CEPPA Talk (online) – Matthew Liao (NYU)
Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive…
Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive…
Have a good break and see you in the new year!
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
This week we will be discussing Selim Berker, ‘The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting”. ahead of their CEPPA talk right after this reading group. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams…
Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?” Abstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are, by contrast, polar opposites:…
This week we will be reading Sarah Fine’s paper ‘Migration‘ from The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation Abstract:Â I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism, capabilities approach and…
This week we will be discussing the first chapter from Jonathan Birch “The Edge of Sentience” called ‘A walk along the edge’. Jonathan will be there as well. Location: Edgecliffe…
Title: Debating proportionality at the edge of sentience Abstract: Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
This week we will be discussing Byron Williston’s article Climate Change and Radical Hope Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic Location: Edgecliffe G03
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