Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Abstract: The Sudanese civil war has been described as a "forgotten crisis" that the world ought to pay more attention to. Some campaigners object that excess attention on migration is a “distraction" from other important issues. Such calls for cross-border attentional change are a frequent feature of our global political landscape. Yet while philosophers have ... Read more
Preliminary session
Reading: Jenny Mace, "An Application of the 4Ns to Pronatalism: Implications for Animal Welfare"
CEPPA FILM CLUB: Dick Johnson is Dead You can see the trailer here. Recommendations to read: Sigmund Freud - Mourning and Melancholia Sigmund Freud - On Transience Quill Kukla - Holding the Body of another Symposium, 11:2, 2007 Lindemann - On the mend, Journal of Clinical Ethics, 16:4, 2005. Lindemann - 'What and When to Let Go: Identities ... Read more
Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst College): "Kant’s Sequence of Rights” MS Teams
Cora Diamond, "Anything but Argument"
Title: Who has an expansive moral circle? Abstract: The moral circle describes who we do and do not think of as worthy of moral concern. In this talk, I will discuss psychological research that aims to understand variability in our moral circles. I will present work across several projects that aims to (a) map out ... Read more
Peter Moser (St Andrews): "Ownership of non-physical things in Kant’s legal philosophy
Susan James, "Spinoza and the Poetic Imagination"
Reading Susan James, "Spinoza and the Poetic Imagination".