"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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Contact
- Oliver Rawle
Past Events
Brad Taylor (ANU): Eliminating ‘Feasibility’
Recent work in political philosophy has argued that feasibility is an important and underappreciated constraint on normative political theory. Seeing…
Hartmut Kliemt (FSFM): Hunger is Not Bread - the Rationing Society
Most people understand “rationing” in terms of withholding. Yet, correctly understood rationing amounts to a limited willingness to give away items…
Tim Mulgan (Auckland): Moral Philosophy, Superintelligence, and the Singularity
The Singularity is a possible future resulting from rapidly accelerating technological progress and dominated by superintelligent machines.…