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CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jonathan Birch (LSE)

Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience Abstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings … Read more

Health and Medicine

The project: This project addresses conceptual and normative questions relating to health and medicine, broadly construed. These include: Project members: Joseph Millum (St Andrews) Cecily Whiteley (St Andrews) Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews) Ben Sachs-Cobbe (St Andrews) Emilia Wilson (St Andrews) Teaching: PY4666 Bioethics PY4670 Ethics and the allocation of health resources PY4671 Philosophy … Read more

Past projects

See below for more information about our previous research projects. Philosophy and Education This practical project aims to increase and support the role of philosophy in nursery, primary and secondary education by disseminating philosophy skills to teachers. Virtue and Character Exploring the nature of virtue and character, their role in moral theory and practical ethics, … Read more

Moral Philosophy Reading Group

This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on ‘Rights, Duties and Inviolability’. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this, all rights-theorists agree. Yet there is disagreement on whether rights also entail positive duties to protect and … Read more

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