BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//CEPPA - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CEPPA
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20190331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20191027T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20200329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20201025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20210328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20211031T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20230326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20231029T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20220704T090622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221117T081847Z
UID:10000351-1668700800-1668706200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Working on Yourself\n\nAbstract: This is a thesis-antitheses-synthesis kind of talk. We begin with a question: How should one react to one’s own moral achievements and moral failures\, and to the moral achievements and moral failures of other people? One answer that might seem initially compelling is that we should be harsher on ourselves than we are on others: we should be modest about our own moral achievements while celebrating others’ moral achievements\, and we should show more leniency in response to others’ moral failures than in response to our own. As compelling as this answer might seem\, a smorgasbord of recent trends in popular moral thought push back against it in various ways\, and it paints an odd picture of how good people are supposed to talk to each other. That’s the thesis and its antitheses. The synthesis is the central idea of this talk: the idea of working on yourself. I’ll say what working on yourself is and why it matters morally\, and I’ll also introduce the idea of a deliberate self-improvement\, which is my name for what you bring about when you try to work on yourself and succeed. With these two notions in hand\, I’ll argue that the initially-compelling answer and its intuitive counterphenomena can all be accommodated by an account that emphasizes the importance of not only working on yourself\, but also encouraging and facilitating others’ work on themselves\, all while recognizing the enormous diversity of impediments to their doing either of these that particular individuals might encounter. We’ll see that some apparent self/other asymmetries have solid metaphysical or moral underpinnings\, while others dissolve. I’ll then discuss some cool upshots and one remaining deeper puzzle; in brief\, the puzzle concerns whether we should prioritize working on ourselves over supporting others’ work on themselves and\, if so\, what could explain this division of labor.\nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-zoe-johnson-king/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20220704T085350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T153809Z
UID:10000285-1663862400-1663867800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Sally Haslanger (MIT)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Ideology\, Culture\, and Social Meaning \nAbstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular challenge for those working on social justice: Why is it that most of us\, most of the time\, act in ways that perpetuate injustice? To begin to answer this question\, I will develop an account\, inspired by Althusser among others\, that embeds ideology in social practices. Social practices enable both human and non-human animals to coordinate fluently and flexibly in response to each other and our environment; and they depend on something like a “language” – a system of signs and signals – that makes socially intelligible agency possible. I call such a framework of meaning and its material apparatus a cultural technē. I go on to argue that Grice’s distinction between natural and non-natural meaning is too coarse to provide us an account of social meaning\, and drawing on Skyrms and others working on signals\, I propose that a cultural technē is a framework or system of signs. I then consider how we might capture the publicity of social meanings in terms that don’t require complex metacognition. I conclude that account of ideology as a cultural technē “gone wrong” provides us the basics of a critical account of ideology. \nYou can read the full paper\, but attendees are not expected to have read the paper in advance.\nCo-hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-sally-haslanger-mit/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20220225T154946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T075532Z
UID:10000343-1649952000-1649957400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – David Christensen (Brown University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Epistemic Akrasia: No Apology Required \nAbstract: It is natural to think that rationality imposes some relationship between what a person believes\, and what she believes about what she’s rational to believe. Epistemic akrasia—for example\, believing P while believing that P is not rational to believe in your situation—is often seen as intrinsically irrational. This paper argues otherwise. In certain cases\, akrasia is intuitively rational. Understanding why akratic beliefs in those case are indeed rational provides a deeper explanation how typical akratic beliefs are irrational—an explanation that does not flow from akrasia per se. This understanding also allows us to diagnose where general anti-akratic arguments go wrong. We can then see why even principles designed to allow only moderate akrasia fail\, and also why recognizing the possibility of rational akratic beliefs does not call for finding some other epistemic defect in agents who believe akratically. Believing akratically\, in itself\, is nothing to apologize for.\nCo-Hosted with ECT.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-david-christensen-brown-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20210830T152931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T150505Z
UID:10000322-1649347200-1649352600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Kristie Dotson (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Beyond the Now: Epistemic Oppression and the “Common” Sense of Incarceration \nAbstract: In this presentation\, I narrate an encounter with 2 Black teenagers who attempted to steal my cellphone and the difficulty of insisting on accountability while avoiding the worst parts of the state-run criminal justice system. Ultimately\, I demonstrate that\, at times\, when a situation calls for accountability for a serious wrongdoing in the U.S. one can find oneself trapped in a “now” that has been constructed by 1) ineffective carceral imaginations\, 2) insufficient structural options for accountability\, and 3) inadequate lexicons of permissibility. I conclude by suggesting key questions for exploration in the U.S. carceral state are: what are the communities we want to build with the accountability options on which we rely? How can we make the current “common” sense of incarceration “uncommon?” \nCo-Hosted with ECT and FPST \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-kristie-dotson/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220317T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20220113T195455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T171405Z
UID:10000339-1647532800-1647538200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Lara Jost - CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Labours of Chronic Illness \nAbstract: In this presentation\, I aim to explain the three types of labour- administrative labour\, hermeneutic labour and epistemic labour- that chronically ill people have to engage in to get good care. The goal is to highlight why being chronically ill is often considered by many chronically ill people to be a full-time or part-time job\, often without being recognized as such by others. I focus on the epistemic labour and the hermeneutic labour and explain why they are disproportionately higher when it comes to certain chronic illnesses. I argue that this higher cost is in part the result of a deep disagreement about how these patients should testify about their illness\, caused by a cluster of types of epistemic injustices. To illustrate this dynamic\, I attend to the applied case of endometriosis\, a gynaecological chronic illness causing pelvic pain and infertility. Finally\, I offer some avenues for improvement that the healthcare system could focus on to lessen the epistemic and hermeneutic labour of chronic illness and improve the lives of chronically ill people.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/lara-jost-ceppa-work-in-progress-talk/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20210830T153109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T170202Z
UID:10000323-1639065600-1639071000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change\, COVID-19\, Justice\, and Quality of Life \nAbstract: Justice would appear to require that those who are the principal beneficiaries of a history of economic and political behavior that has resulted in harmful global climate change should bear a correspondingly large share of the burden in contending with these harms worldwide. At the same time\, however\, a prevalent material conception of quality of life has led many to assume that taking on this burden would require diminishing the quality of life—and associated level of well-being or happiness—enjoyed in the most-developed countries. For such societies fully to accept this burden therefore seems unlikely to achieve the social and political support it would need. However\, I will argue that a material conception of quality of life is at odds with what can be learned from an extensive body of evidence regarding “subjective well-being”—an imperfect though informative empirical measure of how people experience and evaluate their lives. This evidence suggests an account of the sources and nature of subjective well-being that is compatible with more sustainable levels of resource utilization and more equitable global distribution. The COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a stress-test for responses to global climate change\, and it has witnessed wide differences in the health outcomes for countries that are not simply a function of the level of material wealth or available technological or medical resources. Effective social policies\, institutions\, and practices have been accompanied by better and fairer health outcomes with less disruption of daily life\, suggesting that the purported “health vs. economy” or “health vs. personal freedom” trade-offs in the most-developed societies have been misconceived. Might something similar be true of the supposed costs to the quality of life of more effective environmental policies and practices on the part of the most-developed societies?
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-peter-railton-university-of-michigan/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20210830T152729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T082104Z
UID:10000321-1637251200-1637256600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Linda Martín Alcoff (City University of New York)
DESCRIPTION:Event co-Hosted with ECT and FPST. \nTitle: Extractivist epistemologies \nAbstract: This paper (which is very much a work in progress) will develop the concept of extractivist epistemology as a way to think through the effect of colonialism on knowing practices. Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism: seeking an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or rural healer concerning the medicinal potential of a given plant\, or an artifact from an indigenous funeral site. The extractivist approach to knowledge treats this epistemic resource as a piece of knowledge that can be separated from the social context and identities of its origin without epistemic loss. In so doing\, extractivist practices change the items that are abstracted. I will show how this is this is an epistemic problem and not simply an ethical problem.\n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-linda-martin-alcoff-city-university-of-new-york/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201203T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T233212
CREATED:20200819T114814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T201738Z
UID:10000263-1607011200-1607016600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:ECT/CEPPA Talk - Sarah Moss (University of Michigan)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘How to Be a Clever Contextualist’ \nAbstract: This talk defends a contextualist theory of ‘knowledge’ ascriptions. I argue that in some sentences\, the implicit argument of ‘knows’ is bound by a quantifier. The natural readings of these sentences can be generated by contextualist theories\, but not by competing interest-relative theories of knowledge. In addition\, I argue that the contextualist can explain distinctive patterns in our judgments about sentences in which ‘knows’ is embedded under change-of-state verbs. Along the way\, I argue that the most common definitions of ‘encroachment’ and ‘interest relativity’ are seriously flawed. \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-sarah-moss-university-of-michigan/
ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Kuespert":MAILTO:nk94@st-andrews.ac.uk
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR