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 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 Nadia Ben Hassine, Adham El Shazly, Ina Jäntgen, Pablo Hubacher and Facundo Rodriguez. 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 2022 |
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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) |
Political thinking: the flight from solidity |
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30th May |
Ronja Griep (University of Cambridge) |
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