Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 21st October, when Professor Scott Sturgeon (Birmingham) will give a talk entitled "The Tale of Bella and Creda". An abstract is included below.
The meeting will begin at* 2.15pm,* in the *Sidgwick Hall*, Newnham College (a map can be found here: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.newnham.local/uploads/files/About-Newnham/college_map_08.pdf ). After the meeting finishes at 4pm, we will return to the philosophy faculty for tea and coffee, and there will be an opportunity for graduate students to meet and talk to the speaker in an informal setting. We warmly invite and encourage all graduate students to make use of this new opportunity. For those who have not yet purchased a subscription, 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. For those who do not join there is a £2 charge for one-off attendance at individual meetings for junior members and £3 for others. For more information, including details about our 2014-2015 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Ali Boyle and Mat Simpson Abstract: Some philosophers defend the view that epistemic agents believe by lending credence. Others defend the view that such agents lend credence by believing. It can strongly appear that the disagreement between them is merely notational, that nothing of substance turns on whether we are agents of one sort or the other. But that is demonstrably not so. Only one of these types of epistemic agent, at most, could manifest a human-like configuration of attitudes. And in fact there is good reason to think that not both types of agent are even possible. -- Ali Boyle and Matthew Simpson Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
