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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 14h

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-...

Events for October 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 7d

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-...

Events for October 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 14d

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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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome back! For our first CEPPA talk of the year, we are welcoming Ben Colburn from the University of Glasgow. His talk is titled 'Moral Blackmail'. You can find the abstract and all info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...
See you on Thursday!

Events for September 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 26d

Check out CEPPA Director Mara van der Lugt on the Gray Area Podcast!

St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 27d

You can hear St Andrews Philosopher Mara van der Lugt speak about her recent book Hopeful Pessimism on the Gray Area podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

And the book itself is available here:

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#PhilSky

Hopeful pessimism

Podcast Episode · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 14/07/2025 · 52m

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · 29d

St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · 29d

St Andrews philosopher Ben Sachs-Cobbe's overview and analysis of 'The Ethics of a State Pension' has just been published in Philosophy Compass.

You can read it here:
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Ethics of the State Pension

This article suggests that future ethical analyses of state pensions should focus on either or both of two distinct ideal types of state pension, one of which is intended to serve a sufficientarian p...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Jens Timmermann's new book 'Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie' is out! Congratulations to him. Read it or buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jul 14

How much do patients need to understand to give valid consent? Not that much, argues Joseph Millum. Congratulations to him for his newly published commentary in the American Journal of Bioethics! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding and Consent: The Case for Minimalism

Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 7, 2025)

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Reposted by CEPPA St Andrews

St Andrews Philosophy @standrewsphil.bsky.social · Jun 30

New guidance from the World Health Organisation on the ethics of health research priority setting has just been published. St Andrews philosopher Joseph Millum was the lead writer!
www.who.int/publications...

WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting

This guidance aims to synthesize current good practice for incorporating ethics into health research priority setting. It is relevant to anyone making decisions about what research to support or condu...

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jul 4

In this article, they argue that the NHS's plan to test the entire genome of every newborn by 2030 to "predict and prevent illness" confuses 'prediction' with 'risk' of developing an illness. This, they argue, is an inaccurate and potentially dangerous mistake.

CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congratulations to Luca Stroppa and Emilia Wilson, who just published an article in 'The Conversation' based on their research on the 'Early Diagnosis: Handling Knowing' project at CEPPA. Read it here: theconversation.com/the-nhs-plan...

The NHS plan to genetically test all newborns sounds smart – until it creates patients who aren’t sick

The promise and peril of sequencing every baby’s genome.

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jul 4

The paper argues that rights entail not only negative duties but also positive duties to protect and assist right-holders against violations of their rights, and these are grounded in the very same justification of rights and negative duties: the inviolable moral status of persons.

CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congratulations to our own Bradley Hillier-Smith, whose new paper 'Rights, Duties, and Inviolability' was just published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rights, Duties, and Inviolability

Rights entail corresponding negative duties not to violate those rights. On this, all rights theorists agree. Yet, in our non-ideal world, these negative duties and thereby persons’ rights are pervas....

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 17

Health research funding is scarce. How can it be allocated fairly? Join us at noon on June 23 for the launch of WHO’s new Guidance on the Ethics of Health Research Priority Setting, written by CEPPA's own Joseph Millum:
www.who.int/news-room/ev...
#healthresearch #ethics #prioritysetting

Launch of WHO guidance on the ethics of health research priority setting

To explore the new guidance and its implications for practice, we invite you to join a virtual panel discussion hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 23 June 2025.

www.who.int

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations to Patrick Winther-Larsen, who just presented at the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions Conference! You can also find him at the Understanding Value XIII Conference (14-16 July) and the 15th Salzburg Conference of Young Analytic Philosophy (3-5 September).

CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 9

Next Monday!

CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · May 20

Join us next month (June 16th) for a celebration of all things CEPPA in our annual CEPPA Fest: a one-day conference featuring talks by our cherished members and some esteemed guests. You can find the schedule and registration link here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

Events for May 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Last week, CEPPA's very own Joseph Millum (together with Ben Colburn) wrote about the assisted dying bill for 'The Scotsman'. Find the piece here or email the authors for a copy: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Assisted Dying Bill Scotland: Why fears about coercion of vulnerable people are misguided

In countries which allow it, there is no evidence that people are coerced into assisted dying

www.scotsman.com

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Jun 2

Postdoc available at McGill. Studies of Translation, Ethics, and Medicine (STREAM) are looking for a postdoc in Bio-Ethics. You can read all about it here: www.translationalethics.com/wp-content/u...

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · May 26

Our own Bradley Hillier-Smith has just published a piece in Aeon. In it, he establishes what an ethical response to refugees would be, how it is possible, and how we can achieve it. Read it here:
aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

A philosophical view of our ethical obligations to refugees | Aeon Essays

You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees?

aeon.co

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · May 20

Join us next month (June 16th) for a celebration of all things CEPPA in our annual CEPPA Fest: a one-day conference featuring talks by our cherished members and some esteemed guests. You can find the schedule and registration link here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

Events for May 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · May 13

This week, in our final CEPPA talk of the academic year, Vid Simoniti will be talking to us about 'Merely Imagined Moralities'. You can find the abstract and all info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-.... See you there!

Events for May 2025 – CEPPA

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Apr 30

Last week, we were very fortunate to have David Enoch with us as he delivered the 2025 Knox Lecture. Here is a small snapshot of the talk in question. Thank you dearly David!

CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Apr 29

Also! Give The Ethics Cup a follow on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ethicscup/

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CEPPA St Andrews @ceppa.bsky.social · Apr 29

@ethicscup.bsky.social organiser, our own Ben Sachs, was recently featured on the OCR Exams podcast. There, he discusses thinking like a philosopher, what sets the Ethics Cup apart from other debating tournaments, and current matters of social justice. Listen here: shows.acast.com/62c6e8026608...

Religious studies and the Ethics Cup | OCR Exams

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