"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
Kim Sterelny (ANU), "The Social Contract in a Complex World"
Humans differ from other great apes in many ways, but one crucial difference is that our social worlds are vastly more co-operative than those of any…
Christian Barry (ANU), On Failing in One's Duties to Assist
Duties to address severe deprivation based on being able to assist at some cost—assistance-based duties—are commonly thought (correctly, it is…
Peter Cane (ANU), "Law, Morality and Normative Conflict"
Sometimes the terms ‘moral’ and ‘morality’ are used in contrast to ‘immoral’ and ‘immorality’ to distinguish normatively between right and wrong,…