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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:20260405T113249
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T150250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T104946Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Peter Singer – Famine\, Affluence\, and Morality \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T144159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T105930Z
UID:10000604-1760025600-1760031000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Michael Otsuka (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How nonexistence is worse for us \nAbstract: \n\nI defend the view that\, when a person’s life is worth living\, her existence is not merely good for her. It is also better for her than her never existing. I defend this view against the objection that it absurdly implies that nonexistence is bad for the multitude of merely possible people who are never brought into existence and who therefore have complaints against us for not procreating them. I respond to this objection by defending the following asymmetry\, which consists of an affirmation of the first\, combined with the denial of the second\, of these two claims: \n\n\nClaim 1. If p actually exists with a life worth living\, then: if (contrary to fact) p had not existed\, that would have been worse for p. \n\n\nClaim 2. If p does not actually exist\, then this is worse for p than if (contrary to fact) p had existed with a life worth living. \n\n\nI also defend the view that an appeal to the fact that a person’s life is better for her than her nonexistence can provide a response to the complaint that it is not going as well as it could. \n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-michael-otsuka-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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-2/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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/2025-10-16/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T152157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T101934Z
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The VVitch
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Ninth 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 VVitch  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings: \nTo Read:\nVictoria Madden — “ ‘Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?’: Gothic Feminism and the Final Girl in Robert Eggers’ The Witch”\n\nCristina Casado Presa — “Monsters\, Women\, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch (2015)”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-the-vvitch/
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:20251023T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251027T143141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T143142Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: \nFor next week’s MPRG\, we are returning to Abelard Podgorski’s paper\, “Complaints and Tournament Population Ethics”. Our new PhD colleague\, Ida Miczke\, will guide the discussion. Please find the paper attached\, or by accessing the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12860. \n\nBelow are some suggested questions from Ida to help us focus in on different aspects of the paper. \n\nWhat do you think of the claim that there can be no victimless wrongs? Is it possible to commit a wrongdoing without wronging anyone?\n⁠Is the idea of morality based on complaints intuitive? What about morality based on gratitude?\nWhat are your intuitions about the neutrality condition – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither obligatory nor wrong? What if we phrase it in axiological terms instead – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither good nor bad?\nCan we really bite the bullet on the non-identity problem?\nCan all of ethics be a tournament\, or is it just population ethics?\n\n\nSee you all next Wednesday\, October 29th\, from 4-5pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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/2025-10-30/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T144357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T130027Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Alice Murphy (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature \nAbstract: This talk explores the intersection of environmental science and environmental aesthetics\, focusing on the discourse surrounding “invasive” species. I will present the ways that debates on invasive species reflect broader issues in the philosophy of science\, particularly concerning the role of moral and political values in scientific practice. I will then discuss how aesthetic judgments also shape this discourse\, influencing research\, management decisions\, and public perceptions. I argue that the intertwined nature of aesthetic and moral values in invasion science challenges traditional approaches to the “new demarcation problem”\, which seeks to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate value influences. Further\, this complicates views in environmental aesthetics that privilege scientific knowledge as the foundation for aesthetic judgments of nature. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alice-murphy-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T144910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T153059Z
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SUMMARY:CLIMATE ETHICS: CEPPA + COAST (in-person) - Wim Carton on 'Overshoot'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday (5 Nov) 3.30-5pm please join us at School V for a special event co-hosted by CEPPA with the Climate\, Ocean\, and Atmosphere at St Andrews (COASt) research group and the newly founded St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates. This event will be in-person only. \nWe will be welcoming Wim Carton (Lund) to discuss the book\, co-written with Andreas Malm\, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. After a short introduction we will hold an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with panellists Derek Ball\, Graeme MacGilchrist\, James Rae\, and Mara van der Lugt\, and questions from the audience. All welcome!\n\nOn Overshoot:\n \nThe world is on the cusp of 1.5 degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Even before 1.5\, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating force\, and yet a notion has taken hold that the cause is now lost: the intolerable has become unavoidable. The limit will be overshot – perhaps two degrees as well – and the best we can do is cool down the Earth at some later point\, towards the end of the century\, by means of technologies not yet proven.\n\n\nHow did this happen? How could the idea of overshoot gain such traction? What forces are driving us into a climate that people – particularly poor people in the global South – won’t be able to cope with? In Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown\, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton present a history of the present phase of the crisis\, likely to extend decades into the future\, as the fossil fuel industry swims in the largest profits ever made. Money continues to flow into the construction of pipelines\, platforms\, terminals\, mines – assets that will have to be destroyed for the planet to remain liveable. Too much heat has become officially acceptable because such revolutionary destruction is not. But should the rest of us abide by that priority? \nUnflinchingly critical of business-as-usual and the calls for surrender to it\, sweeping in scope\, stirring and sobering\, Overshoot lays out the stakes for the climate struggle in the years ahead. \n\n\nFind more information about the book here.\nLocation: School V
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/climate-ethics-ceppa-coast-in-person-andreas-malm-and-wim-carton-on-overshoot/
LOCATION:School V
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251104T112740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T112740Z
UID:10000867-1762362000-1762365600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: \nThis Wednesday\, we are discussing the paper “The Women of Trachis: Fictions\, Pessimism\, Ethics” by Bernard Williams \nSee you all next Wednesday\, November 5th\, from 5-6pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
UID:10000811-1762426800-1762432200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T145123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T113129Z
UID:10000607-1762444800-1762450200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) - Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork)
DESCRIPTION:Title: What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society? \nAbstract: Normative philosophers (inter alia\, political theorists\, moral philosophers\, applied ethicists) develop arguments which link normative positions to practical (and theoretical) judgments or conclusions. This might sound anodyne\, but I use it as a basis to explain what normative philosophers can add to policy discussions as well as to the moral reasoning of members of the public as a whole. The goal is to motivate a conceptually interesting ground for several forms of public philosophy. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-kian-mintz-woo-university-college-cork/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251111T131716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T131717Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Keshav Singh’s paper\, “What’s in an Aim?”. This paper discusses a central issue for positions that attempt to ground normativity in constitutive features of agency. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
UID:10000812-1763031600-1763037000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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/2025-11-13/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T145310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T124836Z
UID:10000608-1763049600-1763055000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online and in-person) - Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Co-forming feelings in therapy \nAbstract: This paper opens a project within philosophy of therapy\, on the question of how feelings are formed in the context of interactions between clients and therapists. There is a common assumption within many therapeutic approaches that feelings are formed by individuals in their lives outside therapy\, and then clients come to therapy to understand\, process\, and/or cope with their feelings. Is therapy the setting where we come to identify\, understand\, reflect on\, or cope with feelings? Or do we in some cases depend on the therapeutic relationship for feeling formation?  If we are willing to entertain that idea – what are the risks\, and what are the ethical implications? \nLocation: Online on Teams and streamed in Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-and-in-person-ami-harbin-oakland-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
UID:10000813-1763636400-1763641800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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/2025-11-20/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20251118T120945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T120955Z
UID:10000753-1763649000-1763652600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper\, “Carbon Offsetting” \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250911T145438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T133558Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) -  Matthew Brander (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Responsibility\, Causality\, and Carbon Accounting \nAbstract:  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 discussed within carbon accounting standards\, nor the related academic literature. As well as being an interesting question in its own right\, the answer may be useful for guiding the development of carbon accounting standards. E.g. under ‘market-based’ accounting\, is it appropriate for companies to report emissions based on their purchase of ‘emission attribute certificates’? Or does the allocation of emissions need to conform to some kind of real-world physical or causal relationship between the reporter and the emissions reported? This paper offers an initial exploration of the underpinning intuitions or rationales at play within carbon accounting practice. \nLocation:  Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-matthew-brander-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20250915T115643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T135440Z
UID:10000754-1764172800-1764176400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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-2/2025-11-26/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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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/2025-11-27/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - His Girl Friday
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo Read: \n\nStanley Cavell – ‘Words for a Conversation’ in Pursuits of Happiness (pp. 1-42). In particular\, pp. 1-8 & pp. 16-34.\nStanley Cavell – ‘His Girl Friday’ in Cities of Words (pp. 340-451).\nOlivia Kiriakou – Notebook Primer: Screwball Comedy.\nDavid Edelstein  – Forget me not: The genius of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.\nClaire Carlisle – ‘Preface’ and ‘Last Words’ in The Marriage Question. \n\n(This review by Victoria Baena is also worth a read.)\n\n\nClare Chambers – ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-8) and ‘6.3 Internal Equality: Sexism’ (pp. 187-199) in Against Marriage.\n\nTo Watch \n\nMovie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).\nVideo: Kazuo Ishiguro on Holiday: ‘Screwball comedies were proto-feminist’.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-his-girl-friday/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251204T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251204T123000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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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-2/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20260123T101250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T101617Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Miguel de la Cal Moreno & Mario Bison (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno – Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change \nAbstract: 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. Drawing on Stephen Gardiner’s account of ACC as a “Perfect Moral Storm\,” I argue that its global\, intergenerational\, ecological\, and theoretical dimensions undermine moral clarity on both epistemic and psychological grounds. While Gardiner’s framework helpfully identifies structural difficulties and risks of moral corruption\, it treats these difficulties largely ahistorically.\nTo address this limitation\, I turn to historical work by Naomi Oreskes\, Erik Conway\, and Geoffrey Supran on the deliberate manipulation of climate science and public discourse by the Carbon Industrial Complex. I argue that practices such as doubt-mongering and manipulative framing—particularly those emphasising individual responsibility—have actively contributed to moral disorientation about ACC. Recognising the historically manufactured dimensions of this disorientation helps render it intelligible and identifies normative constraints on how we ought to reason and act. \n4.50-5.30pm: Mario Bison – How to think about empathy\, and why \nAbstract: Empathy is usually cited in connection with altruistic\, or otherwise other-oriented behaviours and attitudes. An empathic approach is usually cited in everyday moral talk as fostering virtues such as forgiveness\, understanding\, and openness. Nevertheless\, there has also been\, at a theoretical level\, an increasing scepticism toward empathy in general. Philosophers have claimed that empathy is neither necessary for making moral judgments nor indeed the best way to go about our moral lives. The matter is complicated by the fact that empathy is variously defined by psychologists\, and no universally agreed-upon definition exists. In this talk I want to look for a solution to these problems by setting aside the immediate debates\, and instead look at the role that this concept has played in the thought of perhaps its most illustrious and influential historical proponent (David Hume)\, who believes that our moral judgments are fundamentally influenced by ‘sympathy’. By critically analysing this concept in context\, and by setting it against modern critics\, I will try to understand what specific need Hume (and his followers) may have felt for invoking empathy\, or related concepts\, in trying to understand morality. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-miguel-de-la-cal-moreno-mario-bison-university-of-st-andrews-and-university-of-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260204T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20260126T112157Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Wittgenstein – Lecture on Ethics (p.42-51 in this edition.) \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T114332Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews and Stirling) & Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Viviante Fairbank – The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism \nAbstract: 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 allow us to properly criticize those journalists who publish true\, relevant\, and useful information without proper warrant or ethical backing. After discussing two recent case studies\, I argue that journalism is best understood as a distinctive kind of inquiry\, and that this understanding of journalism should lead us to reject any simple\, factive account of journalistic publication norms. I propose\, instead\, the Responsible-Inquiry Model of journalism\, according to which the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with responsibly gathered information while\, in the process\, serving as zetetic models. Good journalists do not only provide useful information; they also conduct (ethically and epistemically) exemplary inquiries into the subject at hand. \nJacob Librizzi – Why Metanormative Constitutivists Should be Voluntarists About Reasons \nAbstract: For two decades\, constitutivist accounts of reasons (CR) have faced the “Shm” (or Shmagency) challenge. I argue that responses so far have misunderstood this challenge. However\, by interpreting CR as a form of voluntarism\, we can render the “Shm” challenge question-begging. In doing so\, we disarm the challenge once and for all. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-and-stirling-jacob-librizzi-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Ida Miczke will lead us in a discussion of Jessica Fischer’s recent paper\, “Consequentialism and the Separateness of Persons”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-4-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T113249
CREATED:20260123T101809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T111410Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Enrico Galvagni (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hume’s One and Only Definition of Virtue \nAbstract: Hume’s moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand\, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand\, he also says that it is a mental quality that receives moral approbation. Interpreters argue about which of these definitions is more fundamental and try to reconcile them into a unified account. Against such readings\, I argue that Hume has only one definition of virtue as a character trait that generates moral approbation. Utility and agreeableness play a fundamental role in his ethics\, but one that does not relate to his definition of virtue. In turn\, this provide reason to question the now mainstream interpretation of Hume as a virtue ethicist. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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