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-...

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...

If you thought this sounded cool, register to attend either in-person or online! Schedule here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
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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-...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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-...

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-...

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-...

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-...

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.

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-...

Beyond Belief - René Girard: The Catholic thinker influencing Silicon Valley - BBC Sounds Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world.

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/...

Event organised by the ShyBairn Theatre, Alucinari productions, Aura CuriAtlas Physical Theatre and the University of St Andrews’ School of Geography and Sustainable Development.

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...

Film and Philosophy Club is back this Thursday!
All info: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...

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.

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-...

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...

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-...

Bradley Hillier-Smith: The Ethics of State Responses To Refugees - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

A review of my book The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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-...

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...

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-...

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...

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/...

He argues that homelessness and associated deaths are 1) the result of homeless people being dehumanised, and so ignored as insufficiently morally important to be worth spending resources on protecting, 2) entirely avoidable, and 3) should not be an accepted feature of our social landscapes.

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

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...