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  • Home
  • People
    • Members of CEPPA
    • Professorial Fellows
    • Postgraduate Members
    • CEPPA Advisory Committee
  • Projects
    • Kantian Ethics
    • Existential Gratitude and Spirituality
    • Climate Ethics
    • Philosophy of Climate Science
    • Health and Medicine
    • Human Rights and Global Justice
    • Virtue and Character
    • Past projects
      • Blame and Responsibility
      • Effective Altruism
      • The Future of Work and Income
      • Knowledge, Democracy, and Public Discourse
      • Philosophy and Education
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Reading Groups
    • Past CEPPA Talks
    • Knox Lectures 
    • The Ethics Cup
    • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA
  • Outputs
    • St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    • CEPPA Chats
    • Haldane Prize

Commentaries

What is the most democratic way to solve the Brexit crisis?

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 by Lynn Hynd

Katherine Hawley is one of ‘the ten thinkers on Brexit’.  Please read the article on ‘What is the most democratic way to solve the Brexit crisis?‘

Categories Commentaries, Knowledge, Democracy and Public Discourse

Why Fear and Anger are Rational Responses to Climate Change

April 11, 2019April 2, 2019 by Lynn Hynd

Read this article, ‘Why Fear and Anger are Rational Responses to Climate Change‘, published in the Conversation.    

Categories Commentaries

How high to dream?

January 9, 2019August 2, 2018 by Theron Pummer

Adam Etinson in The Times Literary Supplement on the rise of human rights amid the collapse of socialist ideals.

Categories Commentaries, Human Rights and Global Justice Tags Adam Etinson

Eight ethical questions about exploring outer space

January 10, 2019June 27, 2018 by Theron Pummer

Ben Sachs in The Conversation.

Categories Commentaries, Exoplanet Ethics Tags Ben Sachs

Adam Etinson in Conversation with Legal and Moral Philosophers

July 11, 2018January 22, 2018 by Lynn Hynd

About Human Rights, and Other Things, Too.

Categories Commentaries, Human Rights and Global Justice Tags Adam Etinson

The ethical significance of ET

December 6, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Tim Mulgan on how the discovery of extraterrestrial life would change morality.

Categories Commentaries Tags Tim Mulgan; ethics; exoplanets

Adam Etinson in The Stone

January 29, 2018October 2, 2017 by Lynn Hynd

Adam Etinson published a short piece in The Stone (the New York Times philosophy forum).

Categories Commentaries

Philanthropist Footballers: The Bigger Picture

September 4, 2017August 10, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Joe Slater invites us to take a broader perspective on footballer Juan Mata’s decision to pledge 1% to charity.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Juan Mata, The Ethics of Giving

Effective giving: how the world’s wealthy could help millions more people for free

November 16, 2018June 14, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Theron Pummer argues that billionaires who pledge fortunes to charity must not just give big, but give effectively.

Categories Commentaries, Effective Altruism Tags Bill Gates, Giving Pledge, Melinda Gates, The Ethics of Giving, Warren Buffett

Philosophers on the General Election

May 16, 2017 by Theron Pummer

Alex Douglas, Katherine Hawley, and other philosophers on the General Election.

Categories Commentaries, Knowledge, Democracy and Public Discourse, Research Projects Tags Alexander Douglas, Katherine Hawley, Politics
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Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
KY16 9AL
United Kingdom

Director:
Dr Mara van der Lugt
Email: [email protected]

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