Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club is pleased to announce its programme of speakers for 2019/20, detailed below. (Please note that some titles are provisional.)
All meetings will be held from 14:30 to 16:15 at Newnham College, followed by tea and coffee and then dinner in the evening. Michaelmas Term 2019 Date Speaker (Institution)Title of TalkLocation 15th October Nick Denyer (Cambridge) Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle on What Geometry is About Jane Harrison Room 22nd October Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) Roasting Ethics Jane Harrison Room 29th October Robert Pasnau (CU Boulder) Choosing between Faith and Heresy Barbara White Room 5th November Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects Jane Harrison Room 12th November Kenny Walden (Dartmouth) Agency and Genius Sidgwick Hall 19th November Peter Millican (Oxford) What Hume Really Thought about Causation Sidgwick Hall 26th November Lucy McDonald (Cambridge) Catcalls and Accommodation Jane Harrison Room 3rd December Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) How Do Reasons Compete? Barbara White Room Lent Term 2020 Date Speaker (Institution)Title of TalkLocation 21st January Miranda Fricker (CUNY) Williams' Naturalistic Philosophy Jane Harrison Room 28th January Rachel Sterken (Oslo) <http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/2911394>Authentic Speech Sidgwick Hall 4th February Robert Hopkins (NYU) Ryleing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowledge of perceiving Jane Harrison Room 11th February Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona) The Metasemantics of Force-Indicators <http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/2920142> Jane Harrison Room 18th February Anne Bosse (Cambridge) Generics in Use Jane Harrison Room 25th February Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown) TBD Jane Harrison Room 3rd March Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex) 'The Doing is Everything': A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche Jane Harrison Room 10th March Ruth Chang (Oxford) Hard Choices Jane Harrison RoomEaster Term 2020 Date Speaker (Institution)Title of TalkLocation 28th April Anastasia Berg (Cambridge) Desire: Between Action and Passion Jane Harrison Room 5th May David Plunkett (Dartmouth) Evaluation Turned on Itself: The Vindicatory Circularity Challenge to the Conceptual Ethics of Normativity Jane Harrison Room 12th May Christopher Peacocke (Columbia) Two Kinds of Explanation Jane Harrison Room 19th May Ofra Magidor (Oxford) <http://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/2989768>TBD Jane Harrison Room For more information about the club, and any updates to titles, see https://phil.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars-phil/seminars-msc <https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars-phil/seminars-msc>. We look forward to seeing you at Newnham. Best wishes, Alex, Roxane and Zoe -- Alex Horne, Roxane Noel and Zoe Walker Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk 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.
