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The Moral Sciences Club

Time: 4 pm - 5:45 pm followed by dinner (attendance for dinner must be registered in advance)
Location:  Jane Harrison Room (Newnham College) and on Zoom. Please note: Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry on 28th November 2023 will take place in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College.

Please contact the MSC secretaries if you would like to sign up to attend one of the meetings.

Meetings are open only to those eligible for membership of the Club. Membership shall be open to any undergraduate, postgraduate student or senior member of the University. Visiting scholars and other persons may become members with the consent of the Officers.

Please read the Constitution of the Moral Sciences Club. You may also be interested in 'A short History' of the Moral Sciences Club and the minutes of recent years.

The club secretaries are Henrik Røed Sherling, Alice Roberts and Sam Cole. To contact the Moral Sciences Club email mscsec@phil.cam.ac.uk. Join the MSC mailing list to make and receive postings to the list.

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Lent 2024

 
Date  Speaker Title of Talk
23 January   

Tim Button

Artefacts of representational choices

Abstract

30 January

Adham El Shazly

Thinking Together

Abstract

6 February 

Anne Meylan

The Zetetic Puzzle

Abstract

13 February

Zofia Stemplowska

Just Attention for the Dead

Abstract

20 February

Eric Mandelbaum

The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences

Abstract

CANCELLED 27 February

CANCELLED Facundo Rodríguez

CANCELLED Between Persons: Kantian insights into the interpersonal domain

Abstract

5 March

Åsa Burman

Defining Social Power

Abstract

12 March 

Paul Billingham

Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms

Abstract

Michaelmas 2023

Speaker & University Title of Talk
10th October

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland)

Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?

Abstract

17th October

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki)

Trust, reliance, and objectivity (collaboration with Alison Wylie)

Abstract

24th October David Enoch (University of Oxford)

Why Isn’t (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value?

Abstract

31st October

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

 

7th November

Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford) 

Property Versatility

Abstract

14th November John Dupré (University of Exeter)

Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View

Abstract

21st November

Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge)

TBD

Abstract

28th November

Pablo Hubacher Haerle (University of Cambridge)

Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry

Abstract

 

Michaelmas 2022

 

Date

Speaker & University Title of Talk
11th October

Sophia Dandelet (University of Cambridge)

Permissivism, arbitrariness, and accuracy

Abstract

18th October

Adrian Alsmith (King’s College London)

Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion

Abstract

25th October Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge)

Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real (see slides for the talk)

Abstract

1st November

Mona Simion (University of Glasgow)

Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension

Abstract

8th November

[Speaker Online]

Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) 

Rethinking Moral Claim Rights

Abstract

15th November Matthieu Queloz (Univesity of Bern)

Pragmatic Genealogy

Abstract

22nd November

Paula Keller (University of Cambridge)

Perceiving Oppression

Abstract

29th November

[Takes place in Barbara White Room (Newnham College)]

Wouter Cohen (University of Cambridge)

Title: Appreciating music

Abstract

Lent 2023

 

Date

Speaker & University Title of Talk
24th January

Sarah Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi)  

Plan B Consistency

Abstract

31st January 

[Online]

Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)

 

Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections

Abstract

7th February

Johanna Thoma (LSE) 

Social Science, Policy and Democracy

Abstract

14th February 

Cancelled

 

21st February

Cancelled

 
28th February Sophie Dandelet (University of Cambridge) 

Epistemic rationality and the value of truth

7th March

Lori Watson (Washington University in St. Louis)

On Subordination

Abstract

14th March 

14:00 - 15:45

Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)

The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary

Abstract

Easter 2023

 

Date

Speaker & University Title of Talk
2nd May Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh)

Playfulness as a Moral Virtue

Abstract

9th May Jan Kandiyali    (Durham University)

From Each According to Their Abilities

Abstract

16th May

Emily Thomas (Durham University)

From Unreal to Real Time: British Metaphysics 1880s-1920s

Abstract

23rd May

Michael Freeden (University of Oxford)

Political thinking: the flight from solidity

Abstract

30th May

Ronja Griep (University of Cambridge)

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