CEPPA Programme Spring 2025

CEPPA Seminar S2 2025 / Climate Ethics/PhiCliSci

(all Seminars from 4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon, Edgecliffe G03)

Week 2 (6 Feb) – Philip Ebert (University of Stirling)

Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events

Week 3 (13 Feb) – Simon Lee (Earth & Environmental Sciences) and Viviane Fairbank (Philosophy)

Philosophy of Climate Science: Climate Modelling and Climate Communication

In-person and online (John Henderson lecture room in Castlecliffe)

Week 4 (20 Feb) –Petronella Randell (St Andrews)

Resisting the unexperienced

In-person and online

Week 5 (27 Feb) – Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)

Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem

In-person and online

Week 6 (13 Mar) – Daniela Dover (UCLA)

The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman

In-person and online

Week 7 (20 Mar) – Tom Sinclair (Oxford)

Hypocrisy as Evasion

In-person and online

Week 8 (27 Mar) – TBA

PhiCliSci

In-person and online

Week 9 (3 Apr) – Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University)

The Incomparable Value of the Individual

Online but live-streamed from Edgecliffe G03

Week 11 (17 Apr) – Lucy O’Brien (UCL)

Autonomy and control over one’s social self-consciousness

In-person and online

Week 12 (24 Apr) – Knox Lecture by David Enoch

Title TBA

Location TBA

Week 13 (1 May) – Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

The powers of shared agency: a Kantian account of evil and hope

In-person and online

Week 10 (21 Nov) – Clotilde Torregrossa (St Andrews)

Climate Ethics: The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism

Week 15 (15 May) – Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool)

Merely Imagined Moralities: on the political (in)significance of perspectival worldmaking.

In-person and online