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Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs based at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Online at ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Join us next Thursday for the next CEPPA talk! Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen) will talk about "Paying Attention to Global Politics". 17 September at 4-5.30pm in Edgecliffe (Department of Philosophy, St Andrews)!
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
CEPPA semester is kicking off! Our first guest will be Alec Walen (Rutgers - New Brunswick) who will be discussing his new book, "Punishment, Penalty, and Incapacitation". Join us on 11 September at 4pm in Edgecliffe, or online (link available upon request).
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The 2026 Haldane Essay Prize has just been awarded! The prize goes to Hoochang Yi for a paper titled “A wider taxonomy of closed-knowledge-communities”. Check out the prize: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/publications...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Check out this piece 'Why good evidence still leads to bad decisions' by Joe Millum and our colleagues at the School of Medicine and the Business School. businessschoolnews.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/11/w...
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Why good evidence still leads to bad decisions – Business School News
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our own Joe Millum just published a new paper, 'The imperative to embed ethics in health research priority-setting', in the WHO Bulletin. You can read it here pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Get ready for the 2026 CEPPA Fest! Happening June 16th and 17th and bringing together old, current, and new members of CEPPA for two days of the most thought-provoking talks. Find all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for June 2026 – CEPPA
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IDEA: The Ethics Centre @idea-leeds.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In our first post for Dementia Action Week, Danielle Bromwich asks whether people living with dementia can consent to sex. Drawing on her consent research, she argues for a novel view: ethics-untangled.ghost.io
An image reading ‘can people living with dementia consent to sex?’
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This week we have a new session of the CEPPA film club, this time hosted by our own Ida Mizcke. All details and suggested pre-reads here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
CEPPA's one and only Margaret Hampson has just publised her paper 'On Magnificence' in Mind! Read it here: academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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On Magnificence
Abstract. Aristotle’s catalogue of ethical virtues includes the virtue of magnificence (megaloprepeia), the mean between the vices of vulgarity and shabbin
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
CEPPA's very own Bradley Hillier-Smith (@bradleyhsmith.bsky.social) was just featured on 'The Dissenter' podcast talking about his latest book 'The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees'. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvT...
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#1251 Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Check out our very own Bradley Hillier-Smith (@bradleyhsmith.bsky.social)'s article in Public Ethics analysing the recent change in UK refugee legislation and talking about our responsibilities towards refugees. Read it here: www.publicethics.org/post/the-eth...
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UK Refugee Protection 2026: Does the 30-Month Limit Hold Up?
The UK now grants refugees just 30 months' protection, after which they face deportation review, repeated every 30 months for up to 20 years. The government claims this reflects the true purpose of re...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This week we will be hosting Tommie Shelby for our annual Knox Lecture. He will be talking to us about Solidarity, Politics and Intellectual Life. All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/2026-k...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Check out this episode of Ethics Untangled based on the new book by our own Joe Millum!
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Today the CEPPA film club will be watching Twister and discussing it with our collegue Simon Lee from the @earthscista.bsky.social! Find out all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
CEPPA's own Enrico Galvagni (@enricogalvagni.bsky.social) has just published a new paper in the Journal of Value Inquiry. It's titled 'Do Humeans Need Phronesis?' Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do Humeans Need Phronesis? - The Journal of Value Inquiry
The resurgence of virtue ethics in the last 50 years has often been guided by Aristotelian approaches. Recently, however, several scholars have attempted to develop an ethics of virtue inspired by Hum...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Join us this Thursday for an online CEPPA talk by Jiewuh Song titled 'The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Case of Climate Change'! You can find all the details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for April 2026 – CEPPA
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Petronella Randell @petronellarandell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If you thought this sounded cool, register to attend either in-person or online! Schedule here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/... Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/q4DhBX3K30 @standrewsphil.bsky.social
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Imagination Day
A one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Tomorrow. we are delighted to welcome Kal Kalewold for a CEPPA talk titled 'Going First: Integration with Compensation as a Duty of Justice'. You can find all the details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Our colleagues at Arché are organising a conference on online communication and political epistemology. It's happening in a bit over a month on April 30th. You can read more about it here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
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ECT Spring Workshop – Online communication and political epistemologyECT Spring Workshop – Online communication and political epistemology – Arche
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The CEPPA Film Club is back! We are starting a special series highlighting the research being conducted in CEPPA. This time, Ben Sachs-Cobbe will introduce us to his research on the future of work project through the film 'Office Space'. All details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Tomorrow CEPPA will be hosting an author-meets-critics on Remy Debes recent book 'The Possibility of Respect'. Emma Gordon, Michael Cholbi, and our own Adam Etinson will provide comments and Remy will then respond. Find out all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/book-w...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Just out! Our very own Joe Millum has just published The Ethics of Consent: An Introduction together with Danielle Bromwich. A readable and opinionated guide covering medical care, clinical research, consent to sex, consent online, and much more. www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-o...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Next Monday, the St Andrews Centre for Changing Climate will be hosting Prof. Sir Jim Skea, the Chair of the IPCC, in an event featuring our own Derek Ball. Scan the QR below to register your attendance or follow this link: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-i...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Tomorrow! Live from Colorado State University, Katie McShane will deliver an online CEPPA talk titled 'Relational Value: Problems and Prospects'. Find all the information here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for March 2026 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This week! Two more researchers will be showcasing their work. Omar Ruiz Rivera will talk about 'Moral Skill' and Craig Ferrie about 'Normative (Un)knowability and the Hybrid Theory of Normative Truth'. All the details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for February 2026 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This week, two more in-house researchers will give CEPPA talks about their work. Yoshinari Hattori's talk is titled 'Why We Must Believe in Free Will and Moral Responsibility' and Ida Miczske's 'When love met morality' All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tomorrow, from the University of Edinburgh, Enrico Galvagni will be giving a CEPPA talk titled 'Hume’s One and Only Definition of Virtue'. Find all the details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for February 2026 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We continue with our CEPPA lectures, highlighting in-house researchers. This Thursday Viviane Fairbank will present on 'The Responsible-Inquiry Model of Journalism' & Jacob Librizzi on 'Why Metanormative Constitutivists Should be Voluntarists About Reasons'. ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Postdoc position at McGill! McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit / Studies of Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM) is inviting applications for postdoctoral research fellows (PDF) with a background in philosophy, decision science or statistics.
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This week, we launch a series of CEPPA talks highlighting the research of our PGRs! Miguel de la Cal Moreno will give a talk titled 'Manufactured Disorientation and Climate Change' & and Mario Bison another one titled 'How to think about empathy, and why'. ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for January 2026 – CEPPA
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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I had the honour of speaking with the wonderful Cynthia Haven and Michael Kirwan SJ about the work of René Girard on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Beyond Belief - René Girard: The Catholic thinker influencing Silicon Valley - BBC Sounds
Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world.
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Join us in making A Space for Hope, an interactive installation which seeks to create space for climate hope amongst increasing climate anxiety. Hosted at the St Andrews Botanical Gardens. Read more about it and get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-space-fo...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Film and Philosophy Club is back this Thursday! All info: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Call for Papers! The St Andrews Network for Medical Humanities will host its second annual symposium on January 23rd 2026. Send a title for a short, 10-minute talk and up to 5 keywords that describe your overall research interests in medical humanities to medhums@st-andrews.ac.uk by 15th December.
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Tomorrow, as part of our Climate Ethics series, Matthew Brander will be giving a CEPPA talk titled 'Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting'. You can read all about it here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for November 2025 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We are delighted that CEPPA's own Professor Theron Pummer will be giving his Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 'The Rules of Rescue', tomorrow, as part of the Department's Inaugural Lecture Showcase. Join us there! Find all the info here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/inaug...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Join us on Thursday for a CEPPA talk by Ami Harbin, who will be speaking to us about 'Co-forming feelings in Therapy'. All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for November 2025 – CEPPA
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Bradley Hillier-Smith @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A review of my book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses To Refugees - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This Thursday, Kian Mintz-Woo visits us to give our weekly CEPPA talk on ‘What do normative philosophers have to contribute to society?’. All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Tomorrow, in a special collab with Climate, Ocean, and Atmosphere at St Andrews and the St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climate will be hosting Wim Carton. He'll talk about his latest book: 'Overshoot'. ⏱️15:30-17 📍School V All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/climat...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tomorrow! St Andrews's own Alice Murphy will be giving a CEPPA talk titled: “Invasive” Species and the Aesthetics of Nature. Find all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for October 2025 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Leah Pierson and CEPPA director Joseph Millum's newly published paper argues that clinician researchers can influence the prioritisation and impact of research and ensure its benefits are spread fairly. You can read the full article here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Health professionals should be involved in setting research priorities
Clinician researchers can influence the prioritisation and impact of research and ensure its benefits are spread fairly, write Joseph Millum and Leah Pierson Health professionals play a critical rol...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our very own @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social recently published an article in The Independent outlining how homelessness is a moral problem. Read it here: www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...
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Homeless deaths hit a record high last year – and every one of them was preventable
Britain’s housing crisis is not just a policy failure but a moral one, says Bradley Hillier-Smith. When we treat the homeless as ‘nuisances’ and ‘pests’, we deny their humanity – and our own
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Check out the review of our own Bradley Hillier-Smith's book in Ethics and International Affairs: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth $170, eBook $48.44. | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth 48.44. - Volume 39 Issue 2
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St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This week, St Andrews Philosopher & specialist in medical ethics, Dr Joseph Millum, will give a talk on Ethical Decision-Making for Minors at the University of Louisville School of Medicine Healthcare Ethics Speaker Series Register for the talk here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/44358c...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Interested in how policy makers, industry experts and local communities grapple with the limits of knowledge and distant future societies? Check out today's event by the Centre for Energy Ethics. Happening at 4pm. All details here: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/gover...
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Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate | Energy Ethics
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Tomorrow we welcome Michael Otsuka. He'll be giving a CEPPA talk titled 'How Non-existence is worse for us'. All the details and the abstract here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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Events for October 2025 – CEPPA
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Tomorrow, Federico Luzzi from @abdnphilosophy.bsky.social will be giving a CEPPA talk titled 'Against Excellence as the Norm of Ambition'. You can find all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The National Institutes of Health has two two-year Fellowship Opportunities in the Department of Bioethics. One is for a post-baccalaureate and one for a post-doc. See all info here: www.cc.nih.gov/bioethics/ed...
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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
No talk this week. However, tomorrow we are opening this years Philosophy and Film Club. All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...
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