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 Zach Swindlehurst.
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
- Zach Swindlehurst
Past Events
Is Functionalism Inconsistent?
Dr Owain Griffin (Ohio State University)
Throughout analytic philosophy, appeals are often made to formal methods for deriving philosophical conclusions. In this paper, I examine a…
The Ethics of Prediction Markets: A Proposal for Expanding on Existing Moral Limits to Markets Frameworks
Dr Huub Brouwer (Tilburg University)
This article offers a systematic account of the ethics of prediction markets: markets for the trade of financial claims conditional on the occurrence…
Parity Under Risk
Professor Kit Fine
Ruth Chang has introduced a fourth evaluative relation, distinct from being better or worse or equally good. I shall present a proposal for making…