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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi’s ‘Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism’.\nHere is the abstract: In his 1982 article\, T. M. Scanlon noted that\, despite the widespread attention to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice\, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that\, nearly thirty years later\, despite the widespread attention to Scanlon’s work\, this appeal is still largely under-appreciated. In this paper\, I try to present Scanlon’s appealing answer to what he once called “the question of motivation” and the relation of this answer to the more metaethical “question of subject matter.” I then defend Scanlon’s view against various\, standard objections\, which\, I claim\, typically misunderstand it. I close by considering what it would take to wed Scanlon’s attractive answer to the question of motivation to another\, non-contractualist\, theory. I conclude that\, even if the marriage could be arranged\, a good part of the appeal of contractualism would inevitably be lost. In particular\, the marriage would sacrifice the central place in Scanlon’s theory for what might be called liberty of conscience.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T173000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Barry Maguire (Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Two Moralities of Recognition \nAbstract: According to moralities of recognition\, fundamental moral norms are norms for living together. Moral norms explain how living in unity is possible despite being separate individuals\, they explain how we can relate to each other as persons that are more than mere sources of benefits and burdens\, obstacles and opportunities. Those who relate to each other according to these norms stand in relations of mutual recognition. By contrast\, some moral theories are atomistic — they deny that fundamental moral norms are communal norms. The paper explains the appeal of morality of recognition and elaborates a distinction between two kinds of moralities of recognition. Some envision a community founded on respect; according to these theories\, mutual recognition is mutual respect. Others offer a fundamentally different vision of the moral community\, namely\, one founded on concern; according to these theories\, mutual recognition is mutual concern. We examine T. M. Scanlon’s contractualism as a fully developed\, influential\, and relatively recent version of respect morality and argue that Scanlon’s morality of respect has certain distinctive structural features. We then articulate the contours of an alternative\, morality of concern\, which offers a different idea of moral community and has a distinctively different structure. Our goal is not to present an argument for morality of concern\, but to explain what makes it attractive and to make clear that choosing between the two kinds of moralities of recognition involves choosing between two substantively different visions of how to live together. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-barry-maguire-edinburgh-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Princess Mononoke
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Second Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 4:30pm onwards to watch and discuss Studio Ghibli’s absolute classic ‘Princess Mononoke’ (see trailer here). \nThe movie will start SHARP at 5pm. \nPlease see below for some suggested prereads/prewatches\, suggested by Miguel. If you’d like to volunteer to lead a Film Club in the future\, please let our Film Club convenor Miguel (cc’d) know!\n\nVideos/movies:\n\n\nLady Eboshi is wrong by Ian Danskin: https://vimeo.com/357117766\n\n\nHayao Miyazaki – The Essence of Humanity by Lewis Bond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTq_D5aFy-M\n\n\nThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013\, dir. Mami Sunada)\n\n\nPapers:\n\n\nAnimated Nature: Aesthetics\, Ethics\, and Empathy in Miyazaki Hayao’s Ecophilosophy by Pamela Gossin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5749/mech.10.2015.0209.pdf)\n\n\nAnimating child activism: Environmentalism and class politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992) by Michelle J. Smith & Elizabeth Parsons  (https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2012.630138#d1e255)\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n185 to 188 of Anime A history by Jonathan Clements.\n\n\nIf you read Spanish: Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: La princesa Mononoke by Laura Montero Plata\n\n\nPodcasts:\n\n\nGhibliotheque – A Podcast About Studio Ghibli ep 5: Princess Mononoke (https://shows.acast.com/ghibliotheque/episodes/princessmononoke-ghibliotheque-5)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-princess-mononoke/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T153000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9/2024-10-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T173000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Adrian Walsh (University of New England)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Internal Validity\, External Validity and the Evaluation of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy \nAbstract: Thought experiments clearly play a central role in much contemporary ethical theorising. In the recent literature on thought experiments\, some commentators (e.g. Wilson 2016; Dowding 2019) have criticised the lack of attention paid by moral philosophers to two ideas which are key notions in science. These are internal and external validity. Wilson argues that if thought experiments are indeed a kind of experiment\, then philosophers should begin any plausible search for rigour in the scientific literature on experimental research design. When designing a thought experiment\, Wilson suggests we consider the extent to which ethical judgements that are correct or endorsed in the world of the experiment generalise to the world beyond the experiment. This is an important question to consider. However\, I suggest that Wilson’s approach (i) overstates the connection between real-world scientific experiments and thought experiments (ii) focuses too readily on the formal structure of thought experiments at the expense of the argumentative context. With respect to the former claim\, I suggest that this points towards a more general thesis that it is a mistake to treat the reasoning involved in the use of thought experiments as a subset of scientific reasoning. I shall also consider\, towards the end of the talk\, a more moderate (and plausible) view of the positive role that the concepts of internal and external validity might play in evaluating and assessing the legitimacy of thought experiments. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-adrian-walsh-university-of-new-england/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T153000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION: Location: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9/2024-10-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T173000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Happy Immoralists and Satisfied Loners: A Pragmatic Perspective on Disagreement about Well-being \nAbstract: Can a morally bad person live well? Can a person without friends achieve well-being? There is long-standing disagreement about the correct answers to these questions. I offer a diagnosis of the debate between those who answer “no” (objectivists about well-being) and those who answer “yes” (subjectivists about well-being). I suggest that the reason people are divided about this question is that the opposing answers represent two different perspectives on well-being that answer to two different sets of practical interests. Given this diagnosis\, the cure is to acknowledge the importance of both perspectives. I discuss different ways of doing this. \nLocation: online & livestreamed from Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-valerie-tiberius-minnesota/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241028T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241028T170000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:In person Talk by Tom Angier (University of Cape Town)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. \nAbstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle’s conception of human functioning\, which I take to be a viable and illuminating ground for determining human goods. I then look at alternative schemata for the notion of ‘function’ – ones derived from evolutionary theory – and argue that they are not preferable to their Aristotelian rival. I finish the paper by looking at ‘neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism’\, in particular that of Philippa Foot\, and argue that it is not Aristotelian enough.\n\nBio: Tom Angier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He works on neo-Aristotelian ethical and political theory. He is currently completing a monograph entitled “Human Nature\, Human Goods: A Theory of Natural Perfectionism”. It is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/in-person-talk-by-tom-angier-university-of-cape-town/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T153000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The brand-new PhiCliSci reading group will discuss Reto Knutti’s article ‘Climate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World’\, available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03\, and online. \nOptional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group:\n\n\nHawkins\, E.\, and R. Sutton. 2009. ‘The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions’. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90 (8): 1095–1108. Here\n\n\nHopster\, J. 2023. ‘Climate Change\, Uncertainty\, and Policy’. In: Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change. Gianfranco Pellegrino and Marcello Di Paola (eds.) \, 977–1000. Springer. Here.\n\n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-9-4/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T173000
DTSTAMP:20260829T144558
CREATED:20240912T184058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241026T135317Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews) and Graeme MacGilchrist (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on 31 October (4-5.30pm) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group\, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session\, climate scientist Graeme MacGilchrist and philosopher Katharina Bernhard will give presentations on the topic of ‘Uncertainty’ in climate science\, after which the floor is open for discussion. \nTitle: Uncertainty \nLocation: The Stewart Room in Younger Hall
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-katharina-bernhard-st-andrews-and-graeme-macgilchrist-st-andrews/
LOCATION:The Stewart Room in Younger Hall\, Younger Hall\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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