Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 25th November at 2.30pm, when Professor M.M. McCabe (KCL/Cambridge) will give a talk entitled 'First chop your *logos*: Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and moral development' (abstract below). The meeting will be held 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 ). As always the meeting is open to all members of the university. There is a small fee for attendance at a single meeting (£2 for students or £3 for faculty); alternatively, attendees can become members of the club for the full year for £7.50 (students) or £15 (faculty).
We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Ali Boyle and Mat Simpson Abstract: I reflect on the contrasted views of the sophists and Socrates in the *Euthydemus* about the nature of speech and language. The dialogue as a whole, I suggest, is designed to show how the sophists’ episodic view of *logos* is to be contrasted with Socrates’ interest in the different aspects of various verbs (‘learning’ and ‘speaking’ in particular), and that Socrates’ account suggests a complex normativity for speech. -- 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.
