CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Proleptic Praise Abstract: What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does. Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I here argue that by foregrounding cases in which expressions of praise are rejected by their direct target, we see that praise has a wider, and ... Read more

Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality

Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

An in-person symposium in St. Andrews on themes from the recently-published, Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality, by Ben Sachs. Location: Edgecliffe, G03 Schedule (all times PM) 1:30-1:55: Ben Sachs-Cobbe, Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, "Welcome and Summary" (Chs. 1-3) 1:55-2:35: Michael Moore, Law, University of Illinois, “Finding the Purposes of Staplers and States” (Ch. ... Read more