The Moral Sciences Club
All meetings will be held 2.30 p.m. to 4.15 p.m. at Newnham College in the rooms shown below, followed by tea and coffee in reception at the Faculty and then dinner in the evening.
Meetings are open only to those eligible for membership of the Club. Membership shall be open to any undergraduate, graduate 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 Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason. 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.
Michaelmas Term 2017
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 10th October |
Seth Lazar (ANU) |
Barbara White room |
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| 17th October |
Mark Kalderon (UCL) |
Barbara White room |
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| 24th October |
John Filling (Cambridge) |
Barbara White room |
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| 31st October |
Christian List (LSE) |
Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form |
Barbara White room |
| 7th November |
Victor Tadros (Warwick) |
Killing and aggregation |
Barbara White room |
| 14th November |
James Hutton (Cambridge) |
Epistemic normativity in Kant’s “Second Analogy” |
Barbara White room |
| 21st November |
Michelle Dempsey (Villanova) |
Barbara White room |
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| 28th November |
Laura Valentini (LSE) |
Barbara White room |
Lent Term 2018
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23rd January |
Matthew Dougherty (Cambridge) |
Barbara White room | |
| 30th January |
Li Li Tan (Cambridge) |
Against high-level features in visual phenomenology | Barbara White room |
| 6th February |
Jack Woods (Leeds) |
Abductive Immodesty in Mathematics and Morality | Barbara White Room |
| 13th February |
John Gardner (Oxford) |
Punishment v self-defence | Barbara White room |
| 20th February |
Larry Temkin (Rutgers) |
Assessing the Goodness of Outcomes: Questioning Some Common Assumptions | Barbara White room |
| 27th February |
Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) |
*CANCELLED* |
Barbara White room |
| 6th March |
Anna Marmodoro (Durham) |
*CANCELLED* |
Barbara White Room |
| 13th March |
Sarah Moss (Michigan) |
*CANCELLED* |
Barbara White room |
Easter Term 2018
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st May |
Mark Hopwood (Sewanee) |
Doing justice to the Other |
Barbara White room |
| 8th May |
Peter Railton (Michigan) |
Barbara White room | |
| 15th May |
Serene Khader (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College) |
Decolonizing Universalism: Transnational Feminisms and Political Philosophy |
Barbara White room |
| 22nd May |
Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) |
Being naïve about humans and animals |
Barbara White room |
