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
Brian Talbot (University of Colorado, Boulder): The normativity and universalizability of epistemic prescriptions
Abstract: This paper discusses two questions about epistemic prescriptions. First, are all beliefs governed by epistemic prescriptions,…
George Tsai (ANU/Hawaii): "Rational Persuasion as Paternalism"
Abstract: In the contemporary literature on paternalism, it is often assumed that one cannot act paternalistically in rationally persuading someone…
Julia Staffel (ANU): Credences for Schroeder-Style Expressivists
Abstract: My goal in this talk is to investigate how expressivist theories of normative language and thought can account for the phenomenon of…