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Read more at: Michael Potter discusses language and the world with John Searle and Hilary Lawson

Michael Potter discusses language and the world with John Searle and Hilary Lawson

9 April 2014

Michael Potter discusses language and the world with John Searle and Hilary Lawson. See the video of the debate entitled The Limits of My World .

Read more at: Rae Langton selected as one of the candidates for Prospect magazine’s competition for the world’s most important thinker of 2014

Rae Langton selected as one of the candidates for Prospect magazine’s competition for the world’s most important thinker of 2014

7 April 2014

Professor Rae Langton has been selected as one of the candidates for Prospect magazine’s competition for the world’s most important thinker of 2014. Credit was given to the influence of the candidates work over the past 12 months and their continuing significance to this year’s biggest questions. The list contains 17...

Read more at: Dr Tom Dougherty has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Faculty from August 2014

Dr Tom Dougherty has been appointed as a Lecturer in the Faculty from August 2014

25 March 2014

We are delighted to announce that Dr Tom Dougherty, currently at the University of Sydney, will be joining the Faculty in August 2014. Tom works mostly in ethics and political philosophy, and he will be adding to our strengths in those subjects. Before he went to Sydney, Tom did his PhD at MIT. His web page is here .

Read more at: Joint Session 2014 Registration now open

Joint Session 2014 Registration now open

24 March 2014

Registration for the Joint Session 2014 is now open.

Read more at: British Society of Aesthetics lecture series to be held in Cambridge

British Society of Aesthetics lecture series to be held in Cambridge

14 February 2014

British Society of Aesthetics lecture series to be held in Cambridge. For further details see: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/philosophy/bsa-lectures.shtml

Read more at: Professor Onora O'Neill was made a Companion of Honour in the 2014 New Year Honours List

Professor Onora O'Neill was made a Companion of Honour in the 2014 New Year Honours List

7 January 2014

Baroness Onora O'Neill of Bengarve, Professor Emeritus and former principal of Newnham College, has been made a Companion of Honour (CH) for her services to Philosophy and Public Policy. Widely recognised as one of Britain's leading moral and political philosophers, her research has focussed particularly on questions of...

Read more at: Trusting Banks project: PhD studentship 2014–18

Trusting Banks project: PhD studentship 2014–18

12 December 2013

Trusting Banks project: PhD studentship 2014–18 Universities of Cambridge and Groningen Trusting Banks is a collaborative research project in applied ethics and epistemology between the Universities of Cambridge and Groningen, sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project is led by...

Read more at: Judith Jarvis Thomson's talk 'Rights and Wrongs' at the Moral Sciences Club

Judith Jarvis Thomson's talk 'Rights and Wrongs' at the Moral Sciences Club

12 November 2013

Listen to the talk ' Rights and Wrongs ' given by Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT) at the Moral Sciences Club on 15 October 2013 .

Read more at: Professor Rae Langton was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 12th October 2013

Professor Rae Langton was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 12th October 2013

10 October 2013

Professor Rae Langton's induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 12th 2013

Read more at: Onora O'Neill's talk on trust has been selected for the TED website

Onora O'Neill's talk on trust has been selected for the TED website

26 September 2013

Emeritus Professor Onora O'Neill's talk: " What we don't understand ab out trust ", which she gave at the TEDx conference earlier this year, has now been repromoted on a selected TED website. TED conferences bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (...

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