Moral Philosophy Reading Group
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…
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CEPPA Talk (online) – Dana Nelkin (UC San Diego)
Microsoft TeamsLocation: Teams (online only)
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CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Alexander Douglas (St. Andrews)
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)
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Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor:聽 Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK
Arts BuildingHolding 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…
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article,’Equality Versus Priority’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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CEPPA Talk (online) – Orri Stef谩nsson (Stockholm)
Microsoft TeamsTitle: 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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Plenary Seminar: No Meeting
We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on ‘Rights, Duties and Inviolability’. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative…
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CEPPA Talk (online) – Lara Buchak (Princeton)
Microsoft TeamsTitle: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing…
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Epistemology Seminar: Lara Buchak (Princeton) (co-hosted with CEPPA) “Faith, Authority, and Epistemic Communities”
Online Meeting via TeamsAbstract:聽I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one鈥檚 own reasoning. Indeed,…
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Language and Mind Seminar: Yair Pinto (University of Amsterdam)
Edgecliffe G03 and via MS TeamsTitle: The grounding problem in language and reality Abstract: Philosophy of language has long struggled with the symbol-grounding problem of meaning. If symbols are only defined relationally, that is, in…