2010 Seminars

 

Thursday, December 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism
Thursday, November 18th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Alastair Wilson (Monash)
Everettian Modal Realism
Thursday, November 11th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Rachael Briggs (Sydney)
Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance
Thursday, November 4th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Peter Forrest (University of New England)
Why the present is a problem both for block-theorists and presentists
Thursday, October 28th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Mark Jago (Macquarie)
Making Up Worlds
Thursday, October 21st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Daniel Cohen (Charles Sturt)
Why, exactly, is the self-torturer irrational?
Thursday, October 14th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Huw Price (Sydney)
Causation, Chance, and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence
Thursday, October 7th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Wolfgang Schwarz (ANU)
Counterparts of Worms
Thursday, September 30th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ben Fraser (ANU)
The nature of moral judgment and the extent of the moral domain
Thursday, September 23rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Daniel Nolan (ANU/Nottingham)
Disposition Impossible
Thursday, September 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Daniel Korman (ANU/Illinois)
The Language of the Ontology Room
Thursday, September 9th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Peter Menzies (Macquarie)
What is Mechanistic Explanation?
Thursday, September 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Josh Parsons (Otago)
Command and consequence
Thursday, August 26th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Bengson (ANU/Wisconsin)
Explaining Intuitive Knowledge of Abstracta
Thursday, August 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Raul Saucedo (ANU/Yale)
Composition, Identity, and the Number of Things
Thursday, August 12th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
No seminar
Epistemology Workshop
Thursday, August 5th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
No seminar
John Passmore Lecture
Thursday, July 29th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Declan Smithies (ANU/Ohio State)
Is Epistemic Transparency a Myth?
Thursday, July 22nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ruth Chang (Rutgers)
Do We Have Normative Powers?
Wednesday, July 14th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Nishi Shah (Amherst)
Mental Agency and Metaethics
Thursday, July 8th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
No seminar
AAP Conference
Thursday, July 1st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
No seminar
Fundamentality Conference
Thursday, June 24th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
James Genone (Stanford)
Direct Perception Defended
Thursday, June 17th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jonathan Schaffer (ANU)
All the Difference in the World
Thursday, June 10th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Lyle Zynda (Indiana South Bend)
There Is No Exclusive 'Or' in English: An Exploration of the Semantic/Pragmatic Distinction
Thursday, May 27th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Peter Roeper (ANU)
Sufficient conditions and non-logical consequences
Thursday, May 20th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Christian Barry (ANU)
What's wrong with overdetermining harm?
Thursday, May 13th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Laura Schroeter (Melbourne)
Reference and Self-Interpretation
Thursday, April 29th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Brett Calcott (ANU)
Modularity and Evolvability
Thursday, April 22nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Mark Jago (Macquarie)
Propositions and Same-Saying
Thursday, April 15th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Elliott Sober (Wisconsin-Madison)
How to Construct an A Priori Causal Model � the Example of Sex Ratio Evolution
Thursday, April 8th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Rachael Briggs (Sydney)
Interventionist Counterfactuals
Thursday, March 25th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Toby Handfield (Monash)
Chance in branching worlds
Thursday, March 18th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Brendan Balcerak Jackson (K�ln)
On Understanding Language
Thursday, March 11th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (K�ln)
Intuitions as Inferential Judgments
Thursday, March 4th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
David Chalmers (ANU/NYU)
the singularity: a philosophical analysis
Thursday, February 18th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Anita Avramides (Oxford)
Perception of Other Minds
Thursday, February 11th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Barry Maund (UWA)
Phenomenal Qualities and Representational Content
Thursday, February 4th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Brie Gertler (Virginia)
What we talk about when we talk about externalism
Thursday, January 28th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Susanna Schellenberg (ANU)
Perceptual Content Defended
Thursday, January 21st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Maier (ANU)
A Dispositional Theory of Counterfactuals
Thursday, December 17th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Gabriel Rabin (UCLA)
Two-Dimensional Meta-Semantics
Thursday, December 3rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Nic Damnjanovic (UWA)
Revelation for the Masses
Thursday, November 26th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Nicholas Smith (Sydney)
Degree of Belief is Expected Truth Value
Thursday, November 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Lina Eriksson (ANU)
A More Fundamental Problem for the Betting Interpretation
Thursday, November 5th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Dominic Murphy (Sydney)
Why there's no such thing as introspection
Thursday, October 22nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Alan Hajek (ANU)
A Poisoned Dart For Conditionals
Thursday, October 15th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Brian Garrett (ANU)
About Time
Thursday, October 1st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ned Markosian (Western Washington)
Agent Causation as the Solution to All the Compatibilist's Problems
Thursday, September 24th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Lionel Shapiro (Sydney/UConn)
Bifurcating Intentionality: Case Studies in Descartes and Locke
Thursday, September 17th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Daniel Stoljar (ANU)
Stalnaker on Self-Location and the Knowledge Argument
Thursday, September 10th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Kenny Easwaran (ANU/USC)
The Tarski-Godel Thesis
Thursday, September 3rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
William Fish (Massey)
Sensing Indeterminate Properties
Thursday, August 27th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Hagit Benbaji (Ben Gurion)
How the Colors Appear to Us
Thursday, August 20th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Maier (ANU)
Epistemic Normativity and the Capacity to Know
Thursday, August 13th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Janice Dowell (Nebraska)
A Flexible Contextualist Account of 'Ought'
Thursday, August 6th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Skorupski (St. Andrews)
Warrant
Thursday, July 30th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Robbie Williams (Leeds)
Accurate Beliefs about Indeterminacy
Thursday, July 23rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Michael Weisberg (Pennsylvania)
Models of Modeling
Thursday, July 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Peter Pagin (Stockholm)
Cybersemantics
Wednesday, July 1st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Kit Fine (NYU)
The Logic of Ground
Thursday, June 18th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Alexander Bird (Bristol)
The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Thursday, June 4th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Andy Egan (Rutgers)
Rationality for Time Travelers
Thursday, May 28th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Wylie Breckenridge (Cornell)
Eavesdroppers, Salvage Ships, and Epistemic Modality
Thursday, May 21st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Joe Salerno (St. Louis)
Embedded Epistemic Modals
Thursday, May 14th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Berit Brogaard (Missouri)
Do We Perceive High-Level Properties?
Thursday, May 7th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Roman Frigg (LSE)
Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective
Thursday, April 23rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Per Sandin (Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden), Collective Virtue
Thursday, April 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Kendall Walton (Michigan)
Fictionality and Imagination: Mind the Gap
Thursday, April 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Phil Dowe (Queensland)
Loops in Time and A-Theories of Time
Thursday, March 26th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
No Seminar
Workshop: Consciousness and the Vegetative State
Thursday, March 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ofer Gal (Sydney)
The Real Issue: What does it take to be a scientific realist and what does it cost?
Thursday, March 12th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
David Hodgson (Supreme Court of NSW)
The Role of Gestalts in Conscious Decision-Making
Thursday, March 5th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Martine Nida-Rumelin (Fribourg)
The Identity of Conscious Individuals and First-Person Thought
Thursday, February 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Noa Latham (Calgary)
Fundamental Laws, Initial Conditions, and the Direction of Time
Thursday, February 12th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Nico Silins (ANU/Cornell)
Introspection and Inference
Thursday, February 5th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jenann Ismael (Sydney/Arizona)
Quantum Probability and Chance
Thursday, January 29th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Helen Beebee (Birmingham)
Hume's Two Definitions of Causation
Thursday, January 22nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Philip Pettit (Princeton)
'Freedom and Other Modally Demanding Goods'
Thursday, January 15th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Stephen Leuenberger (ANU/Leeds)
Generalizing Metaphysical Contingentism
Tuesday, January 6th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
David Papineau (King's College London)
The Poverty of Analysis
Sunday, February 26th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Fiona Macpherson (ANU/Glasgow)
Representing the Impossible: Pictures and Visual Experience

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