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Philosophy News 11 Proof 73877 NL Faculty of Philosophy Philosophy at Cambridge Newsletter of the Faculty of Philosophy Issue 11 May 2014 ISSN 2046-9632 From the Chair Tim Crane So much has happened in the Faculty since the last newsletter. As you will read here, we have said goodbye, sadly, to Raymond Geuss and Hallvard Lillehammer, but we welcome Dr Tom Dougherty as a new lecturer this autumn. Tom works on ethics and political philosophy, and his presence will add to the Faculty’s attractiveness for research students working in these central areas. On the subject of research students, I hope you will be as pleased as we are to read (on p. 3) about the successes of our recent research students in obtaining academic jobs. We are very proud of them all, and we believe this Inaugural lecture of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Photo: Glenn Jobson is more evidence of what a great place Cambridge is to do postgraduate study in philosophy. Application numbers Safeguarding the Future: bear this out: despite the financial pressures on postgraduate students – the AHRC has now withdrawn most The Centre for the Study of its funding for Master’s degrees – we still receive about 200 graduate of Existential Risk applications every year. But we must not be complacent. There is strong Jacob Trefethen competition among the world’s finest universities to attract the best graduate students. It is all the more The age we live in is unprecedented in found the Centre for the Study of Existential urgent, then, for us to seek funding many respects. Perhaps most exciting, is the Risk, a new inter-disciplinary research centre from all possible sources. To compete sheer speed of our technological progress. with a focus on anything that may pose a at the highest international levels, But with big changes come big risks: threat to the very existence of the human we need to be able to fund many synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and species. Their inaugural public lecture on more of our research students than artificial intelligence all have the potential ‘Surviving the 21st Century’ was hosted by we do now. to do harm as well as good, on a global 80,000 Hours, an organisation focused on Any readers who would like to scale. How do we navigate these unknown getting students and researchers to spend learn more about what we are doing waters when the stakes are so high? their careers helping solve the world’s most in this area are more than welcome to This is the question that Professor Huw important problems. contact me by email, or to come and Price, Lord Martin Rees, and Jaan Tallinn What can we do in the face of such visit the Faculty whenever they are in set out to answer last term to a packed unprecedented risks? Whatever the answer Cambridge, and experience our new audience in Lady Mitchell Hall. These three is, directing some of Cambridge’s foremost coffee machine, which is reported to men – a philosopher, a cosmologist, and intellectual power into the problem is a be the envy of all in Sidgwick Avenue! an entrepreneur – have come together to good first step. Philosophy at Cambridge page 1 May 2014 Judith Jarvis Thomson visit Sophia Connell event, such as a death, relates to the completion of a process, such as dying, when this process can be interrupted. Finally, Prof. Jimmy Lenman from the University of Sheffield sought to support Judy’s neo-Aristotelian meta-ethical naturalism in a paper entitled ‘Good people and good things’. During her visit, Judy also participated in many other philosophical events with tireless enthusiasm. She gave a talk to the Moral Sciences Club, entitled ‘Rights and Wrongs’ (the podcast is available at http://bit.ly/MSCthomson), which attracted record crowds and resulted in many an interesting supervision. Next, she presented her famous ‘trolley loop’ modification of the Trolley Problem to the first year philosophers, who came away in awe. She met with many other friends, colleagues and students, both postgraduate and undergraduate, all of whom benefited greatly by her generosity. It is fair to say that her presence here was an enriching and inspiring experience for staff and Rae Langton (left) with Judith Jarvis Thomson students alike. We hope to welcome her back again soon. The name ‘Judith Jarvis Thomson’ of her gender, at a time when very few immediately brings to mind rigour and academic philosophers were women. Sophia Connell is an Affiliated tenacity, breath-taking imagination, and However she persisted, working first at Lecturer in the Faculty, and Director broad engagement with issues in ethics, Barnard College before joining MIT in of Studies for Philosophy at Newnham political philosophy and metaphysics. 1964, where she remained for the rest and Selwyn. It was our great honour at Newnham of her career. to welcome back Prof. Thomson for a Judy’s best-known work is in ethics week-long visit in Michaelmas of this and political philosophy, where she has year. I say ‘welcome back’, because Judy made key contributions to theories of (as she likes to be known) spent two years rights, action, and meta-ethical naturalism. studying at Newnham from 1950–1952. A workshop on her philosophy held at Her memories are warm ones, which Newnham College during her visit she enjoyed reliving – despite the fact focused on all three areas. Prof. Matt that her experience at Cambridge almost Kramer, from the Cambridge Law Faculty, ended her Philosophy career before it discussed the consequences of Thomson’s had begun! Trained by John Wisdom in distinction between infringements and a Wittgensteinian approach that aimed violations of rights when we consider to eliminate philosophical problems by cases of desperation. Prof. Jennifer careful attention to language, she lost a Hornsby from Birkbeck, London (another sense that philosophy might matter in Newnham alumna) discussed her work its own right. on action theory, with a focus on Judy’s After leaving Cambridge, Judy went 1977 book Acts and Other Events which into advertising in Manhattan, but soon Prof. Hornsby had reviewed at the time. felt the pull of philosophy calling her Her presentation on ‘Action and back. She completed a PhD at Columbia Imperfectivity’ discussed difficulties, University, but was discouraged from about the relationship between events pursuing an academic career because and processes: for example, how an Judy giving her talk at the Moral Sciences Club Philosophy at Cambridge page 2 May 2014 People Staff news of the ten best philosophy papers of Student Prizes 2012 by The Philosophers’ Annual. Emeritus Professor Onora O’Neill was Ali Boyle (Peterhouse) was awarded the Dr Arif Ahmed was awarded a Visiting made a Companion of Honour (CH) Matthew Buncombe prize for best overall Fellowship by the Australian National for her services to philosophy and public achievement in the MPhil. The Craig Taylor University, Canberra for Michaelmas 2013. policy in the Queen’s New Year Honours prize for best performance in the Tripos Dr Louise Hanson (University of Oxford) List for 2014. went to Kacper Kowalczyk (Trinity) for was appointed to a 5-year College Part IB, and Malthe Rasmussen Prof. Derek Matravers stepped down Lectureship in Philosophy for Fitzwilliam (Emmanuel) for Part II. from his role as an affiliated lecturer here and Churchill Colleges. in Cambridge, after 20 years invaluable Dr Raphaël Ehrsam (Universite Paris Appointments service to the Faculty. He has a full time 1 Sorbonne) was appointed to a role with the Open University. temporary lectureship. We are delighted that a number of our Prof. Rae Langton was inducted into the Dr Craig French (University of Antwerp) recent graduates have secured academic American Academy of Arts and Sciences was appointed to a 3-year Junior Research posts. Luca Incurvati was appointed to on 12 October 2013. She was also chosen Fellowship at Trinity Hall. an Assistant Professorship at the University for Prospect magazine’s 2014 list of the 50 Dr Raymond Lal was appointed to of Amsterdam; and Tom Simpson to a world’s top thinkers. a postdoctoral position on a 3-year lectureship at Oxford. The following were Dr Hallvard Lillehammer took up a interdisciplinary project in Philosophy/ appointed to postdoctoral research professorship at Birkbeck, University of Foundations of Physics at Oxford positions: Claire Benn at the Van Leer London in September 2013. and Cambridge. Institute in Jerusalem; Michael Hannon at Prof. Huw Price’s paper ‘Causation, Dr Caterina Tarlazzi is here on a 3-year Fordham University; Emily Thomas at the Chance, and the Rational Significance British Academy postdoctoral award; and University of Groningen; Rob Trueman at of Supernatural Evidence’, Philosophical Dr Michael Blome-Tillmann is an EC the University of Stirling; and Will Davies Review, 121 (2012) was selected as one Marie Curie Research Fellow for 2 years. at the University of Antwerp. Raymond Geuss Retires Tom Stern Raymond Geuss retired in 2014, having narrow, clapped-out debates; disconnected spent more than forty years, twenty at from real politics; self-consciously ahistorical Cambridge, in a profession he once and obsessed with rigour, yet lacking the described as ‘mildly discreditable’. historical sensitivity and the rigour to Raymond’s specialisations would best be understand its limitations. Raymond has listed as: social and political philosophy, devoted much of his intellectual energy to 19th and 20th century German philosophy, challenging political philosophers on these aesthetics and ancient philosophy. In fact, grounds, whilst reminding his readers that this would belie the extraordinary breadth things were not ever thus and that this, too, teach us German language and literature – of the subjects he writes on, and his ability shall pass (though you might not like what making him, as a contemporary put it, to write essays which don’t sit neatly comes next!).
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