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 Alex Horne, Roxane Noel and Zoe Walker. 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.
Please note some titles are provisional.
Michaelmas Term 2019
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15th October | Nick Denyer (Cambridge) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 22nd October |
Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) |
Jane Harrison room |
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| 29th October |
Bob Pasnau (CU Boulder) |
Choosing between Faith and Heresy |
Barbara White Room |
| 5th November |
Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) |
Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects |
Jane Harrison room |
| 12th November |
Kenny Walden (Dartmouth) |
Agency and Genius |
Sidgwick Hall |
| 19th November |
Peter Millican (Oxford) |
What Hume Really Thought about Causation |
Sidgwick Hall |
| 26th November |
Lucy McDonald (Cambridge) |
Catcalls and Accommodation |
Jane Harrison room |
| 3rd December |
Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) |
How Do Reasons Compete? |
Barbara White Room |
Lent Term 2020
Easter Term 2020
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Date | Speaker & University | Title of Talk | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28th April | Anastasia Berg (Cambridge) |
Desire: Between Action and Passion |
Jane Harrison room |
| 5th May | David Plunkett (Dartmouth) |
Evaluation Turned on Itself: The Vindicatory Circularity Challenge to the Conceptual Ethics of Normativity |
Jane Harrison room |
| 12th May |
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) |
Two Kinds of Explanation | Jane Harrison room |
| 19th May |
Ofra Magidor (Oxford) |
Jane Harrison room |
