Dear All, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (21st January). We are delighted to welcome Professor Miranda Fricker (CUNY/Sheffield), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Williams' Naturalistic Philosophy'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
A natural approach to interpreting Bernard Williams’ ethical philosophy is to picture it as a web of inter-related commitments where no commitment has unique priority. For in reading his work it is not easy to discern any single commitment as prior to the rest. Despite this, and in an experimental spirit, I will however venture an interpretation that does present a single conviction as the fundamental philosophical motivation. At the heart of Williams’ thought is a philosophical instinct for freedom conceived as outstripping constraints of rationality, and it is this instinct that expresses itself in each of the signature commitments of his work. The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in the Jane Harrison Room 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 20th. 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. Best wishes, -- 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.
