Moral Philosophy Reading Group
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: Lea Bourguignon & Milan Moss茅’s ‘How to Count Sore Throats’. Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽Resisting the unexperienced Abstract: An experience is epistemically transformative when you can鈥檛 know what it鈥檚 like without having the experience. Though this characterisation doesn鈥檛 neatly fit聽transformative聽experiences, a surprising number of everyday experiences fit the description. The clearest parallel is with aesthetic experiences. The Acquaintance Principle (Budd, 2003) says that an agent can only appreciate an…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
We are proud to present the Sixth Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and discuss The Killing of a Sacred Deer聽 (see trailer here). Here is a list of suggested readings/videos. Videos: “Iphigenia at Aulis” summary Readings:聽 聽 Euripides,聽Iphigenia…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: this week we will discuss聽Mark Johnstone: 鈥楢narchic Souls: Plato鈥檚 Depiction of the 鈥淒emocratic Man鈥濃 in Phronesis 58 (2013) 聽 Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of the human soul. The methodological assumption that underlies the architecture of the聽Republic聽is that philosophical questions about topics that we might today group under the heading…
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Reading: 聽Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein 鈥楬ypocrisy and Moral Authority鈥, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (2):191-222 (2017) Location: Edgecliffe G03
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