• Film and Philosophy Club – WALL繚E

    Edgecliffe G03

    We are proud to present the Third Session of CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and WALL繚E (see trailer here). The discussion will be lead by Emma Holmes and Miguel de la Cal Moreno. The movie will start SHARP at 17:30. Here is a suggested reading list: Dona…

  • Epistemology Seminar: Amiya Hashkes (58勛圖) – Epistemic Consequentialism

    Online Meeting via Teams

    This week, well be discussing epistemic consequentialism. Ill start by giving some background on the topic more generally and presenting some problems that have been raised for it in the literature, and then spend most of the time on Andersen and Kappels article Epistemic consequentialism as a metatheory of inquiry. Here is the abstract for…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    Ziming Xia will lead the MPRG to discuss ‘Localized Restricted Aggregation’ by Victor Tadros. All welcome! Article available here: https://academic.oup.com/book/32206/chapter-abstract/268368585?redirectedFrom=fulltext Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (online) John Barugahare (Makerere University)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: Global Health Equity through Decolonizing Health Research Ethics in Africa: Leveraging Kwame Nkrumahs Analysis of Neocolonialism. Abstract:Background: The foundational contention of this paper is that, arguably, the ultimate ethical goal of conducting health research among humans is to provide them with better health opportunities. Because of growing perceptions that ongoing international collaborative health research…

  • Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Regions & Connection 3

    Edgecliffe G03

    Sections 5-8 of: Stell, J. G. (2000). Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus.Artificial Intelligence122 (1-2):111-136. https://philpapers.org/rec/STEBCA-5

  • FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language one sees this in feminist work on pornography or…