The Moral Sciences Club
All meetings will be held from 2.30 p.m. to 4.15 p.m. and will take place as online Zoom sessions.
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 rules of the club. You may also be interested in 'A short History' of the Moral Sciences Club.
The club secretaries are Christopher Benzenberg, Emma Curran, Sofía Meléndez-Gutiérrez and Wouter Cohen. To contact the Moral Sciences Club email mscsec@hermes.cam.ac.uk. Join the MSC mailing list to make and receive postings to the list.
Listen and subscribe to the Moral Sciences Club podcasts on iTunes U or via RSS feed.
See the proposed constitution, to be discussed at the EGM on 12th November.
Please note some titles are provisional.
Michaelmas Term 2020
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 13th October |
Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU) |
The Philosophy of Work |
| 20th October |
Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth) |
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| 27th October |
Sally Haslanger (MIT) |
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| 3rd November |
Stephen Yablo (MIT) |
How and Why to be Logically Non-Omniscient |
| 10th November |
Roxane Noël (Wolfson College, Cambridge) |
The Legacy of Peter Abelard in Twelfth-Century Logic |
| 17th November |
Hartry Field (NYU) |
Naive Properties |
| 24th November |
Caspar Hare (MIT) |
Pleasing the Crowd Within |
| 1st December |
Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham) |
Lent Term 2021
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 26th January |
Zoe Walker (Pembroke College, Cambridge) |
A Sensibility of Humour |
| 2nd February |
Lucy Allais (Witwatersrand) |
Freedom and Autonomy in Kant |
| 9th February |
Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) |
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| 16th February |
David Plunkett (Dartmouth) and Tristram McPherson (Ohio State) |
Continuity in Conceptual Ethics and Beyond |
| 23rd February |
Alexander Bird (St John's College, Cambridge) |
Against Empiricism |
| 2nd March |
Cian Dorr (NYU) |
Plural Signification and Semantic Paradox |
| 9th March |
Alexander Horne (Trinity College, Cambridge) |
You can run, but you cannot hide: social norms and social |
| 16th March |
Helen Frowe (Stockholm) |
Risk Imposition and Liability |
Easter Term 2021
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 4th May |
Joe Horton (UCL) |
New and Improvable Lives |
| 11th May | Lucy McDonald (St John’s College, Cambridge) |
Policing Speech |
| 18th May |
Ralf Bader (Fribourg) |
Partial Comparability |
| 25th May |
Nancy Cartwright (Durham/San Diego) |
Mechanisms and ceteris paribus laws |
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