Philosophy Podcasts

 

 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)

 Moral Sciences Club - Christopher Benzenberg (Cambridge) 'Why Did the Volcano Erupt? Kant’s Bayesian Theory of Hypotheses'

(recorded 1 February 2022)

 Moral Sciences Club - Franz Berto (St Andrews) '“I Wasn’t Thinking About That!” The Logic of Framing Effects'

(recorded 25 January 2022)

 Moral Sciences Club - Catharine Abell (Oxford) 'On Buck Passing: Methodology in the Philosophy of Art'

(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'

  2011 Routledge Lecture notes - Professor Tim Scanlon
       '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)