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
Sahotra Sarkar (Texas) : Whither Reduction?
The broadly hierarchical material structure of the universe invites the reductionist question whether, at every level of the hierarcy, laws and…
Christian Barry (ANU): Contribution-Based Responsibilities and Uncertainty
Many affirm that individuals have relatively stringent responsibilities not to contribute to harming innocent people and also to address harms to…
Jussi Haukioja (NTNU): From Reference to Essence
Causal theories of reference for natural kind terms are widely agreed to play a central role in arguments for the claim that theoretical identity…