Experiments of Living Constitutionalism
Lecture
Experiments of Living Constitutionalism urges that the Constitution should be interpreted so as to allow both individuals and groups to experiment with different ways of living, whether we are speaking of religious practices, family arrangements, political associations, civic associations, child-…
Social Scripts - Tom Dougherty
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Dougherty Social scripts specify the normal way for people to interact in certain situations. For example, a social script for a restaurant conversation explains why the world over, these conversations take a similar form. I will discuss what social scripts are, how they shape…
Assessing International Adjudication: The World Court at 100
Lecture
The Permanent Court of International Justice, based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, heard its first case a century ago. Its post-war successor, the International Court of Justice, is at the busiest point in its history, with 16 contentious cases before it, from every region of the globe. It also…
Belief and its Linguistic Representation - Frances Egan
Seminar
Speaker: Frances Egan Abstract: Beliefs play a central role in our commonsense practice of predicting and explaining behavior. For example, we appeal to Alice’s belief that vaccines are dangerous to predict and explain her refusal to get…
The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account - Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Seminar
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini According to simple mapping accounts, a physical system implements a computation just in case there is a mapping from physical states to computational states. According to causal mapping accounts, the mapping must mirror the causal structure of the…
Workshop: Foundations of Computation
Workshop
The ANU School of Philosophy will be hosting a workshop on the Foundations of Computation on 20 and 21 July, 2023. This two-day workshop will explore questions about what makes something a computation, whether computational identity depends on the intentions of interpreters, the role of…
Is language still the ultimate artefact? - Zoe Drayson
Seminar
Speaker: Zoe Drayson Clark and Chalmers (1998) characterize language as “a central means by which cognitive processes are extended into the world”. Language plays this role in virtue of being an external tool which supplements the brain’s…