Moral Sciences Club

The Zetetic Puzzle

Imagine a situation in which a subject has some good reasons for believing that p is true, but...

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

What is the structure of thought? Many philosophers and cognitive scientists think we've moved...

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Defining Social Power

Power is central to the social sciences, the humanities, and to understanding the political...

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Online Public Shaming and the Case for Regulating Social Media Platforms

Online public shaming—the practice of using the Internet to criticise perceived moral...

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Thinking Together

Philosophers often give the following advice: Think for yourself. In this talk I argue this is...

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Artefacts of representational choices

When we formulate theories, we make decisions about what to count as theoretically primitive and...

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Philosophical Pathologies and the Point of Inquiry

Some people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or generalized anxiety disorder...

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

Early modern philosophers in the Cartesian tradition often tended to oppose the workings of...

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Human Individuals and Human Kinds: A Process View

I have argued for some time that biological Individuals, including humans, should be seen as...

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Property Versatility

I will present some key ideas from a book I’m currently co-authoring with David Liebesman:...

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

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

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Abduction: The Glory and Scandal of Philosophy?

C.D. Broad referred to inductive reasoning as "the glory of science and the scandal of...

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Political thinking: the flight from solidity

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

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Epistemic rationality and the value of truth

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

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Rethinking Moral Claim Rights

A talk given by Laura Valentini (Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich) at the Moral Sciences...

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The Theory of Scientific Explanation: An Obituary

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

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Unmistaken: imaginative perception and illusion

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

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Social Science, Policy and Democracy

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

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Armchair Knowledge: Some Kantian Reflections

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

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Plan B Consistency

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

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