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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – John Barugahare (Makerere University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumah’s Analysis of Neocolonialism. \nAbstract:Background: The foundational contention of this paper is that\, arguably\, the ultimate ethical goal of conducting health research among humans is to provide them with better health opportunities. Because of growing perceptions that ongoing international collaborative health research between the Global North and Africa is colonial in nature\, there is worry that this goal will not be easily met. Hence\, there is an urgent need to decolonize international collaborative health research in Africa. Using Kwame Nkrumah’s analysis of his seminal work on ‘Neocolonialism: the last stage of imperialism’\, the aim of this paper is to reflect on the potential of the current dominant trend in decolonizing health research ethics in Africa to meet the ultimate goal of decolonization. Methods: This is a purely argumentative paper based on Kwame Nkrumah’s views on neocolonialism and decolonization. The paper also uses other secondary sources to corroborate and demonstrate its argument. Results: There is a growing consensus that international collaborative health research is colonial in nature and hence a need to decolonise it. The paper argues that Nkrumah’s analysis of neocolonialism implies that the ultimate goal of decolonizing health research in Africa should be to mitigate and ultimately stop the exploitation of African people in international collaborative health research. Discussion: The paper shows that the outcomes of most decolonizing efforts\, though necessary\, are not enough. Unless conscientiously pursued\, these efforts risk failure at meeting Nkrumah’s ultimate goal of decolonization and arguably are becoming a subtle method for facilitating\, sustaining and entrenching the ultimate goal of neocolonialism—the exploitation of African peoples. Conclusion: The mission of decolonizing health research ethics in Africa needs to clearly demonstrate the potential to mitigate and ultimately end maximin exploitation in health research and be critical enough to avoid the risk of instead facilitating neocolonialism unconsciously. \nJohn Barugahare\, Ph.D.\, is a senior lecturer and Head\, Department of Philosophy at Makerere University\, Kampala – Uganda. He teaches moral philosophy\, human rights and applies these in health care and health-related research. His major interest is in ethics international collaborative research. He is also interest in guiding the development of bioethics in Africa. Lately\, he is exploring concepts and perspectives in the decolonization discussion\, and how these can help shape our understanding of the major ethical issues in international collaborative health research\, hoping to suggest ways these can be eased. \nLocation: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-john-barugahare-makerere-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241120T160000
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SUMMARY:Bradley Hillier-Smith’s 'The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees' Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to the book launch for Bradley Hillier-Smith’s brand-new book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees (abstract below). The author will be interviewed by Kieran Oberman (LSE)\, after which we will all be in the opportunity to ask questions and celebrate the new book with some well-deserved drinks. All welcome!\n\nBradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees\n Edgecliffe 104\, 20th November from 4pm – 6pm\, followed by drinks. For those unable to join in person\, the Teams link is here.\n\nAbstract for The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees\nAt a time of intense philosophical and political debates on how states ought to respond to refugees\, this book provides an account of what an ethical response to refugees would be. It does this by developing an understanding of the moral duties that states have towards refugees. The first half of the book analyses state practices used in response to refugees\, to understand the negative duties of states not to harm or violate the rights of innocent refugees. The second half analyses morally significant features of contemporary refugee displacement\, to understand the positive duties of states to alleviate the distinctive harms and injustices that refugees face. The two halves together thereby outline the negative and positive duties of states towards refugees which together constitute the elements of an ethical response. The book then demonstrates this ethical response is not only urgently required but is also within reach.\n\nAbout Kieran Oberman: Kieran Oberman is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the LSE whose research and numerous publications specialise in the ethics of border control\, immigration\, migration ethics\, the freedoms and rights of migrants\, and obligations towards refugees among other topics in global justice.\n\nhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-of-State-Responses-to-Refugees/Hillier-Smith/p/book/9781032833675
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/bradley-hillier-smiths-the-ethics-of-state-responses-to-refugees-book-launch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss James Sias\, ‘Ethical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory’\, available here. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20240912T184522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T110644Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – James Hutton (Delft)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Emotion-Based Environmental Ethics: The Radical Implications of Taking Wonder Seriously \nAbstract:\nIn environmental ethics\, we find many competing theories of environmental value\, but little discussion of the epistemological grounds for believing one theory rather than another. Building on the framework of moral empiricism (which I’ve developed elsewhere)\, I propose an “Emotion-Based” methodology for environmental ethics. The Emotion-Based methodology requires treating our emotional experiences as defeasible intuitions about value\, wrongness\, etc. – accepting their contents\, unless we have substantive reason not to. I offer some rationales for adopting the Emotion-Based methodology\, exploiting analogies with other domains of knowledge. In the final part of the talk\, I zoom in on the emotion of wonder. Wonder\, I argue\, presents its object as valuable for its own sake. If we take seriously the full range of our experiences of wonder\, we face pressure to adopt a pluralist view of environmental value\, on which some nonsentient beings (e.g. trees) and collective entities (i.e. ecosystems) are valuable for their own sake. Thus\, while moral empiricism is an abstract view about the conditions for moral knowledge\, it turns out to have fairly radical first-order implications for environmental ethics.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-and-simon-lee-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241127T160000
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SUMMARY:Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:On 27 November 2024 we are convening a colloquium at the University of St Andrews featuring  Dr Emily Postan (Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics\, University of Edinburgh) and Prof. David Comerford (Economics\, University of Stirling). \nKey words: bioethics\, medical ethics\, behavioural economics\, behavioural psychology\, community wisdom\, quality of life\, right not to know\, longevity. \nThere is a revolution in the early diagnosis of diseases and conditions that will affect the quality (not merely the quantity) of people’s life expectancy. Increasingly accurate and detailed health predictions and trajectories means people are already having to make judgements: \n\nWhat do I want to know?\nDo I even want to know that such health information might be available to me?\nWho do I want to share this information with?\nHow will I handle knowing?\n\nNew\, more sophisticated and accessible\, knowledge will require decisions about child-bearing\, relationship building\, or pension provision (amongst much else) that take on additional complications. Will additional knowledge about the likelihood of longevity and eventual cause of death result in changed behaviour that undermines cvil society? People pay into a pension believing they will draw on it for a long time but\, if those with limited life expectancy withdraw\, the pension system collapses. How\, then\, is private wealth management affected? How are taxes affected when some gifts are currently free from inheritance tax if the giver lives for 7 years beyond making that gift? \nThis colloquium aims to facilitate dialogue between two quite different perspectives on decision-making: behavioural economics and narrative identity-making in bioethics. The goal of the colloquium is to enhance the understanding of how people make decisions as well as why they make those decisions and what decisions they deem ethically robust. \nWe invite contributions of short papers that will also explore the theme of decision-making in the light of early diagnosis. These may be from any discipline within\, but not limited to\, the medical humanities and social sciences. \nWe invite participation also from people in the financial sector. Their contributing to the discussions and Q&A dimensions of the colloquium will be invaluable. We’d value professionals’ insights into the saliency of the academics’ perspectives for decision-making in their worlds. \nProgramme \nRegistration\, refreshments and network from 10:00. Venue at University of St Andrews to be advised. \n10:30 – 12:30 keynote presentations and conversation between Dr Emily Postan and Prof. David Comerford\, facilitated by Dr Morven Shearer (School of Medicine) and Dr Eric Stoddart (School of Divinity) of the University of St Andrews. \n12:30 – 13:30 lunch break \n13:30 – 16:00 short papers (10mins each) contributing to a round table discussion. \nSubmitting Short Paper Proposals \nPlease send an abstract of 150-200 words for a paper of not longer than 10 minutes of presentation to handlingknowing@st-andrews.ac.uk by 18 October 2024. Decision on the acceptance of a proposal will be communicated by 25 October 2024. \nOther registrations \nParticipation is welcome without the need to contribute a short paper. Please register for this free event by emailing handlingknowing@st-andrews.ac.uk by 7 November 2024 with a brief note explaining your interest in the topic. \nEarly Diagnosis: Handling Knowing is an interdisciplinary research project\, based at the University of St Andrews\, involving the Schools of Medicine and Divinity and the Department of Philosophy. The project is part of the work of the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis led by Prof. Peter Donnelly\, chair of public health and the institute’s director.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/early-diagnosis-handling-knowing-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss Cora Diamond’s classic paper ‘The Difficulty of Reality’. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T113606Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katrin Flikschuh (LSE)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Idea of Ancestry in African Philosophy \nAbstract: This paper concerns itself with the rationality of belief in ancestral existence. Although belief in ancestral existence remains widespread globally\, I shall focus on a-thinned out version of African forms of this belief. ‘Thinned-out’ in that I am not interested in this or that substantive version of the belief among different African peoples; nor am I interested in the particular cultural practises that attend or attest to the belief. I am interested in the general form of the belief\, and in the more general conception of the natural world in general which one would have to endorse for belief in ancestral existence to count as rational. In one sense\, the aims of this paper are quite modest: I merely aim to get clearer\, myself\, on what strikes me as an intuitively attractive belief. In another sense\, the paper is quite ambitious: the belief would seem to require Western readers to suspend routine metaphysical and scientific assumptions about the natural order. In putting pressure on these routine assumptions\, I shall touch on discussions around free will and consciousness as phenomena that share some of the features of ancestral existence. Considered comparatively\, belief in ancestral existence may be no less rationally defensible than belief in free will or (non-reductive) consciousness. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-katrin-flikschuh-lse/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T161949Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Stories We Tell
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Fourth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and Stories We Tell  (see trailer here). \nThe movie will start SHARP at 17:15. \nRecommended reading and watching material\nArticles:\n\nBill Nichols – Performative documentaries (in Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture p.92-106).\nHannah Kim – “Life as a ‘Non-standard’ Narrative”\nGregory Currie – Interpreting the Unreliable\nNancy Henry and George Levine – George Eliot and the Art of Realism (the last paragraph from page 6 to bottom of p. 9).\nKate J. Waites – Sarah Polley’s Documemoir “Stories We Tell”: The Refracted Subject\n\n\nMovies: \n\nSing Sing (2023 Dir. Greg Kwedar)\nMarriage Italian style (1964 Dir. Vittorio De Sica)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-stories-we-tell/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T114833Z
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SUMMARY:Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing Public Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This will be an online event (7pm-8pm) for members of the public. The team from the University of St Andrews will be sharing information and inviting discussion. \nTO REGISTER IN ADVANCE \nRecent advances in artificial intelligence\, biomarker research\, genomic sequencing\, and big data analytics are revolutionising diagnosis\, enabling more accurate life and health expectancy predictions. These advancements raise all sorts of challenging issues. Early diagnosis raises the possibility that a potential parent might have specific\, personalised\, information suggesting they’ll be unable to nurture their child until they become self-sufficient. Early diagnosis introduces the possibility of rejecting a job applicant because of their likelihood of developing a mental disorder in the future. State pensions disproportionately benefit the long-lived so perhaps the pension eligibility age should be personalised based on the individual’s life expectancy. \nHow might we handle this sort of increasingly accurate knowledge?  Our prior family experiences might help. It might be that wisdom in our communities comes from a religious tradition. There are perhaps philosophical perspectives that we would draw upon. Studies in psychology could be another resource. \nThis webinar is an opportunity to learn about new advances in early diagnosis and to share in discussions about where we might turn to handle this new knowledge about our own future health. \nThe event is part of a collaboration between the School of Medicine (the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis)\, the department of Philosophy and the School of Divinity of the University of St Andrews. \nProgramme \nWhat is early diagnosis? Prof. Peter Donnelly\nWhy does it matter? Dr Morven Shearer\nHow might we handle knowing? Dr Eric Stoddart\nScenarios for discussion – led by Dr Ben Sachs-Cobbe
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/early-diagnosis-handling-knowing-public-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250205T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250128T155238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T161746Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Blue Velvet
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Fifth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Blue Velvet  (see trailer here). \nThe movie will start SHARP at 17:15. \nDAVID LYNCH IN MEMORIAM\n\nAs many of you will know or might have heard\, legendary film director David Lynch passed away last 15th January. Next Wednesday\, 5th February\, CEPPA Film Club has decided to honour his memory with a screening of his classic ‘Blue Velvet’.\n\nTrying to present the work of David Lynch\, or even Lynch himself\, is itself no easy task. A painter by formation\, a filmmaker (in his words) by chance\, who repeatedly credited his creativity to “meditating and drinking coffee”\, Lynch is known for the oneiric and uncanny atmospheres of his films\, which twist (and enrich) mundane reality with hidden meanings and subconscious motives.\n\n‘Blue Velvet’ (1986) is the perfect representation of this vision: a young\, highly conventional American college student (Kyle McLachlan)\, living in a seemingly perfect suburban neighbourhood\, gets entangled with a woman (Isabella Rossellini) and a local gangster (Denis Hopper) in an increasingly disturbing plot.\n\nContent warning: includes explicit sexual and/or otherwise shocking content (which caused the film to be rejected by about all the major production companies in the eighties\, so seemed worth flagging this)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-blue-velvet/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we will be discussing Rebecca Brown – ‘Sneaky Persuasion in Public Health Risk Communication’. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250130T200250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T191323Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Philip Ebert (University of Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events \nAbstract: In this talk\, I will discusses different philosophical challenges in communicating and dealing with the risk of rare and severe events. As a case study\, I use avalanche risk: a form of voluntary risk taking in which the individual is often partly responsible for the occurrence of the relevant event. In particular\, I highlight the challenge that avalanche risk communicators face when “informing” or “educating” individuals about the relevant risks\, and I will present some experimental work on the risk perception of end users of the Scottish avalanche forecasts and discuss their (mis)understanding of the relevant risks. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-philip-ebert-university-of-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250210T223818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T223830Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: this week we will meet to discuss two (and a half) short articles by our speakers: \n\n\nViviane Fairbank\, ‘Climate change is a fact – but to prove it\, scientists are bogged down in a battle about what facts really are’\n\n\nSimon Lee\, ‘ The climate is changing so fast that we haven’t seen how bad extreme weather could get’\n\n\nA third\, optional reading on ‘Climate skepticism and the manufacture of doubt’ by Biddle & Leuschner\n\n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250130T200801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T224151Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Simon Lee (Earth & Environmental Sciences) and Viviane Fairbank (Philosophy)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on for the Second edition of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group\, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session\, climate scientist Simon Lee and philosopher Viviane Fairbank will give presentations on the topic of ‘Climate Modelling and Climate Communication’ in climate science. \nTitle: Climate Modelling and Climate Communication \nLocation: John Henderson lecture room in Castlecliffe
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-simon-lee-earth-environmental-sciences-and-viviane-fairbank-philosophy/
LOCATION:John Henderson lecture room\, Castlecliffe\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250218T161811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T161844Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Lea Bourguignon & Milan Mossé’s ‘How to Count Sore Throats’. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-02-27/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
CREATED:20250130T201035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T201035Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem \nAbstract: TBC \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-katharina-bernhard-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Sixth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The Killing of a Sacred Deer  (see trailer here). \nHere is a list of suggested readings/videos. \nVideos:\n\n“Iphigenia at Aulis” summary\n\nReadings: \n \nEuripides\, Iphigenia at Aulis
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T153000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: this week we will discuss Mark Johnstone: ‘Anarchic Souls: Plato’s Depiction of the “Democratic Man”’ in Phronesis 58 (2013)   \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Daniela Dover (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman \nAbstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic\, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the Republic is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading of ‘moral psychology’–descriptive and normative questions about the workings of the human psyche–cannot be separated from questions of political philosophy. I argue that Plato was right to think that you cannot theorize the soul without at the same time theorizing the city\, and vice versa. I go on to ask: what happens if we retain the idea that there is a profound methodological insight embedded in the city-soul analogy\, but\, unlike Plato\, we want to defend democracy as the best form of government? How might that democratic aspiration interact with our ways of thinking about the soul\, or the self? \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-daniela-dover-ucla/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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UID:10000589-1742481000-1742484600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading:  Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein ‘Hypocrisy and Moral Authority’\, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T173000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T170729Z
UID:10000574-1742486400-1742491800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Tom Sinclair (Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hypocrisy as Evasion \nAbstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority\, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to this account\, blame is just one of many tools of moral exchange whose proper use is the building of a shared moral world of mutually acknowledged responsibilities. The hypocrite misuses these tools\, and this both generates a basic moral objection to hypocrisy that is prior to the more specific objections highlighted by other accounts and explains the hypocrite’s loss of standing. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-tom-sinclair-oxford/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T153000
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UID:10000590-1743085800-1743089400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Crisp\, Roger\, and Christopher Cowton. “Hypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.” \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katherine Snow (Princeton)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis\n \nAbstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using necessity. Scientific naturalism presents logical causal necessity as constituting how nature “makes” things exist\, and it presents necessity in the more general or abstract sense as the only principle or idea at the core of what nature is supposed to be. Where did this practice arise in its current form\, how legitimate is it\, and how does this practice matter for the contemporary environmental crisis? In this talk\, I will propose answers to all three of these questions which draw on my reading of the so-called “Spinoza Controversy” of 1785-1812. Among other aspects of this vital dispute\, the Controversy essentially presented the West with a choice vis-à-vis the external non-human world. On the one side were those embracing a new\, monist\, semi-secularized “naturalism” based on neo-Spinozist ideas of nature as an intelligible and necessary whole. On the other side\, skeptics like Friedrich Jacobi denied that such an idea of nature could ever be anything more than an internalist fiction. Of particular relevance to our environmental crisis today\, Jacobi further quite presciently argued that the neo-Spinozist position automatically engaged in a kind of active nihilism with respect to the real external world of our direct experience.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-philclisci-tbc/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T143000
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: ‘Being Good and Being Good-For-Someone: Why Consequentialism Must Be Wrong’ \nLocation: hybrid \nOn this occasion\, the paper will be distributed separately. Please email Joel Joseph if you’d like a copy.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Incomparable Value of the Individual \nAbstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the Groundwork\, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor can we explain what is wrong with treating an individual as a mere means unless we have a positive account of what is involved in being an end in itself. Kant does not spell out this positive account. \nI find a clue to what Kant could mean in his claim that individuals who possess dignity have incomparable value. I propose that to treat someone as an end in itself is to evaluate the events and conditions of that person’s life in accordance with the value they have for her\, and to regard that value as incomparable with the value those events and conditions might have for anyone else. I explain why this conception rules out the aggregation of value across the boundaries between individuals and show how it supports John Taurek’s attack on aggregation. I also explain how this conception of the value of the individual is connected to the idea that individuals have rights.\nLocation: Online but live-streamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-christine-korsgaard-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-04-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T153000
DTSTAMP:20260409T045950
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UID:10000593-1744900200-1744903800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-04-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Lucy O’Brien (UCL)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Autonomy and control over one’s social self-consciousness \nAbstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb – to feel – others’ feelings. More particularly we feel others’ feelings about ourselves: at least as long as we are awake\, we are subject to being self-consciously affected in our interactions with others. We are capable of social self-consciousness\, and such a capacity plays a critical part in our general capacity to care about\, calibrate\, and organise human life. In this talk I want to consider a subject’s relation to her own affective social self-consciousness. Two areas I will consider are (i) a subject’s practical management of their social self-consciousness\, and (i) a subject’s appraisals of their own social self-consciousness. I will suggest that the latter concern can be thought of in the context of a general problem of the rationality of deference. I suggest that our self-appraisals should be understood as allowing for a kind of necessary instability\, tension\, and opacity. In so far as our self-conscious lives\, are rationally permeated with the appraisals of others\, we risk standing in an uncomprehending\, but committed\, sense of ourselves and our value \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-lucy-obrien-ucl/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Marie Antoinette
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Seventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Marie Antoinette  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \nPhilosophical works: \nSimone de Beauvoir – three chapters from The Second Sex: 1. Myths Chapter One; 2. Myths Chapter Three; and 3. Social Life (emphasis placed on this last chapter\, especially the first ten pages before she discusses Mrs. Dalloway). \nArticles: \nFilm Notes: Marie Antoinette from Yale Film Archive  \nHannah Ewans – What ‘Marie Antoinette’ Taught Me About Being a Teenage Girl  \nPam Cook – Portrait of a Lady: Sofia Coppola and Marie Antoinette  \nHannah Strong – Sofia Coppola & the Art of Loneliness  \nTo Watch:\nFilms: \nClueless (Amy Heckerling\, 1995) \nDick (Andrew Flemming\, 1999) \nFrom Sofia Coppola’s catalogue (especially those released pre-2006): Lick the Star (1998)\, The Virgin Suicides (1999)\, Lost in Translation (2003)\, Somewhere (2010)\, The Bling Ring (2013)\, The Beguiled (2017) Priscilla (2023) \nVideos: \nMubi Podcast: Sofia Coppola – from VIRGIN SUICIDES to PRISCILLA  \nThe VICE Guide to Films:  Priscilla Director Sofia Coppola’s Art of Loneliness 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-marie-antoinette/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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