Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Applications open for the St Andrews & Macquarie Doctoral Scholarship in Philosophy, on Pro-natalist Policies & Ethics of Procreation in the Climate Crisis. 3.5-year, full fees plus stipend Split time at St Andrews & Sidney Deadline December 9, 2024 All info here
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
How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space … Read more
Next week, hundreds of policymakers from all over the world will meet at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York for the first Summit for the Future. By the end of it, the UN will adopt the Pact for the Future, a document outlining what steps the organisation and its members will take to … Read more
Some weeks ago during our Climate Justice Workshop, the wonderful Ben Nightingale from Babatat Studio captured the talks in these gorgeous posters. Climate Justice Workshop in St Andrews on the 29th and 30th of May 2024 organised by Krushil Watene, Mara van der Lugt, and James Rae. You can download a PDF with all of … Read more
To the prints! Our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith’s new book ‘The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees’ will be coming out later this summer. The book provides an ethical analysis of the policies and practices that states use in response to refugees and develops an understanding of what an ethical response to refugees would be. … 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
Theron Pummer interviewed at the APA Blog! The main focus of the interview is his new book, but other topics include his personal life and future work.
For S2 (2022-23) of the Cover to Cover Reading Group, we are reading McPherson’s book The Virtues of Limits.
A teaser for Theron Pummer’s book The Rules of Rescue (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).