Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
MPRG with Giuli Cavaliere: Chapter Title: 'Rescue, Aid, and the Challenge from Adoption' Chapter Abstract: This paper examines and responds to two versions of what I refer to as the challenge from adoption. According to the first, those who wish to have children are morally required to adopt existing children in need rather than procreate. According ... Read more
Title: Conflated Questions in the Ethics of Belief Abstract: It’s common to suppose that epistemology can be understood in close structural parallel with ethics: as ethics is about what to do, epistemology is about what to believe. In this paper I draw attention to an important limit of such parallelisms: in reasoning to belief, agents are ... Read more
Reading: Marta Bax will lead us in discussing the paper, 'Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion’, by Simon Beard Location: Edgecliffe 104
Title: The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Case of Climate Change Abstract: Once regarded as a marginal proposal in international human rights, the right to a healthy environment has gained surprisingly widespread acceptance in domestic law across the world. Recently, the right has become an important part of global climate advocacy, often anchoring legal ... Read more
12 teams from high schools across Britain converge on St. Andrews for a 1-day competition to determine who takes home the cup!
Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in discussion of Douglas Portmore’s (2007) paper, ‘Consequentializing Moral Theories’. Location: Edgecliffe 104
We are proud to present the Twelfth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). On this occasion we have a special guest from the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Simon Lee, who will be discussing Twister (1996) with us. Simon Lee is, among other things, a storm chaser, so he'll be ... Read more
We are delighted to invite you to a special joint CEPPA/Arché Seminar to introduce the new Professorial Fellow Jennifer Saul, who will give a talk about her recent research, entitled 'When Norm Violations Come Out of the Shadows'.
Reading:Next Wednesday, 13 May, the MPRG will meet for a special session with this year’s Knox Lecturer, Professor Tommie Shelby (Harvard). We will discuss Shelby’s paper, ‘How Racial Stereotypes Wrong: A Political Ethics of Belief’. Location: Edgecliffe 104
Title: Solidarity, Politics, and Intellectual Life Abstract: This lecture will examine what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group's liberation. It draws on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Richard Wright—canonical figures in the Black Radical tradition—to ask whether such intellectuals should subordinate their interest in art ... Read more