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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Brian Hedden (ANU)
DESCRIPTION:Location: School 6 \nTitle: Counterfactual Decision Theory \nAbstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory\, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain\, were you to perform it. Counterfactual decision theory has traditionally been subsumed under causal decision theory as a particular formulation of the latter. This is a mistake. Counterfactual decision theory is importantly different from\, and superior to\, causal decision theory. Causation and counterfactuals come apart in three kinds of cases. In cases of overdetermination\, an act can cause a good outcome without the latter counterfactually depending on the former. In cases of constitution\, an act can constitute a good outcome rather than causing it. In cases of determinism\, either the laws or the past counterfactually depend on your act\, even though your act cannot cause the laws or the past to be different. In each of these cases\, it is counterfactual decision theory which gives the right verdict\, and for the right reasons. \nCo-Hosted with ECT
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-brian-hedden-anu/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brown":MAILTO:jab30@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220616
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
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SUMMARY:SOCIETY AND HUMAN NATURE: A Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, 15 June 2022\nEdgecliffe\, Room 104\, University of St Andrews \n9:30-10:00: Welcome coffee \nMorning session: \nChair: James Harris (University of St Andrews) \n10:00-10:45: David Harmon (University of St Andrews) “The Model of Human Nature and Whether ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’ in Spinoza” \n10:45-11:30: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin) “Catharine Trotter Cockburn on Self-interest\, Self-love\, and Benevolence” \n11:30-12:00: Coffee Break \n12:00-12:45: M. Folescu (University of Missouri) “Some remarks on Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the Perception of an External Universe” \n12:45-14:00: Lunch \nAfternoon session: \nChair: Mara van der Lugt (University of St Andrews) \n14:00-14.45: Xiao Qi (University of St Andrews) “Unpacking the Sentiment of Moral Obligation in Hume’s Treatise: Ambiguities and Tentative Solutions” \n14:45-15:30: Catherine Dromelet (University of Antwerp) “Hume and Durkheim. Common views on sociality” \n15:30-16:00: Coffee Break \n16:00-16:45: Tim Stuart-Buttle (University of York) “‘The only true conservatism’: Hume\, Dewey\, and the experimental method in morals” \n18:00: Dinner \nPlease email eg240@st.andrews.ac.uk by 10 June to register \nOrganized by Enrico Galvagni with the generous support of the University of St Andrews\, St Leonard’s Postgraduate College\, Scots Philosophical Association\, CEPPA\, and the British Society for the History of Philosophy
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/society-and-human-nature-a-workshop-in-early-modern-philosophy/
ORGANIZER;CN="Enrico Galvagni":MAILTO:eg240@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220626
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
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SUMMARY:Epistemic Breakthroughs Conference
DESCRIPTION:Epistemic Breakthroughs: A workshop\nUniversity of St Andrews \nJoin us for a philosophical workshop on the topic of “epistemic breakthroughs\,” held at the University of St Andrews\, in partnership with the JN Wright Trust\, The Mind Association\, and the Scots Philosophical Association. \n\nWhen?\n\nFriday\, June 24th\nSaturday\, June 25th\n\nWhere?\nLecture Room 2\, at St Mary’s College (See picture below for entry point – room is on 1st floor\, first door on the left) University of St Andrews \nWhat’s it about?\nOur epistemic lives are marked by discoveries\, changes of mind\, epiphanies (if we are lucky)\, and ‘turning points’ – some of them potentially radical in nature. We may call these events epistemic breakthroughs. This philosophical workshop invites participants to think about the nature\, varieties\, and causation of such breakthroughs\, as well as about their role in politics\, society\, and personal life. \nHow do I attend online?\nFor those who would like to attend online\, we will be live-streaming the event. To attend the live-stream\, you must register (Please note that\, while we may take questions from the online audience\, priority will be given to in person discussion). \n\n24th June\n\n9:00 – 9:30: Arrival and coffee\n9:30 – 11:00\n\nSanford Goldberg (Northwestern) “What do Speakers Deserve? The Ethics and Epistemology of #BelieveWomen”\nCommentator: Susanne Burri (Universität Konstanz)\n\n\n11:15 – 12:45\n\nFabienne Peter (Warwick) “On Trusting Your Own Political Judgment”\nCommentator: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)\n\n\n12:45 – 1:45: Lunch\n2:00 – 3:30\n\nCatarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) “Can Arguments Change Minds?”\nCommentator: Jim Weatherall\n\n\n3:45 – 5:15\n\nRachel Fraser (Oxford) “Understanding is Seeing”\nCommentator: Justin Snedegar (St Andrews)\n\n\n\n25th June\n\n9:00 – 9:30: Arrival and coffee\n9:30 – 11:00\n\nSophie-Grace Chappell (Open University) “Epiphanies”\nCommentator: Julia Driver (Texas at Austin)\n\n\n11:15 – 12:45\n\nAdam Etinson (St Andrews) “Inducing Wonder”\nCommentator: Louise Hanson (Oxford)\n\n\n12:45 – 1:45: Lunch\n2:00 – 3:30\n\nC. Thi Nguyen (Utah) “Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude”\nCommentator: Natalie Ashton (Stirling)\n\n\n3:45 – 5:15\n\nCailin O’Connor (UC Irvine) “Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods Between Scientific Communities”\nCommentator: Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/epistemic-breakthroughs-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220703
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
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SUMMARY:SAF aesthetics and social epistemology conference
DESCRIPTION:For details: \nhttps://www.scottishaestheticsforum.com/upcoming-events
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/saf-aesthetics-and-social-epistemology-conference-dates-tentative/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220902
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SUMMARY:Contractarianism\, Role Obligations\, and Political Morality
DESCRIPTION:An in-person symposium in St. Andrews on themes from the recently-published\, Contractarianism\, Role Obligations\, and Political Morality\, by Ben Sachs. \nLocation: Edgecliffe\, G03 \nSchedule (all times PM) \n1:30-1:55: Ben Sachs-Cobbe\, Philosophy\, University of St. Andrews\, “Welcome and Summary” (Chs. 1-3) \n1:55-2:35: Michael Moore\, Law\, University of Illinois\, “Finding the Purposes of Staplers and States” (Ch. 4) \n2:35-3:15: Antony Duff\, Philosophy\, University of Stirling (Emeritus)\, “Legal Liberalism+ and the Varieties of Legal Moralism” (Ch. 5) \n3:15-3:45: Tea/coffee break \n3:45-4:25: Cécile Fabre\, Political Philosophy\, University of Oxford\, “Who’s In\, Who’s Out: the Scope of Contractarian Political Morality” (Ch. 6) \n4:30-5:10: Visa Kurki\, Jurisprudence\, University of Helsinki\, “Sachs on the Legal Status of Sentient Animals” (Ch. 7) \n5:15-5:45: Panel Session\, with all speakers mentioned above as panelists \nBook Precis \nContractarianism is well suited as a political morality…or so this book argues\, before going on to explore the implications of deploying contractarianism in this way.  Its starting point is the natural thought that the state owes things to its people: physical security\, public health and sanitation services\, and a functioning judiciary\, for example.  But we need a theory—a political morality—that can explain why this is so and identify who the state’s ‘people’ are.  The book argues that what it means for the state to have obligations is for the state’s office-holders (e.g.\, its legislators\, judges\, and bureaucrats) to have role obligations.  These role obligations derive from the purpose of the state\, which is grounded in the intentions of those who partake in the sustaining of the state. By way of extracting implications from this new version of contractarianism\, the book argues first that at least an extremely weak version of political liberalism follows from it.  And this small dose of political liberalism yields a very strong version of legal liberalism (the view that the goodness/badness of an act doesn’t figure in to the question of how the law\, including the criminal law\, ought to deal with that act).  Second\, the book argues that there is an important sense in which it’s false that sentient animals as such are among the state’s people\, and that the arguments for extending citizenship to this fail.  Finally\, from there the book argues for a moderate position on the proper legal status of such animals. \nRegistration \nAttendance is free\, thanks to gratefully acknowledged support from the Scots Philosophical Association.  Although registration is not required\, it would be helpful if you’d register by sending an email to Ben Sachs-Cobbe (bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk).  Those who register might get a free meal or two\, budget allowing! \nThe symposium venue is disability accessible and funds are available to pay for childcare for those who need it in order to attend.  If you have any questions about the symposium\, please contact Ben Sachs-Cobbe (bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/contractarianism-role-obligations-and-political-morality/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Cécile Fabre (Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: The Morality of Gossip \nAbstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that gossiping\, while often gratifying\, is\, if not morally wrong\, at least not quite right. Gossip has not received much attention in moral philosophy. In this paper\, I argue that notwithstanding the fact that gossip often has beneficial effects\, it is often wrong\, on Kantian grounds. To that end\, I first provide an account of the phenomenon of gossip and of its value. I then argue that two fairly standard arguments against gossip do capture some morally problematic features of gossip (to do with breach of trust and deception) but are under inclusive. The deeper underlying worry about gossip\, I go on to claim\, is that it amounts to a particular kind of failure to treat others – be they gossipees or gossipers – as persons.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-cecile-fabre-oxford/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220913
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T054038Z
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SUMMARY:Book Workshop: Elizabeth Ashford's *Hunger’s Witting Executioners*
DESCRIPTION:One-day book workshop on Elizabeth Ashford’s Hunger’s Witting Executioners: Structural Violations of the Right to Subsistence \nPre-read: workshop participants will be expected to read the book manuscript distributed in advance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. \nSchedule: \n10:30am to noon: discussion \nLunch break (free time) \n1:30pm to 3pm: discussion \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-workshop-elizabeth-ashfords-hungers-witting-executioners/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220914T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220914T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-09-14/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T085204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T151309Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Ben Sachs-Cobbe (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nTitle: What’s wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? \nAbstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K.\, and one popular argument in favour of character education is that it is conducive to producing citizens who have the virtues that make someone a good citizen.  But there is an oft-heard objection to the idea that educators should try to inculcate the virtues of citizenship\, namely that doing so serves a conservative agenda.  In this talk I investigate what separates a conservative from an anti-conservative theory of good citizenship\, and conclude that educating children for the virtues of citizenship cannot possibly serve a conservative agenda\, or for that matter any controversial political agenda at all.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-ben/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-09-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T085350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T153809Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Sally Haslanger (MIT)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Ideology\, Culture\, and Social Meaning \nAbstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular challenge for those working on social justice: Why is it that most of us\, most of the time\, act in ways that perpetuate injustice? To begin to answer this question\, I will develop an account\, inspired by Althusser among others\, that embeds ideology in social practices. Social practices enable both human and non-human animals to coordinate fluently and flexibly in response to each other and our environment; and they depend on something like a “language” – a system of signs and signals – that makes socially intelligible agency possible. I call such a framework of meaning and its material apparatus a cultural technē. I go on to argue that Grice’s distinction between natural and non-natural meaning is too coarse to provide us an account of social meaning\, and drawing on Skyrms and others working on signals\, I propose that a cultural technē is a framework or system of signs. I then consider how we might capture the publicity of social meanings in terms that don’t require complex metacognition. I conclude that account of ideology as a cultural technē “gone wrong” provides us the basics of a critical account of ideology. \nYou can read the full paper\, but attendees are not expected to have read the paper in advance.\nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-sally-haslanger-mit/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220928T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220928T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-09-28/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220929T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220929T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T085613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T102513Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Nancy Fraser (The New School)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender\, Race\, and Class \nAbstract: Dissatisfied with identity-based politics\, many activists and intellectuals are now seeking larger paradigms that can unify disparate struggles. Aiming to advance that project\, I propose that labor forms the hidden link between gender\, race\, and class. My inspiration is W.E.B. Du Bois’s claim\, in Black Reconstruction\, that nineteenth century America had two labor movements\, anti-slavery and trade unionism\, which tragically failed to unite. Extending this idea to the present\, I expand it by adding a third. Construing feminism\, too\, as a labor movement\, focused on the work of care\, I argue that that capitalist society relies on three distinct types of labor: exploited\, expropriated\, and domesticated. Their structural entwinement\, I maintain\, constitutes the inner\, systemic ties between gender\, race\, and class.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-nancy-fraser-the-new-school/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221005T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221005T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T153243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T153243Z
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SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Reading Group (The Rejected Body)
DESCRIPTION:For S1 of 2022-23\, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October).\nLocation: Teams.\nOrganizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group-the-rejected-body/2022-10-05/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221005T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-10-05/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T085732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T085303Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jason Brennan (Georgetown)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Laissez-Faire Democracy? Reasons to Regulate Votes \nAbstract: Most economists and political philosophers accept a simple argument for empowering governments to regulate citizens’ and private firms’ economic activity: Markets\, they say\, suffer from various market failures. In many such cases\, governments can correct or prevent these market failures through various interventions and regulations. The expected benefits of intervention exceed the expected costs. Therefore\, governments should intervene. We contend that this kind of argument works in defense of having governments regulate citizens’ votes and voting behavior as well. We start with a brief survey of the standard defenses of market regulation. We then show that voting behavior suffers from the same problems that afflict market behavior and suggest that these problems give rise to an equally strong presumptive case for government regulation of voting behavior as for market behavior. Next\, we sketch several proposals for how to regulate votes. From here\, we address three central objections: it is impermissible in principle to regulate votes\, vote regulation is unnecessary because voting itself is a form of regulation\, and no institution could be trusted to regulate votes. We conclude that none of these objections succeed and that the presumptive case for vote regulation stands. \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-jason-brennan-georgetown/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221012T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-10-12/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T085835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T083250Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Shelly Kagan (Yale)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: “Death\, Deprivation\, and Rational Regret” \nAbstract:  Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account\, death is bad because the dead don’t get the various goods that they would have if only they were still alive. But it’s not normally a misfortune when a merely possible good doesn’t come your way. Bill Gates didn’t write you a check for a million dollars today\, but it would be silly to be upset at that. So how can death actually be bad? This talk will explore a promising answer.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-shelly-kagan-yale/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-10-19/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221020T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221020T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T090051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221006T174206Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? \nAbstract: Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative concepts—characterized by\, e.g.\, perverted ideals\, vicious closed-mindedness\, and unwarranted intolerance. I suggest an alternative approach that: (i) explains what makes fanaticism and extremism vicious in the very many cases in which they are; but also (ii) allows for cases in which fanaticism and extremism aren’t liberatory-vices and may even be liberatory-virtues. My hope is that this approach might serve as a resource for those in liberatory struggles.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-heather-battaly-university-of-connecticut/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Enrico Galvagni":MAILTO:eg240@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T153243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T153243Z
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SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Reading Group (The Rejected Body)
DESCRIPTION:For S1 of 2022-23\, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October).\nLocation: Teams.\nOrganizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group-the-rejected-body/2022-10-26/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
UID:10000362-1666789200-1666792800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-10-26/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221102T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221102T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T153243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T153243Z
UID:10000371-1667383200-1667386800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Reading Group (The Rejected Body)
DESCRIPTION:For S1 of 2022-23\, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October).\nLocation: Teams.\nOrganizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group-the-rejected-body/2022-11-02/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221102T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221102T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
UID:10000363-1667394000-1667397600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-11-02/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221103T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221103T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T090429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T204502Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Two Puzzles About the Ethics of Divestment \nAbstract: Suppose you own stock in Acme Corp. and you learn that it consistently acts in seriously immoral ways. What should you do? A common answer maintains that owning stock in Acme Corp. makes you complicit in its immoral behavior and that you should therefore divest yourself of it. But as Steven M. Cahn has argued\, there seems to be something puzzling about this answer. If you sell your stock to someone\, then they will own it. If it’s wrong to own the stock\, then they’ll be doing something wrong. So if you divest yourself of the stock\, you’ll be helping someone do something wrong. But it seems wrong to help someone do something wrong. So how can a company’s immoral behavior make it wrong for you to own stock in the company but not make it wrong for you to get rid of the stock by selling it to someone else? In this talk\, I will present two versions of Cahn’s divestment puzzle and explain the reasoning that leads to each of them. I will then discuss the published responses that have appeared since Cahn first presented the puzzle and argue that none of them succeed as solutions to either version. I will conclude by defending an alternative response to the puzzle.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-david-boonin-university-of-colorado-boulder/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221109T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221109T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T153243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T153243Z
UID:10000372-1667988000-1667991600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Reading Group (The Rejected Body)
DESCRIPTION:For S1 of 2022-23\, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October).\nLocation: Teams.\nOrganizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group-the-rejected-body/2022-11-09/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221109T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221109T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
UID:10000364-1667998800-1668002400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-11-09/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T110000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T153243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T153243Z
UID:10000373-1668592800-1668596400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Cover to Cover Reading Group (The Rejected Body)
DESCRIPTION:For S1 of 2022-23\, we are reading Wendell’s The Rejected Body. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 10-11am (starting the 5th of October).\nLocation: Teams.\nOrganizer: Lara Jost (laj7).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group-the-rejected-body/2022-11-16/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220919T152953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T152953Z
UID:10000365-1668603600-1668607200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time.\nDay/time: Wednesdays 1pm-2pm.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams.\nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-5/2022-11-16/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T043024
CREATED:20220704T090622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221117T081847Z
UID:10000351-1668700800-1668706200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Working on Yourself\n\nAbstract: This is a thesis-antitheses-synthesis kind of talk. We begin with a question: How should one react to one’s own moral achievements and moral failures\, and to the moral achievements and moral failures of other people? One answer that might seem initially compelling is that we should be harsher on ourselves than we are on others: we should be modest about our own moral achievements while celebrating others’ moral achievements\, and we should show more leniency in response to others’ moral failures than in response to our own. As compelling as this answer might seem\, a smorgasbord of recent trends in popular moral thought push back against it in various ways\, and it paints an odd picture of how good people are supposed to talk to each other. That’s the thesis and its antitheses. The synthesis is the central idea of this talk: the idea of working on yourself. I’ll say what working on yourself is and why it matters morally\, and I’ll also introduce the idea of a deliberate self-improvement\, which is my name for what you bring about when you try to work on yourself and succeed. With these two notions in hand\, I’ll argue that the initially-compelling answer and its intuitive counterphenomena can all be accommodated by an account that emphasizes the importance of not only working on yourself\, but also encouraging and facilitating others’ work on themselves\, all while recognizing the enormous diversity of impediments to their doing either of these that particular individuals might encounter. We’ll see that some apparent self/other asymmetries have solid metaphysical or moral underpinnings\, while others dissolve. I’ll then discuss some cool upshots and one remaining deeper puzzle; in brief\, the puzzle concerns whether we should prioritize working on ourselves over supporting others’ work on themselves and\, if so\, what could explain this division of labor.\nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-zoe-johnson-king/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
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