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  • Home
  • People
    • Members of CEPPA
    • Professorial Fellows
    • Postgraduate Members
    • CEPPA Advisory Committee
  • Projects
    • Kantian Ethics
    • Existential Gratitude and Spirituality
    • Philosophy and Climate
    • Health and Medicine
    • Human Rights and Global Justice
    • Virtue and Character
    • Past projects
      • Blame and Responsibility
      • Effective Altruism
      • The Future of Work and Income
      • Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse
      • Philosophy and Education
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Reading Groups
    • Past CEPPA Talks
    • Knox Lectures 
    • The Ethics Cup
    • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA
  • Outputs
    • St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    • CEPPA Chats
    • Haldane Prize
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  • November 2025

  • Thu 20

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    November 20, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper, "Carbon Offsetting” Location: Edgecliffe 104

  • Thu 20

    CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) – Matthew Brander (University of Edinburgh)

    November 20, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract:  Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal ‘logic’ that underpins this assignment of responsibility, but this is not explicitly reflected on or ... Read more

  • Wed 26

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    November 26, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

  • Thu 27

    Cover-to-cover Reading Group

    November 27, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Cover-to-cover Reading Group
    CEPPA/Arché Seminar room 17 – 19 College Street, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)

  • Thu 27

    Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – His Girl Friday

    November 27, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    We are proud to present the Tenth 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 His Girl Friday (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. To Read: Stanley Cavell - 'Words for a Conversation' ... Read more

  • December 2025

  • Thu 4

    Cover-to-cover Reading Group

    December 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
    CEPPA/Arché Seminar room 17 – 19 College Street, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)

  • January 2026

  • Thu 29

    CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Miguel de la Cal Moreno & Mario Bison (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling)

    January 29 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno - Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change Abstract: Many people experience Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as overwhelming and intimidating, recognising its seriousness and the need to act while feeling unable to determine what to do or how to decide what to do. This paper characterises this experience as moral disorientation. ... Read more

  • February 2026

  • Wed 4

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    February 4 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Wittgenstein - Lecture on Ethics (p.42-51 in this edition.) Location: Edgecliffe 104

  • Thu 5

    CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews and Stirling) & Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews)

    February 5 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Viviante Fairbank - The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism Abstract: On the traditional, so-called Informational Model of journalism, the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with true information about a certain range of important topics. Although this model is appealing, I argue that it is unsatisfactory; importantly, it does not ... Read more

  • Wed 11

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)

    February 11 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
    Edgecliffe 104

    Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer’s recent paper, “Consequentialism and the Separateness of Persons”. Location: Edgecliffe 104

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Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom

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Dr Mara van der Lugt
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