BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Philosophy events - ECPv6.16.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/philevents X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Philosophy events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T173000 DTSTAMP:20260617T041659 CREATED:20220708T161143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221006T132307Z UID:10001534-1665072000-1665077400@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jason Brennan (Georgetown) DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Laissez-Faire Democracy? Reasons to Regulate Votes \nAbstract: Most economists and political philosophers accept a simple argument for empowering governments to regulate citizens’ and private firms’ economic activity: Markets\, they say\, suffer from various market failures. In many such cases\, governments can correct or prevent these market failures through various interventions and regulations. The expected benefits of intervention exceed the expected costs. Therefore\, governments should intervene. We contend that this kind of argument works in defense of having governments regulate citizens’ votes and voting behavior as well. We start with a brief survey of the standard defenses of market regulation. We then show that voting behavior suffers from the same problems that afflict market behavior and suggest that these problems give rise to an equally strong presumptive case for government regulation of voting behavior as for market behavior. Next\, we sketch several proposals for how to regulate votes. From here\, we address three central objections: it is impermissible in principle to regulate votes\, vote regulation is unnecessary because voting itself is a form of regulation\, and no institution could be trusted to regulate votes. We conclude that none of these objections succeed and that the presumptive case for vote regulation stands. \n  URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-online-jason-brennan-georgetown/ CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ORGANIZER;CN="Ben Sachs":MAILTO:bas7@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T173000 DTSTAMP:20260617T041659 CREATED:20220726T125808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T140808Z UID:10001535-1665676800-1665682200@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Shelly Kagan (Yale) DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: “Death\, Deprivation\, and Rational Regret” \nAbstract:  Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account\, death is bad because the dead don’t get the various goods that they would have if only they were still alive. But it’s not normally a misfortune when a merely possible good doesn’t come your way. Bill Gates didn’t write you a check for a million dollars today\, but it would be silly to be upset at that. So how can death actually be bad? This talk will explore a promising answer. URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-online-shelly-kagan-yale/ CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ORGANIZER;CN="Joel Joseph":MAILTO:jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221020T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221020T173000 DTSTAMP:20260617T041659 CREATED:20220726T125808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T140805Z UID:10001536-1666281600-1666287000@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online only) – Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut) DESCRIPTION:Location: Teams (online only) \nTitle: Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? \nAbstract: Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative concepts—characterized by\, e.g.\, perverted ideals\, vicious closed-mindedness\, and unwarranted intolerance. I suggest an alternative approach that: (i) explains what makes fanaticism and extremism vicious in the very many cases in which they are; but also (ii) allows for cases in which fanaticism and extremism aren’t liberatory-vices and may even be liberatory-virtues. My hope is that this approach might serve as a resource for those in liberatory struggles. URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-online-heather-battaly-university-of-connecticut/ CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk ORGANIZER;CN="Enrico Galvagni":MAILTO:eg240@st-andrews.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221027T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221027T173000 DTSTAMP:20260617T041659 CREATED:20220729T130824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221016T140932Z UID:10001537-1666886400-1666891800@www.st-andrews.ac.uk SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm) DESCRIPTION: URL:/philevents/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-orri-stefansson-stockholm/ CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR