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.
There is a charge of £7.50 for a year's membership for junior members (undergraduates and graduate students), or £15 for a year's membership for others, both of which can be purchased online here. For those eligible for membership who do not join there is a £2 charge for one-off attendance at individual meetings for junior members and £3 for others.
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 Li Li Tan, James Hutton, and Matt Dougherty. 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 2016
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 11th October |
David Papineau (King's College/CUNY) |
Barbara White Room |
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| 18th October |
Tom Stern (UCL) |
Barbara White Room |
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| 25th October |
Bernhard Salow (Cambridge) |
Barbara White Room |
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| 1st November |
Mark Richard (Harvard) |
Barbara White Room |
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| 8th November |
Anil Gomes (Oxford) |
“Kantian Acquaintance” |
Barbara White Room |
| 15th November |
Adam Bales (Cambridge) |
"Decision-Theoretic Pluralism: Causation, Evidence, and Indeterminacy" |
Barbara White Room |
| 22nd November |
Jeff McMahan (Oxford) |
Barbara White Room |
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| 29th November |
Lucy O'Brien (UCL) |
Barbara White Room |
Lent Term 2017
Barbara White room
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 24th January |
Cécile Fabre (Oxford) |
Barbara White room | |
| 31st January |
Henry Taylor (Cambridge) |
"The nature of properties: Pure powers or powerful qualities?" | Barbara White room |
| 7th February |
Matti Eklund (Uppsala) |
"Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics" |
Barbara White Room |
| 14th February |
Lizzie Fricker (Oxford) |
"The Prizes and Perils of Trusting Others" | Barbara White room |
| 21st February |
Daisy Dixon (Cambridge) |
"Can Art Lie?" | Barbara White room |
| 28th February |
Carla Bagnoli (Modena/Oslo) |
"Change in view: a non-standard constructivist account" | Barbara White room |
| 7th March |
Anne Eaton (Illinois at Chicago) |
Barbara White Room | |
| 14th March |
Peter Adamson (Ludwig Maximilian University) |
"Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' Treatises on Fate and Providence" |
Barbara White room |
Easter Term 2017
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
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| 2nd May |
Mike Martin (UCL) |
Barbara White room | |
| 9th May |
Ian Rumfitt (Oxford) |
Barbara White room | |
| 16th May |
Rachel Fraser (Cambridge) |
Barbara White room | |
| 23rd May |
L. A. Paul (UNC Chapel Hill) |
Barbara White room |
