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
Hanti Lin (ANU): Conditionals and Actions: A Pragmatic Argument for Adams’ Logic of Indicative Conditionals
Abstract: The usual approach to justifying a logic of indicative conditionals is based on intuitive judgments about valid patterns of inference. I…
Liz Irvine (ANU): Iconicity, Non-Arbitraryness, and Bootstrapping in the Evolution of Language
Abstract: One of the key features of language is arbitrariness - linguistic forms are often related to their meanings in an apparently random way.…
Paolo Santorio (Leeds/ANU): New grounds for the semantics of counterfactuals
Title: New grounds for the semantics of counterfactuals Abstract: The semantic views of counterfactuals that are dominant in philosophy are versions…