{"id":15057,"date":"2026-01-23T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:38:49","slug":"ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-in-person-enrico-galvagni-university-of-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk (in-person) &#8211; Enrico Galvagni (University of Edinburgh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Title:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Hume\u2019s One and Only Definition of Virtue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Hume\u2019s moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the one hand, Hume seems to define virtue as a mental quality generating utility and agreeableness to oneself or others. On the other hand, he also says that it is a mental quality that receives moral approbation. Interpreters argue about which of these definitions is more fundamental and try to reconcile them into a unified account. Against such readings, I argue that Hume has only one definition of virtue as a character trait that generates moral approbation. Utility and agreeableness play a fundamental role in his ethics, but one that does not relate to his definition of virtue. In turn, this provide reason to question the now mainstream interpretation of Hume as a virtue ethicist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0Hume\u2019s One and Only Definition of Virtue Abstract: Hume\u2019s moral philosophy is seen by many as a form of virtue ethics that includes two different definitions of virtue. On the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[20],"class_list":["post-15057","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15162,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15057\/revisions\/15162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}