
Many of the Moral Sciences podcasts can be found on Cambridge University iTunesU
Moral Sciences Club - Michael Freeden (University of Oxford) 'Political thinking: the flight from solidity'
(recorded 23 May 2023)
Moral Sciences Club - Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) 'The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary'
(recorded 14 March 2023
Moral Sciences Club - Sophie Dandelet (University of Cambridge) 'Epistemic rationality and the value of truth'
(recorded 28 February 2023)
Moral Sciences Club - Johanna Thoma (LSE) 'Social Science, Policy and Democracy'
(recorded 7 February 2023)
Moral Sciences Club - Adrian Moore (University of Oxford) 'Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections'
(recorded 31 January 2023)
Moral Sciences Club - Sarah Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi) 'Plan B Consistency'
(recorded 24 January 2023)
Moral Sciences Club - Paula Keller (University of Cambridge) 'Perceiving Oppression'
(recorded 22 November 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) 'Rethinking Moral Claim Rights'
(recorded 8 November 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) 'Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension'
(recorded 1 November 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge) 'Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real'
(recorded 25 October 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Adrian Alsmith (King’s College London) 'Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion'
(recorded 18 October 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Alex Broadbent (Durham) 'Was lockdown racist?'
(recorded 17 May 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Derek Matravers (Open University) 'Empathy and Feeling the Emotions of Others'
(recorded 10 May 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Jane Heal (Cambridge) 'The Singular Ownership Claim'
(recorded 15 March 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Emma Curran (Cambridge) 'Catastrophic Risk and the Complaints of Future People'
(recorded 8 March 2022)
Moral Sciences Club - Tom Shakespeare (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 'What is disability?'
(recorded 8 February 2022)
(recorded 1 February 2022)
(recorded 25 January 2022)
(recorded 30 November 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - David Papineau (KCL) 'Knowledge and the Failings of Folk Epistemology'
(recorded 23 November 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Jessie Munton (Cambridge) 'Epistemic Norms for Search Engines'
(recorded 16 November 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) 'Value Capture'
(recorded 9 November 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University) 'Transforming Solidarities'
(recorded 2 November 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University) 'Tempted like Achilles'
(recorded 26 October 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Neil Dewar (Cambridge) 'On Absolute Units'
(recorded 19 October 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Joe Horton (UCL) 'New and Improvable Lives'
(recorded 16 March 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Helen Frowe (Stockholm) 'Risk Imposition and Liability'
(recorded 16 March 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Alexander Horne (Trinity College, Cambridge) 'You can run, but you cannot hide: social norms and social
normativity'
(recorded 9 March 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Cian Dorr (NYU) 'Plural Signification and Semantic Paradox'
(recorded 2 March 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Alexander Bird (St John's College, Cambridge) 'Against Empiricism'
(recorded 23 Februrary 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) 'Hypocrisy and Blame'
(recorded 9 Februrary 2021)
Moral Sciences Club - Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham) 'Delusion and Identity'
(recorded 1 December 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Roxane Noël (Wolfson College, Cambridge) 'The Legacy of Peter Abelard in Twelfth-Century Logic'
(recorded 10 November 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Sally Haslanger (MIT) 'Political Epistemology and Social Critique'
(recorded 27 October 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth) 'Should Ontology be Explanatory?'
(recorded 20 October 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona) 'How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds'
(recorded 11 February 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Robert Hopkins (NYU) 'Ryleing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowledge of perceiving'
(recorded 4 February 2020)
Moral Sciences Club - Peter Millican (Oxford) 'What Hume Really Thought about Causation'
(recorded 19 November 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Kenny Walden (Dartmouth) 'Agency and Genius'
(recorded 12 November 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) 'Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects'
(recorded 5 November 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Bob Pasnau (CU Boulder) 'Choosing beytween Faith and Heresy'
(recorded 29 October 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) 'Roasting Ethics'
(recorded 22 October 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Nick Denyer (Cambridge) 'Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle on What Geometry is About'
(recorded 15 October 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Pekka Väyrynen (Leeds) 'Normative Explanation and Justification'
(recorded 21 May 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) 'Love, Rationality, and Arbitrariness'
(recorded 14 May 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) 'Norms of Racial Discourse in the Age of Trump'
(recorded 7 May 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State) 'Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility'
(recorded 30 April 2019)
Non-categorical thought conference recordings
(recorded 25 March 2019)
Sixth Form Philosophy Conference Recordings
(recorded 21 March 2019, 23 March 2017 & 15 April 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Karamvir Chadha (Cambridge) 'Conditional Consent'
(recorded 12 March 2019)
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy - Baroness Onora O'Neill 'Ethics for Communication in a Digital Age'
(recorded 7 March 2019 - see also Lecture Notes)
Moral Sciences Club - Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) 'The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion'
(recorded 5 March 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Øystein Linnebo (Oslo) 'Generality explained'
(recorded 26 February 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Adrian Haddock (Stirling) 'The First Person, and its Significance'
(recorded 19 February 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Cathy Mason (Cambridge) 'Humility and Moral Development'
(recorded 12 February 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Anna Marmodoro (Durham/Oxford) 'Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics'
(recorded 29 January 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) 'Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question'
(recorded 22 January 2019)
Moral Sciences Club - Nick Stang (Toronto) 'Linguistic Frameworks and Experience: Old Problems for Neo-Carnapians'
(recorded 27 November 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst) 'What’s an Epistemic Modal Anyway?'
(recorded 20 November 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Nilanjan Das (UCL) 'Externalism and Exploitability'
(recorded 13 November 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick) 'Getting Rights out of Wrongs'
(recorded 6 November 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Yael Loewenstein (Cambridge/ Houston) 'Against the Standard Solution to the Grandfather Paradox'
(recorded 30 October 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) 'Degrees of Free Will'
(recorded 23 October 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) 'Ground Functionalism'
(recorded 16 October 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) 'Choosing for Changing Selves'
(recorded 9 October 2018)
Minorities and Philosophy Cambridge Conference - Power and Identity: Philosophical Reflections on Liberation
(recorded 18 June 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Serene Khader (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College) 'Decolonizing Universalism: Transnational Feminisms and Political Philosophy'
(recorded 15 May 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Peter Railton (Michigan) 'Belief, Affect, and Reliance'
(recorded 8 May 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - John Gardner (Oxford) 'Punishment v self-defence'
(recorded 13 February 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Jack Woods (Leeds) 'Abductive Immodesty in Mathematics and Morality'
(recorded 6 February 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Li Li Tan (Cambridge) 'Against high-level features in visual phenomenology'
(recorded 30 January 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Matthew Dougherty (Cambridge) 'Skill, Role, and Virtue'
(recorded 23 January 2018)
Moral Sciences Club - Laura Valentini (LSE) 'On public-identity disempowerment'
(recorded 28 November 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Michelle Dempsey (Villanova) 'Sex and Regret'
(recorded 21 November 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - James Hutton (Cambridge) 'Epistemic normativity in Kant’s “Second Analogy”'
(recorded 14 November 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Victor Tadros (Warwick) 'Killing and aggregation'
(recorded 7 November 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Christian List (LSE) 'Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form'
(recorded 31 October 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - John Filling (Cambridge) 'On Structural Injustice'
(recorded 24 October 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Mark Kalderon (UCL) 'The Event of Rarefaction'
(recorded 17 October 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Seth Lazar (ANU) 'Doing the most good: moral options and optimisation'
(recorded 10 October 2017)
Women in Philosophy Conference 2017 recordings
(recorded 8 June 2017)
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy 2017 - Peter Singer 'The Point of View of the Universe: Defending Sidgwick's Ethics'
(recorded 26 May 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - L. A. Paul (UNC Chapel Hill) 'De Se Preferences and Epistemic Deference'
(recorded 23 May 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Rachel Fraser (Cambridge) 'The pragmatics and epistemology of narrative'
(recorded 16 May 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Ian Rumfitt (Oxford) 'Truth'
(recorded 9 May 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Mike Martin (UCL) 'Variation and change in appearances'
(recorded 2 May 2017)
Sixth Form Philosophy Conference Recordings
(recorded 21 March 2019, 23 March 2017 & 15 April 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Peter Adamson (Ludwig Maximilian University) 'Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' Treatises on Fate and Providence'
(recorded 14 March 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Anne Eaton (Illinois at Chicago) 'Antiporn Feminism Reconceived'
(recorded 7 March 2017)
Future Directions in Epistemology: Formal, Informal, Applied - BARSEA Conference in Epistemology
(recorded 25 & 26 February 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Daisy Dixon (Cambridge) 'Can Art Lie?'
(recorded 21 February 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Lizzie Fricker (Oxford) 'The Prizes and Perils of Trusting Others'
(recorded 14 February 2017)
Remembering Casimir Lewy: the man, his life and his philosophy
(recorded 10 February 2017 - see slides for Professor Simon Blackburn's talk)
Moral Sciences Club - Matti Eklund (Uppsala) 'Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics'
(recorded 7 February 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Henry Taylor (Cambridge) 'The nature of properties: Pure powers or powerful qualities?'
(recorded 31 January 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Cécile Fabre (Oxford) ''Tu Quoque': on the ethics of inconsistency, double standards and hypocrisy in economic foreign policy'
(recorded 24 January 2017)
Moral Sciences Club - Lucy O'Brien (UCL) 'Shameful Self-Consciousness'
(recorded 29 November 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Jeff McMahan (Oxford) 'Against Collective Responsibility'
(recorded 22 November 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Mark Richard (Harvard) 'Meanings as Species'
(recorded 1 November 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Bernhard Salow (Cambridge) 'Biased Information'
(recorded 25 October 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Tom Stern (UCL) 'The Problem with Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation'
(recorded 18 October 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - David Papineau (King's College/CUNY) 'The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience'
(recorded 11 October 2016)
Conference on Bernard Williams and the Ancients - Prof. MM McCabe (Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy King's College, London) 'Good-makers and Good-takers: Bernard Williams on Platonic (intrinsic) goodness' (view the handout for the talk here).
(recorded 19 September 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Louise Hanson (Cambridge) 'The Real Problem with Evolutionary Debunking Arguments'
(recorded 17 May 2016)
Moral Psychology Research Group - Prof Roy Baumeister (Florida State University) & Prof Richard Holton (Cambridge) 'Moral Virtue and Self Control'
(recorded 16 May 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - David Pitt (Cal State, LA) 'Objects and Their Phases'
(recorded 10 May 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Vid Simoniti (Cambridge) 'Beauty and power: response-dependence in aesthetic properties'
(recorded 3 May 2016)
Sixth Form Philosophy Conference Recordings
(recorded 15 April 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Katharine Jenkins (Cambridge) 'Ontic Injustice'
(recorded 26 April 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Lilli Alanen (Uppsala) 'Personal Identity, Passions and Hume's "True Idea of the Human Mind"'
(recorded 8 March 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Robbie Williams (Leeds) 'Normative reference magnets'
(recorded 1 March 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Mat Simpson (Cambridge) 'Pragmatism and the No Exit Objection'
(recorded 16 February 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Samir Okasha (Bristol) 'Rationality from a Biological Perspective'
(recorded 9 February 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Robin Zheng (Cambridge) 'Expanding the Moral Repertoire: Oughts, Ideals, and Appraisals'
(recorded 2 February 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Chris Cowie (Cambridge) 'Biting the Bullet in Non-Identity Cases'
(recorded 26 January 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Richard Heck (Brown) 'Against Frontloading'
(recorded 19 January 2016)
Moral Sciences Club - Alison Hills (Oxford) 'How to be a moral expert'
(recorded 1 December 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - David Bakhurst (Queens) 'Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education'
(recorded 17 November 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Ian Phillips (Oxford) 'Unconscious perception reconsidered'
(recorded 10 November 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Susanna Siegel (Harvard/Birmingham) 'Salience Norms'
(recorded 3 November 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Nakul Krishna (Cambridge) 'Two Conceptions of Common-Sense Morality'
(recorded 27 October 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Josh Greene (Harvard) 'How does the brain construct complex thoughts?'
(recorded 13 October 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Alan Hájek (ANU) 'Begging to Differ With Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals'
(recorded 19 May 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich) 'Of Toads, Dogs and Men: Agency, Intelligence and Reason in Human and Non-Human Animals'
(recorded 5 May 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh) 'Supervenience and Explanation in Metaethics'
(recorded 28 April 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) 'The Aptness of Anger'
(recorded 3 March 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Shyane Siriwardena (Cambridge) 'The Agency Theory of Causation: Unsound or Incomplete'
(recorded 24 February 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Julian Dodd (Manchester) 'The ontology of conceptual art: against the idea idea'
(recorded 17 February 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Cheryl Misak (Toronto) 'Ramsey’s Cognitivism: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Meaning of Life'
(recorded 10 February 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Kyle Mitchell (Cambridge) 'Does fictionalism rest on a mistake?'
(recorded 3 February 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France) 'A Plea for Dispositional Essentialism'
(recorded 27 January 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Ellen Clarke (Oxford) 'On biological individuality'
(recorded 20 January 2015)
Moral Sciences Club - Liz Camp (Rutgers) 'Insinuation, Indirection, and the Conversational Record'
(recorded 2 December 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - M. M. McCabe (KCL) 'First chop your logos: Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and moral development'
(recorded 25 November 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Sarah Broadie (St Andrews) 'Virtue and the Natural Goods: An Aristotelian Perspective'
(recorded 18 November 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford) 'Indiscernible Universals'
(recorded 11 November 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Nicola Lacey (LSE) & Hanna Pickard (Oxford) 'To Blame or to Forgive? Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Justice'
(recorded 4 November 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Scott Sturgeon (Birmingham) 'The Tale of Bella and Creda'
(recorded 28 October 2014)
Festival of Ideas - Professor Rae Langton 'Identity and Immortality'
(recorded 22 October 2014 - see also the Lecture Handout)
Moral Sciences Club - Craig French (Cambridge) 'The Argument from Illusion'
(recorded 21 October 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia) 'Value, Agency and Desire'
(recorded 14 October 2014)
Alumni Festival Lecture 2014 - Dr Nigel Warburton 'Philosophy as Dialogue'
(recorded 27 September 2014)
The 88th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society - Inaugural Address and Symposia podcasts
(recorded 12 & 13 July 2014)
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy - Professor Michael Bratman 'Acting and Thinking Together'
(recorded 12 June 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Rowan Williams 'Feeling For Others: Is Empathy the Answer to Ethical Problems?'
(recorded 25 February 2014)
Moral Sciences Club - Michael Otsuka 'How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Would Have Been'
(recorded 5 November 2013)
Moral Sciences Club - Judith Jarvis Thomson 'Rights and Wrongs'
(recorded 15 October 2013)
Limits of Duty Conference recordings
Newnham College Cambridge
(recorded 14 June 2013)
Moral Sciences Club - David Chalmers 'Why isn't there more progress in philosophy?'
(recorded 7 May 2013)
Professor Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy inaugural lecture 'Where would we be without counterfactuals?'
(recorded 1 November 2012 - see also the Lecture Transcript)
Alumni Weekend 2012 - Professor Tim Crane'What do animals think?'
(recorded 22 September 2012)
Professor Tim Crane in conversation with Professor Huw Price
(recorded March 2012 - see also the Conversation Transcript)
Professor John Marenbon Inaugural lecture 'When was Medieval Philosophy?'
(recorded 30 November 2011 - see also the Lecture Transcript)
Festival of Ideas - Professor John O'Neill 'Happiness and Sustainability'
(recorded 28 October 2011)
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy - Professor David Luban 'Arguing about torture'
(recorded 21 October 2011)
Alumni Weekend 2011 - Professor Derek Matravers 'Art and Morality'
(recorded 24 September 2011)
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'Ideas of the Good in Moral and Political Philosophy'
(lecture date 15 March 2011)
Professor Tim Crane Inaugural Lecture as Knightbridge Professor 'What is Distinctive About Human Thought?'
(recorded 1 December 2010)
Aspects of Philosophy at Cambridge Conference recordings
(Hughes Hall 19th to 20th November 2010)
Dr Cain Todd - 'Fiction, emotion and imagination'
(recorded 29 October 2010)
2010 Aronui Lecture, Royal Society of New Zealand
Baroness Onora O'Neill 'Two Cultures Fifty Years On'
(September 2010)
Alumni Weekend 2010 - Dr Fraser MacBride 'The Dark Matter of Cambridge Philosophy'
(recorded 25 September 2010 - see also the Lecture Handout)
A Conversation with Tim Crane and Simon Blackburn
(recorded 11 February 2010)
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy - Professor Philip Pettit 'The Open-Doors Model of Freedom'
(recorded 30 October 2009 - see also the Lecture Handout)
Professor Barry Smith 'The Philosophy of Wine - from Science to Subjectivity'
(recorded 23 October 2009)
Alumni Weekend 2009 - Professor Roger Scruton 'The Meaning of Music'
(recorded 26 September 2009)
Routledge Lecture - Professor Richard Moran 'Iris Murdoch and the Rejection of Existentialism'
(recorded 30 October 2008) )
Professor Onora O'Neill - Conceptions of press freedom
(recorded 22 October 2008 - see also the Lecture Notes)
Alumni Weekend 2008 - Professor Thomas Baldwin 'G.E. Moore and Cambridge Philosophy' (recorded 27 September 2008)