Philosophy at Cambridge Newsletter of the Faculty of Philosophy

Issue 4 May 2007

The Human Touch From the Chair Michael Frayn

A few facts to welcome you to Most of the books I’ve written have book takes its rise from what the fourth issue of the Faculty’s been fiction. The Human Touch, I first learned and discussed there, Newsletter. though, is something else. It’s an and I remain immensely indebted In 1953 there were 13 candidates exploration of what seems to me to to the people who taught me for Part II of the Moral Sciences be the central oddity of the universe (especially to Jonathan Bennett, my Tripos (among them Pat Crossman, we live in, and of our relations with supervisor in my last year). Some as she tells us on p.6). In 1957 there it. The oddity is an obvious one — slight acquaintance with the subject, were 19 (among them Michael Frayn, so obvious that you might go though, makes me wary of claiming who writes opposite about how the through a whole lifetime without to be practising it (particularly in a subject gripped him). By 1968 (when even registering it, just as you might publication issued by my old Faculty the present author sat Part II) there without ever consciously taking in itself). I know enough to understand were 24, and in 2006 the number was the staggering complexity of what that professional philosophy these 56. And in the 1950s the Faculty had you see when you look at the back days is a very specialised and often a mere handful of graduate students. of your own hand. highly technical subject, and to Today we have 40. It’s this simple paradox. The understand how little I know The number of those teaching in universe is very large and very old. about it. the Faculty has risen over the same Humankind, by comparison, is only It seems to me, though, that there period from 5 in 1953 (Broad, a tiny disturbance in one small is still sometimes — sometimes — Wisdom, Braithwaite, Ewing and corner of it — and a very recent one. a place for philosophy in a more old- Lewy) to today’s 12. In 1953 the Yet the universe is only very large fashioned and non-specialised sense library was housed in one room in the and very old because we are here to of the word, as a quite general north-west corner of the Old Schools, say that it is. Without us to see it speculation about the nature of the the Faculty had no office base of its from our one tiny viewpoint, and to universe, and about the nature of own and lectures took place in talk about it and attempt to measure human beings and their place in it. Mill Lane or the Music School. The it and formulate the principles on move to the Sidgwick site in 1961 which it works, it isn’t large and it initiated changes in the Faculty’s isn’t old. It doesn’t have a size. There accommodation, the latest stage in are no principles on which it works. which is recorded on p.8. It isn’t anything. It would be good to put some life And yet, of course, we all know on these dry bones. What shifts of perfectly well that it is what it is content and style have there been in whether we are here or not. It was lectures over the decades? How do here long before we were, and it will supervisions compare? Are meetings go on being here long after we have of the Moral Sciences Club now the all departed. same in atmosphere as they were This paradox (it seems to me) is at half a century ago? The memories of the root of all philosophy. It’s at the our alumni cover from the Second heart of all the problems that have World War to the present. So been puzzling philosophers for at perhaps we will be able to bring you least two thousand years now — answers to these questions, and about the nature of perception and other similarly intriguing ones, in ethics, of language and mathematics, future issues. and of man himself. It’s the central puzzle of life. Jane Heal FBA So is this book philosophy? Well, Professor of Philosophy I read philosophy at Cambridge, and Chair of the Faculty Board it was one of the most formative experiences of my life. A lot of the

Philosophy at Cambridge page 1 May 2007 There is still sometimes an at it itself, you discover what a glimpse some small corner of the opportunity for some idiot who bizarrely confused place it is. And if battlefield through the smoke, I’ve doesn’t know too much about you manage to stand back far enough written down what I thought I could anything in particular to put his head to get a glimpse of your own see. And in the last few years I began above the parapet for a moment, and interactions with it — and with all the to think that perhaps the time had risk getting it shot off while he takes a other people around you who are also come, before I got any older and look around at the battlefield. trying to relate to it — you might see found it even harder to think straight, Stupidity and ignorance aren’t how elusive they are. You might even to set out all this material in some qualities to boast about, but they do come to understand something about sort of ordered form. This book, for occasionally have their point. Not the elusiveness of your own self. better or for worse, is the result. knowing what everyone else knows I suppose that questions like this might just offer the chance to look at have formed the background to most Michael Frayn (Emmanuel) is an things as if they’d never been looked of the fiction I’ve written over the last author, playwright and honorary at before, and to be astonished at the forty or fifty years. On and off, member of the Faculty. The Human sheer strangeness of them. If you don’t though, for all that time, I’ve also Touch is published by Faber and know what’s already been said about been struggling to confront them Faber, 2006. ISBN 0571232175. the world, and you have to try to look directly. Every time I thought I could

The First Routledge Lecture

system with an alternative one, which would align the incentives of the pharmaceutical industry more closely with the interests of the global poor. Under this alternative system, pharmaceutical companies would receive extra benefits for the first twenty years of the product life of their new drugs, but not by giving them monopoly power over these drugs, as is the case with the current patent system. Rather, they would be paid economic rent in proportion to the reduction in the global disease burden achieved by their new drugs. Pogge argued that this new system would (a) incentivize the development of drugs for neglected diseases, such as malaria, that account for one third of global deaths, (b) encourage Jane Heal and Thomas Pogge generic drug manufacturers to drive down prices so that new drugs become affordable to the poor, and On a rainy afternoon in November, name on developing countries. (c) smoothen the delivery of drugs to Thomas Pogge (Columbia and ANU) Pogge has put forward a host of the poor by using well-oiled inaugurated the new annual lecture ‘feasible and politically realistic’ corporate machines. series sponsored by Routledge. proposals to reform these institutions In the lively discussion following Professor Pogge is known for his and frameworks, so that we no his lecture, Professor Pogge fleshed fine work on Kant and Rawls, but longer cause harm to people in these out his proposal — how it will be perhaps more famous for his tireless countries; see e.g. his book World financed and implemented. He efforts to make us realise the extent Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, admitted that there are still some issues of the deprivation faced by the poor 2002). that need to be addressed, especially in developing countries and the In the lecture Pogge demonstrated with respect to measurement and gravity of our moral responsibility once more his imagination and administration. The lecture and for their plight. According to Pogge, ingenuity in tackling the difficult subsequent discussion proved to be a we are obliged to eradicate this question of how to implement our stimulating and timely reminder of poverty not so much because of our moral obligations within the our obligations to distant others in positive duty to assist, but because framework of real life politics. His need. of our negative duty not to harm. topic was specifically the international He argues that the root causes of intellectual property rights system global poverty are the international as it applies to pharmaceutical Fabian Freyenhagen institutions and legal frameworks companies. He proposed to Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy that our governments impose in our supplement the current patent

Philosophy at Cambridge page 2 May 2007 Metaethics Exaggerated Conference Reports

On 18 November 2006, a one-day conference was held in of My Death King’s College on Metaethics, organised by Fabian Freyenhagen. Six talks were given by philosophers at the forefront of this vast and vibrant area. The day started Philosophy is supposed to reconcile us to death, and even with a debate on moral realism between Russ Shafer-Landau to reported death. It is nice to confirm that it can indeed (Wisconsin) and Michael Ridge (Edinburgh). After lunch, do so. This message was sent in January to the Trinity practical reason was discussed by John Broome and Record by Moral Scientist Jonathan Agnew (1960). Alison Hills (both Oxford). Onora O’Neill (Cambridge) Subject: Exaggerated reports of my death and Thomas Pink (King’s London) concluded the day by examining the phenomenon of normativity. The sessions To the Editor of the Trinity Record were chaired by three members of the Faculty who Dear Sir, also work in metaethics: Simon Blackburn, Hallvard Lillehammer and Fabian Freyenhagen himself. The I have been informed that the latest issue of the Trinity conference was deemed to be a great success, attracting Record reports that I died last August. I am unable to some 80 participants from across the globe. verify this information directly since, with a certain internal consistency, you are no longer sending me a copy Ben Colburn, PhD student in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Record. I am pleased to tell you (and I hope that you will be pleased to learn) that I am alive and well and assure you that, within the limits of my powers, I will inform you if the situation changes. I should be most grateful if you would publish a correction before reality catches up with your report and send me a copy of the latest issue of the Record so that I can read and, if Faculty News necessary, correct my obituary. Without parapsychological means, I remain a devoted reader of your Record and give you my permission to publish this email. This year the Faculty welcomed Quassim Cassam, appointed as Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Yours faithfully, Jonathan Agnew and Clare Chambers as University Lecturer. In October 2007 Ciara Fairley will join the Faculty as a post- doctoral Research Fellow. Ross Harrison and Jeremy Butterfield re-joined the Cambridge Philosophy community, taking on posts in ‘high places’. Ross Harrison is now Provost of King’s College and Jeremy Butterfield is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College. This year Dominic Scott leaves the Faculty to become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and in the summer Fabian Freyenhagen will join the Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, as a Lecturer in Moral and Political Philosophy. Vela Mitova is now an Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and in September 2006 Johannes Smit started as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The Faculty wishes them all the very best for the future. Lubomira Radoilska has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Biomedical Ethics for a project on ‘Needs, Rights and Preferences in Pharmaceutical Ethics’. Several of our philosophers have been invited to give lectures around the world. Hugh Mellor was a Keynote Speaker at the ‘Truth and Reality’ conference at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Michael Potter gave the William Reinhardt Lecture in the Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Simon Blackburn was the 2007 Ryle Lecturer at Trent University, Ontario in Canada. Alex Oliver spoke at the UK-España conference on Innovation, held in Valencia.

Philosophy at Cambridge page 3 May 2007 An Interview with Quassim Cassam

Hallvard Lillehammer and Quassim Cassam

Quassim Cassam joined the Faculty Cassam: The tools are fundamentally possible?’ These are obstacle- in January 2007 as the Knightbridge the same, thinking hard being dependent questions: we ask how a Professor of Philosophy. Before the main one, but it’s now a certain kind of knowledge is coming to Cambridge, he was tremendously interesting and fast- possible when we think that there Professor in the Department of moving area of philosophy. When I are obstacles to its existence or Philosophy at University College was a graduate student, philosophy acquisition. What we want to London. From 1986 to 2004 he was of mind was seen as the sexiest know, in other words, is how a a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at branch of philosophy. Nowadays certain kind of knowledge is Wadham College, Oxford. He has epistemology seems to have taken possible given the various factors also held visiting positions at over from philosophy of mind as that make it look impossible. University of California, Berkeley the area in which the most Writers in the Kantian tradition and at Northwestern University, interesting work is being done. sometimes give the impression that where he was the John Evans the way to answer a how-possible Distinguished Visiting Professor in Your new book is entitled ‘The question is to come up with a Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in Possibility of Knowledge’ (Oxford, transcendental argument. That’s a 2004. He was born in Mombasa, 2007). According to the OUP mistake, and not one that Kant Kenya, and came to live in the website, this book offers a distinctive himself made. Explaining how United Kingdom in his mid-teens. approach to basic questions in something is possible is not a Like his immediate predecessor in epistemology. How would you matter of identifying necessary the Knightbridge Chair, Edward characterize that approach? conditions for its possibility. Craig, Quassim Cassam includes Rather, what we need to do is to epistemology as one of his major Cassam: Well, that’s a bit of identify means by which something research interests. publishers’ hyperbole. The basic is possible. Means aren’t necessary idea is very simple: a key question conditions, nor are they enough. The study of epistemology is as old as in epistemology is ‘how is such and Obstacles to the acquisition of philosophy itself. Have the basic tools such knowledge (e.g. of the knowledge by the proposed means of the epistemologist changed? external world, or of other minds) also need to be overcome or

Philosophy at Cambridge page 4 May 2007 dissipated. Finally, we might physical objects. Following Kant, strictly necessary condition for consider what makes it possible to my label for this kind of awareness consciousness of self. acquire knowledge by the proposed was ‘intuitive awareness’ of oneself means. So we now have the idea of as a physical thing. This isn’t What projects do you see yourself a multi-levels response to a how- just awareness of one’s body as working on over the coming years? possible question, one that operates physical but awareness of oneself at three interconnected levels: the ‘qua subject’ as shaped, located Cassam: A couple of years ago I level of means, of obstacle-removal, and solid. was invited to contribute a and of enabling conditions. In my The suggestion that bodily self- paper to a volume called book, I spell out the idea of a awareness is important for self- Williamson on Knowledge. That multi-levels response to a how- consciousness is one that lots of paper — ‘Can the Concept of possible question and use it to writers in the continental tradition Knowledge be Analysed?’ — tackle three specific how-possible have developed. Even Descartes sparked lots of new lines of questions, about the external recognizes the importance of bodily thinking, ones that don’t really world, other minds and a priori self-awareness, though not its figure in The Possibility of knowledge. There is also a chapter indispensability, in the passage in Knowledge. So it’s possible that my on why the multi-levels response the Meditations where he says that third book will also end up being isn’t a transcendental response and he isn’t in his body like a pilot in a about knowledge. The provisional on why transcendental arguments ship. His point is that the title is Ways of Knowing. are no good when it comes to connection is much more intimate finding an answer to a how- than that, and I think that he was The institutional environment of possible question. right about this. academic philosophy has been subject to major change since you joined the The nature of transcendental Are there any issues on which you profession in the 1980s. What do you arguments has been one of the have come to change your mind over see as the main challenges facing an recurring themes of your research ever the ten years since you published that incoming Knightbridge Professor in since your DPhil work at Oxford. book? 2007? What first made you interested in this topic? Cassam: I’m much more sceptical Cassam: The main challenge is to now about the neo-Kantian project help to maintain Cambridge’s Cassam: I first became interested of establishing necessary conditions position as one of the best places to when, as a second year undergraduate for self-consciousness or experience study Philosophy in the world. I’m at Oxford, I read chapter 3 of Peter or whatever. Interesting claims of delighted to be here and look forward Strawson’s Individuals. I was this type are extremely hard to to working with an excellent group of fascinated not so much by the establish. The important thing colleagues and some outstanding details of the argument but by the is to explore all the different ways students. way of arguing. So when I did in which self-consciousness is, for the BPhil and then the DPhil at us, bound up with various forms of This interview was conducted by Oxford I ended up writing theses on bodily self-awareness. It’s a further Hallvard Lillehammer transcendental arguments. My question whether this is a matter Senior Lecturer in Philosophy supervisors were Strawson and of bodily self-awareness being a David Wiggins. As it happens, Simon Blackburn was one of my examiners for the DPhil.

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Philosophy at Cambridge page 5 May 2007 A Girton Girl in Search An Old of Meaning Cantabrigian Pat Crossman Philosophical (prepositions or promises?), Inductive and Deductive Logic, Free Ditty Will versus Determinism, Probability, Uncertainty, and the Big Puzzle of (anon., trad.) Time. There were twelve young men in the school. I was the only girl. My teachers were impressive. Dr Broad When losing a tussle was portly and spoke slowly, the With Russell, salient points being repeated three Or, heavens, bored times. And Dr Wisdom had a gremlin With Broad, in his watch! I flirted with Logical Just try chewing Positivism, but found only the ghost A.C. Ewing. of Wittgenstein. But my guide through all this When shook to the core strangeness was my tutor Dr Alfred By Moore, Ewing. Crouching by the gas fire in his Try to abridge small cluttered front room we would Old Sidge construct and then deconstruct the (A diligent few’ll theories of the great epistemologists. Go further, to Whewell). The war came when I was 8 years old He liked Leibniz and Berkeley. and “grown up”. Working class girls Philosophical enquiry was his passion, When a history yen of that age had often been sent into then ping-pong. He was a reserved, Stalls on Whichcote (Ben), service. The war came and went. Now but kindly man, only stern about Try making there was peace and the miracle of the homework. Sometimes after my The trip back to Bacon Welfare State arrived, and a glass supervision he would say, “You may Who dispersed the miasmas ceiling was shattered. Working class remove your gown Miss Amy [my Surrounding Erasmus. kids were awarded scholarships to maiden name]. Would you like to play study at Oxford and Cambridge. ping-pong?” He was a skilful and I was one of the lucky ones. In cunning player. This was Applied When early Witters 1950 I went up to Cambridge to Philosophy: the ping-pong ball was a Brings on jitters study English. My college was Girton, monad, but a monad in action! Then reader, thank two miles away from the town, with I attended all his Saturday morning Ramsey (Frank) strict rules about “men visitors”. lectures, only missing one in my last For quashing that working, then Cambridge was still a segregated term when I was being auctioned in Suggesting Bemerkungen. world, and the wounds of class were the market square together with other still hidden. I joined the Amateur sporting Girton girls for some worthy Dramatic Club. cause. Returning from his lecture he But by 1952 my world had become had seen me, “So you missed my two-dimensional. The magic had lecture?” I tearfully apologized, gone. I poured out my unhappiness to explaining “But it was fun!” “More my friend Thom Gunn who took me fun than my lecture?” But as he to see his favorite teacher in action, thoughtfully told me later “Maybe From the Editor the iconoclastic Frankie Leavis of I should have had more fun.” We want to hear from you! Downing. “Ladies and gentle men!”, Before I left I played the role of The Editor welcomes all comments he intoned, “Poetry must have real Gina in Ibsen’s Wild Duck and and suggestions or material for future Meaning! Bad poetry is meaningless, transformed that grim tragedy into a editions of the Newsletter. look at Tennyson! Now John Donne farce, to entertain a cheerful but Please contact: on the other hand is a poet.” And inebriated audience. It was all about Mrs Mariella Pellegrino then he recited A Valediction: timing. And now it was time to go Faculty of Philosophy down and start working. I was sent to University of Cambridge Forbidding Mourning, Donne’s Sidgwick Avenue exquisite metaphysical love song for The London School of Economics, to Cambridge his wife. become a social scientist. I became CB3 9DA Language was alive again, the Generic Social Worker, to begin U.K. missing dimension returned. My clearing up the rubble of the war, Phone: +44 1223 331889 tutors suggested that I read Moral because this would be a new world. Fax: +44 1223 335091 Science Part II in my last year. That And the “meaning of it all” would be email: [email protected] summer term was hazily hot. I laid in the story I would tell myself. A downloadable version of the the grass and read Bishop Berkeley’s Newsletter is available from the Dialogues pondering on “the meaning Pat Crossman (Girton) is a social Faculty website: of it all”. I was introduced to a new worker living in Berkeley, California www.phil.cam.ac.uk language: Propositions and Premises

Philosophy at Cambridge page 6 May 2007 Choice and Culture Future Clare Chambers Events Since arriving in Cambridge at the end of ALUMNI WEEKEND September 2006, I have 2007 been finishing a book, Sex, Culture and Justice: Saturday 22 September The Limits of Choice (Penn State University Press, forthcoming). It criticises the liberal focus on choice ‘Wittgenstein in Conflict: in the context of unequal or how the Tractatus was born’ harmful practices, particularly those of sexual inequality. A Lecture I discuss the examples Speaker: mentioned above, which Dr Michael Potter share the feature that they Reader in the Philosophy of are mandated and Mathematics. encouraged by culture — be 11:15am it wider Western liberal culture or the culture of Location tba minority groups. Liberals in general know what to think about acts of gendered harm sanctioned ‘Philosophy at Cambridge by ‘other’ cultures. Practices through the years’ such as female genital mutilation and foot binding An Exhibition Should people be allowed to engage in are unacceptable, even if they are Faculty of Philosophy practices which harm them? First consented to by the women in question Sidgwick Site thoughts suggest that they should. (in Britain, genital mutilation is illegal Sidgwick Avenue If liberal rights protect anything, we even for adult women). But what Cambridge CB3 9DA might say, they protect our ability to about consensual practices such as do what we want with our bodies. cosmetic surgery situated in our own For more information please contact If we want to bungee jump from a culture? Feminist philosophers value Mrs Mariella Pellegrino crane, ski down a dangerous choice — indeed, one of the greatest Faculty of Philosophy mountain slope, or go potholing in triumphs of the feminist movement email: [email protected] dangerous waters, then the rights has been to ensure greater choice for enshrined by liberal democratic women over their own lives. But regimes tell us that we can, as long as choice is only part of the story. We A buffet lunch will be we are willing to bear the need to understand the origins of the served in the Faculty, consequences. choices people make, the context in from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. But self-inflicted harms are not which they are being made, the Please see the Alumni Weekend 2007 always as obvious or exceptional as pressures and constraints upon them. booklet for details about these. Sometimes they are made so The fact that culture inevitably shapes booking and cost. acceptable by prevailing social both the identities and the preferences norms that they do not even appear to of individuals is problematic for an be ‘harms’ at all. Individuals often emphasis on choice. If cultures shape ROUTLEDGE LECTURE choose to do things that harm choices, it is not straightforward to use them or undermine their equality. In those choices as the measure of the 2007– 8 particular, women often choose to justice of the culture. participate in practices of sexual Instead of relying on choice as the Professor Andy Clark of the inequality: cosmetic surgery, gendered determinant of justice, we need to University of Edinburgh patterns of work and childcare, critically examine processes by which will deliver the second makeup, restrictive clothing, unequal individuals are encouraged to choose Routledge Lecture on laws and norms concerning marriage to do things that harm them, or that 31 January 2008. and divorce or religious leadership. undermine their equality. It is right to Further details will be available on In response to such practices, liberal legally proscribe some such practices. the Faculty website: political philosophers tend to rely on For choice, though important to choice as the determinant of justice. justice, does not guarantee it. http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/ If a practice is freely chosen, or if an individual is free to leave a group with Clare Chambers unequal norms, most liberals are University Lecturer in Philosophy content to accept the situation as just.

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