Upcoming talks in the Philosophy Departmental Seminar Series are listed below. Seminars are held on Thursdays (unless indicated on the schedule) from 3:30-5:00 pm in the Auditorium, Level 1, RSSS Building. They are followed by drinks and a casual dinner within walking distance of campus. All are welcome.
The 2026 seminar convenor is Joshua Pearson.
Other philosophy seminars at ANU
- The ANU Philosophy Society (Philsoc), which is run by ANU Philosophy students, also operates a seminar series on Tuesdays. Papers are read by students, staff and visitors, and there is wine and snacks.
The Centre for Consciousness has regular seminars, most of which are part of the RSSS Thursday Seminar Series or the ANU Philosophy Society series.
Seminar announcements
Announcements of forthcoming meetings of all seminar series are distributed by means of the philsoc list. To join the philsoc mailing list or unsubscribe from it, click here.
Contact
- Joshua Pearson
Past Events
Frege’s Puzzle and Nature of Semantic Facts
Aidan Gray (University of Illinois Chicago)
Frege noted that sentences that differ from each other only by the substitution of coreferential proper names can differ in their role in rational…
What the Tortoise Told The Skeptic
Honorary Professor Drew Khlentzos (Macquarie University)
Over forty years ago, Saul Kripke did the unthinkable — producing an exposition of Wittgenstein's Rule-Following Argument that was actually…
What kind of representationalism has a good chance of being true
Emeritus Professor Frank Jackson (ANU)
Representationalism about perceptual experience is conventional wisdom these days. Despite this, some version is likely true, but what version?…