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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thomas Hurka – The Well Rounded Life \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition \nAbstract: This paper investigates norms of ambition\, which set the level of achievement one ought to aspire to. I critically examine the widely accepted norm of excellence\, which encourages one to seek excellence in one’s pursuits. I argue that while this norm is accepted by default\, we should abandon it—absent of special evidence—in favour of the norm of sufficiency\, which encourages one to perform merely well enough in one’s pursuits. This move is motivated by two problems confronting the norm of excellence: that living by it likely leads to mishandling one’s moral duties; and that living by it carries risk of significant psychological harm to oneself and others. I defend the norm of sufficiency by arguing that its widespread default acceptance would by and large avoid such harms and still allow for excellent achievement to arise\, thus leading to a world no worse and likely better than a world in which the norm of excellence enjoys widespread default acceptance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nLink for the Handout
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-federico-luzzi-university-of-aberdeen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-09/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T153000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
CREATED:20250911T150250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T104946Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Peter Singer – Famine\, Affluence\, and Morality \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T105930Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Michael Otsuka (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How nonexistence is worse for us \nAbstract: \n\nI defend the view that\, when a person’s life is worth living\, her existence is not merely good for her. It is also better for her than her never existing. I defend this view against the objection that it absurdly implies that nonexistence is bad for the multitude of merely possible people who are never brought into existence and who therefore have complaints against us for not procreating them. I respond to this objection by defending the following asymmetry\, which consists of an affirmation of the first\, combined with the denial of the second\, of these two claims: \n\n\nClaim 1. If p actually exists with a life worth living\, then: if (contrary to fact) p had not existed\, that would have been worse for p. \n\n\nClaim 2. If p does not actually exist\, then this is worse for p than if (contrary to fact) p had existed with a life worth living. \n\n\nI also defend the view that an appeal to the fact that a person’s life is better for her than her nonexistence can provide a response to the complaint that it is not going as well as it could. \n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-michael-otsuka-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper\, “Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
CREATED:20251007T190917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T171715Z
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-16/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T200000
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The VVitch
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Ninth 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 VVitch  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings: \nTo Read:\nVictoria Madden — “ ‘Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?’: Gothic Feminism and the Final Girl in Robert Eggers’ The Witch”\n\nCristina Casado Presa — “Monsters\, Women\, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch (2015)”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-the-vvitch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251023T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
CREATED:20251027T143141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T143142Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: \nFor next week’s MPRG\, we are returning to Abelard Podgorski’s paper\, “Complaints and Tournament Population Ethics”. Our new PhD colleague\, Ida Miczke\, will guide the discussion. Please find the paper attached\, or by accessing the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12860. \n\nBelow are some suggested questions from Ida to help us focus in on different aspects of the paper. \n\nWhat do you think of the claim that there can be no victimless wrongs? Is it possible to commit a wrongdoing without wronging anyone?\n⁠Is the idea of morality based on complaints intuitive? What about morality based on gratitude?\nWhat are your intuitions about the neutrality condition – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither obligatory nor wrong? What if we phrase it in axiological terms instead – is bringing happy people into existence neutral\, i.e. neither good nor bad?\nCan we really bite the bullet on the non-identity problem?\nCan all of ethics be a tournament\, or is it just population ethics?\n\n\nSee you all next Wednesday\, October 29th\, from 4-5pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). \nLocation: Edgecliffe 104
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-mprg-2-2/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe 104
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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SUMMARY:Cover-to-cover Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This semester we are reading Finneron-Burns “What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics”. \nOrganiser: Ida Miczke (izm1)
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/cover-to-cover-reading-group/2025-10-30/
LOCATION:CEPPA/Arché Seminar room\, 17 – 19 College Street\, St Andrews\, KY16 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T034438
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T130027Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Alice Murphy (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature \nAbstract: 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 scientific practice. I will then discuss how aesthetic judgments also shape this discourse\, influencing research\, management decisions\, and public perceptions. I argue that the intertwined nature of aesthetic and moral values in invasion science challenges traditional approaches to the “new demarcation problem”\, which seeks to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate value influences. Further\, this complicates views in environmental aesthetics that privilege scientific knowledge as the foundation for aesthetic judgments of nature. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alice-murphy-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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