Michael Cholbi

Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

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Recent Presentations

Selected research presentations (2020-present)

“The duty to vote and duties to self.”

  • Center for Research in Ethics, University of Montreal, 1/23
  • University of Helsinki, 10/2022
  • MANCEPT workshop, “Duties to Self: Social and Political Dimensions,” University of Manchester, 9/2022

“Pluralism about Prudential Rationality about the Liberal Project.” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, Montreal, January 2023

“How shall we memorialise the COVID dead?” British Society for Aesthetic Workshop on Public Art, King’s College London, 11/22

“Grief, empathy, and psychopathy.”

  • University of Glasgow, 10/2022
    • University of Turku, 10/2022
    • University of York Grief Workshop, 6/2022
    • University of Alabama, 11/2021
    • University of Liverpool, Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy Project, 6/2021.

    “Suicidal ambivalence and the question of paternalism.”Ambivalence in Suicidal Thought and Action workshop, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, 9/22

    “An ethical framework for suicide prevention.” Society for Applied Philosophy, Edinburgh, 7/2022

    “Public grief as a catalyst for solidarity and social justice.” The Political Role of the Moral Emotions, Geneva, 6/22.

    “Grief as attention.” European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Graz, 6/2022.

    “Who we grieve for — and why.”

    • Seton Hall University, 4/2022
    • Philosophy Talk speaker series, University of Alabama, 11/2021

    “Grieving our way back to meaningfulness.”

    • University of Florida, 11/2021
    • Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, Meaning in Life and Knowledge of Death, 7/ 2021

    “The value of self-knowledge.” Conference on What We Owe to Ourselves, Central European University, Vienna, 10/2021

    “Respect and Reasonable Pluralism about Prudential Rationality.”

    • Rawls Centenary Symposium, University of Girona, Spain, 10/2021
    • MANCEPT Workshop, “Prudence and Politics,” 9/2021

    “Labor conscription. ”Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 10/2021

    “Justice in human capital.” Workshop on “Working as Equals,” St. Mary’s University, California, 6/2021

    “Grief justice and the role of medicine after Covid.” Philosophical Perspectives on Covid-19, University of Johannesburg/University of Pittsburgh, 5/2021 [online]

    “Adapting to an unjust world.” Edinburgh Speaker Series (ESS) in Philosophy, 4/2021

    “Toward a post-pornographic culture of death.” Pense journal conference, University of Edinburgh, 3/2021

    “Disenfranchisement, desert, and political wrongdoing.” American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting (New Orleans), 2/2021

    Authors meets critics session: Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Society for the Philosophy of Emotion (at APA Central Division meeting, New Orleans), 2/2021

    “Non-compete agreements and fairness in human capital development and distribution.” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics group session, APA Central Division meeting (New Orleans), 2/2021

    “Hardly working?: Digital Taylorism and employees as data subjects.” University of Leuven, Working Group on Philosophy and Technology, Workshop on Technology and Work, 2/2021 [online]

    “Equal treatment and pluralism about moral standing.” Workshop, Foundations of Human Equality, University of Bern, Switzerland, 9/2020

    “Basic income as reparations.” September 2020. MANCEPT workshop (University of Manchester), Reparations: Past, Present, and Future

    “Respect, self-respect, and self-knowledge.” Obligations to Oneself (online workshop, Monash University), July 2020

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