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  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Moral Philosophy Reading Group Description: This group reads and discusses an article per week, chosen by a different member each time. Day/time: Wednesdays 3pm to 4pm on Teams. Organizer: Theron Pummer (tgp4).

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt-University)

    Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 Title: Ought and the Transmission of Reasons Abstract:聽According to the widely held Weightiest Reasons view about how reasons for action and the practical ought are related to one another, (WR)聽 an agent ought to 蠁 if, and only if, the reasons for 蠁 are weightier than the reasons for every incompatible alternative to…

  • CEPPA Fest

      An in-person (and online) CEPPA conference on topics in moral and political philosophy, featuring the following speakers:   Jeff McMahan (Oxford) Julia Driver (UT Austin/58吃瓜) Rahul Kumar (Queen’s) Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen’s) Thom Brooks (Durham) Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke) The 2022 Knox Lecture will be delivered online by Professor Frances Kamm (Rutgers University) the day…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Matthew Adler (Duke University)

    Location:聽Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: 鈥淧erson-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant鈥� Abstract: The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between 鈥減erson-affecting鈥� and 鈥渋mpersonal鈥� moral justifications or accounts.聽聽 The 鈥減erson-affecting鈥�/鈥漣mpersonal鈥� distinction can be interpreted in various ways.聽 I understand it as follows.聽 A person-affecting justificatory framework sees individuals鈥� well-being gains and losses鈥攚ell-being effects on persons鈥攁s the fundamental…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� C茅cile Fabre (Oxford)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: The Morality of Gossip Abstract: Gossip is pervasive and wide-ranging. It lubricates and wrecks social relationships. Many people openly confess to loving it yet acknowledge that gossiping, while often gratifying, is, if not morally wrong, at least not quite right. Gossip has not received much attention in moral philosophy. In this…

  • Book Workshop: Elizabeth Ashford’s *Hunger鈥檚 Witting Executioners*

    One-day book workshop on Elizabeth Ashford’s Hunger鈥檚 Witting Executioners: Structural Violations of the Right to Subsistence Pre-read: workshop participants will be expected to read the book manuscript distributed in advance. Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams. Schedule: 10:30am to noon: discussion Lunch break (free time) 1:30pm to 3pm: discussion  

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Ben Sachs-Cobbe (58吃瓜)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Title: What鈥檚 wrong with teaching our children to be good citizens? Abstract: Character education is a common part of schooling in the U.S. and U.K., and one popular argument in favour of character education is that it is conducive to producing citizens who have the virtues that make someone a…

  • Special MPRG: Mattia Cecchinato

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title:聽“The Mind that Matters: Degrees of Sentience and Moral Status”. Abstract:聽It is often argued that the capacity for conscious experience is necessary for a creature to morally matter for its own sake and thus have moral status. Entities that lack the capacity for consciousness, such as chairs, philosophical zombies, or anencephalic infants,…

  • CEPPA Talk (in person) 鈥� Daniel Mu帽oz (UNC Chapel Hill)

    Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Values as Vectors Abstract: Often, two things seem tied in value, though slightly improving one would not break the tie. How can we model such ‘insensitivity to sweetening’? A leading answer is that overall values, rather than being like precise numbers, must be imprecise, giving rise to a special nontransitive value…