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Philosophy at Cambridge Newsletter of the Faculty of Philosophy Issue 10 May 2013 Philosophy at Cambridge Newsletter of the Faculty of Philosophy Issue 10 May 2013 ISSN 2046-9632 From the Chair Tim Crane is to be able to fully fund all our graduate students, MPhil and PhD. The campaign has been initiated by some very generous donations from our alumni, and a brochure, Thinking Through the 21st Century: The Next Generation of Cambridge Philosophers has been produced by the University’s Development Office. For a copy of this brochure, please contact the Development Office: www.campaign.cam.ac.uk. For other inquiries about this campaign, please feel free to contact me directly. The second exciting recent development—and our major news for this year—is that we have appointed Richard Holton and Rae Langton from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to professorships in the Faculty, starting in September this year. They are both world- leading philosophers who have made substantial contributions to a number of Professors Rae Langton and Richard Holton to join the Faculty different areas of the subject. Richard works especially on the Welcome to the tenth Faculty of Philosophy the researchers of the future, they are the philosophy of mind and its connections Newsletter. Charles de Gaulle is supposed researchers of the present. with psychology and moral philosophy, to have said that if you want things to But it has become increasingly difficult including decision-making, making stay the same, you have to perpetually in recent years for graduate students up your mind, weakness of the will renew them; and in the Faculty of in philosophy to fund their education. and temptation, among other things. Philosophy we have been trying to follow Despite the exceptionally generous His work draws on empirical work in his advice. The Faculty is known for its support of some of our alumni, as well psychology, and he is currently pursuing excellence in research, and for its rigorous as from the Colleges and the University, an inter-disciplinary project on the undergraduate degree programme. But in many of our graduate students struggle nature of addiction. order to maintain these things, we need to support themselves during their period Like Richard, Rae works in a number to be thinking constantly about how we of study. Here in the UK, we compare of different areas of the subject—ethics, might develop and improve. Two recent unfavourably with the top US institutions, feminist philosophy, metaphysics and the developments stand out. where graduate students are normally history of philosophy—and like him too, First, this newsletter marks the official fully-funded for the whole of their PhD. she has made significant contributions opening of a major fundraising campaign With the likelihood that the UK’s Arts and to them all. She is also well known for to support graduate students. Every Humanities Research Council will stop her work on questions about the ethics leading philosophy department depends funding MPhil students in the coming years, of pornography and objectification. She upon the quality of its graduate students, the situation looks as if it will get worse. has recently been made a member of and we have been fortunate in Cambridge It is for this reason that we are launching the American Academy of Arts and in having many superb students who a campaign to develop a fund for the Sciences, and will give the prestigious John have gone on to teach philosophy all over support of graduate students in philosophy Locke Lectures in Oxford in 2015. We are the world. Graduate students are not just at Cambridge. Our ambitious ultimate aim delighted that they are joining the Faculty. Philosophy at Cambridge page 1 May 2013 People Meet our new appointments Paulina Sliwa works He has also recently been a visiting scholar make correct decisions. His thesis provided mostly on ethics and at the University of Texas Austin, and a an account of how political agents search epistemology, and is visiting fellow at Harvard. for and extract information from the particularly interested in environment, and how this is then pooled questions where those into the social choice. He is currently two intersect. Recently, Luca Incurvati works extending this research and developing she has been thinking on the philosophy of an epistemic account of deliberative about moral knowledge, particularly its role mathematics, logic and democracy—the conditions under which in praise, blame, and morally good action. language, with occasional discussion and debate increases the She’s also interested in how our various forays into metaphysics. accuracy of decisions. cognitive imperfections—our proclivity to He has an undergraduate biases and computational limitations—bear degree and a masters from on how we should form and revise our Rome “La Sapienza”, and an MPhil and a PhD Brian Pitts is a post- beliefs. Paulina comes to Cambridge from from Cambridge. Before his appointment doctoral researcher who MIT in the other Cambridge, where she as a temporary lecturer in the Faculty, he works mostly on the wrote a dissertation on moral testimony. was a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene philosophy of science, Prior to that she was an undergraduate College. His work has appeared in journals both the philosophy of at Balliol College, Oxford, where she read such as Analysis, Erkenntnis, Journal of physics (especially space Physics and Philosophy. She is excited to Philosophical Logic, Philosophical Studies and and time) and general join the vibrant research and teaching Review of Symbolic Logic. He has ongoing philosophy of science. He studied at Notre community at Cambridge! projects on conceptions of set, naturalism Dame (Philosophy/HPS) and the University in the philosophy of mathematics and the of Texas at Austin (Physics). He is interested notion of rejection. in the idea of progress and achieving Angela Breitenbach’s reflective equilibrium between ostensible research focuses on scientific examples and normative the history of modern Nicholas Vrousalis, methodology. In particular, in what can philosophy, specifically previously at KU Leuven be said in bringing together Bayesian and the philosophy of Kant, (Belgium), has joined the (more or less) reliabilist epistemologies. as well as questions in Faculty as a temporary philosophy of science, lecturer. He read philosophy of biology, and aesthetics. Economics at Trinity Hall, John Maier was Among other things, she is currently Cambridge. After some appointed as a post- working on a problem at the intersection graduate work in Economics, he went doctoral researcher of these interests, concerning a Kantian to Oxford to do a doctorate in Political working on pragmatism. conception of the role of beauty in science. Philosophy with G.A. Cohen. His research He works primarily She has an undergraduate degree and is concerned with distributive ethics, in metaphysics, the MPhil from the University of Cambridge theories of exploitation, Marxism, and the philosophy of action, and a doctorate from the Humboldt- conceptual space at the intersection of and the philosophy of language. He has University of Berlin. After three years as a Analytical Marxism and Critical Theory. He previously held positions at the University Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex is presently planning two Faculty-based of Sydney, the Australian National College, Cambridge, and three further workshops, one on domination and one on University, and the University of Colorado, years as a Lecturer at the University of East hate speech. and received his PhD. from Princeton Anglia, she is now very happy to return in 2008. He has recently completed a to the Cambridge Philosophy Faculty. monograph on agency and modality. Chris Thompson has joined the Faculty as Tim Button’s first book, a temporary lecturer. The Limits of Realism (OUP), He recently completed will be released in 2013. his PhD in philosophy It explores how sceptical at LSE. Prior to that, he Missed one of our events? angst (“am I just a brain worked as a civil service in a vat?”) has influenced policy advisor in the UK and New Zealand You can listen debates about what there civil services. His research interests lie and download is in the world, and about how we are able in political philosophy, epistemology, recordings of to talk and think about it. From 2010 to and their intersection in the philosophy Philosophy talks 2012, Tim was a research fellow at St John’s of public policy. His focus is on ‘social from Cambridge College, Cambridge, and he has remained epistemic mechanisms’, that is institutions University iTunesU there since his appointment as a lecturer. and procedures that allow democracies to www.cam.ac.uk/video-and-audio Philosophy at Cambridge page 2 May 2013 Jane Heal retires after 26 years Departures Two long-serving members of support staff recently retired. We bid farewell to Mrs Margrit Edwards in December 2012 after 25 years with the University, 16 of these as Principal Secretary in the Faculty. Mrs Lesley Lancaster retired in April 2013 from her role as Graduate Secretary after 22 years. They have both played an invaluable role in the smooth running of the Faculty. Staff and friends attended their retirement parties, to celebrate their contribution and to wish them well. Dr Fraser MacBride left to take up a Chair at the University of Glasgow in Jane Heal at her retirement garden party, St John’s January 2013. Professor Jane Heal retired from the situation and then allowing Dr Serena Olsaretti was appointed as Faculty at the end of 2012 after 26 years. our thoughts and emotions to run Research Professor at UPF (Barcelona). Daughter of a notable pair of Oxford forwards in a kind of imaginative philosophers, William and Martha Kneale, experiment. The competing idea, that Student Prizes she first arrived in Cambridge in 1964 as we learn to operate a kind of theory Katharine Jenkins (Emmanuel) was an undergraduate at New Hall to read that links humans’ physical behaviour awarded the Matthew Buncombe prize history, changing to Philosophy (then and external conditions to their mental for best overall achievement in the MPhil.
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