Title: Eliminative Harming without Intentions Location: Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: Consider the following pair of cases聽 Roughshod. You are driving to the hospital for an emergency life-saving operation. If you do…
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Location: TBC Title: TBC
This week we will discuss Joseph Heath’s chapter ‘Positive Social Time Preference’, from his book Philosophical Foundations of Climate Policy Change. The chapter’s a bit long, but readers can comfortably…
Location: Teams (online only)
Location: Edgecliffe G03 Title: Positive interest rates block green transitions, and there is no compelling reason not to fix the interest rate at zero Commentator: Carl Mildenberger (Zurich)
Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night London, and amidst some raunchy Bollywood…
This week we will be discussing Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve’s article,’Equality Versus Priority’ Location: Edgecliffe G03 and Teams Contact:聽ceppadirector@st-andrews.ac.uk
Title: Chance Prioritarianism Location: Teams (online only), and streamed from Edgecliffe G03 Abstract: I will defend what we could call survival chance prioritarianism, according to which the moral value of…
We use the plenary seminar time slot on occasions when we have a meeting of wider interest to the whole Arch茅 community.
This week will be a work-in-progress session, discussing a draft paper by our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith, on ‘Rights, Duties and Inviolability’. Here is the abstract: Rights entail corresponding negative…
Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing…