"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
Toby Handfield (Monash): Decisions, history, and incommensurate value: Diachronic decision making for agents with incomplete preferences
One of the least plausible assumptions of orthodox rational choice theory is that all rational agents have complete preferences over all possible…
Melissa Lane (Princeton): Uncertainty, Action, and Politics: The Problem of Negligibility in Action on Climate Change
This paper argues that the application of a theory of strict negligibility to the domain of individual and political action—suggesting for example…
Emily McTernan (ANU/UCL): Microaggressions and what they tell us about justice
Microaggressions are the everyday, subtle, ‘putdowns or degradations’ experienced by members of oppressed, discriminated against, or marginalised…