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  • The Ethics Cup – The Finals

    United College St. Andrews, United Kingdom

    The finals of 2022 The Ethics Cup, featuring the 12 top-performing teams from across the U.K.

  • Enrico Galvagni 鈥� CEPPA Work-In-Progress Talk (in person)

    Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Hume鈥檚 Account of Virtue and Its Place in the History of Ethics Abstract: Hume鈥檚 account of virtue is notoriously puzzling. On the one hand, he claims that the virtues are qualities useful or agreeable to oneself or to others. On the other, he says that they are qualities which give a pleasing…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Brian Hedden (ANU)

    Location:聽School 6 Title: Counterfactual Decision Theory Abstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain, were you to perform it. Counterfactual decision theory has traditionally been subsumed under causal decision theory as a particular formulation of the latter. This is a mistake.…

  • SOCIETY AND HUMAN NATURE: A Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

    Wednesday, 15 June 2022 Edgecliffe, Room 104, University of 58吃瓜 9:30-10:00: Welcome coffee Morning session: Chair: James Harris (University of 58吃瓜) 10:00-10:45: David Harmon (University of 58吃瓜) 鈥淭he Model of Human Nature and Whether 鈥極ught鈥� Implies 鈥楥an鈥� in Spinoza鈥� 10:45-11:30: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin) 鈥淐atharine Trotter Cockburn on Self-interest, Self-love, and…

  • Epistemic Breakthroughs Workshop

    Our epistemic lives are marked by discoveries, changes of mind, epiphanies (if we are lucky), and 鈥榯urning points鈥� 鈥� some of them potentially radical in nature. We may call these events epistemic breakthroughs. This workshop invites philosophers, psychologists, and social scientists to think about the nature, varieties, and causation of such breakthroughs, as well as…

  • Epistemic Breakthroughs Conference

    EPISTEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS: A WORKSHOP University of 58吃瓜 Join us for a philosophical workshop on the topic of “epistemic breakthroughs,” held at the University of 58吃瓜, in partnership with the JN Wright Trust, The Mind Association, and the Scots Philosophical Association.聽 鈥� EPISTEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS: A WORKSHOP University of 58吃瓜 聽 When?聽 Friday, June…

  • Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality

    Edgecliffe G03

    An in-person symposium in St. Andrews on themes from the recently-published, Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality, by Ben Sachs. Location: Edgecliffe, G03 Schedule (all times PM) 1:30-1:55: Ben Sachs-Cobbe, Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, “Welcome and Summary” (Chs. 1-3) 1:55-2:35: Michael Moore, Law, University of Illinois, 鈥淔inding the Purposes of Staplers and States鈥� (Ch.…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� C茅cile Fabre (Oxford)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Morality of Gossip Abstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that gossiping, while often gratifying, is, if not morally wrong, at least not quite right. Gossip has not received much attention in moral philosophy. In this…

  • Book Workshop: Elizabeth Ashford’s *Hunger鈥檚 Witting Executioners*

    One-day book workshop on Elizabeth Ashford’s Hunger鈥檚 Witting Executioners: Structural Violations of the Right to Subsistence Pre-read: workshop participants will be expected to read the book manuscript distributed in advance. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Schedule: 10:30am to noon: discussion Lunch break (free time) 1:30pm to 3pm: discussion