Moral Sciences Club
by University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy · 166 episodes
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Recordings of talks at the Faculty of Philosophy Moral Sciences Club.
Latest episodes
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43 min
Why Is Genius Still Gendered?
In the past, accounts of genius have been put forward which explicitly exclude women from this category. Today genius does not tend to be explicated in such an explicitly gendered…
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49 min
Do Pictures Look Like What They Depict?
Pictures look like what they depict to those who understand them. That is a natural and seemingly unassailable thought. Looking at Mona Lisa, the painting strikes us as looking lik…
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49 min
Fear, Sallust and Roman Political Theory
Explaining the decline of the Roman Republic, the historian Sallust made a famous claim about the importance of fear, a claim which has influenced writers from Augustine to Schmitt…
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41 min
Consent and Common Ground
Manon Garcia has recently proposed a model of sexual consent as conversation, which emphasizes collaboration and that interlocutors work together toward a common goal. Independentl…
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Inextricability and the Brain
In discussions concerning the possibility of AI consciousness, computational functionalism has been the dominant position. This is the view that consciousness is essentially kind o…
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42 min
Aristotle on Being Ruled Well
In Politics 3.4 Aristotle distinguishes the virtue of the good citizen from the virtue of the good person by noting that the good citizen should both rule well and be ruled well. I…
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50 min
Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact (co-authored with Robert Morgan, University of Leeds)
It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much of interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through t…
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43 min
Why Doesn't Physics Matter More?
There is an explanatory puzzle about the relationship between physics and the rest of science: if the lower-level facts from physics in some way underpin higher-level facts, why do…
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52 min
The Revival of Classical Pragmatism: Truth, Reality and Methodology
Talk given by Professor Hasok Chang at the Moral Sciences Club on November 25th 2025.
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58 min
The Incomparable Value of the Individual
Talk given by Professor Christine Korsgaard at the Moral Sciences Club on October 21st 2025.
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45 min
Justice in Climate Litigation: A Modest Defense of Joint and Several Liability
Talk given by Dr Megan Blomfield at the Moral Sciences Club on November 4th 2025.
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41 min
Facts and Propositions
Talk given by Professor Michael Potter at the Moral Sciences Club on October 14th 2025.
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50 min
Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives
A talk given by Ella Whiteley at the Moral Sciences Club on 19 November 2024.
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49 min
Rethinking Responsibility
A talk given by Monima Chadha at the Moral Sciences Club on 12 November 2024
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39 min
The Prison of the Self: Kantian reflections on loneliness
A talk given by Facundo Rodríguez at the Moral Sciences Club on 5 November 2024
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48 min
Political Liberalism, Antidiscrimination Law, and Expressive Harm
A talk given by Samuel Cole (Cambridge) at the Moral Sciences Club on 29 October 2024.
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46 min
Why Paternalism is Wrong (When it is Wrong)
A talk given by Dr Jonathan Parry (LSE) at the Moral Sciences Club on 22 October 2024
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39 min
From Each According to Their Abilities
A talk given by Jan Kandiyali at the Moral Sciences Club on 9th of May 2023
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39 min
Pragmatic Genealogy
A talk given by Matthieu Queloz at the Moral Sciences Club on 15th of November 2022
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50 min
Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness
A talk given by Bianca Cepollaro at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st May 2024