Upcoming talks in the Philosophy Departmental Seminar Series are listed below. Seminars are held on Thursdays (unless indicated on the schedule) from 3:30-5:00pm in the Auditorium, Level 1, RSSS Building. They're followed by tea and a casual dinner within walking distance of campus. All are welcome.
The 2025 seminar convenor is Alex Duval (alexandre.duval@anu.edu.au).
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.
- The Automated Reasoning Project has occasional seminars on logic that may be of interest to philosophers.
Seminar announcements
Announcements of forthcoming meetings of all four seminar series are distributed by means of the philsoc list. To join the philsoc mailing list or unsubscribe from it, click here.
Contact
- Alexandre Duval
Past Events
Alison Wylie (University of Washington): Standpoint Matters: Transformative Criticism and the Advantages of Collaborative Practice in Archaeology
In his attack on relativism and constructionism, Fear of Knowledge, Boghossian (2006) takes as his point of departure a 1996 New York Times news…
Adrian Currie (ANU/Calgary): Marsupial Lions & Methodological Omnivory: function, success and reconstruction in paleobiology
I draw on phenotypic reconstruction in paleobiology to argue that the success of historical scientists is their capacity to achieve plausible,…
Daniel Halliday (Melbourne): Inherited Wealth and Egalitarian Justice
This paper outlines an egalitarian account of the regulation of inheritance and bequest. I focus on the relational egalitarian idea that justice…