CEPPA Talk (in person) – Ben Sachs-Cobbe (58³Ô¹Ï)
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.,…
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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.…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) – Nancy Fraser (The New School)
Location:Â 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…
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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’…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) – Shelly Kagan (Yale)
Location: Teams (online only) Title: “Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret” Abstract:Â Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account, death is bad because the dead don’t get the…
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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 concepts—characterized by, e.g., perverted…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) – David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder)
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Two Puzzles About the Ethics of Divestment Abstract: Suppose you own stock in Acme Corp. and you learn that it consistently acts in seriously immoral…
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CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
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CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)
Edgecliffe G03Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Proleptic Praise Abstract: What is praise? I argue that we can make progress by examining what praise does. Functionalist views of praise are emerging, but I…
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CEPPA Talk (online only) – Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)
Location:Â Teams (online only) Title: The Philosophy of Effective Altruism Abstract: What are the strengths and weaknesses of Effective Altruism as both a moral philosophy and practical guide to action? Is…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) – Tom Simpson (Oxford)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: ‘Should political discrimination be unlawful?’