... Read more

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Aliza Ashraf will lead us in discussing Eugene Marshall’s paper, “Spinoza on the Problem of Akrasia”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Omar Ruiz Rivera and Craig Ferrie (St Andrews and Stirling)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Omar Ruiz Rivera - Moral Skill Abstract: 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 ... Read more