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  • The Future of Work and Income Conference

    The Future of Work and Income Research Network    ([email protected]) Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews Workshop to be held in person Free to attend Confirmed Speakers: Anca Gheaus, Central Europea University Andrea Veltman, James Madison University Philippe Van Parijs, University of Leuven

  • CEPPA Talk (online) – Matthew Liao (NYU)

    Microsoft Teams

    Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great, it may be morally permitted, and possibly required to engage in an act that is ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (online) – Selim Berker (Harvard)

    Microsoft Teams

    Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?" Abstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are, by contrast, polar opposites: badness is anti-goodness, not non-goodness. What about the fitting and the unfitting, the appropriate and the inappropriate, the apt and the inapt, the warranted and ... Read more

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) – Thom Brooks (Durham)

    Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation Abstract: I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism, capabilities approach and republicanism) and what might be done about it. Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    This week we will be discussing the first chapter from Jonathan Birch "The Edge of Sentience" called 'A walk along the edge'. Jonathan will be there as well. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: [email protected]

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jonathan Birch (LSE)

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience Abstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings ... Read more