Cancelled - Catherine Mills (Monash University)
Seminar
Speaker: Catherine Mills Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.
Memorial Celebration of the Life of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan
Other
The School of Philosophy at the Australian National University would like to invite you to celebrate the life and work of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan. Geoff passed away on 29 July 2022 after a brief battle with leukaemia. He was an outstanding scholar, who did ground-breaking work at the…
Happiness Pluralism - Caroline West (University of Sydney)
Seminar
Speaker: Caroline West Attempts by philosophers to analyse the concept of happiness have traditionally been monistic, in the sense of seeking a single set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for its correct application. Sadly, there are counterexamples to…
The Individual Goods of Attention and How to Distribute Them
Seminar
We live in an age where attention is a central commodity – where social media companies like TikTok and Facebook take this attention as a product to be sold to interested buyers, and where attention is inextricably tied up with knowledge work (such as that of programmers, architects, and…
AI Rule and a Fundamental Objection to Epistocracy - Sean Donahue (ANU)
Seminar
Speaker: Sean Donahue Epistocracy is rule by whoever is more likely than others to make correct decisions. AI epistocracy is rule by an artificial intelligence that is more likely than humans to make correct decisions. While various objections have been made against epistocracy, the…
Money, Markets & Meaning – The Ethics of Commodification
Seminar
A common argument in debates about commodification is that it is impermissible to buy and sell certain goods because to do so would violate their meaning or express an attitude towards them that does not show appropriate respect or reverence. Jason Brennan & Peter Jaworski call…
CANCELLED - Caroline West (University of Sydney)
Seminar
Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.