Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature Abstract: 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 ... Read more
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. We will be welcoming Wim Carton (Lund) to ... Read more
Reading: This Wednesday, we are discussing the paper “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics” by Bernard Williams See you all next Wednesday, November 5th, from 5-6pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). Location: Edgecliffe 104
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
Title: What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society? Abstract: 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 ... Read more
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. Location: Edgecliffe 104
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
Title: Co-forming feelings in therapy Abstract: 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 ... Read more
This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns "What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics". Organiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper, "Carbon Offsetting” Location: Edgecliffe 104