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One of Britain's most sought-after chamber groups, the Aquinas Piano Trio make their debut at Conway Hall, performing a trio of Classic and Romantic gems by Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Brahms. Free entry for under-26s, courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

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The talk from Robert Lockie will address some classic issues in the determinism/free-will/moral responsibility debates. It concerns the relationship between free will, determinism-indeterminism and moral responsibility. We will ask whether moral responsibility is compatible with any position on determinism/indeterminism – whether moral responsibility is even possible.

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Japanese pianist Hiro Takenouchi will be joined by members of Sinfonia Cymru, an innovative chamber orchestra from Wales made up of professionals in the early stages of their careers, in an evening of piano sextets by Sterndale Bennett and Mendelssohn. Free entry for under-26s, courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

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Sam Fremantle's talk on "Contractualism, Liberalism and Utilitarianism" will be about how John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice, set out to provide a more robust foundation for liberal rights than that provided by the utilitarian liberalism of John Stuart Mill.

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The 8th The Story conference, full of creative, diverse, inspirational speakers, including Jarvis Cocker. "At Storythings, we really like people who cross between different formats and styles of telling stories, and as such we’re *huge* fans of Jarvis Cocker" say the organisers.

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Multiple award-winning ensemble Piatti Quartet will be joined by British vocalist Aidan Smith in a programme featuring a new commission by Richard Reason, and string quartets by Bridge and Debussy. Free entry for under-26s, courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

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Speaker Ralph Blumenau contends that "Much contemporary philosophy is merely clever but does little to advance human welfare."

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Francis Young examines the phenomenon of magic as a form of treason in England and Scotland between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as the ways in which belief in the political power of magic echoes down to the present day.

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Vladimir Dirsh will illustrate (with examples from history) the thesis that continuous historical progress is an illusion, although certain advances are never lost for ever.

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Over the past 30 years the Rendlesham Forest incident has become one of the top ten UFO cases in the world, as voted by UFO believers, and is now often described as the “British Roswell”. Skeptical investigator Ian Ridpath looks at the main points of the case.

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Internationally renowned Minguet Quartet return to Conway Hall for the first time since 2013, performing German Romantic works by Mendelssohn and Schumann alongside music by Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera. The quartet also mark 30 years since they were founded. Free entry for under-26s, courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

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This talk from Bill Turner will explain in an easy to understand way "The Simulation Argument' by Nick Bostrom (Oxford University) which is an argument to say that we are probably living in a computer simulation.

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As part of their short tour to the UK, the Czech piano quartet present a exuberant programme including music from their homeland including Karel Janovicky’s 2015 work, which he will introduce at the evening’s pre-concert talk. Free entry for under-26s, courtesy of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

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Ian Buxton and Raymond Tallis debate Physicalism: the thesis that nothing other than physical laws are needed to account for everything in the universe and that all physical laws can be discovered by scientific means.

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