The Moral Sciences Club
Time: 4 pm - 5:45 pm followed by dinner (attendance for dinner must be registered in advance)
Location: Jane Harrison Room (Newnham College) and on Zoom. Please note: Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry on 28th November 2023 will take place in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College.
Please contact the MSC secretaries if you would like to sign up to attend one of the meetings.
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 Constitution of the Moral Sciences Club. You may also be interested in 'A short History' of the Moral Sciences Club and the minutes of recent years.
The club secretaries are Henrik Røed Sherling, Alice Roberts and Sam Cole. To contact the Moral Sciences Club email mscsec@phil.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 2024 | Speaker | Title of Talk | ||
| 15 October | Dr Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge) |
Socrates and Dialogue as the Greatest Good |
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| 22 October | Dr Jonathan Parry (LSE) |
Why Paternalism is Wrong (When it is Wrong) |
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| 29 October | Sam Cole (Cambridge) |
Political Liberalism, Antidiscrimination Law, and Expressive Harm |
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| 5 November | Facundo Rodríguez (Cambridge) |
The Prison of the Self: Kantian reflections on loneliness |
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| 12 November | Prof. Monima Chadha (Oxford) |
Rethinking Responsibility |
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| 19 November | Dr Ella Whiteley (Leeds) |
Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives |
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| 26 November | TBC | |||
| 3 December | Dr Thomas Sinclair (Oxford) |
Hypocrisy as Evasion |
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| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | ||
| 28 January | Dr Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) | |||
| 4 February | TBC | |||
| 11 February | Dr Michael Diamond-Hunter (Cambridge) | |||
| 18 February | Prof. Samuel C. Fletcher (Oxford) | |||
| 25 February | Dr Daniela Dover (UCLA) | |||
| 4 March | Prof. Crispin Wright (Stirling) | |||
| 11 March | Prof. Alice Crary (The New School) | |||
| 18 March | Ina Jängten (Cambridge) | |||
| Easter Term 2024 | Speaker | Title of Talk | ||
| 6 May | Prof. Quill Kukla (Georgetown) | |||
| 13 May | Alice Roberts (Cambridge). | |||
| 20 May | Dr Jessica Leech (King’s College London) | |||
| 27 May | Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge) | |||
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | ||
| 30 April | Clare Chambers |
What is a hobby? |
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| 7 May | Nadia Ben Hassine |
Discourses of Injustice |
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| 14 May | Alix Cohen |
A Defence of Kantian Epistemic Autonomy |
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| 21 May | Bianca Cepollaro |
Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness |
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| 28 May | Paul Taylor |
What’s Wrong with Anti-Racism |
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Lent 2024 |
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| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk | ||
| 23 January |
Tim Button |
Artefacts of representational choices |
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| 30 January |
Adham El Shazly |
Thinking Together |
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| 6 February |
Anne Meylan |
The Zetetic Puzzle |
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| 13 February |
Zofia Stemplowska |
Just Attention for the Dead |
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| 20 February |
Eric Mandelbaum |
The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences |
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CANCELLED 27 February |
CANCELLED Facundo Rodríguez |
CANCELLED Between Persons: Kantian insights into the interpersonal domain |
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| 5 March |
Åsa Burman |
Defining Social Power |
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| 12 March |
Paul Billingham |
Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms |
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Michaelmas 2023 |
Speaker & University | Title of Talk | ||
| 10th October |
Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland) |
Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy? |
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| 17th October |
Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki) |
Trust, reliance, and objectivity (collaboration with Alison Wylie) |
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| 24th October | David Enoch (University of Oxford) |
Why Isn’t (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value? |
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| 31st October |
CANCELLED |
CANCELLED
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7th November |
Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford) |
Property Versatility |
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| 14th November | John Dupré (University of Exeter) |
Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View |
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| 21st November |
Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge) |
TBD |
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28th November |
Pablo Hubacher Haerle (University of Cambridge) |
Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry |
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Michaelmas 2022 |
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Date |
Speaker & University | Title of Talk | |
| 11th October |
Sophia Dandelet (University of Cambridge) |
Permissivism, arbitrariness, and accuracy |
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| 18th October |
Adrian Alsmith (King’s College London) |
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| 25th October | Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge) |
Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real (see slides for the talk) |
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| 1st November |
Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) |
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8th November [Speaker Online] |
Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) |
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| 15th November | Matthieu Queloz (Univesity of Bern) |
Pragmatic Genealogy |
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| 22nd November |
Paula Keller (University of Cambridge) |
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29th November [Takes place in Barbara White Room (Newnham College)] |
Wouter Cohen (University of Cambridge) |
Title: Appreciating music |
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Lent 2023 |
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Speaker & University | Title of Talk | |
| 24th January |
Sarah Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi) |
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31st January [Online] |
Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)
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| 7th February |
Johanna Thoma (LSE) |
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| 14th February |
Cancelled |
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| 21st February |
Cancelled |
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| 28th February | Sophie Dandelet (University of Cambridge) | ||
| 7th March |
Lori Watson (Washington University in St. Louis) |
On Subordination |
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14th March 14:00 - 15:45 |
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) |
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Easter 2023 |
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Date |
Speaker & University | Title of Talk | |
| 2nd May | Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh) |
Playfulness as a Moral Virtue |
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| 9th May | Jan Kandiyali (Durham University) |
From Each According to Their Abilities |
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| 16th May |
Emily Thomas (Durham University) |
From Unreal to Real Time: British Metaphysics 1880s-1920s |
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| 23rd May |
Michael Freeden (University of Oxford) |
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30th May |
Ronja Griep (University of Cambridge) |
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