CEPPA Talk – Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)

Title: 'Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture' Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable, and indeed to follow ... Read more

CEPPA Talk – Kieran Setiya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title: 'What is Morality?' Abstract: In “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept of Aristotelian ethics, that it derives from a confused response to the ethics of divine of command, and that it is literally meaningless. This essay contends that Anscombe was wrong. Morality corresponds to Aristotle’s general ... Read more