The Centre of Ethics Research seminar schedule has now been released here: Research seminar | Centre for ethics
This semester, some changes have been made to our usual meeting place.
Regular Seminars (Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm) will be held in Legie CB/01033 (except September 23rd (Legie CB/03004)) and Online (the seminar is run as hybrid).
What does it mean to be responsible—and, more urgently, what does it mean in the face of climate change? Traditional frameworks conceive of responsibility as individual, retrospective, and based on guilt. However, climate change is a collective harm with diffuse causes, intergenerational effects, and no clearly identified agents. More importantly, the climate crisis calls for an immediate response, not retrospective deliberation.
Congratulations to Peter Tuck, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Moral Particularism and the Non-Flatness Requirement" on August 29th. Those in attendance were treated to a lively conversation between Peter, his opponents Jussi Suikkanen (Birmingham) and Tomáš Hříbek (FLU, Prague), his committee and audience members. He was supported by both of his co-supervisors, Niklas Forsberg and Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan).
We're excited to following Peter's career in the years to come!
We're pleased to announce that, after a robust job competition, Lesley Jamieson has been selected to join Professor John Lippitt's ERC-CZ project, "Combatting Self-Righteousness: A Vice of the Digital Age" as a postdoctoral researcher.
Conference dates: 10-12 September 2025
Venue: The historical building of the University of Pardubice, nám. Čs. legií 565, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic, Room 03004.
During the 24/25 school year, we've already had two PhD students--Patrick Keenan and Vladimir Lukić--successfully defend their dissertations.
