Moral Sciences Club

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Recordings of talks at the Faculty of Philosophy Moral Sciences Club.

Episode Date
What is a hobby?
May 02, 2024
Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms
Mar 14, 2024
Defining Social Power
Mar 14, 2024
The Best Game in Town: The Re-Emergence of the Language of Thought Hypothesis Across the Cognitive Sciences
Mar 14, 2024
The Zetetic Puzzle
Mar 14, 2024
Thinking Together
Feb 01, 2024
Artefacts of representational choices
Jan 25, 2024
Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry
Jan 18, 2024
Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice: Cavendish on the Powers of the Imagination
Jan 18, 2024
Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View
Jan 18, 2024
Property Versatility
Jan 18, 2024
Why Isn’t (Pure) Epistemic Autonomy of Value?
Jan 18, 2024
Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?
Jan 18, 2024
Political thinking: the flight from solidity
Jun 15, 2023
Epistemic rationality and the value of truth
May 08, 2023
Rethinking Moral Claim Rights
Apr 13, 2023
Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion
Apr 11, 2023
The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary
Apr 11, 2023
Social Science, Policy and Democracy
Feb 11, 2023
Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections
Feb 11, 2023
Plan B Consistency
Jan 31, 2023
Evidence, Defeat, and Permissible Suspension
Dec 19, 2022
Virtual Reality as Fictional or Real
Dec 05, 2022
Perceiving Oppression
Dec 05, 2022
Was lockdown racist?
May 23, 2022
Empathy and Feeling the Emotions of Others
May 23, 2022
The Singular Ownership Claim
Mar 28, 2022
Catastrophic Risk and the Complaints of Future People
Mar 12, 2022
What is disability?
Feb 14, 2022
Why Did the Volcano Erupt? Kant’s Bayesian Theory of Hypotheses
Feb 07, 2022
“I Wasn’t Thinking About That!” The Logic of Framing Effects
Feb 03, 2022
On Buck Passing: Methodology in the Philosophy of Art
Dec 13, 2021
Knowledge and the Failings of Folk Epistemology
Nov 25, 2021
Epistemic Norms for Search Engines
Nov 18, 2021
Value Capture
Nov 10, 2021
Transforming Solidarities
Nov 08, 2021
Tempted like Achilles
Oct 28, 2021
On Absolute Units
Oct 25, 2021
New and Improvable Lives
May 10, 2021
Refugee Discrimination and Offsetting the Costs of Rescue
Mar 18, 2021
You can run, but you cannot hide: social norms and social normativity
Mar 10, 2021
Plural Signification and Semantic Paradox
Mar 02, 2021
Against Empiricism
Feb 24, 2021
Hypocrisy and Blame
Feb 16, 2021
Delusion and Identity
Dec 03, 2020
The Legacy of Peter Abelard in Twelfth-Century Logic
Dec 03, 2020
Political Epistemology and Social Critique
Nov 02, 2020
Should Ontology be Explanatory?
Oct 22, 2020
How to Understand Rule-Constituted Kinds
Feb 11, 2020
Ryleing the Irreal: sensory imagining as knowledge of perceiving
Feb 04, 2020
What Hume Really Thought about Causation
Nov 19, 2019
Agency and Genius
Nov 12, 2019
Carnap’s Defence of Abstract Objects
Nov 05, 2019
Choosing between Faith and Heresy
Oct 29, 2019
Roasting Ethics
Oct 22, 2019
Euclid, Plato, and Aristotle on What Geometry is About
Oct 17, 2019
Normative Explanation and Justification
May 23, 2019
Love, Rationality, and Arbitrariness
May 14, 2019
Norms of Racial Discourse in the Age of Trump
May 07, 2019
Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility
May 03, 2019
Conditional Consent
Mar 14, 2019
The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion
Mar 07, 2019
Generality explained
Mar 01, 2019
The First Person, and its Significance
Feb 22, 2019
Humility and Moral Development
Feb 14, 2019
Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics
Jan 30, 2019
Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question
Jan 24, 2019
Linguistic Frameworks and Experience: Old Problems for Neo-Carnapians
Nov 30, 2018
What’s an Epistemic Modal Anyway?
Nov 22, 2018
Externalism and Exploitability
Nov 15, 2018
Getting Rights out of Wrongs
Nov 08, 2018
Against the Standard Solution to the Grandfather Paradox
Nov 01, 2018
Degrees of Free Wil
Oct 25, 2018
Ground Functionalism
Oct 18, 2018
Choosing for Changing Selves
Oct 11, 2018
Belief, Affect, and Reliance
Jul 02, 2018
Decolonizing Universalism: Transnational Feminisms and Political Philosophy
May 17, 2018
Punishment v self-defence
Feb 15, 2018
Abductive Immodesty in Mathematics and Morality
Feb 08, 2018
Against high-level features in visual phenomenology
Feb 01, 2018
Skill, Role, and Virtue
Jan 25, 2018
On public-identity disempowerment
Nov 30, 2017
Sex and Regret
Nov 23, 2017
Epistemic normativity in Kant’s “Second Analogy”
Nov 16, 2017
Killing and aggregation
Nov 09, 2017
Beyond consequentialization: How to represent moral theories in a canonical form
Nov 02, 2017
On Structural Injustice
Oct 26, 2017
The Event of Rarefaction
Oct 19, 2017
Doing the most good: moral options and optimisation
Oct 12, 2017
De Se Preferences and Epistemic Deference
May 25, 2017
The pragmatics and epistemology of narrative
May 18, 2017
Truth
May 11, 2017
Variation and change in appearances
May 03, 2017
Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' Treatises on Fate and Providence
Mar 15, 2017
Antiporn Feminism Reconceived
Mar 08, 2017
Can Art Lie?
Feb 23, 2017
The Prizes and Perils of Trusting Others
Feb 15, 2017
The nature of properties: Pure powers or powerful qualities?
Feb 15, 2017
Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics
Feb 09, 2017
'Tu Quoque': on the ethics of inconsistency, double standards and hypocrisy in economic foreign policy
Jan 31, 2017
Shameful Self-Consciousness
Dec 01, 2016
Against Collective Responsibility
Nov 24, 2016
Meanings as Species
Nov 02, 2016
Biased Information
Nov 01, 2016
The Problem with Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation
Oct 21, 2016
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
Oct 12, 2016
The Real Problem with Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
May 18, 2016
Objects and Their Phases
May 11, 2016
Beauty and power: response-dependence in aesthetic properties
May 06, 2016
Ontic Injustice
Apr 27, 2016
Personal Identity, Passions and Hume's 'True Idea of the Human Mind'
Mar 09, 2016
Normative reference magnets
Mar 02, 2016
Pragmatism and the No Exit Objection
Feb 17, 2016
Rationality from a Biological Perspective
Feb 11, 2016
Expanding the Moral Repertoire: Oughts, Ideals, and Appraisals
Feb 03, 2016
Biting the Bullet in Non-Identity Cases
Jan 27, 2016
Against Frontloading
Jan 20, 2016
How to be a moral expert
Dec 02, 2015
Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education
Nov 18, 2015
Unconscious perception reconsidered
Nov 11, 2015
Salience Norms
Nov 04, 2015
Two Conceptions of Common-Sense Morality
Oct 28, 2015
How does the brain construct complex thoughts?
Oct 14, 2015
Begging to Differ With Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals
May 20, 2015
Of Toads, Dogs and Men: Agency, Intelligence and Reason in Human and Non-Human Animals
May 06, 2015
Supervenience and Explanation in Metaethics
Apr 29, 2015
The Aptness of Anger
Mar 04, 2015
The Agency Theory of Causation: Unsound or Incomplete
Feb 25, 2015
The ontology of conceptual art: against the idea idea
Feb 18, 2015
Ramsey’s Cognitivism: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Meaning of Life
Feb 11, 2015
Does fictionalism rest on a mistake?
Feb 05, 2015
A Plea for Dispositional Essentialism
Jan 30, 2015
On biological individuality
Jan 21, 2015
First chop your logos: Socrates and the sophists on language, logic and moral development
Dec 05, 2014
Insinuation, Indirection, and the Conversational Record
Dec 03, 2014
Virtue and the Natural Goods: An Aristotelian Perspective
Nov 20, 2014
Indiscernible Universals
Nov 12, 2014
To Blame or to Forgive? Reconciling Punishment and Forgiveness in Criminal Justice
Nov 06, 2014
The Tale of Bella and Creda
Oct 31, 2014
The Argument from Illusion
Oct 23, 2014
Value, Agency and Desire
Oct 21, 2014
Feeling For Others: Is Empathy the Answer to Ethical Problems?
Apr 10, 2014
How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Would Have Been
Nov 22, 2013
Rights and Wrongs
Nov 04, 2013
Why isn't there more progress in philosophy?
May 20, 2013