MEEP Activities

In MEEP meetings, seminars and workshops we discuss issues that lie at the intersection of problems normally discussed under the headings of ‘Mind and Epistemology’, on the one hand, and ‘Ethics and Political Philosophy’, on the other.

Upcoming MEEP Activities:

TBA

Past MEEP Activities

5th June 2024, 4-6pm

Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford) “On the Metaphysical and Epistemic Contrasts between Real and Fake Testimony”

13rd March 2024 - Mini-Workshop on Helping and Group Membership

2 - 3.45pm: Josef Perner & Anna Krämer (Salzburg) "Prosocial teleology: Does infants' helping depend on understanding value and instrumental reasons?
4 - 5.45pm: Harriet Over (York) "How convincing are social psychological models of dehumanization? The relationship between group membership, mental state attribution and prosocial behaviour"

Spring Term 2024. WMA reading group: Montaigne on MEEP (Mind, Epistemology, Ethics & Political Philosophy)

Schedule:

Week 2 – Intro to Montaigne: Judgement, Personality, Humankind (and Chess!)

‘To the Reader’ (p. 2 in the Frame translation); ‘Of Democritus and Heraclitus’ I. 50. (pp. 266-268)

Week 4 – Knowing Facts, Learning Virtues

‘Of Pedantry’ I. 25. (pp. 118-129)

Week 6 – Justice and Dirty Hands

‘Of the Useful and the Honourable’ III. 1 (pp. 726 at least up to p. 736)

Week 8 – TBC

Week 10 – TBC

18th October 2023, 16:00-18:00, S0.09:

Talk by Quassim Cassam - Liberation Philosophy

29 June 2023 - MEEP Mini-Workshop, 2:00-6:00pm

Professor Carol Rovane (Columbia University) "Social Conditions of the Psyche"
Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) "The Commons and our Political Ideals"

20th June 2023 MEEP workshop
(Celebrating Daniel Vanello’s Leverhulme Project, Shaping Our Moral Identity.)

Programme

10.00 - 11.00 - "On the location of ethics and politics in the mind: introductory comments", Naomi Eilan

11.15 - 12.15 - "The epistemology of emancipation", Quassim Cassam

12.15 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 14.00 - "Rethinking Body Shame", Heather Widdows

14.15 - 15.15 - "Sentence structure, thought and attention", Eileen John

15.15 - 15.45: Tea

15.45 - 16.45 - "Montaigne on the ethics and politics of self-knowledge", Johannes Roessler

17.00 - 18.00 - "The authority of moral witnesses", Daniel Vanello

Wed 22nd February 2023, 4:30pm, Cowling Room:

On Lauren N. Ross' "What is social structural explanation? A causal account" by Guy Longworth

Wed 25th January 2023, 4:30pm, S1.501:

Discussion of "Sensemaking, Democracy, and Empathy", by Quassim Cassam