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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Kal Kalewold (Leeds)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Going First: Integration with Compensation as a Duty of Justice. \nAbstract: Racial segregation remains deeply entrenched in many societies such as the United States. (Liberal) integrationists argue that we have a duty to integrate because integration is necessary for racial justice (Anderson 2010). (Egalitarian) pluralists reject a duty to integrate (Shelby 2014\, 2016). They hold that integration impermissibly imposes costs on the disadvantaged. On the pluralist view\, we should instead endeavour to make communities better off however they are spatially distributed. In this talk\, I defend a duty to integrate with compensation. I draw on evidence that has been neglected in the philosophical literature that the costs of integration are differentially distributed across age groups. Compensating those integrating first undermines the foundation of the pluralist objection and vindicates a duty to integrate. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-kal-kalewold-leeds/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Office Space (1999) with Ben Sachs-Cobbe
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Eleventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). \nDear all\,\nNext Thursday (March 26th) you are all invited to the Eleventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). With this event\, we start a special series highlighting the research being conducted in CEPPA. This time\, we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Office Space (1999) with our own Ben Sachs-Cobbe\, who will introduce us to some of the aspects of his research on the future of work project through this film. You can see the trailer here. As per usual\, there will be drinks and snacks from Luvians. Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo watch:\n\n\nFor a few years\, Alex and Ben were head of something called The Future of Work and Income Research Network. As part of that\, the two of them\, along with a SASP PhD student\, Deryn Thomas\, produced a series of four animated videos on topics regarding work. Those videos\, along with other videos we produced as part of the Network’s activities\, can all be found on YouTube’s Future of Work and Income page. Ben recommends people scroll down to where it says “animations” and watch those videos\, but of course they might stumble upon other things on that page that catch their interest.\n\n\nTo Read:\n\nKathi Weeks\, The Problem with Work\, Ch. 1. Available online through the library.\nDavid Graeber Bullshit Jobs: A Theory Chs. 5-6.\nJ.E. Penner ‘Aristotle\, Arendt and the Gentleman‘ in The Right to Work (ed. Mantouvalou). Available online through the library.\n\nSee you then!\n 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-office-space-1999-with-ben-sachs-cobbe/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Katie McShane (Colorado State University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Relational Value: Problems and Prospects \nAbstract: The concept of “relational value” is widely used in the environmental ethics and policy literatures. In this talk\, I will critically assess this use\, considering what relational value might add to our existing value categories and what problems it might produce for our thinking about the value of the natural world. I first discuss the history of the concept: why early authors considered it a necessary addition to other value concepts and which claims about the natural environment they thought it was particularly well positioned to capture. I next discuss criticisms of the concept: that the need for it was demonstrated by misrepresenting other categories of value and that it distorts our thinking about them. Finally\, I consider what would be a fruitful way forward given these concerns.  While the concept of relational value might be here to stay\, we would do well to think more carefully about both its meaning and its use.  \nLocation: Online on teams and streamed in Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-katie-mcshane-colorado-state-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260226T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Omar Ruiz Rivera and Craig Ferrie (St Andrews and Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Omar Ruiz Rivera – Moral Skill \nAbstract: This talk is about moral skill—the capacity for morally excellent behaviour. In particular\, I engage with Shepherd’s (2022) view that moral skill is “limited in scope\, and precarious” (p. 713). To defend this view\, Shepherd relies on a distinction between global and local moral skill. The former involves the action domains that structure human life\, whereas the latter is restricted to specific areas of human life. His claim is that global moral skill is “practically impossible for human agents” (p. 725)\, while local moral skill is possible but precarious. I will argue that Shepherd’s own account of skill supports a more complex picture of moral skill than he allows. Drawing on Shepherd’s (2021) account of skill\, I propose a third model of moral skill—“mid-level moral skill”—which is less demanding than global moral skill but broader in scope than local moral skill. If this claim is correct\, it would entail that framing moral skill exclusively in terms of global or local moral skill risks overlooking alternative perspectives that might lead to a more nuanced conclusion than Shepherd’s (2022) characterisation of moral skill as limited and precarious. \nCraig Ferrie – Normative (Un)knowability and the Hybrid Theory of Normative Truth \nAbstract: There is some plausibility to the idea that if a normative claim\, p\, is true then it should be possible to know p. If correct\, this makes normative truth quite different from natural truth\, which seems capable of outrunning our knowability. This view\, however\, runs up against counterexamples. It seems\, for instance\, that the people of Pompeii had most reason to evacuate in order to escape the eruption of Mt Vesuvius\, but no one could have known that they did. I am interested in whether the truth pluralist is in a unique position to overcome such counterexamples\, provided they accept a hybrid theory\, which treats them as conjunctions\, one part normative and one part natural. To do so\, it needs to be explained why these cases are exempt from the knowability condition on normative truth (which I will try do to!). \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-omar-ruiz-rivera-st-andrews-and-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Yoshinari Hattori and Ida Miczske (St Andrews and Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:Yoshinari Hattori – Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Reconsidering Their Foundations \nAbstract: This presentation argues that the practice of blaming wrongdoers—especially directing resentment or indignation towards them—is rationally indispensable for us. Pereboom contends that directing resentment or indignation at others is a form of harming them and is unjustified. As an alternative\, he proposes that when morally wrong actions are performed\, we should respond with disappointment or sadness. Against this proposal\, I argue that there are social functions that cannot be achieved by disappointment or sadness but are fulfilled only by directing resentment or indignation. The fact that we have strong reason to secure the fulfilment of these functions makes the practice of directing resentment or indignation rationally indispensable for us. In particular\, I argue that responding with disappointment or sadness fails\, first\, to treat others as moral agents and\, second\, to exercise the normative force required to compel them to stand in a space of answerability. \nIda Miczske – When love met morality: anonymity\, irreplaceability\, and partial self-effacement \nAbstract: Most of us value relationships such as friendship and love. Surprisingly\, it is not so easy to reconcile the demands they pose on us with living a moral life. In this presentation I want to identify one source of this tension and\, if time allows\, propose a solution based on partial self-effacement. \nI argue that the tension emerges because certain relationships require de re motivation grounded in the identity of an irreplaceable object\, while moral justification abstracts from particular identities. I propose to explicate the latter claim in terms of the requirement of justification anonymity\, and show that it conflicts with de re motivation.\nA common response to the conflict between relationships and morality has been to introduce self-effacement. However\, as full self-effacement is problematic\, I propose that moral theories should instead be partially self-effacing. Drawing on that\, I argue that partial self-effacement allows us to reconcile de re motivation with moral justification.\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-yoshinari-hattori-and-ida-miczske-st-andrews-and-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260212T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Enrico Galvagni (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Hume’s One and Only Definition of Virtue \nAbstract: Hume’s moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand\, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand\, he also says that it is a mental quality that receives moral approbation. Interpreters argue about which of these definitions is more fundamental and try to reconcile them into a unified account. Against such readings\, I argue that Hume has only one definition of virtue as a character trait that generates moral approbation. Utility and agreeableness play a fundamental role in his ethics\, but one that does not relate to his definition of virtue. In turn\, this provide reason to question the now mainstream interpretation of Hume as a virtue ethicist. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Viviane Fairbank (St Andrews and Stirling) & Jacob Librizzi (St Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Viviante Fairbank – The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism \nAbstract: On the traditional\, so-called Informational Model of journalism\, the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with true information about a certain range of important topics. Although this model is appealing\, I argue that it is unsatisfactory; importantly\, it does not allow us to properly criticize those journalists who publish true\, relevant\, and useful information without proper warrant or ethical backing. After discussing two recent case studies\, I argue that journalism is best understood as a distinctive kind of inquiry\, and that this understanding of journalism should lead us to reject any simple\, factive account of journalistic publication norms. I propose\, instead\, the Responsible-Inquiry Model of journalism\, according to which the primary role of journalism in a functioning democracy is to provide people with responsibly gathered information while\, in the process\, serving as zetetic models. Good journalists do not only provide useful information; they also conduct (ethically and epistemically) exemplary inquiries into the subject at hand. \nJacob Librizzi – Why Metanormative Constitutivists Should be Voluntarists About Reasons \nAbstract: For two decades\, constitutivist accounts of reasons (CR) have faced the “Shm” (or Shmagency) challenge. I argue that responses so far have misunderstood this challenge. However\, by interpreting CR as a form of voluntarism\, we can render the “Shm” challenge question-begging. In doing so\, we disarm the challenge once and for all. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-viviane-fairbank-st-andrews-and-stirling-jacob-librizzi-st-andrews/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Miguel de la Cal Moreno & Mario Bison (University of St Andrews and University of Stirling)
DESCRIPTION:4.05-4.45pm: Miguel de la Cal Moreno – Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change \nAbstract: Many people experience Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) as overwhelming and intimidating\, recognising its seriousness and the need to act while feeling unable to determine what to do or how to decide what to do. This paper characterises this experience as moral disorientation. Drawing on Stephen Gardiner’s account of ACC as a “Perfect Moral Storm\,” I argue that its global\, intergenerational\, ecological\, and theoretical dimensions undermine moral clarity on both epistemic and psychological grounds. While Gardiner’s framework helpfully identifies structural difficulties and risks of moral corruption\, it treats these difficulties largely ahistorically.\nTo address this limitation\, I turn to historical work by Naomi Oreskes\, Erik Conway\, and Geoffrey Supran on the deliberate manipulation of climate science and public discourse by the Carbon Industrial Complex. I argue that practices such as doubt-mongering and manipulative framing—particularly those emphasising individual responsibility—have actively contributed to moral disorientation about ACC. Recognising the historically manufactured dimensions of this disorientation helps render it intelligible and identifies normative constraints on how we ought to reason and act. \n4.50-5.30pm: Mario Bison – How to think about empathy\, and why \nAbstract: Empathy is usually cited in connection with altruistic\, or otherwise other-oriented behaviours and attitudes. An empathic approach is usually cited in everyday moral talk as fostering virtues such as forgiveness\, understanding\, and openness. Nevertheless\, there has also been\, at a theoretical level\, an increasing scepticism toward empathy in general. Philosophers have claimed that empathy is neither necessary for making moral judgments nor indeed the best way to go about our moral lives. The matter is complicated by the fact that empathy is variously defined by psychologists\, and no universally agreed-upon definition exists. In this talk I want to look for a solution to these problems by setting aside the immediate debates\, and instead look at the role that this concept has played in the thought of perhaps its most illustrious and influential historical proponent (David Hume)\, who believes that our moral judgments are fundamentally influenced by ‘sympathy’. By critically analysing this concept in context\, and by setting it against modern critics\, I will try to understand what specific need Hume (and his followers) may have felt for invoking empathy\, or related concepts\, in trying to understand morality. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-miguel-de-la-cal-moreno-mario-bison-university-of-st-andrews-and-university-of-stirling/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - His Girl Friday
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Tenth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss His Girl Friday (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \n\nStanley Cavell – ‘Words for a Conversation’ in Pursuits of Happiness (pp. 1-42). In particular\, pp. 1-8 & pp. 16-34.\nStanley Cavell – ‘His Girl Friday’ in Cities of Words (pp. 340-451).\nOlivia Kiriakou – Notebook Primer: Screwball Comedy.\nDavid Edelstein  – Forget me not: The genius of Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.\nClaire Carlisle – ‘Preface’ and ‘Last Words’ in The Marriage Question. \n\n(This review by Victoria Baena is also worth a read.)\n\n\nClare Chambers – ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-8) and ‘6.3 Internal Equality: Sexism’ (pp. 187-199) in Against Marriage.\n\nTo Watch \n\nMovie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).\nVideo: Kazuo Ishiguro on Holiday: ‘Screwball comedies were proto-feminist’.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-his-girl-friday/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251120T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) -  Matthew Brander (University of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Responsibility\, Causality\, and Carbon Accounting \nAbstract:  Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains\, but what is the basis for this allocation of responsibility? There may be a partial causal ‘logic’ that underpins this assignment of responsibility\, but this is not explicitly reflected on or discussed within carbon accounting standards\, nor the related academic literature. As well as being an interesting question in its own right\, the answer may be useful for guiding the development of carbon accounting standards. E.g. under ‘market-based’ accounting\, is it appropriate for companies to report emissions based on their purchase of ‘emission attribute certificates’? Or does the allocation of emissions need to conform to some kind of real-world physical or causal relationship between the reporter and the emissions reported? This paper offers an initial exploration of the underpinning intuitions or rationales at play within carbon accounting practice. \nLocation:  Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-matthew-brander-university-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online and in-person) - Ami Harbin (Oakland University)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Co-forming feelings in therapy \nAbstract: This paper opens a project within philosophy of therapy\, on the question of how feelings are formed in the context of interactions between clients and therapists. There is a common assumption within many therapeutic approaches that feelings are formed by individuals in their lives outside therapy\, and then clients come to therapy to understand\, process\, and/or cope with their feelings. Is therapy the setting where we come to identify\, understand\, reflect on\, or cope with feelings? Or do we in some cases depend on the therapeutic relationship for feeling formation?  If we are willing to entertain that idea – what are the risks\, and what are the ethical implications? \nLocation: Online on Teams and streamed in Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-and-in-person-ami-harbin-oakland-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Climate Ethics Talk (in-person) - Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork)
DESCRIPTION:Title: What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society? \nAbstract: Normative philosophers (inter alia\, political theorists\, moral philosophers\, applied ethicists) develop arguments which link normative positions to practical (and theoretical) judgments or conclusions. This might sound anodyne\, but I use it as a basis to explain what normative philosophers can add to policy discussions as well as to the moral reasoning of members of the public as a whole. The goal is to motivate a conceptually interesting ground for several forms of public philosophy. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-climate-ethics-talk-in-person-kian-mintz-woo-university-college-cork/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Alice Murphy (St. Andrews)
DESCRIPTION:Title: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature \nAbstract: This talk explores the intersection of environmental science and environmental aesthetics\, focusing on the discourse surrounding “invasive” species. I will present the ways that debates on invasive species reflect broader issues in the philosophy of science\, particularly concerning the role of moral and political values in scientific practice. I will then discuss how aesthetic judgments also shape this discourse\, influencing research\, management decisions\, and public perceptions. I argue that the intertwined nature of aesthetic and moral values in invasion science challenges traditional approaches to the “new demarcation problem”\, which seeks to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate value influences. Further\, this complicates views in environmental aesthetics that privilege scientific knowledge as the foundation for aesthetic judgments of nature. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-alice-murphy-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The VVitch
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Ninth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The VVitch  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings: \nTo Read:\nVictoria Madden — “ ‘Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?’: Gothic Feminism and the Final Girl in Robert Eggers’ The Witch”\n\nCristina Casado Presa — “Monsters\, Women\, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch (2015)”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-the-vvitch/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T105930Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Michael Otsuka (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: How nonexistence is worse for us \nAbstract: \n\nI defend the view that\, when a person’s life is worth living\, her existence is not merely good for her. It is also better for her than her never existing. I defend this view against the objection that it absurdly implies that nonexistence is bad for the multitude of merely possible people who are never brought into existence and who therefore have complaints against us for not procreating them. I respond to this objection by defending the following asymmetry\, which consists of an affirmation of the first\, combined with the denial of the second\, of these two claims: \n\n\nClaim 1. If p actually exists with a life worth living\, then: if (contrary to fact) p had not existed\, that would have been worse for p. \n\n\nClaim 2. If p does not actually exist\, then this is worse for p than if (contrary to fact) p had existed with a life worth living. \n\n\nI also defend the view that an appeal to the fact that a person’s life is better for her than her nonexistence can provide a response to the complaint that it is not going as well as it could. \n\nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-michael-otsuka-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250911T150250Z
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UID:10000614-1760020200-1760023800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group (MPRG)
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Peter Singer – Famine\, Affluence\, and Morality \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-12-3/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250911T143754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T113730Z
UID:10000603-1759420800-1759426200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Federico Luzzi (University of Aberdeen)
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition \nAbstract: This paper investigates norms of ambition\, which set the level of achievement one ought to aspire to. I critically examine the widely accepted norm of excellence\, which encourages one to seek excellence in one’s pursuits. I argue that while this norm is accepted by default\, we should abandon it—absent of special evidence—in favour of the norm of sufficiency\, which encourages one to perform merely well enough in one’s pursuits. This move is motivated by two problems confronting the norm of excellence: that living by it likely leads to mishandling one’s moral duties; and that living by it carries risk of significant psychological harm to oneself and others. I defend the norm of sufficiency by arguing that its widespread default acceptance would by and large avoid such harms and still allow for excellent achievement to arise\, thus leading to a world no worse and likely better than a world in which the norm of excellence enjoys widespread default acceptance. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03 \nLink for the Handout
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-federico-luzzi-university-of-aberdeen/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250911T151853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T152359Z
UID:10000744-1758817800-1758830400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Eigth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Portrait Of A Lady On Fire  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \nOn Feminist and Queer Theory:\nClara Bradbury-Rance – “Lesbian legibility and queer legacy in Céline Sciamma’s Portrat de la jeune file en feu (2019)”\nEmma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige – “Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploreing Queerness and Freedom through Portait of a Lady on Fire”\nTom Knoblach – “This is How You See Me?”: Collisions of Influence and Feminocentric Canon Building in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire”\n\nOn the look and the gaze:\nJohn Berger – Ways of Seeing Ch 1 and 3 (and if feeling cheeky also ch 4) [also available on video!]\nMichel Foucault – Las Meninas (ch 1 of The Order of Things)\nLaura Mulvey – Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema\nJean Paul Sartre – First Attitude towards Others\, (Part 3 Ch 1 of Being and Nothingness) (especially the bit discussing Proust; p 364-370 in this edition)\n\nTo Watch: \nFilms:\nBrainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes\, 2022)\nVertigo (Alfred Hitchcock\, 1958)\n\nVideos: \nCatherine Grant – Semblance (Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Vertigo)\nBroey Deschanel – What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About “the Gaze”
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250825T095841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T115104Z
UID:10000602-1758211200-1758216600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person) - Bel Colburn (University of Glasgow)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Moral Blackmail \nAbstract: Suppose I want you to do something. How can I make you do it? Depending on me\, you\, our context\, and the nature of the thing I want you to do\, I have various options: rational or emotional persuasion; manipulation; coercion; physical compulsion; maybe more. Different mechanisms will be more or less effective\, depending on the features of the interactions that I listed above\, and they will also attract different moral evaluations\, not settled wholly by their effectiveness. In this talk\, I explore a (generally effective and usually problematic) mechanism which has mostly been ignored\, namely moral blackmail. Someone is morally blackmailed when they act as they do because all the alternatives have been made morally unacceptable. Moral blackmail is in this sense analogous to coercion\, on a plausible understanding of the latter. I defend this way of thinking from some objections\, and show that moral blackmail is a real and problematic phenomenon in global challenges of the largest scale\, including how we deal with global poverty and climate change. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-bel-colburn-university-of-glasgow/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250513T152551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152646Z
UID:10000596-1746714600-1746718200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: We’ll be reading ‘Moral Grandstanding’ by Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke. \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-9/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250424T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
UID:10000594-1745505000-1745508600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-04-24/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250423T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250415T143428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T161558Z
UID:10000600-1745427600-1745438400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - Marie Antoinette
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Seventh Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss Marie Antoinette  (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings and videos. \nTo Read: \nPhilosophical works: \nSimone de Beauvoir – three chapters from The Second Sex: 1. Myths Chapter One; 2. Myths Chapter Three; and 3. Social Life (emphasis placed on this last chapter\, especially the first ten pages before she discusses Mrs. Dalloway). \nArticles: \nFilm Notes: Marie Antoinette from Yale Film Archive  \nHannah Ewans – What ‘Marie Antoinette’ Taught Me About Being a Teenage Girl  \nPam Cook – Portrait of a Lady: Sofia Coppola and Marie Antoinette  \nHannah Strong – Sofia Coppola & the Art of Loneliness  \nTo Watch:\nFilms: \nClueless (Amy Heckerling\, 1995) \nDick (Andrew Flemming\, 1999) \nFrom Sofia Coppola’s catalogue (especially those released pre-2006): Lick the Star (1998)\, The Virgin Suicides (1999)\, Lost in Translation (2003)\, Somewhere (2010)\, The Bling Ring (2013)\, The Beguiled (2017) Priscilla (2023) \nVideos: \nMubi Podcast: Sofia Coppola – from VIRGIN SUICIDES to PRISCILLA  \nThe VICE Guide to Films:  Priscilla Director Sofia Coppola’s Art of Loneliness 
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-at-ceppa-marie-antoinette/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250417T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
UID:10000593-1744900200-1744903800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-04-17/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250410T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250203T191700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T152300Z
UID:10000592-1744295400-1744299000@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: tbc \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11/2025-04-10/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250401T144936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T145538Z
UID:10000591-1743690600-1743694200@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: ‘Being Good and Being Good-For-Someone: Why Consequentialism Must Be Wrong’ \nLocation: hybrid \nOn this occasion\, the paper will be distributed separately. Please email Joel Joseph if you’d like a copy.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-8/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250130T202751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T141500Z
UID:10000581-1743091200-1743096600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) – Katherine Snow (Princeton)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis\n \nAbstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using necessity. Scientific naturalism presents logical causal necessity as constituting how nature “makes” things exist\, and it presents necessity in the more general or abstract sense as the only principle or idea at the core of what nature is supposed to be. Where did this practice arise in its current form\, how legitimate is it\, and how does this practice matter for the contemporary environmental crisis? In this talk\, I will propose answers to all three of these questions which draw on my reading of the so-called “Spinoza Controversy” of 1785-1812. Among other aspects of this vital dispute\, the Controversy essentially presented the West with a choice vis-à-vis the external non-human world. On the one side were those embracing a new\, monist\, semi-secularized “naturalism” based on neo-Spinozist ideas of nature as an intelligible and necessary whole. On the other side\, skeptics like Friedrich Jacobi denied that such an idea of nature could ever be anything more than an internalist fiction. Of particular relevance to our environmental crisis today\, Jacobi further quite presciently argued that the neo-Spinozist position automatically engaged in a kind of active nihilism with respect to the real external world of our direct experience.
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-online-philclisci-tbc/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250324T141638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T141650Z
UID:10000590-1743085800-1743089400@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: Crisp\, Roger\, and Christopher Cowton. “Hypocrisy and Moral Seriousness.” \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-7/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250317T170751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T170944Z
UID:10000589-1742481000-1742484600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading:  Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein ‘Hypocrisy and Moral Authority’\, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-6/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T153000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250306T171703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T171717Z
UID:10000588-1741876200-1741879800@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Moral Philosophy Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Reading: this week we will discuss Mark Johnstone: ‘Anarchic Souls: Plato’s Depiction of the “Democratic Man”’ in Phronesis 58 (2013)   \nLocation: Edgecliffe G03
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/moral-philosophy-reading-group-11-5/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250312T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T152342
CREATED:20250128T155559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T054929Z
UID:10000568-1741798800-1741809600@ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Film and Philosophy at CEPPA - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present the Sixth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The Killing of a Sacred Deer  (see trailer here). \nHere is a list of suggested readings/videos. \nVideos:\n\n“Iphigenia at Aulis” summary\n\nReadings: \n \nEuripides\, Iphigenia at Aulis
URL:https://ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-and-philosophy-club-the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer/
LOCATION:Edgecliffe G03\, The Scores\, St Salvator's Quad\, KY16 9AL
CATEGORIES:Film and Philosophy Club
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