Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
We are proud to present the Fourth Session of the CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and Stories We Tell (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 17:15. Recommended reading and watching material Articles: Bill Nichols - Performative documentaries (in Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture p.92-106). ... Read more
This week we will discuss Cora Diamond's classic paper 'The Difficulty of Reality'. Location: Edgecliffe G03
This week we will discuss James Sias, ‘Ethical Intuitionism and the Emotions: Toward an Empirically Adequate Moral Sense Theory’, available here. Location: Edgecliffe G03
Ziming Xia will lead the MPRG to discuss 'Localized Restricted Aggregation' by Victor Tadros. All welcome! Article available here: https://academic.oup.com/book/32206/chapter-abstract/268368585?redirectedFrom=fulltext Location: Edgecliffe G03
We are proud to present the Third Session of CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and WALL·E (see trailer here). The discussion will be lead by Emma Holmes and Miguel de la Cal Moreno. The movie will start SHARP at 17:30. Here is a suggested reading list: Dona ... Read more
This week Karri Heikkinen will lead a discussion on Kirsten Mann, "Relevance and nonbinary choices" Ethics (2022). Location: Edgecliffe G03
The brand-new PhiCliSci reading group will discuss Reto Knutti's article ‘Climate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World’, available here. This will be in Edgecliffe G03, and online. Optional Further Readings for PhiCliSci Reading Group: Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton. 2009. ‘The Potential to Narrow Uncertainty in Regional Climate Predictions’. Bulletin of the American Meteorological ... Read more
Location: Edgecliffe G03
Location: Edgecliffe G03
This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi's ‘Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism’. Here is the abstract: In his 1982 article, T. M. Scanlon noted that, despite the widespread attention to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that, nearly ... Read more
