http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/224980 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:59 GMT 2013-05-22T23:01:59Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244268 Title: Responsibility, Moral and Otherwise Authors: Wolf, Susan Description: Typescript of a paper given for the Routledge Lecture in Philosophy on 21 February 2013 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244268 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/243921 Title: Where would we be without counterfactuals? Authors: Price, Huw Abstract: Huw Price gives his inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy. Bertrand Russell’s celebrated essay “On the Notion of Cause” was first delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 1912, as Russell’s Presidential Address. The piece is best known for a passage in which its author deftly positions himself between the traditional metaphysics of causation and the British crown, firing broadsides in both directions: “The law of causality”, Russell declares, “Like much that passes muster in philosophy, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.” To mark the lecture’s centenary, we offer a contemporary view of the issues Russell here puts on the table, and of the health or otherwise, at the end of the essay’s first century, of his notorious conclusion. Description: Typescript of an inaugural lecture given by Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy on Thursday 1 November 2012. Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/243921 2012-11-05T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/241942 Title: What is distinctive about human thought? Authors: Crane, Tim Abstract: Descartes famously argued that animals were mere machines, without thought or consciousness. Few would now share this view. But if other animals have conscious lives, what are they like, how do they differ from ours, and how would we ever know anything about them? This lecture will address this question by looking at the kinds of thoughts we might share with animals, and looking at philosophical and empirical arguments for how our thoughts might differ from theirs. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/241942 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/241043 Title: Conceptions of Press Freedom in a Globalising World Authors: O'Neill, Onora Description: Article to accompany a talk given on 22 October 2008 at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/241043 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/240658 Title: When was medieval philosophy? Authors: Marenbon, John Abstract: John Marenbon argues against the usual chronological division, according to which there was a period of ‘medieval philosophy’ corresponding roughly to the Middle Ages. Using as his basis an argument about why studying antiquated philosophy is valuable, he explains why such a question about chronological divisions is important. Description: Typescript of an Inaugural Lecture by John Marenbon, as Honorary Professor of Medieval Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, delivered November 30, 2011. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/240658 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/240489 Title: Ideas of the Good in Moral and Political Philosophy Authors: Scanlon, Thomas Description: Article to accompany the Routledge Lecture in Philosophy entitled "Value in Morality and Politics", given at the University of Cambridge, March 15, 2011. Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/240489 2011-08-31T23:00:00Z