• FPST Seminar – Serene Khader (Online)

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Why it Matters When Human Means White or Man Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to vindicate a claim often made in feminist and decolonial theory, but whose relevance to political philosophy is rarely understood: the claim that the concept of the human has been a vehicle of oppression.…

  • Plenary Seminar:

    Edgecliffe G03

    There is no Plenary seminar on 26/09/2024

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week the Moral Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Kai Spiekermann’s paper ‘Irreversible Loss’. Abstract: This chapter offers three reasons for trying to avoid some irreversible losses. First, there is a prudential reason for avoiding irreversible loss in order to keep options open in the future in the face of uncertainty. Second, humans have…

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) Derek Ball (58勛圖) & Caroline Touburg (Ume疇 University)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: Philosophical Foundations of Green-House Gas Accounting Abstract: International agreements such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement require countries to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions. Companies (as well as universities and other organisations) are required by governmental regulations or their own net-zero goals to do the same. Greenhouse gas accounting is…

  • Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Theories of Location 2

    Edgecliffe G03

    Correia, Fabrice (2022). A General Theory of Location Based on the Notion of Entire Location.Journal of Philosophical Logic51 (3):555-582. Abstract:It would be a good thing to have at our disposal a general theory of location that is neutral with respect to the view that some objects have more than one exact location, the view that…