Check out this episode of Ethics Untangled based on the new book by our own Joe Millum!

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...

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...

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-...

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

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-...

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...