Reading: For 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. Below are some suggested questions from Ida to help us focus in on different aspects of the paper. ... Read more
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Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature Abstract: 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 ... Read more |
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Wednesday (5 Nov) 3.30-5pm please join us at School V for a special event co-hosted by CEPPA with the Climate, Ocean, and Atmosphere at St Andrews (COASt) research group and the newly founded St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates. This event will be in-person only. We will be welcoming Wim Carton (Lund) to ... Read more
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Reading: This Wednesday, we are discussing the paper “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics” by Bernard Williams See you all next Wednesday, November 5th, from 5-6pm at Edgecliffe (room 104). Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
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Title: What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society? Abstract: Normative philosophers (inter alia, political theorists, moral philosophers, applied ethicists) develop arguments which link normative positions to practical (and theoretical) judgments or conclusions. This might sound anodyne, but I use it as a basis to explain what normative philosophers can add to policy discussions ... Read more |
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Reading: Keshav Singh’s paper, “What’s in an Aim?”. This paper discusses a central issue for positions that attempt to ground normativity in constitutive features of agency. Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
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Title: Co-forming feelings in therapy Abstract: This paper opens a project within philosophy of therapy, on the question of how feelings are formed in the context of interactions between clients and therapists. There is a common assumption within many therapeutic approaches that feelings are formed by individuals in their lives outside therapy, and then clients ... Read more |
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Reading: Dan Baras’s 2023 paper, "Carbon Offsetting” Location: Edgecliffe 104
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Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract: Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal ‘logic’ that underpins this assignment of responsibility, but this is not explicitly reflected on or ... Read more |
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Reading: Nick Zangwill’s 2021 paper, "Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat”. Location: Edgecliffe 104 |
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We are proud to present the Tenth 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 His Girl Friday (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. To Read: Stanley Cavell - 'Words for a Conversation' ... Read more |
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