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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (online) - Selim Berker (Harvard)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Is There Anti-Fittingness?” \nAbstract: The permissible and the forbidden are privative opposites: each is a lack of the other. The good and the bad are\, by contrast\, polar opposites: badness is anti-goodness\, not non-goodness. What about the fitting and the unfitting\, the appropriate and the inappropriate\, the apt and the inapt\, the warranted and the unwarranted? Is unfittingness non-fittingness or anti-fittingness\, inappropriateness non-appropriateness or anti-appropriateness? In this talk I will argue that each of these “aptic” categories—as I call them—stands in a privative rather than a polar relation to its opposite. More generally\, there is no coherent notion of anti-fittingness\, no inversely charged flipside to aptness\, to be found. In order to establish these claims\, a taxonomy of different types of oppositeness will be proposed\, and several tests for distinguishing distinct varieties of opposites will be developed. What will emerge is a better appreciation of the structural characteristics of fittingness and the other aptic categories\, as well as an argument for taking up the nature of oppositeness as a serious philosophical topic that is ripe for further exploration. \nLocation: Teams (online only)
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-online-selim-berker-harvard/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Bart Streumer (University of Groningen)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: “Superspreading the Word”.\n\nAbstract: Quasi-realists are expressivists who say much of what realists say. To avoid making their view indistinguishable from realism\, however\, they usually stop short of saying everything realists say. Many realists therefore think that something important is missing from quasi-realism. I will argue that quasi-realists can undermine this thought by defending a version of quasi-realism that I will call super-quasi-realism. This version seems indistinguishable from realism\, but I will argue that this is a mistaken impression that arises because we cannot believe super-quasi-realism.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-bart-streumer-university-of-groningen/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T173000
DTSTAMP:20260818T075008
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: “On Seeking Objective Grounds for Moral Evaluation” \nAbstract: The paper argues that to do justice to questions of objectivity that arise within and about moral discourse\, we must take into account that this discourse is embedded within a somewhat conventionally regimented practice that comprises attempts to guide attitude and action by way of justifying\, criticizing\, validating\, or excusing them. The appropriate condition of objectivity rules out a specific narrow kind of response-dependence that would run counter to this kind of guiding role for moral verdicts. The relevant condition is identified (the discourse- and practice-independence condition or\, for short\, the DP-independence condition).
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-in-person-sigrun-svavarsdottir-tufts/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) - Tom Simpson (Oxford)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: ‘Should political discrimination be unlawful?’
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-tom-simpson-oxford/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk (in person) – Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
DESCRIPTION:Location: Edgecliffe G03 \nTitle: How to Build Morality into AI \nAbstract: AI is spreading fast. We humans need to figure out the best way to prevent AI from making the worst decisions\, which are harmful\, unfair\, or otherwise morally wrong. One way is to design AI to predict what humans would judge to be immoral if they were informed\, rational\, and impartial. Then the AI can use that information when making its choices. This talk will illustrate this method in a test case of who gets the kidney when two patients need a transplant but only one kidney is available. This same approach can be extended to other areas of morality\, including end-of-life decisions in medicine\, hiring and promotion in business\, pretrial release in criminal law\, and autonomous vehicles and weapons. The result will be AI that aligns with our deepest values.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-walter-sinnott-armstrong-duke-university/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T160000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk – Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Ameliorative Skepticism and the Nature of Health \nAbstract: In this talk\, I’ll give a brief overview of the project I call ‘ameliorative skepticism’. Sally Haslanger has argued that\, in doing social ontology\, we can sometimes approach the question ‘what is x?’ by asking question ‘what do we want x to be?’. I argue that sometimes the only way to answer this question is to answer it skeptically: that what we want x to be is something it can’t be. But I suggest that there’s a version of skepticism we can bring to questions like this that is substantially weaker than error theory or eliminativism. I use the case of health as an example.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-elizabeth-barnes-university-of-virginia/
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College)
DESCRIPTION:Title: On Photographic Wrongs \nAbstract: While ethicists have had little to say on the subject\, people often feel wronged by the creation and dissemination of their photographic image. After describing several cases in which people have felt wronged by a photograph\, I’ll go on to offer a taxonomy for thinking about these cases. Many of these purported wrongs can be easily accommodated by dominant ethical theories as tokens of recognized types of wrongdoing. However\, I think some of these testimonies point to the existence of a sui generis type of wrongdoing which I will refer to as a photographic wrong. I will then attempt to make the case that photographic wrongs are genuine moral wrongs\, and I will offer an account of what grounds this wrong.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-macalaster-bell-bryn-mawr-college/
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210204T173000
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CREATED:20200819T115311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200819T115311Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Gwen Bradford (Rice University)
DESCRIPTION:TITLE: Uniqueness\, Intrinsic Value\, and Reasons \n  \nABSTRACT: Uniqueness appears to enhance intrinsic value. A unique stamp sells for millions of dollars; Stradivarius violins are all the more precious because they are unlike any others. This observation has not gone overlooked in the value theory literature: uniqueness plays a starring role recalibrating the dominant Moorean understanding of the nature of intrinsic value. But the thesis that uniqueness enhances intrinsic value is in tension with another deeply plausible and widely-held thesis\, namely the thesis that there is a pro tanto reason to promote the good. It is argued that there is a second\, distinct type of uniqueness that plays a more interesting and important axiological role: uniqueness imparts irreplaceable value. This gives occasion to develop the surprisingly undertheorized notion of irreplaceable value. While one might think the irreplaceable value of persons can now be explained\, it turns out that there is yet a third sense of uniqueness.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-gwen-bradford-rice-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201119T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201119T173000
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘Conflict\, Discord\, and Strife’ \nAbstract: Given that interpersonal relationships are relationships between persons\, we might hold out hope that a better philosophical understanding of the nature of persons can help us to better understand the structure and dynamics of interpersonal relationships. In this talk I will argue that this thought is correct. In particular\, I will argue that the right kind of philosophical theory about the nature of persons can help us to recognize the possibility of an underappreciated form of silencing that can lead us to misunderstand one another\, explain why these forms of misunderstanding can often be symmetric\, and illustrate how such symmetric forms of misunderstanding can drive and perpetuate good-faith conflicts even between perfectly well-meaning parties.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-2020-10-01-2020-11-19/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201112T173000
DTSTAMP:20260818T075008
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200709T164951Z
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘The Problem of Polarization’ \nAbstract: “The cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy.” This popular adage is false. Contemporary democracy faces problems that have their source in otherwise laudable forms of political participation. In short\, enactments of democratic citizenship heighten our exposure to polarization\, which in turn erodes our capacities to perform well as citizens. This talk examines the phenomenon of polarization\, identifies the problem that polarization poses to democracy\, and proposes a strategy for addressing that problem. Perhaps surprisingly\, if we aim to nurture our democratic capacities\, we need to sometimes engage together in nonpolitical cooperative activities.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-2020-10-01-2020-11-12/
CATEGORIES:CEPPA Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201015T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260818T075008
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Kieran Setiya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘What is Morality?’ \nAbstract: In “Modern Moral Philosophy\,” Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept of Aristotelian ethics\, that it derives from a confused response to the ethics of divine of command\, and that it is literally meaningless. This essay contends that Anscombe was wrong. Morality corresponds to Aristotle’s general sense of “justice\,” which is complete virtue in relation to another. But Anscombe’s question remains: what is it for an action to be morally wrong\, not merely something one should not do? The answer is not that wrongness warrants blame or that an action is wrong when it wrongs another person\, but that an action is morally wrong when it is something one should not do that one has no right to do. In the absence of rights\, Anscombe’s question has no answer. \nMorality-Handout
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-kieran-setiya-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201001T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201001T173000
DTSTAMP:20260818T075008
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SUMMARY:CEPPA Talk - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown University)
DESCRIPTION:Title: ‘Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture’ \nAbstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated\, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge\, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable\, and indeed to follow from any minimally plausible story about the epistemic consequences of social structure. Yet this theory is often the subject of controversy. I take the problem to be related to the norms of putting the theory into practice\, particularly their reliance on schedules of deference\, and considering the political consequences of this approach (elite capture) and also consequences I take to be morally corrosive. I propose an alternative\, which I call the “constructive” approach to giving standpoint epistemology practical expression\, and try to motivate adopting it.
URL:https://ceppa-test.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-talk-2020-10-01/
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