"The Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory" in the School of Philosophy organises a lunchtime seminar every week. The MSPT seminar normally takes place on Mondays from 12:30 to 2:00 in Coombs seminar room D. The current convenor for the MSPT seminar series is Oliver Rawle (oliver.rawle@anu.edu.au). Recent and upcoming papers are listed below.
MSPT Seminars are announced on both the the philsoc mailing list, and the CMSPT mailing list.
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Past Events
Simon Keller (Victoria University Wellington): Mental Health and Well-Being
On many influential definitions of mental health, mental health is intimately connected to, or even identical with, well-being. What can theories of…
Mark Alfano (Delft University of Technology): The Logic of Communities of Trust
Hobbes emphasized that the state of nature is a state of war because it fundamentally involves distrust. Exiting the state of nature and the…
Andrew Sepielli (Toronto): On the Genealogy of Normlessness and Nihilism
This paper is part of a larger project in "therapeutic metaethics" -- i.e. metaethics done with the aim of helping us to overcome socio-…