Name: CEPPA Talk (online only) – Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)
Start: 2022-10-20T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-10-20T17:30:00+01:00

CEPPA Talk

May 2022
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)

5th May 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: How to Build Morality into AI Abstract: AI is spreading fast. We humans need to figure out the best way to prevent AI from making the worst…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jeff McMahan (Oxford University)

12th May 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Title: “Compensation for Wrongful Life” Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother’s physician for failing to advise…
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Matthew Adler (Duke University)

25th May 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: “Person-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant” Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifications or accounts. The “person-affecting”/”impersonal” distinction can…
June 2022
Enrico Galvagni – CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk (in person)

1st June 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Hume’s Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume’s account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that…
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Brian Hedden (ANU)

9th June 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: School 6 Title: Counterfactual Decision Theory Abstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain, were you…
September 2022
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Cécile Fabre (Oxford)

8th September 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Morality of Gossip Abstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that…
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Ben Sachs-Cobbe (58�Թ�)

15th September 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: What’s wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? Abstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K.,…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Sally Haslanger (MIT)

22nd September 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Ideology, Culture, and Social Meaning Abstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition.…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Nancy Fraser (The New School)

29th September 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race, and Class Abstract: Dissatisfied with identity-based politics, many activists and intellectuals are now seeking…
October 2022
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jason Brennan (Georgetown)

6th October 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Laissez-Faire Democracy? Reasons to Regulate Votes Abstract: Most economists and political philosophers accept a simple argument for empowering governments to regulate citizens’ and private firms’…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Shelly Kagan (Yale)

13th October 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: “Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret” Abstract: Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account, death is bad because the dead don’t get the…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)

20th October 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? Abstract: Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative concepts—characterized by, e.g., perverted…

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Philosophy events

CEPPA Talk

May 2022

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jeff McMahan (Oxford University)

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Matthew Adler (Duke University)

June 2022

Enrico Galvagni – CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk (in person)

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Brian Hedden (ANU)

September 2022

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Cécile Fabre (Oxford)

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Ben Sachs-Cobbe (58�Թ�)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Sally Haslanger (MIT)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Nancy Fraser (The New School)

October 2022

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Jason Brennan (Georgetown)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Shelly Kagan (Yale)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)