CPS Past events

05
Aug
2022

Global Climate Policy for Philosophers

This presentation is an overview of the Global Climate Regime: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, the...
03
Aug
2022

From Causal Reasoning to Scientific Thinking

Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing...
27
Jul
2022

Truth or Fiction in Historical Research: Finding a Middle Ground

Historical explanations require the interpretation of incomplete traces of the past. We generally conceive of history as a truth-telling practice, while...
15
Jul
2019

Material Evidence and Cognitive Evolution

There is growing interest in developing interdisciplinary collaborations between philosophy and archaeology. On one hand, philosophers of science are becoming...
04
Sep
2018

Public Lecture: Cordelia Fine

"The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking"Cordelia Fine, 4 September 2018, 4-6pm, ANU Centre for China in the World lecture...
17
Aug
2018

Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries

Recent work has extended the boundaries of animal sentience to an unexpected degree. Claims of non-mammalian consciousness, including invertebrates and even...
06
Aug
2018

Celebration of Kim Sterelny's Laureate Project

On August 6th-8th, the School of Philosophy and the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences held a workshop to celebrate the completion of Kim Sterelny's...

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