Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Epistemology Seminar: Jade Fletcher (58吃瓜)
Edgecliffe G03Speaker: Jade Fletcher (58吃瓜) Practices, Normativity, and Ideological Construction: Conceptualizing Epistemic (In)Justice The aim of this exploratory paper is to put into dialogue two different threads in contemporary social philosophy. Charles Mills made a helpful interjection into the epistemic injustice literature when he suggested that the concept of ideology is valuable for analytic epistemologists.…
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FPST Seminar – Kate Manne (Cornell University) [online only]
Edgecliffe G03Title: The Authority of Hunger Abstract: In this talk, I canvass moral considerations that suggest that hunger is morally authoritative. What’s more, trying to circumvent our hunger via current surgical and pharmaceutical technologies is risky, unpleasant, and often ineffective. I conclude by considering the case for avoiding even “silver bullet” appetite suppressants, for the sake…
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Edgecliffe G03Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Epistemology Seminar: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University)
Edgecliffe G03Speaker: Carlotta Pavese (Cornell University) Are there essentially intentional actions? A long tradition in action theory holds that there are such things as essentially intentional actions鈥攁ctions that are intentional whenever performed (Anscombe, Davidson, Bennett, Turri, etc). In my talk, I argue that the existence of essentially intentional action is a philosophical myth and that this…
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FPST Seminar – Sebasti谩n Stuart (St. Andrews)
Edgecliffe G03Title:聽grounding metaphysics on Reddit posts, a work in progress. Abstract:聽In this presentation I will be walking us through the methodological challenges I face in writing the second chapter of my thesis. Broadly, my thesis is an attempt to ameliorate the concept of 鈥榞ender dysphoria鈥�. The first chapter argued that the current mainstream construals of gender…
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CEPPA Talk (in person) – Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
Edgecliffe G03Title: The Permissibility of Collective Defence Agreements Abstract: Collective defence agreements (CDAs), of the sort that exist between, for example, NATO members, EU members, and African Union members, are a prime example of a prominent deterrence mechanism. They promise a degree of assistance that will make it almost impossible for an adversary to win an…
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Edgecliffe G03This week we will meet to discuss Joel Joseph‘s work-in-progress paper聽‘The Problem of Secondary Permissibility’ (email jj73@st-andrews.ac.uk for a copy of the paper) Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Edgecliffe G03Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Epistemology Seminar: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58吃瓜)
Edgecliffe G03Speaker: Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam & 58吃瓜) A Foucauldian critique of the epistemic injustice research program聽 Catarina聽Dutilh Novaes (joint work with Merel Talbi and Solmu Anttila) Since the publication of Fricker鈥檚 groundbreaking聽Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing聽(2007), vibrant debates on the complex relations between knowledge, ethics and power have ensued, arguably…
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Epistemology Seminar: Falbo on Inquiry
Edgecliffe G03Discussion session on “Inquiring Minds Want to Improve” by Arianna Falbo Abstract: Much of the recent work on epistemology of inquiry defends two related theses. First, inquiry into a question rationally prohibits believing an answer to that question. Second, knowledge is the aim of inquiry. I develop a series of cases which indicate that inquiry…