The John Locke Lectures 2025: From a Point of View

How should we build the point of view that we take on the world—the point of view that includes our beliefs, our values, and perhaps also our attitudes to risk? And, once it is built, how should it evolve, how should we act in the light of it, and what normative weight do our actions have when they are based on a point of view built in a particular way? Those are the questions that motivate these lectures, but before we can answer them, we must ask what populates the foundations of epistemic, practical, and moral normativity.

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Open Evening for students who are women, non-binary and/or trans

5th March 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: The Hall, All Souls

Every autumn, All Souls holds an exam, from which it seeks to elect successful candidates as new Fellows. This Open Evening is an opportunity for students who are women, non-binary, and/or trans to learn more about the examination process and the experience of being a Fellow.

 

Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis

Two countervailing propositions about the developmental state both have force in an era of climate change. Its weaknesses have failed to address deep inequalities that now structure social vulnerability to climate shocks; and its excesses have created a cascade of new environmental risks. Drawing on the Indian experience—and looking beyond India to the wider region—Sunil Amrith’s Radhakrishnan lectures reflect on how the problem of postcolonial freedom became inextricable from a broader crisis of habitability.

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