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/...

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 [email protected] 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-...

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-...

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/...

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...

Check out the review of our own Bradley Hillier-Smith's book in Ethics and International Affairs: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...

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...

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-...

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-...

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...

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...

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!

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

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/...

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

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).

Next Monday!

‪ 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...

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...

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...

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-...

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!

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!

@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...

This Thursday, Carla Bagnoli will be delivering our weekly CEPPA talk on the topic of 'Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency'. You can find the abstract and all info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

Happening this week!

Next week! All info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/film-a...

We are delighted to announce our first Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) workshop, hosted by CEPPA, which will be held in St Andrews on 6 and 7 May. Registration is free but spaces are limited. Find all the info and the registration form here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/first...

Join us this Thursday for a CEPPA talk by Lucy O'Brien. She will be talking to us about 'Autonomy and control over one’s social self-consciousness'. Find all the info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

On April 24th, we are very excited for a visit by Professor David Enoch (Oxford University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Professor Enoch will be delivering the annual Knox Lecture at CEPPA on the topic of 'Shameless Liberalism'.

This Thursday, we'll be joined by Christine Korsgaard who will give a CEPPA talk entitled ‘The Incomparable Value of the Individual’. You can read the abstract and all details about the event here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

Join us this Thursday for a CEPPA talk by Katherine Snow! The talk is titled 'Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis'. You can find the abstract and all other info here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/ceppa-...

Join us this Thursday for a CEPPA talk with Tom Sinclair, who will be talking to us about 'Hypocrisy as Evasion'. You can find the abstract and all other details here: ceppa.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/wp-admin/pos...

Congratulations to Bradley Hillier-Smith, whose latest paper 'The Egalitarian Case for Open Borders' has just been published in Moral Philosophy and Politics! You can read it here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

tomorrow!

A massive congratulations to our Director Mara van der Lugt whose book 'Begetting: What Does it Mean to Create a Child' was one of the finalists in the category 'Philosophy' at the 2025 PROSE Awards. You can find the full list and press release here: publishers.org/news/associa...