• Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Jarred Snodgrass (University of 58³Ô¹Ï and University of Stirling)

    Edgecliffe G03 and via MS Teams

    Title: On the Hyperintensions of Properties Abstract: Hyperintensionalists encounter two serious problems that cast doubt on their view of property identity, both stem from when insufficient attention is paid to the hyperintensions of properties. The first problem is what I call the ‘Granularity Problem’. It is the problem of finding a criterion of identity for…

  • CEPPA Talk (online) – Matthew Liao (NYU)

    Microsoft Teams

    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 balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great, it may be morally permitted, and possibly required to engage in an act that is…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    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 Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk

  • CEPPA Talk (online) – Selim Berker (Harvard)

    Microsoft 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: badness is anti-goodness, not non-goodness. What about the fitting and the unfitting, the appropriate and the inappropriate, the apt and the inapt, the warranted and…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    This week we will be reading Sarah Fine’s paper ‘Migration‘ from The Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact: ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) – Thom Brooks (Durham)

    Title: Justice and the Problem of Alienation Abstract: I will focus on why alienation is a problem for many of our major theories of justice (discussing political liberalism, capabilities approach and republicanism) and what might be done about it. Location: Edgecliffe G03