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
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
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:Â ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
This week, our visiting scholar B.V.E. Hyde (Leeds) will convene a special Work-in-Progress session on the topic of “Ethical Debates on Human Challenge Trials”. Hyde will present for around 5 minutes, providing a…
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