CEPS Seminars

Session of the CEPS Seminar Series.

The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem (2023) Harvard University Press Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most familiar ideas in our political thought and discourse—the justification of the state, democracy, and…

On 4 December 2024 at 3pm, the CEPS Seminars will host Eszter Kollar (KU Leuven) and she will present on "Labour Migration and Fair Reciprocity". Eszter Kollar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven, at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Her current research focuses on…

Session of the CEPS Seminar Series.

The CEPS Seminars will host a session by Sean Enda Power (University College Cork) on The Projection of Personhood on 'Artificial Intelligence' (Converstional LLMs). It will take a place on the 7th of May at 3pm in CEPS's room in the ELACH building of the Gualtar Campus. You can also access it online at: tinyurl.com/CEPSPower

Ludovica Lorusso and Fabio Bacchini (University of Sassari, Italy) will develop a critical discussion on the role of race in medicine. Exploring metaphysical debates and practical implications, the talks examine how race—understood as a social construct with real biological effects—can help explain health disparities and whether it should remain part of medical discourse.