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SUMMARY:Knox Lecture 2023 – Sally Haslanger (MIT)
DESCRIPTION:Location: School III in-person and Teams online (for online attendees\, headphones should be worn to prevent a feedback loop from occurring) \nTitle: Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care \nAbstract: For decades\, socialist feminists have insisted that an adequate approach to any economy\, and especially to capitalism\, must involve attention to social reproduction\, i.e.\, to “the activities and attitudes\, behaviors and emotions\, and responsibilities and relationships directly involved in maintaining life\, on a daily basis and intergenerationally” (Brenner and Laslett 1991). Debates over social reproduction typically begin with a critique of Marxism\, arguing that wage labor crucially depends on the production of the laborer\, which is done mainly by women\, but mostly ignored by Marx. One approach to social reproduction is to locate it within patriarchy\, which is thought to be one of several interacting systems (others include capitalism and White supremacy). In this talk\, I will argue it is better to understand our current social formation as a single (patriarchal\, capitalist\, White supremacist) system\, and will discuss why this matters for developing a political agenda around care work. \nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2MwZTg1YWUtNWI2ZC00MDViLTg4YTMtYzJmNjc1NWQzOGM0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22%3A%22f85626cb-0da8-49d3-aa58-64ef678ef01a%22%2C%22Oid%22%3A%2251bd815f-5519-4c20-81c7-4701c95594b5%22%2C%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3Atrue%2C%22role%22%3A%22a%22%7D&btype=a&role=a \nFor online attendees\, headphones should be worn to prevent a feedback loop from occurring.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/knox-lecture-2023-sally-haslanger-mit/
CATEGORIES:Knox Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230504T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230325T134455Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Eric Martin (Baylor)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Scientism and Humanities Education \nAbstract: In this talk I discuss a pedagogical implication of scientism. Because scientism elevates science and derogates what is deemed non-scientific\, the arts and humanities become\, on such a view\, less valuable parts of university curricula. I survey some of the current data on declining study of the humanities and explain how scientism may contribute to a trend disparaging the arts and humanities\, suggesting some problems with this view.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-eric-martin-baylor/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230413T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20221207T205510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T051645Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Daniel Muñoz (UNC Chapel Hill)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Values as Vectors \nAbstract: Often\, two things seem tied in value\, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values\, rather than being like precise numbers\, must be imprecise\, giving rise to a special nontransitive value relation\, which Chang calls parity. But parity is notoriously hard to pin down\, and imprecise values are neither necessary nor sufficient for modeling sweetening. I propose instead to model overall values as many-dimensional vectors. The result is a fresh and flexible framework for the stranger side of ethics—as well as an elegant definition of parity as a tie between things of nonfungible value.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-munoz/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T140000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20221017T104741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T072304Z
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SUMMARY:Special MPRG: Mattia Cecchinato
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: “The Mind that Matters: Degrees of Sentience and Moral Status”. \nAbstract: It is often argued that the capacity for conscious experience is necessary for a creature to morally matter for its own sake and thus have moral status. Entities that lack the capacity for consciousness\, such as chairs\, philosophical zombies\, or anencephalic infants\, seem to lack all subjectivity and welfare concerns—nothing can be good or bad for them. But is the morally relevant property the general fact of being (phenomenally) conscious as such\, or is it a particular kind of consciousness that matters? According to a long and widespread philosophical tradition\, Narrow Sentientism\, the ground of moral status is the capacity for affective consciousness (i.e. emotions\, pleasure\, and pain). David Chalmers (2022)\, however\, has recently challenged this view by arguing for Broad Sentientism\, according to which the capacity for phenomenal consciousness alone suffices for moral status\, even in cases where the capacity for affect is absent. \nIn this talk\, I examine both views in light of recent evolutionary and philosophical arguments concerning the possibility of degrees of consciousness (Tye 2021; Lee 2022). I propose that the most compelling understandings of Narrow and Broad Sentientism are scalar versions of each. But I also argue that if (i) we can distinguish between affective and phenomenal consciousness\, and if (ii) both are gradable\, then trade-offs reveal the inadequacy of Scalar-Broad Sentientism. A highly conscious creature with a low degree of affect would not score well in terms of moral status. The view of moral status that better tracks our intuitions across a range of cases\, I argue\, is a version of Scalar-Narrow Sentientism. It is a function of the degree of affect weighted by the size of the phenomenal repertoire possessed by the relevant conscious creature. Finally\, I investigate the practical implications of this novel view for our treatment of non-human animals\, our fellows humans\, and artificial sentience.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/special-mprg-mattia-cecchinato/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20220704T085204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T151309Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Ben Sachs-Cobbe (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nTitle: What’s wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? \nAbstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K.\, and one popular argument in favour of character education is that it is conducive to producing citizens who have the virtues that make someone a good citizen.  But there is an oft-heard objection to the idea that educators should try to inculcate the virtues of citizenship\, namely that doing so serves a conservative agenda.  In this talk I investigate what separates a conservative from an anti-conservative theory of good citizenship\, and conclude that educating children for the virtues of citizenship cannot possibly serve a conservative agenda\, or for that matter any controversial political agenda at all.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-ben/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220913
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20220520T094436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220911T054038Z
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SUMMARY:Book Workshop: Elizabeth Ashford's *Hunger’s Witting Executioners*
DESCRIPTION:One-day book workshop on Elizabeth Ashford’s Hunger’s Witting Executioners: Structural Violations of the Right to Subsistence \nPre-read: workshop participants will be expected to read the book manuscript distributed in advance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. \nSchedule: \n10:30am to noon: discussion \nLunch break (free time) \n1:30pm to 3pm: discussion \n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-workshop-elizabeth-ashfords-hungers-witting-executioners/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20220628T053818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T091553Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Cécile Fabre (Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: The Morality of Gossip \nAbstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that gossiping\, while often gratifying\, is\, if not morally wrong\, at least not quite right. Gossip has not received much attention in moral philosophy. In this paper\, I argue that notwithstanding the fact that gossip often has beneficial effects\, it is often wrong\, on Kantian grounds. To that end\, I first provide an account of the phenomenon of gossip and of its value. I then argue that two fairly standard arguments against gossip do capture some morally problematic features of gossip (to do with breach of trust and deception) but are under inclusive. The deeper underlying worry about gossip\, I go on to claim\, is that it amounts to a particular kind of failure to treat others – be they gossipees or gossipers – as persons.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-cecile-fabre-oxford/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T062903Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Matthew Adler (Duke University)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams \nTitle: “Person-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding\, Desert-Neutral\, Repugnant” \nAbstract: \nThe philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifications or accounts.   The “person-affecting”/”impersonal” distinction can be interpreted in various ways.  I understand it as follows.  A person-affecting justificatory framework sees individuals’ well-being gains and losses—well-being effects on persons—as the fundamental moral considerations that underlie the moral goodness of outcomes. \nMy research has investigated the implications of the person-affecting framework\, using the concept of “claims-across-outcomes”—a concept that seeks to make the framework more rigorous and to draw clear implications from it. This talk will present and synthesize the results of this research program. \nIn a nutshell: the claims-across-outcomes framework argues for a moral-goodness ranking that satisfies an equity axiom (the Pigou-Dalton axiom)\, as opposed to utilitarianism; is neutral to individual differences in desert; and (extended to the variable-population context) implies the Repugnant Conclusion.  In short\, person-affecting consequentialism is equity-regarding\, desert-neutral\, and repugnant.  Surprisingly\, perhaps\, the simple idea that moral goodness is grounded on well-being gains and losses has these upshots.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-matthew-adler-duke-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T213527Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt-University)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: Ought and the Transmission of Reasons \nAbstract: According to the widely held Weightiest Reasons view about how reasons for action and the practical ought are related to one another\, \n(WR)  an agent ought to φ if\, and only if\, the reasons for φ are weightier than the reasons for every incompatible alternative to φ. \nI show that complementing (WR) in a way that results in an extensionally adequate account is surprisingly difficult and compromises intuitive plausibility. In particular\, it turns out that (WR) only returns correct results when it is combined with principles of reasons transmission some of which entail an implausible proliferation of reasons. Even so\, the theoretical package that friends of (WR) must accept is to be preferred over competing views.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-thomas-schmidt/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-12-01/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000335-1637766000-1637769600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-24/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-17/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-10/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000332-1635951600-1635955200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-11-03/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211027T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000331-1635346800-1635350400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-27/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000330-1634742000-1634745600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-20/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211013T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000329-1634137200-1634140800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-13/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000328-1633532400-1633536000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-10-06/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000327-1632927600-1632931200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-09-29/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210922T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000326-1632322800-1632326400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-09-22/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210915T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20210830T180836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210830T181258Z
UID:10000325-1631718000-1631721600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Moral Philosophy Reading Group\nDescription: This group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nDay/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-4/2021-09-15/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210526T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20200709T164951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T164219Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Permissibility of Lesser Evil \nAbstract: \nFlood:   Flood water is headed toward a cave where five innocent people are trapped and will be killed if the water reaches them. The water can be diverted into a mineshaft\, but innocent Betty is trapped in the mineshaft and will be killed if the water is redirected. Albert is a bystander who has seen and understood the whole situation\, and he stands next to a switch that can divert the flood. He can easily flip the switch. \nWhen considering cases like this\, some people believe that Albert is morally required to save the five at the cost of Betty’s life (the requirement thesis). Others believe that Albert is permitted but not required to save the five (the permissive thesis). I argue in favor of the permissive thesis and against the requirement thesis. I conclude by considering some further implications for the ethics of self-defense and war.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-2020-10-01-2021-04-29/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210521T171500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210521T184500
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20200821T141720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T201600Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Knox Lecture - Tim Scanlon (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:2021 Knox Lecture (online via Teams) \nKnox Lecturer: Tim Scanlon (Harvard University) \nTitle: Further Reflections on Tolerance and its Difficulty \nAbstract: The paper revisits the account of tolerance discussed in the author’s paper\, “The Difficulty of Tolerance\,” with the aim of clarifying (1) the reasons people have to care about the character of their society and (2) the range of others to whom the duties of tolerance are owed. \nPlease email Theron Pummer <tgp4@st-andrews.ac.uk> for the Teams link.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2021-knox-lecture-tim-scanlon-harvard-university/
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SUMMARY:Joe Slater Talk
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URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/joe-slater-talk/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210412
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Blame and Responsibility (UT Austin/St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop Schedule\nPlease email Matthew Vermaire <matthew.vermaire@gmail.com> if you’d like the Zoom link. \n\nFriday April 9th:  \nJustin Snedegar (University of St Andrews) [9:00am – 10:15am Central Daylight Time] / [3pm – 4:15pm UK Time] \n“Dismissing Blame”\nAbstract: When someone blames you\, you might accept the blame or you might reject it\, challenging the blamer’s interpretation of the facts\, or providing a justification or excuse. Either way\, there are opportunities for edifying moral discussion and moral repair. But another common response is to simply dismiss the blame\, refusing to engage with the blamer even by rejecting the blame. This talk aims to make sense of this kind of response: what are we doing\, when we dismiss blame? This is important for understanding when and why such a response is or is not legitimate\, and should shed light on questions both about blame itself and about the standing to blame. My answer is that when we dismiss blame\, we dismiss a demand or expectation that we express our remorse to the blamer in a way that lets them witness that remorse. \nAdam Etinson (University of St Andrews) [10:30am – 11:45am Central Daylight Time] / [4:30pm – 5:45pm UK Time] \n“Anger and Remorse”\nAbstract: We know that remorse\, on the part of offenders\, has a powerful capacity to abate anger\, on the part of victims (and third parties). What this suggests is that anger is rooted\, not just in perceived wrongdoing\, but in concern that an offender fails to recognize and take responsibility for their wrongdoing. It also suggests that anger seeks the satisfaction of remorse itself. If that is right\, then anger is fundamentally about recognition\, not revenge – a discovery of significant psychological\, social\, and political importance. \n\nSaturday April 10th: \nErik Encarnacion (University of Texas\, Austin) [9:00am – 10:15am Central Daylight Time] / [3pm – 4:15pm UK Time] \n“Two Conceptions of Repair: Restoration or Resilience”\nAbstract: Legal philosophers\, especially those who explain tort law in terms of corrective justice\, often assert that if A wrongfully harms B\, then A owes B a duty of repair. But what does this duty require? Some specify it in terms of the object of repair—i.e.\, the thing needing repair. Courts\, for example\, traditionally award compensation to repair harms to a plaintiff’s body and property. Others focus instead on repairing frayed relationships between victim and wrongdoer. But this paper explores an overlooked\, cross-cutting way of distinguishing the duty’s content based on the standard of repair rather than its object. That is\, regardless of the underlying “thing” needing repair\, we can ask what normative ideal should govern the reparative task. More specifically\, I defend a distinction between restorative repair and resilient repair. The former seeks to make things as though the injury never happened; the latter makes no effort to pretend than an injury never occurred. Instead\, resilient repair involves transformative changes that acknowledge that certain injuries cannot be undone\, while allowing injured victims to live dignified lives that in some respects may be better than before the injury. I argue that\, although judicial rhetoric makes it appear as though compensatory damages seek only restorative repair\, certain aspects of compensatory damages—like hedonic damages—are better justified in light of the ideal of resilience articulated here. \nDaniela Dover (University of California\, Los Angeles) and Jonathan Gingerich (King’s College London) [10:30am – 11:45am Central Daylight Time] / [4:30pm – 5:45pm UK Time] \n“Beauvoir’s Groundwork”\nAbstract: In The Ethics of Ambiguity\, Simone de Beauvoir set out to create a systematic existentialist ethical theory. Like Kant’s Groundwork\, The Ethics of Ambiguity posits a close connection between one’s own freedom and one’s ethical obligations to others\, arguing that in order to will your own freedom\, you must also will the freedom of everyone else. Immoral action\, for Beauvoir as well as for Kant\, is unfree. There is very little secondary literature on The Ethics of Ambiguity\, and yet we believe the text has much to offer contemporary moral philosophy. Our talk will be a brief introduction to Beauvoir’s ethics and metaethics\, meant to stimulate an open-ended discussion of what Beauvoir can contribute to contemporary debates about moral motivation and moral responsibility.\n\n\n\n\nSunday April 11th: \nConnie Rosati (University of Texas\, Austin) [9:00am – 10:15am Central Daylight Time] / [3pm – 4:15pm UK Time] \n“The Value of Accepting Responsibility”\nAbstract: Much of our talk about blame and responsibility concerns third parties; it involves our laying the blame and placing responsibility on others. But our talk also concerns\, though\, unfortunately\, less often\, our taking the blame and accepting responsibility. I undertake herein to explore the nature and value of agents taking responsibility for their actions—for what they do and what they say. I shall explain and argue for the moral value of taking the blame and accepting responsibility\, but I shall also explain and argue for the prudential value of being and becoming—making oneself into—an accepter. Being an accepter is\, or so I hope to show\, good for you. \nZoë Johnson King (University of Southern California) [10:30am – 11:45am Central Daylight Time] / [4:30pm – 5:45pm UK Time] \n“Varieties of Moral Mistake”\nAbstract: Some philosophers think that if someone acts wrongly while falsely believing that her action is permissible\, though she is aware of the non-moral facts that ground her action’s wrongness\, then her moral mistake cannot excuse her wrongdoing. And some think that this is because it is morally blameworthy to fail to appreciate the moral significance of non-moral features of an action of which one is aware\, such that mistakenly believing that one’s action is permissible when it is in fact wrong is itself morally blameworthy. Here I challenge the view that it is blameworthy to fail to appreciate the moral significance of non-moral features of an action of which one is aware. This view seems okay if we focus on examples of people mistakenly believing that their wrongful actions are permissible. But it is not remotely plausible when we consider other varieties of moral mistake – such as believing that one’s action is required when it is in fact supererogatory\, believing that one’s action is wrong when it is in fact permissible\, and believing false things about the moral properties of other people’s actions and of merely possible actions. The upshot is that those who maintain that moral mistakes cannot excuse are sent back to the drawing board; we need a new explanation of why this would be the case. \n\nPlease email Matthew Vermaire <matthew.vermaire@gmail.com> if you’d like the Zoom link.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/workshop-on-blame-and-responsibility/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Works-in-Progress Talk – James Harris (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Some people and the people” \nAbstract: When is an action\, or a choice\, or a desire\, an action or choice or desire of the people\, as opposed to being an action\, or choice\, or desire of some people? In this talk I consider eight possible answers to this question. I focus in particular on the idea that the will of the people is the will of the majority\, and on the idea the will of the people is the will of representative institutions of government. My goal is to motivate the idea that it is never appropriate to describe a preference or policy as the will of the\, as opposed to some\, people. \nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGVlZmIzMWMtODY1Zi00NzNjLWIzNmYtNjhkYjU2YjliM2Zj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f85626cb-0da8-49d3-aa58-64ef678ef01a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22af5d8a3f-611f-454d-ba4b-63510191e14e%22%7d
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-works-in-progress-talk-james-harris-st-andrews/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:CEPPA’s Moral Philosophy Reading Group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nSemester 2 schedule: \nWednesdays 3pm – 4pm\, beginning 3 February and ending 28 April. We will skip the following Wednesdays: 10 Feb\, 24 Mar\, 31 Mar\, 21 Apr. (Due to staff meetings and spring break.) \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4). Teams link will be circulated in January 2021.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-3/2021-03-17/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210304T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210304T173000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20200709T164951Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Sara Bernstein (University of Notre Dame)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Biased Evaluative Descriptions \nAbstract: In 2008\, Joseph Biden called Barack Obama “an African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Though intended as a compliment\, such a description would not be applied to a non-African-American leader in the same context. Such biased evaluative descriptions\, roughly\, well-intended descriptions whose apparently positive surface meanings are inflected with implicit bias or benevolent discrimination\, are the focus of this talk. After giving several different kinds of examples of biased evaluative descriptions\, I distinguish them from similar linguistic concepts\, including backhanded compliments\, slurs\, insults\, epithets\, pejoratives\, and dog-whistles. I discuss some challenges to the distinctiveness and evaluability of BEDs\, including intersectional social identities. I conclude by discussing the social significance and moral status of BEDs. Identifying BEDs is important for a variety of social contexts\, from the very general and broad (political speeches) to the very particular and small (bias in academic hiring).
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-2020-10-01-2021-03-04/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210303T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210303T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
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SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:CEPPA’s Moral Philosophy Reading Group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nSemester 2 schedule: \nWednesdays 3pm – 4pm\, beginning 3 February and ending 28 April. We will skip the following Wednesdays: 10 Feb\, 24 Mar\, 31 Mar\, 21 Apr. (Due to staff meetings and spring break.) \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4). Teams link will be circulated in January 2021.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-3/2021-03-03/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210224T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210224T160000
DTSTAMP:20260831T031935
CREATED:20201120T090404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210116T113802Z
UID:10000298-1614178800-1614182400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:CEPPA’s Moral Philosophy Reading Group reads and discusses an article per week\, chosen by a different member each time. \nSemester 2 schedule: \nWednesdays 3pm – 4pm\, beginning 3 February and ending 28 April. We will skip the following Wednesdays: 10 Feb\, 24 Mar\, 31 Mar\, 21 Apr. (Due to staff meetings and spring break.) \nOrganizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4). Teams link will be circulated in January 2021.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-3/2021-02-24/
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