Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Welcome to the new academic year! The Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA) is a research centre that promotes exploration into important ethical issues arising in public life. Its field of interest comprises ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophical dimensions of public affairs. CEPPA houses research projects, outreach projects, seminars, conferences, academic visits, fellowships, publishing, … Read more
Join us next week for our Annual Knox Lecture. This year, it will be delivered by David Enoch from the University of Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here is all you need to know. Title: Shameless Liberalism: A Vision Abstract: Despite everything, liberalism remains the one true political philosophy. Liberal principles – something … Read more
CEPPA Seminar S2 2025 / Climate Ethics/PhiCliSci (all Seminars from 4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon, Edgecliffe G03) Week 2 (6 Feb) – Philip Ebert (University of Stirling) Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events Week 3 (13 Feb) – Simon Lee (Earth & Environmental Sciences) and Viviane Fairbank (Philosophy) Philosophy of Climate Science: … Read more
CEPPA Seminar S1 2024 / Climate Ethics/PhiCliSci (all Seminars from 4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon, Edgecliffe G03) Week 1 (19 Sep) – Koshka Duff (Nottingham) ‘Strip-searching as Abjectification: Racism and Sexual Violence in British Policing’ Online but live-streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Week 2 (26 Sep) Derek Ball (St Andrews) & Caroline Touburg (Umeå University) Climate Ethics: … Read more
Did you miss Elizabeth Anderson’s 2024 Knox Lecture? Perhaps you were too busy enjoying the Scottish sunshine, figuring out how to register to vote, or maybe you don’t even live in Scotland. Worry not, you can now watch the recording of it online: We are also relaunching ‘CEPPA Chats’, short interviews with CEPPA speakers, and the first … Read more
We are delighted to invite you to two public lectures on Climate Justice, which will be held during St Andrews’ inaugural Climate Week: Wed 29 May 5-6.30pm (St Salvator’s, School II) Prof. Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington) Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are … Read more
The 2024 Knox Lecture is only a couple of weeks from us. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Elisabeth Anderson the Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. The talk is titled: ‘Categorical Inequality and the Economy of Esteem’. … Read more
CEPPA Talks (4-5.30pm on Thursday afternoon) Week 1 (18 Jan) – online and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Selim Berker (Harvard) ‘Is there Anti-Fittingness?’ Week 2 (25 Jan) – Edgecliffe G03 Thom Brooks (Durham) ‘Justice and the Problem of Alienation’ Week 3 (1 Feb) – Edgecliffe G03 Jonathan Birch (LSE) ‘Debating proportionality at the … Read more
Sally Haslanger (MIT) will deliver the 2023 Knox Lecture, ‘Social Reproduction and the Politics of Care’.
On 9 June 2020, Prof. John Haldane gave the Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture, “Philosophy and Public Affairs in Historical Perspective”.