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UID:10000414-1695911400-1695915000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nThis week we will be reading Judith Lichtenberg ‘s paper ‘Negative Duties\, Positive Duties\, and the “New Harms”‘. \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-09-28/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213347
CREATED:20230921T201156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142045Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA TALK (in person) - Carl Mildenberger (Universität Zürich)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: The Quest for Additionality \nAbstract: Many people aim to make the world a better place by spending their money in certain ways. The school of “effective altruism” teaches that\, if one donates one’s money wisely\, one can have a positive impact. Currently\, many people want to make us believe that if one invests one’s money wisely\, one will also have a positive impact. I argue that\, for virtually everybody\, this latter promise cannot come true.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-carl-mildenberger-zurich/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213347
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142140Z
UID:10000415-1696516200-1696519800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05/2023-10-05/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213347
CREATED:20230602T085741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T124622Z
UID:10000396-1696521600-1696527000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Paulina Sliwa (Vienna) & Tom McClelland (Cambridge)
DESCRIPTION:Title: On seeing women as objects: objectification and affordance perception \nLocation: Teams (online only)\, the talk will be streamed from Edgecliffe G03 \nAbstract: Objectification is a central topic in feminist philosophy theorising. But what is it for someone to objectify another person? A common theme is that objectification involves treating and viewing the other person as an object. Thus\, consider the following quotes: \n‘A man\, for example\, who objectifies women will view them and treat them as having a nature which makes them what he desires them to be…’ (Haslanger\, p.73) \n‘The most subtle and deniable way sexualized evaluation is enacted – and arguably the most ubiquitous – is through gaze\, or visual inspection of the body .… when objectified\, women are treated as bodies – and in particular\, as bodies that exist for the use and pleasure of others.’ (Fredrickson and Roberts\, p.175) \nIn a classic paper\, Nussbaum has unpacked the various aspects of “treating someone as an object”. What has received less attention is the role of perception in objectification. It is striking that in describing what objectification involves\, the language of “seeing”\, of “gaze”\, of “looking” is central. Is this purely metaphorical talk? Or is there something literally visual going on? \nOur aim in this paper is to answer this question: can we make sense of  objectification as a phenomenon with a genuinely visual component? We suggest that the notion of affordance perception – the idea that we perceive possibilities for action – allows us to do so. We draw out some consequences for the moral psychology of objectification as well as for the act of looking as a tool of oppression.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-paulina-sliwa-vienna/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Johannes Nickl":MAILTO:jmn20@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213347
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T142205Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nThis week we’ll be discussing ‘Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-12/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231012T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213347
CREATED:20231002T145119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T142023Z
UID:10000435-1697126400-1697131800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (In person) - Joel Joseph (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nAbstract: Consider the following pair of cases  \nRoughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do not make it in time\, you will die. However\, Victim is lying in the only road that will get you there in time. Although Victim is not physically obstructing your path\, they are too heavy for you to move aside. You can therefore save yourself only by driving over Victim en route to the hospital\, thereby killing her.  \nObstruction. The case is similar to Roughshod. However\, this time you cannot simply drive over Victim on your way to the hospital. This is because her presence in the road is physically obstructing your path. You can therefore save yourself only by getting out of your car and detonating a bomb next to Victim that will blow her to smithereens\, thereby clearing the road ahead.  \nIt seems impermissible to kill Victim in either case. However\, many find it intuitively plausible that killing Victim in Obstruction is harder to justify killing than it is in Roughshod. The Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) is the only discussed explanation of the moral difference between these two cases. However\, many non-consequentialists find DDE implausible.  \nIn this paper\, I argue that we can distinguish morally between Roughshod and Obstruction without appealing to DDE. I first argue that DDE does not get to the heart of the intuitive moral difference between Roughshod and Obstruction. I then offer an alternative explanation of the moral difference between Roughshod and Obstruction that is extensionally superior to DDE. Finally\, I argue that endorsing my account over DDE is not only theoretically significant\, but that it also has implications for the morality of abortion that differ importantly from DDE. 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-joel-joseph-st-andrews/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230907T100146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230925T142140Z
UID:10000416-1697725800-1697729400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05/2023-10-19/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231023T191439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T191812Z
UID:10000417-1698330600-1698334200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss Joseph Heath’s chapter ‘Positive Social Time Preference’\, from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter’s a bit long\, but readers can comfortably skip sections 6.2-6.5 and the equations. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230907T101801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T124833Z
UID:10000428-1698336000-1698341400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Positive interest rates block green transitions\, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero \nCommentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alexander-douglas-st-andrews/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231031T111303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T111304Z
UID:10000418-1698935400-1698939000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article\,’Equality Versus Priority’ \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230602T090158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T111128Z
UID:10000398-1698940800-1698946200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Chance Prioritarianism \nLocation: Teams (online only)\, and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 \nAbstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism\, according to which the moral value of improving someone’s chance of surviving (some period) is greater the more likely the person was to die before the improvement. I motivate this view by showing that it justifies some common moral judgements that ex post views cannot accommodate\, but I suggest that we should resist generalising the view to all chances (so\, we should resist ex ante prioritarianism) and I give some reason for resisting survival chance egalitarianism. Finally\, I defend the view against some natural objections
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-orri-stefansson-stockholm/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231106T142253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T142254Z
UID:10000419-1699540200-1699543800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week will be a work-in-progress session\, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith\, on ‘Rights\, Duties and Inviolability’.  \nHere is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this\, all rights-theorists agree. Yet there is disagreement on whether rights also entail positive duties to protect and assist the right-holder if and when their rights are threatened. While the Interest Justification of Rights supports such positive duties (Raz 1986)\, defenders of the Inviolable Moral Status Justification of Rights reject them (Nozick 1974; Nagel 2007; Kamm 2008). On this latter view\, all persons have an inviolable moral status that gives rise to particularly robust rights and stringent negative duties\, but not additional positive duties\, which are not required to reflect persons’ inviolable moral status. This paper seeks to demonstrate that positive duties to protect and assist right-holders against rights-violations are in fact grounded by the very same justification invoked to ground the stringent rights and negative duties in the first instance: the inviolable moral status of persons. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231113T101712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T101712Z
UID:10000437-1699540200-1699543800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Jacob Blumenfeld’s article ‘Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World’ \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-7/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230602T090331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T141622Z
UID:10000399-1699545600-1699551000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Lara Buchak (Princeton)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Risk\, Ambiguity\, and Ethical Decision-Making \nAbstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one’s own reasoning. Indeed\, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example\, experts in a domain\, interpersonal advisors\, and religious traditions. I explain the interplay between authority\, reason\, and disagreement\, and how rational faith gives rise to epistemic communities and governs their encounters with each other. \nLocation: Teams (online only) and streamed from Edgecliffe G03.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-lara-buchak-princeton/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brown":MAILTO:jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231113T101712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T101712Z
UID:10000438-1700145000-1700148600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Jacob Blumenfeld’s article ‘Climate Barbarism: Adapting to a Wrong World’ \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-7/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230907T102813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T103917Z
UID:10000431-1700150400-1700155800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Cristina Richie (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Green Bioethics: Environmental Sustainability and Health Care \nCommentator: Joseph Millum (St Andrews) \nAbstract: Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet\, every medical development\, technique\, and procedure impacts the environment. By 2017\, the National Health Service’s Health\, and Social Care sectors had a carbon output (CO2) of 27.1 million tons. Carbon dioxide emissions contribute to climate change\, climate-change related health hazards\, and perpetuate environmental racism. In response\, the NHS has implemented a Carbon Reduction Strategy\, but this is a largely superficial approach to reducing the carbon emissions of the medical industry\, because it focuses on health care structures like buildings and transportation. The doctor-patient relationship and health care delivery are indeed the most carbon intensive part of the medical industry\, and indeed the scope of biomedical ethics. Thus\, Green Bioethics synthesizes environmental ethics and biomedical ethics to move towards sustainable\, just health care delivery in practice and policy.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-cristina-richie-edinburgh/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231121T121337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T121337Z
UID:10000421-1700749800-1700753400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss Guy Kahane‘s article ‘Our Cosmic Insignificance‘ \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230920T221438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T121239Z
UID:10000433-1700755200-1700760600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Oskari Sivula (Turku)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Is the future a utility monster? \nAbstract: I will revisit Nozick’s utility monster thought experiment and draw an analogy between imagined utility monsters and the long-term future. I argue that the far future can be seen as a real-life utility monster. This is the case if the three premises that form the basis of long-termism are true: 1) the future is vast\, 2) morally speaking\, the future matters\, and 3) current people can (in expectation) positively impact the far future. Following that\, I consider a couple of apparent disanalogies between the original utility monster and the far future utility monster. Lastly\, I discuss some possible reactions to the argument made.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-barry-maguire-edinburgh/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231130T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231130T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231113T101934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T101934Z
UID:10000422-1701354600-1701358200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5/2023-11-30/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20231113T101934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T101934Z
UID:10000423-1701959400-1701963000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5/2023-12-07/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231212T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231214T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20221109T115136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T134443Z
UID:10000377-1702371600-1702558800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:The Future of Work and Income Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Future of Work and Income Research Network    (fwistandrews@gmail.com) \nCentre for Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Public Affairs \nDepartment of Philosophy\, University of St Andrews \nWorkshop to be held in person \nFree to attend \nConfirmed Speakers: \nAnca Gheaus\, Central Europea University \nAndrea Veltman\, James Madison University \nPhilippe Van Parijs\, University of Leuven
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-work-and-income-conference/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231214T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231214T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230602T090519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231128T193827Z
UID:10000400-1702569600-1702575000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Matthew Liao (NYU)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness \nAbtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints\, but when the positive balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great\, it may be morally permitted\, and possibly required to engage in an act that is otherwise morally prohibited. While many people find Threshold Deontology attractive\, there are a number of issues regarding its nature and its structure that are under explored.  For instance\, suppose that there is a threshold above which a moral constraint against killing an innocent person becomes overridden.  Where is this threshold?  How do we identify it?  In addition\, what happens after one crosses this threshold?  Does one become a full-on act-consequentialist?  Drawing on the literature on vagueness\, I shall argue that there is a sharp threshold for killing and that it is difficult for us to know where this threshold lies because in a certain range of cases\, our moral faculty is not sufficiently reliable to be able to weigh competing moral values.  I shall also explain why one does not become a consequentialist once one crosses the threshold for killing. \nLocation: Teams (online only)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-matthew-liao-nyu/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Enrico Galvagni":MAILTO:eg240@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20240112T083703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T083703Z
UID:10000459-1705588200-1705591800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Selim Berker\, ‘The Deontic\, the Evaluative\, and the Fitting”. ahead of their CEPPA talk right after this reading group. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5-3-3/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T213348
CREATED:20230602T090653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240104T164052Z
UID:10000401-1705593600-1705599000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Selim Berker (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?” \nAbstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are\, by contrast\, polar opposites: badness is anti-goodness\, not non-goodness. What about the fitting and the unfitting\, the appropriate and the inappropriate\, the apt and the inapt\, the warranted and the unwarranted? Is unfittingness non-fittingness or anti-fittingness\, inappropriateness non-appropriateness or anti-appropriateness? In this talk I will argue that each of these “aptic” categories—as I call them—stands in a privative rather than a polar relation to its opposite. More generally\, there is no coherent notion of anti-fittingness\, no inversely charged flipside to aptness\, to be found. In order to establish these claims\, a taxonomy of different types of oppositeness will be proposed\, and several tests for distinguishing distinct varieties of opposites will be developed. What will emerge is a better appreciation of the structural characteristics of fittingness and the other aptic categories\, as well as an argument for taking up the nature of oppositeness as a serious philosophical topic that is ripe for further exploration. \nLocation: Teams (online only)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-selim-berker-harvard/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be reading Sarah Fine’s paper ‘Migration‘ from The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5-3-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) - Thom Brooks (Durham)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation \nAbstract: I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism\, capabilities approach and republicanism) and what might be done about it. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-thom-brooks-durham/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240201T143000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing the first chapter from Jonathan Birch “The Edge of Sentience” called ‘A walk along the edge’. Jonathan will be there as well. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240201T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) - Jonathan Birch  (LSE)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience \nAbstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs\, shrimps\, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain\, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI? These are questions about the “edge of sentience”\, and they are subject to enormous\, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are immense\, and neglecting the risks can have terrible costs. We need to err on the side of caution in these cases\, yet it’s often far from clear what ‘erring on the side of caution’ should mean in practice. When are we going too far? When are we not doing enough? My forthcoming book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans\, Other Animals\, and AI constructs a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound\, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty. This talk will introduce some of the main ideas\, zooming in on the role I think citizens’ assemblies can appropriately play in assessing proportionality. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-jonathan-birch-lse/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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UID:10000462-1707402600-1707406200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Byron Williston’s article Climate Change and Radical Hope \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nContact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-6-2023-09-21-2023-10-05-5-3-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T173000
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UID:10000440-1707408000-1707413400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) - Mark Rowlands  (Miami)
DESCRIPTION:Title: World on Fire: Climate\, Extinction\, Pandemic \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-mark-rowlands-miami/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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