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Faculty of Philosophy


The Moral Sciences Club


Meetings are held at 5.15 pm on Tuesday evenings in the Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College (venue number '4' on this map). There is a charge of £7 for a year's membership for junior members (undergraduates and graduate students), or £14 for a year's membership for others. There is a reduction for those who don't join until the Lent term. For those who do not join there is a £1 charge for one-off attendance at individual meetings for junior members and £2 for others.

Please read the rules of the club. You may also be interested in 'A short History' of the Moral Sciences Club.

Michaelmas Term 2008


Date

Speaker & University

Title of Talk

14th October

David Sedley, Cambridge

Plato's Theory of Change (Phaedo 70-72)

21st October

Jerry Levinson, University of Maryland

Towards a Non-Minimalist Conception of Aesthetic Experience

28th October

Robbie Williams, Leeds

Indeterminate Survival

4th November

François Recanati, CNRS (Paris)

Open quotation: semantics or pragmatics?

11th November

Paul Snowdon, UCL

The 'What-it-is-like-ness' of experience

18th November

Hannes Leitgeb, Bristol

On Formal Philosophy: Why Serious Philosophy Must Use Mathematical Methods

25th November

John Broome, Oxford

Motivation

2nd December

Tom Stern, Cambridge

What is the Übermensch?


Lent Term 2009


Date

Speaker & University

Title of Talk

20th January

Timothy Williamson

TBA

27th January

Roger Crisp

TBA

3rd February

Jo Wolff

TBA

10th February

Bob Hale

TBA

17th February

Terence Irwin

TBA

24th February

Bill Brewer

TBA

3rd March

Charlotte Werndl

TBA

10th March

Russ Shafer-Landau

TBA


Easter Term 2009


Date

Speaker & University

Title of Talk

28th April

Cian Dorr

TBA

5th May

Trenton Merricks

TBA

12th May

Alice Crary

TBA

19th May

Matt Clayton

TBA


Secretaries: Mr. Harry Adamson (St. John's, ha248) and Mr. Nathan Wildman (Girton, nww23)
President: Professor Quassim Cassam
Chairman: Professor Simon Blackburn
Senior Treasurer: Dr Hallvard Lillehammer

News on the activities of the Amoral Sciences Club is available from their website.