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 Annie Bosse, Benjamin Marschall and Lucy McDonald. 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 2018
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 9th October |
Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 16th October |
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 23rd October |
Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 30th October |
Yael Loewenstein (Cambridge/ Houston) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 6th November |
Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick) |
Getting Rights out of Wrongs |
Jane Harrison room |
| 13th November |
Nilanjan Das (UCL) |
Externalism and Exploitability |
Jane Harrison room |
| 20th November |
Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst) |
What’s an Epistemic Modal Anyway? |
Jane Harrison room |
| 27th November |
Nick Stang (Toronto) |
Linguistic Frameworks and Experience: Old Problems for Neo-Carnapians |
Jane Harrison room |
Lent Term 2019
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 22nd January |
Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) |
Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question |
Jane Harrison room |
| 29th January |
Anna Marmodoro (Durham/Oxford) |
Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics | Jane Harrison room |
| 5th February |
Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) |
Cognitive Gadgets | Jane Harrison room |
| 12th February |
Cathy Mason (Cambridge) |
Humility and Moral Development | Jane Harrison room |
| 19th February |
Adrian Haddock (Stirling) |
The First Person, and its Significance | Jane Harrison room |
| 26th February |
Øystein Linnebo (Oslo) |
Generality explained | Jane Harrison room |
| 5th March |
Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) |
TBA |
Jane Harrison room |
| 12th March |
Karamvir Chadha (Cambridge) |
Conditional Consent to Sexual Intercourse |
Jane Harrison room |
Easter Term 2019
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 30th April | Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State) |
Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility |
Jane Harrison room |
| 7th May | Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) |
Norms of Racial Discourse in the Age of Trump |
Jane Harrison room |
| 14th May |
Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) |
Love, Rationality, and Arbitrariness |
Jane Harrison room |
| 21st May |
Pekka Väyrynen (Leeds) |
Normative Explanation and Justification |
Jane Harrison room |
