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CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)
Title: Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03
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Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
We are proud to present the Sixth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The Killing of a Sacred Deer (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings/videos. Videos: "Iphigenia at Aulis" summary Readings: Euripides, Iphigenia ... Read more
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: this week we will discuss Mark Johnstone: ‘Anarchic Souls: Plato’s Depiction of the “Democratic Man”’ in Phronesis 58 (2013) Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Daniela Dover (UCLA)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Daniela Dover (UCLA)
Title: The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the Republic is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading ... Read more
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein ‘Hypocrisy and Moral Authority’, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Tom Sinclair (Oxford)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Tom Sinclair (Oxford)
Title: Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral conditions on blaming and notions of moral authority, proposing instead an account based on a conception of moral interactions as fundamentally dialogical in character. According to ... Read more
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: Crisp, Roger, and Christopher Cowton. “Hypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.” Location: Edgecliffe G03
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katherine Snow (Princeton)
CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katherine Snow (Princeton)
Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using necessity. Scientific naturalism presents logical causal necessity as constituting how nature "makes" things exist, and it presents necessity in the more general or abstract sense ... Read more
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: 'Being Good and Being Good-For-Someone: Why Consequentialism Must Be Wrong' Location: hybrid On this occasion, the paper will be distributed separately. Please email Joel Joseph if you'd like a copy.
CEPPA Talk (online) – Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)
CEPPA Talk (online) – Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)
Title: The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor ... Read more