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
Barriers to Change, Possibilities for Resistance: A Pre-Implementation Challenge to Conceptual Engineering - Paul-Mikhail Podosky (Macquarie University)
Paul-Mikhail Podosky (Macquarie University)
Speaker: Paul-Mikhail Podosky Abstract: Conceptual engineering has strong political roots. But if conceptual engineering, understood as the…
Can We Step into the Same Algorithm Twice? Examining the Metaphysical Problem of Identity in the Context of Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Regulation - Yves Saint James Aquino (University of Wollongong)
Yves Saint James Aquino (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Yves Saint James Aquino Artificial intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning (ML), systems hold great potential in improving…
The making of emotional habits: A top-down approach - Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong)
Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Elena Walsh Abstract: Adaptations that trade false positives for speed are ubiquitous in evolutionary design. Many, like blinking, are…