Dear all, I hope everyone had a pleasant time over the holidays, although I'm sure that you all missed the Moral Sciences Club during this period. Well, the holidays may be over but the good news is that the Moral Sciences Club will be meeting again, starting from next week.
For our first meeting of the term, Richard Heck (Brown) will be speaking, with a talk titled *Against Frontloading*. The abstract for this talk is below: *Maybe the most important argument in David Chalmers's monumental book Constructing the World is the one he calls the `Frontloading Argument'. It is one of two arguments used in Chapter 4 to argue for the central thesis of the book, A Priori Scrutability. And, at first blush, the Frontloading Argument looks very strong. I shall be arguing here, however, that it is incapable of securing the conclusion it is meant to establish. The argument requires subsidiary premises that are not only sufficient by themselves to establish A Priori Scrutability but are arguably far stronger.* The meeting will be held on Tuesday the 19th from 2.30 until 4.15 in Sidgwick Hall in Newnham College. The meeting will be followed by tea and coffee in the philosophy faculty. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others (alternatively, students can pay a one-off fee for the meeting of £2 and others can pay a one-off fee of £3). These fees can be paid online (at the following link: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87) or in cash on the day. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best wishes, Adam Bales and Daisy Dixon -- Daisy Dixon and Adam Bales Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
