Surprise! Deliberation does not establish Evidentialism about Reasons for Belief - Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Seminar
Speaker: Eleanor Gordon-Smith In this paper I’m going to show how the moral and practical upshots of believing p could possibly weigh in deliberation about whether p, when at the moment it’s widely thought they can’t. Pragmatists and evidentialists alike have agreed that only…
Jack Smart Lecture 2023
Lecture
What kinds of factors can make a line of inquiry a better or worse one to pursue? This question can be addressed at different scales: the personal ("Did I turn off the stove?), the interpersonal (as in a conversation), and public (as in news stories). Professor Siegel focuses on two…
Philosophy of Journalism Workshop
Workshop
What is journalism? What is it for? What roles does it play in political life, and what roles should it play? Which of these roles are specific to democracy? What should count as news? How should it be determined what’s important for the public in a given place to know about? What challenges and…
Book Launch: The State (Philip Pettit)
Book launch
Join us for a presentation and discussion, followed by canapes and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as we launch The State by Philip Pettit, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the ANU and one of the foremost political philosophers in the world. The future of our species depends on the state. Can…
Truth in an age of irony - Regina Rini (York)
Seminar
Speaker: Regina Rini The online alt right is famous for its use of irony. Practitioners use fake-out goofy humor to openly encode violent messages and then refuse to be pinned down committing to their extreme ideas. But ironic detachment didn’t start on the political far right. It…
May 10 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 10 MAY 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
Sharing Pain: A Command for Concern
Seminar
When a person communicates that they are in pain, it is often assumed that the speaker is providing an assertion or report. Call this the cognitivist stance of pain utterances. Nevertheless, many sentential pain utterances seem to have both indicative and imperative communicative content in virtue…