CEPPA’s Moral Philosophy Reading Group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Semester 2 schedule: Wednesdays 3pm – 4pm, beginning 3 February and ending 28 April. We will skip the following Wednesdays: 10 Feb, 24 Mar, 31 Mar, 21 Apr. (Due to staff meetings and spring break.) Organizer: ... Read more
Title: Biased Evaluative Descriptions Abstract: In 2008, Joseph Biden called Barack Obama “an African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Though intended as a compliment, such a description would not be applied to a non-African-American leader in the same context. Such biased evaluative descriptions, roughly, well-intended descriptions whose apparently positive surface ... Read more
Microsoft Teams Link Part 1. 3-3:30. In the first half hour, Rowan Cruft, Professor of Philosophy at Stirling University and CEPPA Member, recounts his involvement with the Leveson Inquiry into the conduct of the British media, which made use of his work on human rights. Part 2. 3:30-4:30. Researchers in all fields can have an ... Read more
Title: ‘The Point Is To Change It’ Abstract: Many political philosophers happily repeat Karl Marx’s 11th Thesis on Feuerbach (inscribed on his gravestone) ‘The Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it.’ Marx had a theory of change: proletariat revolution. But what theory of change is appropriate in current circumstances? In ... Read more
CEPPA’s Moral Philosophy Reading Group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Semester 2 schedule: Wednesdays 3pm – 4pm, beginning 3 February and ending 28 April. We will skip the following Wednesdays: 10 Feb, 24 Mar, 31 Mar, 21 Apr. (Due to staff meetings and spring break.) Organizer: ... Read more
Title: “Some people and the people” Abstract: When is an action, or a choice, or a desire, an action or choice or desire of the people, as opposed to being an action, or choice, or desire of some people? In this talk I consider eight possible answers to this question. I focus in particular on the idea that the ... Read more