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

    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…

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

    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…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) C矇cile Fabre (Oxford)

    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勛圖)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: Whats 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)

    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)

    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…

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

    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)

    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)

    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 conceptscharacterized by, e.g., perverted…