Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (19th November). We are delighted to welcome Professor Peter Millican (Oxford), who will be giving a talk entitled 'What Hume Really Thought about Causation'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
This paper has been written to round off a collection of my papers for OUP, entitled *Hume on Causation and Free Will* (anticipated 2021). It brings together work from the last two decades, including crucial elements as yet unpublished, and aspires to provide a convincing overall account of Hume’s settled views, in the light of various controversies treated in previously published papers (e.g. regarding determinism, the two definitions, and the “New Hume”). It starts from a well-evidenced summary of twelve “key points” to which Hume is clearly committed, and then builds on these to address the familiar interpretative debates (e.g. between reductionist, projectivist, and sceptical realist readings). It sets out all the main features of Hume’s theory as I interpret it, and highlights what I take to be the decisive factors in the various debates, while delegating detailed discussion to the earlier papers. A systematic summary and references will be given in a handout, which aims to provide a convenient resource for tutors or students aiming to find their way around this notoriously complex interpretative terrain. The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, please email the secretaries of the club (mscsecretar...@gmail.com) by midday on Monday 18th. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. -- 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: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
