Moral Sciences Club

Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Ella Whiteley at the Moral Sciences Club on 19 November 2024.

Rethinking Responsibility

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Monima Chadha at the Moral Sciences Club on 12 November 2024

The Prison of the Self: Kantian reflections on loneliness

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Facundo Rodríguez at the Moral Sciences Club on 5 November 2024

Political Liberalism, Antidiscrimination Law, and Expressive Harm

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Samuel Cole (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 29 October 2024.

Why Paternalism is Wrong (When it is Wrong)

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Dr Jonathan Parry (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 22 October 2024

From Each According to Their Abilities

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jan Kandiyali at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th of May 2023

Pragmatic Genealogy

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Matthieu Queloz at the Moral Sciences Club on 15th of November 2022

Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Bianca Cepollaro at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st May 2024

A Defence of Kantian Epistemic Autonomy

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alix Cohen at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th May 2024

What is a hobby?

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Clare Chambers at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th April 2024

Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Paul Billingham at the Moral Sciences Club on 12th March 2024

Defining Social Power

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Åsa Burman at the Moral Sciences Club on 5th March 2024

The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Eric Mandelbaum at the Moral Sciences Club on 20th February 2024

The Zetetic Puzzle

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Anne Meylan at the Moral Sciences Club on 6th February 2024

Thinking Together

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Adham El Shazly at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th January 2024

Artefacts of representational choices

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Tim Button at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd January 2024

Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Pablo Hubacher Haerle at the Moral Sciences Club on 28th October 2023

Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice: Cavendish on the Powers of the Imagination

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Julia Borcherding at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st November 2023

Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by John Dupré at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th November 2023

Property Versatility

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

talk given by Ofra Magidor at the Moral Sciences Club on 7th November 2023

Why Isn’t (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value?

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by David Enoch at the Moral Sciences Club on 24th October 2023

Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Finnur Dellsén at the Moral Sciences Club on 10th October 2023

Political thinking: the flight from solidity

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Michael Freeden (University of Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23 May 2023.

Epistemic rationality and the value of truth

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Sophie Dandelet (University of Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 28th February 2023.

Rethinking Moral Claim Rights

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) at the Moral Sciences Club on 8 November 2022.

Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Adrian Alsmith (King’s College London) at the Moral Sciences Club on 18 October 2022.

The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) at the Moral Sciences Club on 14 March 2023.

Social Science, Policy and Democracy

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Johanna Thoma (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 7th February 2023.

Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Adrian Moore (University of Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 31st January 2023.

Plan B Consistency

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Sarah Paul (NYU Abu Dhabi) at the Moral Sciences Club on 24th January 2023.

Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Mona Simion (University of Glasgow) at the Moral Sciences Club on 1st November 2022.

Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 25th October 2022.

Perceiving Oppression

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Paula Keller (University of Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 22nd November 2022.

Was lockdown racist?

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alex Broadbent (Durham) at the Moral Sciences Club on 17th May 2022.

Empathy and Feeling the Emotions of Others

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Derek Matravers (Open University) at the Moral Sciences Club on 10th May 2022.

The Singular Ownership Claim

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jane Heal (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 15th March 2022.

Catastrophic Risk and the Complaints of Future People

12 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Emma Curran (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 8th March 2022.

What is disability?

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Tom Shakespeare (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) at the Moral Sciences Club on 8th February 2022.

Why Did the Volcano Erupt? Kant’s Bayesian Theory of Hypotheses

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Christopher Benzenberg (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 1st February 2022.

“I Wasn’t Thinking About That!” The Logic of Framing Effects

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Franz Berto (St Andrews) at the Moral Sciences Club on 25th January 2022. [Co-authored with Aybüke Özgün, ILLC-University of Am...

On Buck Passing: Methodology in the Philosophy of Art

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Catharine Abell (Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th November 2021.

Knowledge and the Failings of Folk Epistemology

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by David Papineau (KCL) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd November 2021.

Epistemic Norms for Search Engines

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jessie Munton (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 16th November 2021.

Value Capture

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th November 2021.

Transforming Solidarities

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University) at the Moral Sciences Club on 2nd November 2021.

Tempted like Achilles

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University) at the Moral Sciences Club on 26th October 2021.

On Absolute Units

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Neil Dewar (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 19th October 2021.

New and Improvable Lives

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Joe Horton (UCL) at the Moral Sciences Club on 4th May 2021.

Refugee Discrimination and Offsetting the Costs of Rescue

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Helen Frowe (Stockholm) at the Moral Sciences Club on 16th March 2021.

You can run, but you cannot hide: social norms and social normativity

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alexander Horne (Trinity College, Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th March 2021.

Plural Signification and Semantic Paradox

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Cian Dorr (NYU) at the Moral Sciences Club on 2nd March 2021.

Against Empiricism

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alexander Bird (St John's College, Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd February 2021.

Hypocrisy and Blame

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Justin Snedegar (St Andrews) at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th February 2021.

Delusion and Identity

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham) at the Moral Sciences Club on 1st December 2020.

The Legacy of Peter Abelard in Twelfth-Century Logic

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Roxane Noël (Wolfson College, Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 10th November 2020.

Political Epistemology and Social Critique

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Sally Haslanger (MIT) at the Moral Sciences Club on 27th October 2020.

Should Ontology be Explanatory?

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Amie Thomasson (Dartmouth) at the Moral Sciences Club on 20th October 2020.

How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona) at the Moral Sciences Club on 11th February 2020.

Ryleing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowledge of perceiving

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Robert Hopkins (NYU) at the Moral Sciences Club on 4th February 2020.

What Hume Really Thought about Causation

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Peter Millican (Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 19th November 2019.

Agency and Genius

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Kenny Walden (Dartmouth) at the Moral Sciences Club on 12th November 2019.

Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 5th November 2019.

Choosing between Faith and Heresy

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Bob Pasnau (CU Boulder) at the Moral Sciences Club on 29th October 2019.

Roasting Ethics

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Luvell Anderson (Syracuse) at the Moral Sciences Club on 22nd October 2019.

Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle on What Geometry is About

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Nick Denyer (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 15th October 2019.

Normative Explanation and Justification

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Pekka Väyrynen (Leeds) at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st May 2019.

Love, Rationality, and Arbitrariness

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th May 2019.

Norms of Racial Discourse in the Age of Trump

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jennifer Saul (Sheffield) at the Moral Sciences Club on 7th May 2019.

Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona State) at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th April 2019.

Conditional Consent

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Karamvir Chadha (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 12th March 2019.

The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 5th March 2019.

Generality explained

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Øystein Linnebo (Oslo) at the Moral Sciences Club on 26th February 2019.

The First Person, and its Significance

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Adrian Haddock (Stirling) at the Moral Sciences Club on 19th February 2019.

Humility and Moral Development

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Cathy Mason (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 12th February 2019.

Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics

30 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Anna Marmodoro (Durham/Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 29th January 2019.

Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) at the Moral Sciences Club on 22nd January 2019.

Linguistic Frameworks and Experience: Old Problems for Neo-Carnapians

30 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Nick Stang (Toronto) at the Moral Sciences Club on 27th November 2018.

What’s an Epistemic Modal Anyway?

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst) at the Moral Sciences Club on 20th November 2018.

Externalism and Exploitability

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Nilanjan Das (UCL) at the Moral Sciences Club on 13th November 2018.

Getting Rights out of Wrongs

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick) at the Moral Sciences Club on 6th November 2018.

Against the Standard Solution to the Grandfather Paradox

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Yael Loewenstein (Cambridge/ Houston) at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th October 2018.

Degrees of Free Wil

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd October 2018.

Ground Functionalism

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers) at the Moral Sciences Club on 16th October 2018.

Choosing for Changing Selves

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th October 2018.

Belief, Affect, and Reliance

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Peter Railton (Michigan) at the Moral Sciences Club on 8th May 2018.

Decolonizing Universalism: Transnational Feminisms and Political Philosophy

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Serene Khader (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College) at the Moral Sciences Club on 15th May 2018.

Punishment v self-defence

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by John Gardner (Oxford) at the Moral Sciences Club on 13th February 2018.

Abductive Immodesty in Mathematics and Morality

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Jack Woods (Leeds) at the Moral Sciences Club on 6th February 2018.

Against high-level features in visual phenomenology

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Li Li Tan (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th January 2018.

Skill, Role, and Virtue

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Matthew Dougherty (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd January 2018.

On public-identity disempowerment

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Laura Valentini (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 28th November 2017.

Sex and Regret

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Michelle Dempsey (Villanova) at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st November 2017.

Epistemic normativity in Kant’s “Second Analogy”

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by James Hutton (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th November 2017.

Killing and aggregation

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Victor Tadros (Warwick) at the Moral Sciences Club on 7th November 2017.

Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Christian List (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 31st October 2017.

On Structural Injustice

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by John Filling (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 24th October 2017.

The Event of Rarefaction

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Mark Kalderon (UCL) at the Moral Sciences Club on 17th October 2017.

Doing the most good: moral options and optimisation

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Seth Lazar (ANU) at the Moral Sciences Club on 10th October 2017.

De Se Preferences and Epistemic Deference

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by L. A. Paul (UNC Chapel Hill) at the Moral Sciences Club on 23rd May 2017.

The pragmatics and epistemology of narrative

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A talk given by Rachel Fraser (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 16th May 2017.