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  • FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language 鈥� one sees this in feminist work on pornography 鈥� or…

  • Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – Blue Velvet

    Edgecliffe G03

    We are proud to present the Fifth 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 Blue Velvet聽 (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 17:15. DAVID LYNCH IN MEMORIAM As many of you will know or might…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    This week we will be discussing Rebecca Brown – ‘Sneaky Persuasion in Public Health Risk Communication’. Location: Edgecliffe G03

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) 鈥� Philip Ebert (University of Stirling)

    Edgecliffe 104

    Title: Philosophical Challenges in Risk Communication of Rare and Severe Events Abstract: In this talk, I will discusses different philosophical challenges in communicating and dealing with the risk of rare and severe events. As a case study, I use avalanche risk: a form of voluntary risk taking in which the individual is often partly responsible…

  • Moral Philosophy Reading Group

    Edgecliffe G03

    Reading: this week we will meet to discuss two (and a half) short articles by our speakers: Viviane Fairbank,聽‘Climate change is a fact 鈥� but to prove it, scientists are bogged down in a battle about what facts really are’ Simon Lee,聽‘ The climate is changing so fast that we haven鈥檛 seen how bad extreme…

  • CEPPA Talk (in-person & online) 鈥� Simon Lee (Earth & Environmental Sciences) and Viviane Fairbank (Philosophy)

    John Henderson lecture room Castlecliffe, 精东传媒, Fife, United Kingdom

    Please join us on for the Second edition of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientist Simon Lee and philosopher Viviane Fairbank will give presentations on the topic of 鈥楥limate Modelling…