
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
Upcoming Events
Making the Goods in Work Accessible and the Paternalism Objection
Professor Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)
Work can enable people to get consumption items, develop capacities, socialise, contribute to society, give direction to their lives, gain knowledge…
Factfulness and Metalinguistic Agency in Humans and Language Models
Nuhu Osman Attah (ANU)
Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from a variety of infelicities of language such as hallucinations, inconsistencies, continuity and…
Past Events
Deterring non-consensual interactions: A non-welfarist approach, applied to sexual harassment - Toby Handfield
Toby Handfield
Speaker: Toby Handfield Some interactions have the following feature: depending on the preferences of those involved, the interaction…
TBC - Susanna Siegel
Susanna Siegel
Speaker: Susanna Siegel Abstract TBC. Please note that these seminars are open to the public and in person only.
Surprise! Deliberation does not establish Evidentialism about Reasons for Belief - Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Speaker: Eleanor Gordon-Smith In this paper I’m going to show how the moral and practical upshots of believing p could possibly weigh…