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

    Location: Teams (online only) Title: Kant the Racist? Abstract: This paper examines Kants thoughts on race considering his analysis of teleology. It explains how Kant analysed the development of human races in connection to his account of the development of “germs” and “dispositions” in the human species. It further explains how that theory changed with…

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

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy Abstract: Marxs Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach famously states that The philosophers have thus far merely interpreted the world; the point is to change it. In this talk, I begin to clear away some obstacles that stand in the way of an appreciation of the…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) Sigr繳n Svavarsd籀ttir (Tufts)

    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, we must take into account that this discourse is embedded within a somewhat conventionally regimented practice that comprises attempts to guide attitude and action by…

  • CEPPA Talk (online only) Edwin Etieyibo (University of the Witwatersrand)

    Location: Teams (online only) Title: Disharmony as a Political Vice Abstract: In this presentation, I examine two important concepts, those of harmony and disharmony by drawing on some thoughts including in three areas of African philosophical ideas and understanding. While I take harmony as virtuous or at least valuable or desirable, I take disharmony as…

  • CEPPA Talk (online only) Catherine Elgin (Harvard)

    Location: Teams (online only) Title: Epistemic Dynamics Abstract:Epistemic agents are finite and fallible. Our range is limited and some of what we accept is, no doubt, flawed. To achieve our epistemic and practical objectives, we devise methods and practices that foster correction, refinement, and expansion of our current epistemic commitments. Traditional epistemology maintains that epistemic…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) Daniel Mu簽oz (UNC Chapel Hill)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Values as Vectors Abstract: Often, two things seem tied in value, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values, rather than being like precise numbers, must be imprecise, giving rise to a special nontransitive value…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) Bart Streumer (University of Groningen)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Superspreading the Word. Abstract: Quasi-realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism, however, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi-realism. I will argue that quasi-realists can undermine this…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Humorlessness and Moral Recognition Abstract: Were often quick to point fingers at people who fail to find humor in themselves. And our accusations have a moral tinge: we decry people for being sanctimonious buzzkills, and command them to get over themselves. But are these moralized reactions justified? And what, if anything,…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) Eric Martin (Baylor)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Scientism and Humanities Education Abstract: In this talk I discuss a pedagogical implication of scientism. Because scientism elevates science and derogates what is deemed non-scientific, the arts and humanities become, on such a view, less valuable parts of university curricula. I survey some of the current data on declining study of…