Dr Clare Chambers has been appointed as a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine. It was established by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation in 1991, and since 1994 it has been funded jointly by the Foundation, Wellcome and the Medical Research Council. You can read more about the appointment here: 

https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/news/nuffield-council-appoints-new-members

The Faculty of Philosophy is delighted to announce that Prof. Alexander Bird has been elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, and will take up this role on 1st of October 2020. He will join the Faculty earlier, on 1st of July 2020, as Director of Research (part-time). Prof. Bird is currently the Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at Kings College, London.

Prof. Rae Langton gave a Hulsean Sermon at Great St Mary’s at 11.15 a.m. on Sunday 23 February, on "Enlightenment and Empowerment in a 'Post-Truth’ World"

http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/chaplaincy/university-sermons/

All are welcome and there will be a wine reception afterwards. Members of the University attending should wear their gowns.

Prof. Rae Langton was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, on 21st January 2020. This is in recognition of her work on the life and philosophical letters of Maria von Herbert, a young Austrian woman who lived in Klagenfurt from 1770-1803, and corresponded with Immanuel Kant. For more about von Herbert's fascinating and tragic story see e.g. ‘Duty and Desolation’ (1992) https://cambridge.academia.edu/RaeLangton