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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
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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
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
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UID:10000588-1741876200-1741879800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T171239Z
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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:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250317T170751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T170944Z
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
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201157Z
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
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250324T141638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T141650Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T202751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T141500Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250401T144936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T145538Z
UID:10000591-1743690600-1743694200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T144731Z
UID:10000575-1743696000-1743701400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
UID:10000592-1744295400-1744299000@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-11/2025-04-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T135908Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250415T143428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T161558Z
UID:10000600-1745427600-1745438400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
UID:10000594-1745505000-1745508600@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-11/2025-04-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T184500
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T202131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T205812Z
UID:10000580-1745514900-1745520300@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2025 Knox Lecture - David Enoch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/University of Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Shameless Liberalism: A Vision\n\n\nAbstract: Despite everything\, liberalism remains the one true political philosophy. Liberal principles – something about liberty and autonomy\, something about equality\, perhaps some universalist and rationalist assumptions – are still the right fundamental principles for political philosophy.But this doesn’t mean – nor did you think – that there are no more troubles for liberalism. The most dominant version of liberalism (in English-speaking political philosophy) over the past half century is weak and confused\, philosophically and politically. We should do better. And there are many other problems – new and old – to face. \nThe liberalism that we need to defend (not just theoretically) is robust and self-confident intellectually\, but very realistic and careful politically. It is in no way skeptical or relativistic\, but it is pragmatically flexible. It is philosophically uncompromising\, but politically willing to compromise about pretty much everything. \nThis paper is a broad-brush-stroke presentation and defense of this shameless kind of liberalism. \n\nLocation: School I
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2025-knox-lecture-elizabeth-anderson-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:School I (St Salvatores)\, St Andrews\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Knox Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250425T120000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250317T170635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T170635Z
UID:10000599-1745577000-1745582400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Knox Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/knox-seminar/
LOCATION:Butts Wynd Building room 09\, Butts Wynd\, St Andrews\, Fife\, KY16 9AJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Knox Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T144945Z
UID:10000577-1746115200-1746120600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency \nAbstract: This paper argues that Kant’s theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized\, shared and institutional\, agency. In section 1\, I illustrate the paradoxicality of radical evil and the novelty of Kant’s “empowering” conception focused on human agency. In section 2\, I argue that radical evil entails a normative variety of unintelligibility\, signaling lack of self-knowledge and self-alienation. In section 3\, I show that the (moral) opacity of maxims does not undermine one’s awareness of the moral law\, does not prevent self and co-legislation\, and therefore does not preclude the exercise of moral agency. In section 4\, I account for the distinctive functions of hope and faith\, denying that they are complementary. In sections 5 and 6\, I argue that the reliance on hope or faith points to different modes of contrasting evil by organizing human agency in institutional forms. In section 7\, I conclude that the most powerful response to radical evil is the organization of shared agency – a communal\, ethical\, political\, and institutional enterprise. \nLocation: Online but streamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-carla-bagnoli-university-of-modena-and-reggio-emilia/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250211T231840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T182653Z
UID:10000598-1746489600-1746662399@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Philosophy of Climate Science Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please register by 25 April at the latest by filling out this form. Registration is free\, but spaces are limited\, so register quickly if you want to be sure of a spot! \nPhiCliSci Workshop 2025\nMay 6 & 7\nSt Mary’s College\, lecture room 2 (catering in Seminar Room 2) \nDay 1\n9.00-9.20 Coffee\n9.20-9.30 Workshop Welcome (Mara van der Lugt) \nPanel I: Usability & Modelling\n9.30–10.50 Talk I: Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews): Principles and Uncertainties in Climate Modelling\nand Climate Change Projections \n10.50-11.20 Coffee \n11.20–12.40 Talk II: Julie Jebeile (Bern): Values\, perspectives\, and diversity in climate science \n12.40-14.00 Lunch Break \nPanel II: Projection & Measurement\n14.00–15.20 Talk III: Michael Byrne (St Andrews): Theory and the Future of (Land-)Climate Science \n15.20-15.50 Coffee \n15.50-17.10 Talk IV: Margherita Harris (Hannover): From False Precision to Blind Caution: The Case\nfor Taking Quantifauxation Seriously \nDrinks (Pub)\, followed by workshop dinner \n  \nDay 2\n9.15-9.30 Coffee \nPanel III: Tipping Points\n9.30–10.50 Talk V: James Rae (St Andrews): Using climate change in the past to illuminate and communicate an uncertain future \n10.50-11.20 Coffee \n11.20–12.40 Talk VI: Hannah Hilligardt (Bern) Assessing Strategic Communication in Science: the Case of\nClimate Tipping Points \n12.40-14.00 Lunch Break \nCollective Deliberation\n14.00-15.00 James Hutton (TU Delft): Gathering Thoughts \n15.00–16.00 Coffee & Illustrations with Ben Nightingale [changing set-up] \n16.00–17.00 Round Table Discussion (led by James Hutton) \nReception at Edgecliffe
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/philosophy-of-climate-science-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T153000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250513T152551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152646Z
UID:10000596-1746714600-1746718200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: We’ll be reading ‘Moral Grandstanding’ by Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250130T201612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T201612Z
UID:10000578-1746720000-1746725400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Clotilde Torregrossa (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism \nAbstract: TBC \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-clotilde-torregrossa-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Merely Imagined Moralities\n \nAbstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films\, novels\, operas\, pop songs\, etc.) often express heroic\, pessimistic\, melancholy\, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as ‘perspectives’). Sometimes\, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may\, for instance\, describe a work as “feminist” or “patriotic” according to the worldview it expresses. Drawing on Elisabeth Camp’s and Nelson Goodman’s work\, I propose that when artworks express worldviews\, they (i) represent sets of mental dispositions for interpreting and reacting to the real world\, and (ii) they achieve this by leading the audience to temporarily inhabit those dispositions. This view has at least two important implications: first\, it makes little sense to morally evaluate artworks for expressing worldviews\, because representing mental dispositions does not amount to endorsing them. Secondly\, the expression of worldviews through artworks and other cultural products nevertheless plays a specific\, underappreciated role in political discourse. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-vid-simoniti-university-of-liverpool/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250610T193000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20240524T092108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240524T092108Z
UID:10000527-1749551400-1749583800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:2025 Ethics Cup Finals
DESCRIPTION:12 teams from high schools across Britain converge on St. Andrews for a 1-day competition to determine who takes home the cup!
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2025-ethics-cup-finals/
LOCATION:United College\, St. Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250616T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250513T153806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T104130Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Fest 2025
DESCRIPTION:CEPPA Fest\, its annual celebration of all things CEPPA\, on 16 June in St. Andrews. We have a great set of speakers lined up across the whole range of topics within ethics and public affairs\, so please consider coming along. Registration is free\, but required\, and can be done here. \nHere is the Schedule: \n\n\n\n\n10 – 10.30am \n\n\nTea/coffee (Butts Wynd 10) \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n10.30 – 11.30 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nBradley Hillier-Smith\, “Artificial Intelligence\, Basic Income\, and Migration” \n\n\n\n\n11.30 – 12.30pm \n\n\nWorkshop sessions \n\n\n1. Lynette Heng\, How to be a Non-reductive Expressivist \n2. Victoria Wang\, On the unfairness of the ‘fair-share principle’ for health research \n3. Luca Stroppa\, Soritical Superiority \n\n\n\n\n12.30 – 2 \n\n\nLunch \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n2 – 3 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nPetronella Randell\, “Imprecise Values and Desires” \n\n\n\n\n3 – 4 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nJoel Joseph\, “Diachronic Deontology” \n\n\n\n\n4 – 4.30 \n\n\nTea/coffee (Butts Wynd 10) \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n4.30 – 5.30 \n\n\nTalk (Butts Wynd 09) \n\n\nJustin Snedegar\, “Setting Boundaries on Blame”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-fest-3/
LOCATION:Butts Wynd Building Room 10\, Butts Wynd\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250825T095841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T115104Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Bel Colburn (University of Glasgow)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Moral Blackmail \nAbstract: Suppose I want you to do something. How can I make you do it? Depending on me\, you\, our context\, and the nature of the thing I want you to do\, I have various options: rational or emotional persuasion; manipulation; coercion; physical compulsion; maybe more. Different mechanisms will be more or less effective\, depending on the features of the interactions that I listed above\, and they will also attract different moral evaluations\, not settled wholly by their effectiveness. In this talk\, I explore a (generally effective and usually problematic) mechanism which has mostly been ignored\, namely moral blackmail. Someone is morally blackmailed when they act as they do because all the alternatives have been made morally unacceptable. Moral blackmail is in this sense analogous to coercion\, on a plausible understanding of the latter. I defend this way of thinking from some objections\, and show that moral blackmail is a real and problematic phenomenon in global challenges of the largest scale\, including how we deal with global poverty and climate change. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-bel-colburn-university-of-glasgow/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250915T115643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T135440Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper\, “Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2/2025-09-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250911T151853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T152359Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Eigth 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 Portrait Of A Lady On Fire  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \nOn Feminist and Queer Theory:\nClara Bradbury-Rance – “Lesbian legibility and queer legacy in Céline Sciamma’s Portrat de la jeune file en feu (2019)”\nEmma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige – “Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploreing Queerness and Freedom through Portait of a Lady on Fire”\nTom Knoblach – “This is How You See Me?”: Collisions of Influence and Feminocentric Canon Building in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire”\n\nOn the look and the gaze:\nJohn Berger – Ways of Seeing Ch 1 and 3 (and if feeling cheeky also ch 4) [also available on video!]\nMichel Foucault – Las Meninas (ch 1 of The Order of Things)\nLaura Mulvey – Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema\nJean Paul Sartre – First Attitude towards Others\, (Part 3 Ch 1 of Being and Nothingness) (especially the bit discussing Proust; p 364-370 in this edition)\n\nTo Watch: \nFilms:\nBrainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes\, 2022)\nVertigo (Alfred Hitchcock\, 1958)\n\nVideos: \nCatherine Grant – Semblance (Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Vertigo)\nBroey Deschanel – What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About “the Gaze”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T170000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250911T150041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T152606Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thomas Hurka – The Well Rounded Life \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20250911T143754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T113730Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition \nAbstract: This paper investigates norms of ambition\, which set the level of achievement one ought to aspire to. I critically examine the widely accepted norm of excellence\, which encourages one to seek excellence in one’s pursuits. I argue that while this norm is accepted by default\, we should abandon it—absent of special evidence—in favour of the norm of sufficiency\, which encourages one to perform merely well enough in one’s pursuits. This move is motivated by two problems confronting the norm of excellence: that living by it likely leads to mishandling one’s moral duties; and that living by it carries risk of significant psychological harm to oneself and others. I defend the norm of sufficiency by arguing that its widespread default acceptance would by and large avoid such harms and still allow for excellent achievement to arise\, thus leading to a world no worse and likely better than a world in which the norm of excellence enjoys widespread default acceptance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nLink for the Handout
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-federico-luzzi-university-of-aberdeen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T123000
DTSTAMP:20260410T072001
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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