• CEPPA Talk Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto)

    Title: “Against ‘Good For,’ Against ‘Well-Being'” Abstract:This paper challenges the widely held view that good for, well- being, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for ethics and separate from simply good as used by G.E. Moore and others. More specifically, it argues that theres no philosophically useful good-for or well-being…

  • SOCIETY AND HUMAN NATURE: A Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy

    Wednesday, 15 June 2022 Edgecliffe, Room 104, University of 58勛圖 9:30-10:00: Welcome coffee Morning session: Chair: James Harris (University of 58勛圖) 10:00-10:45: David Harmon (University of 58勛圖) The Model of Human Nature and Whether Ought Implies Can in Spinoza 10:45-11:30: Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin) Catharine Trotter Cockburn on Self-interest, Self-love, and…

  • CEPPA Talk (online only) Heather Battaly (University of Connecticut)

    Location: Teams (online only) Title:Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? Abstract:Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative conceptscharacterized by, e.g., perverted ideals, vicious closed-mindedness, and unwarranted intolerance. I suggest an alternative approach that: (i) explains what makes fanaticism and extremism vicious in the very many cases…

  • 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…