The Moral Sciences Club
The Moral Sciences Club
Time: 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm (followed by tea until 5 pm)
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. All meetings will be available to join on Zoom, a link to do so will be shared ahead of each talk.
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 Eirini Vryza and Tatiana Sitnikova. 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.
Lent Term 2026
| 27 Jan 2026 | Sacha Golob (KCL) | Fear, Sallust and Roman Political Theory |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Helen Beebee (Leeds) | Assertion in Philosophy |
| 10 Feb 2026 | Lia Nordmann (Cambridge) | TBD |
| 17 Feb 2026 | Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) | Inextricability and the Brain |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Mari Mikkola (Amsterdam) | Consent and Common Ground |
| 03 Mar 2026 | James Warren (Cambridge) | Aristotle on being ruled well |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Katie Robertson (Stirling) | Why doesn’t physics matter more? |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Helen Steward (Leeds) | Who are the Agents? |
Previous meetings
| 02 Dec 2025 | Lucy O'Brien (UCL) | Autonomy and Control Over One’s Social Self-Consciousness |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Hasok Chang (Cambridge) | The Revival of Classical Pragmatism: Truth, Reality and Methodology |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Katherine Puddifoot (Durham) | Memory, Legal Evidence, and Mnemonic Epistemic Injustice |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Andrew Ma (Cambridge) | Sulking in the Wake of Wrongdoing |
| 04 Nov 2025 | Megan Blomfield (Sheffield) | Justice in Climate Litigation: a Modest Defence of Joint and Several Liability |
| 28 Oct 2025 | Léa Salje (Leeds) | Mythomania and the Sense of Self |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Christine Korsgaard (Harvard) | The Incomparable Value of the Individual |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Michael Potter (Cambridge) | Facts and Propositions |
| 27 May 2025 | Henrik Røed Sherling (Cambridge) | Tba |
| 20 May 2025 | Jessica Leech (KCL) | Fundamental Principles: Purity and Neutrality |
| 13 May 2025 | Quill Kukla (Georgetown) | Towards a Spatialized Speech Act Theory: Place and Discursive Agency |
| 06 May 2025 | Alice Roberts (Cambridge) | Visual Stereotypes: How Do They Work, and What Harm Can They Do? |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Ina Jängten (LMU) | Measuring Effectiveness to Inform Decision-makers |
| 11 Mar 2025 | Alice Crary (The New School) | Wittgenstein and the Politics of Interpretation |
| 04 Mar 2025 | Crispin Wright (Stirling) | Timothy Williamson Meets the New Evil Demon |
| 25 Feb 2025 | Daniela Dover (UCLA) | The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman |
| 18 Feb 2025 | Samuel C. Fletcher (Oxford) | Consistent Estimators and the Argument from Inductive Risk |
| 11 Feb 2025 | Michael Diamond-Hunter (Cambridge) | On Ameliorative and Descriptive Metaphysics of Race |
| 04 Feb 2025 | Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki) | Is There an Order in the World a Priori, and If so What Does It Consist In?Traces of Transcendental Idealism in the Tractatus |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Owen Griffiths (Cambridge) & Alexander Paseau (Oxford) | What Are Logical Constants? |
| 28 May 2024 | Paul Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) | What's Wrong with Anti-racism? |
| 21 May 2024 | Bianca Cepollaro (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University) | Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness |
| 14 May 2024 | Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh) | A Defence of Kantian Epistemic Autonomy |
| 07 May 2024 | Nadia Ben Hassine (University of Cambridge) | Discourses of Injustice |
| 30 Apr 2024 | Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) | What is a Hobby? |
| 12 Mar 2024 | Paul Billingham (University of Oxford) | Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms |
| 05 Mar 2024 | Äsa Burman (Stockholm University) | Defining Social Power |
| 20 Feb 2024 | Eric Mandelbaum (City University of New York) | The Best Game in Town: The Re-emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences |
| 13 Feb 2024 | Zofia Stemplowska (University of Oxford) | Just Attention for the Dead |
| 06 Feb 2024 | Anne Meylan (University of Zurich) | The Zetetic Puzzle |
| 30 Jan 2024 | Adham El Shazly (University of Cambridge) | Thinking Together |
| 23 Jan 2024 | Tim Button (University College London (UCL)) | Artefacts of Representational Choices |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Pablo Hubacher Haerle (University of Cambridge) | Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry |
| 21 Nov 2023 | Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge) | Tbd |
| 14 Nov 2023 | John Dupré (University of Exeter) | Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View |
| 07 Nov 2023 | Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford) | Property Versatility |
| 24 Oct 2023 | David Enoch (University of Oxford) | Why Isn't (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value? |
| 17 Oct 2023 | Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki) | Trust, Reliance, and Objectivity (collaboration with Alison Wylie) |
| 10 Oct 2023 | Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland) | Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy? |
| 30 May 2023 | Ronja Griep (University of Cambridge) | Tba |
| 23 May 2023 | Michael Freeden (University of Oxford) | Political Thinking: the Flight from Solidity |
| 16 May 2023 | Emily Thomas (Durham University) | From Unreal to Real Time: British Metaphysics 1880s-1920s |
| 09 May 2023 | Jan Kandiyali (Durham University) | From Each According to Their Abilities |
| 02 May 2023 | Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh) | Playfulness as a Moral Virtue |
| 14 Mar 2023 | Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) | The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary |
| 07 Mar 2023 | Lori Watson (Washington University in St. Louis) | On Subordination |
| 28 Feb 2023 | Sophie Dandelet (University of Cambridge) | Epistemic Rationality and the Value of Truth |
| 07 Feb 2023 | Johanna Thoma (LSE) | Social Science, Policy and Democracy |
| 31 Jan 2023 | Adrian Moore (University of Oxford) | Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections |
| 24 Jan 2023 | Sarah Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Plan B Consistency |
| 29 Nov 2022 | Wouter Cohen (University of Cambridge) | Appreciating Music |
| 22 Nov 2022 | Paula Keller (University of Cambridge) | Perceiving Oppression |
| 15 Nov 2022 | Matthieu Queloz (University of Bern) | Pragmatic Genealogy |
| 08 Nov 2022 | Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) | Rethinking Moral Claim Rights |
| 01 Nov 2022 | Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) | Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension |
| 25 Oct 2022 | Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge) | Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real |
| 18 Oct 2022 | Adrian Alsmith (King's College London) | Unmistaken: Imaginative Perception and Illusion |
| 11 Oct 2022 | Sophia Dandelet (University of Cambridge) | Permissivism, Arbitrariness, and Accuracy |
