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This talk is part of our series on Climate Ethics. Title: Ethical births, ethical deaths: Climate anxiety in Britain through the life course Abstract: This paper is based on anthropological research conducted with climate activists on the topic of climate anxiety in Britain. Drawing on themes of kinship and its relationship to mental health and ... Read more |
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Title: Consent, Intent, and Communication What is consent? I will assume that it is a normative power – a power to alter rights and duties directly. If this is right, how is consent exercised? I will argue that consent is exercised through the execution of intentions to alter practical reasoning. Successful communication is not needed ... Read more |
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Workshop on Daniel Muñoz's forthcoming book What We Owe to Ourselves Date: 15 May 2024 Location: Edgecliffe 104 Registration required: email Theron Pummer ([email protected]) Provisional Schedule 945am: Coffee/tea, welcome 10am: Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) 1115am: Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt University) 1225pm: Lunch 130pm: Quinn White (Harvard University) 240pm: Coffee/tea 300pm: Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s University) 415pm: Joseph Bowen (University of Leeds) ... Read more |
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Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments for pleasure fundamentalism and discusses the form of naturalism they arise from. According to the Reliability Argument, all processes generating moral belief are unreliable, except ... Read more |
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Title: "Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem" Abstract: Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of "categorical inequality." In this framework, entire social groups enjoy superior power, social esteem, and wealth over other groups: aristocrats over commoners, men over women, blacks over whites in the U.S., Brahmins over Dalits in ... Read more |
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How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space ... Read more
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Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Abstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance gap when it comes to promoting intergenerational concern. This gap facilitates a tyranny of the contemporary that puts the young and other future generations ... Read more |
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Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? Abstract: In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled with unprecedented rainfall, triggering ecological and socioeconomic upheaval. However, impacts aren't equally distributed, those who contribute minimally to carbon emissions, find themselves ... Read more |
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We are proud to present the first session of CEPPA Film Club, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week), when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuarón's classic dystopian film Children of Men (see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with ... Read more |
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