Name: CEPPA Talk (in person) – Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)
Start: 2023-03-09T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-03-09T17:30:00+00:00

CEPPA Talk

October 2022
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…
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm)

27th October 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
November 2022
CEPPA Talk (online only) – David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder)

3rd November 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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…
CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)

17th November 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)
December 2022
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

1st December 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Edgecliffe G03

Location: 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…
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)

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

Location: 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…
January 2023
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Tom Simpson (Oxford)

19th January 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: ‘Should political discrimination be unlawful?’
CEPPA Talk (online only) – Lea Ypi (LSE)

26th January 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Teams (online only) Title: Kant the Racist? Abstract: This paper examines Kant’s thoughts on race considering his analysis of teleology. It explains how Kant analysed the development of human…
February 2023
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London)

2nd February 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy Abstract: Marx’s Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach famously states that ‘The philosophers have thus far merely interpreted the world; the…
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Luca Stroppa (58�Թ�)

9th February 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03
March 2023
CEPPA Talk (in person) – Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)

9th March 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: “On Seeking Objective Grounds for Moral Evaluation” Abstract: The paper argues that to do justice to questions of objectivity that arise within and about moral discourse,…

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Philosophy events

CEPPA Talk

October 2022

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

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

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Orri Stefánsson (Stockholm)

November 2022

CEPPA Talk (online only) – David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder)

CEPPA Talk (online) – Zoë Johnson King (Harvard)

December 2022

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)

January 2023

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Tom Simpson (Oxford)

CEPPA Talk (online only) – Lea Ypi (LSE)

February 2023

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London)

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Luca Stroppa (58�Թ�)

March 2023

CEPPA Talk (in person) – Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)