Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
UPDATE 03/04/23: The Kyiv Independent wrote an article about the event which can be read here. Professor Angie Hobbs' session is able to be viewed below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEEpAQPoKI ORIGINAL POST: âWhat Good Is Philosophy? â A Benefit Conference for Ukraineâ will be taking place between 17-19 March 2023, and Professor Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public …
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On February 20th, 1-2pm, visiting PhD researcher Tamara van den Berg will be giving a work in progress talk. In this paper, we conceptualize colonialism as a structural-historical injustice. From this, we develop an ameliorative understanding of refugees, as a particular group that is similarly unjustly constrained by colonial structures, and whose members are therefore …
Affiliate centre member Dr Jingbo Hu is a postdoctoral researcher at Fudan University, China. He has recently published work on reasons-responsive conceptions of responsibility in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Some of his current research contributes to decolonisation efforts, by bringing contemporary work in Western philosophical debates on free will into contact with …
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Over the last year or so, Megan has given a number of talks on philosophical issues concerning climate justice. This includes: 'How to be an isolationist about climate justice', for St Andrews Philosophy Society 'Direct action against fossil fuel extraction', at the LSE Climate Agents of Change Workshop 'Climate change as a structural harm', for the Principles of …
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In this podcast, Centre member Megan Blomfield explores how carbon sinks might be understood as global commons; and whether justice will be promoted by conceptualising them this way. This is a recording of a talk that Megan gave at the 'Global Commons and their Discontents' online workshop.
This week, Dr Megan Blomfield delivered a talk at the prestigious Aristotelian Society, London. Megan's talk addressed responsibility for the climate change problem. Who is responsible for remedying the problem of climate change? One popular answer is given by the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), according to which such responsibility falls to excessive emitters of greenhouse …
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On January 20th, Center member Megan Blomfield gave a talk on Civil Disobedience at a WU Vienna conference on 'Environmental Defenders â Current Legal Developments and Challenges'. Environmental defenders - understood by the UN as persons âdefending environmental rights, including constitutional rights to a clean and healthy environmentâ - play a crucial role in protecting …
Since July 2021, Centre member Jim Chamberlain has been involved with the charity Philosophy in Prison, first as its Research Associate and then as a Trustee. Philosophy in Prison promotes the development and delivery of philosophy sessions in prisons and aims to explore the practical and philosophical principles that such sessions involve. As an example …
In this article, Philosophy Lecturer Max Hayward asks whether our cities, communities, and even democracy itself can survive in a world where life is increasingly lived in virtual online spaces owned by tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.(subscription needed to access) https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/agora/2022/08/rise-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-decline-cities
Centre member Ryan Byerly has recently published in Psyche magazine a piece, based on his research, on the value of other-centeredness, and its role in our disposition to help others. Ryan also discussed the article in a radio interview on ABC Radio Australia's Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, which you can listen to here (10th Oct …
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