Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: On seeing women as objects: objectification and affordance perception Location: Teams (online only), the talk will be streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Objectification is a central topic in feminist…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams This week we’ll be discussing ‘Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions Location: Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Consider the following pair of cases Roughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: TBC Title: TBC
This week we will discuss Joseph Heath’s chapter ‘Positive Social Time Preference’, from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter’s a bit long, but readers can comfortably…
Location: Teams (online only)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Positive interest rates block green transitions, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero Commentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night London, and amidst some raunchy Bollywood…
This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article,’Equality Versus Priority’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: Chance Prioritarianism Location: Teams (online only), and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism, according to which the moral value of…
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