
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
Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?
Professor Colin Allen (University of California)
Commercially available AI systems for the detection of sentiment or emotions from human faces, text, and non-verbal behavior are already widely…
Logic for Virtual Worlds
Professor Gillian Russell (ANU)
In the second half of "Two Dogmas", Quine argued that there could be empirical grounds to revise logic---at least in principle. Since then, the most…
Past Events
Ethics of Technology in Polarized Societies – On the Challenge of Pluralism - Nadia Mazouz (University of Marburg)
Nadia Mazouz (University of Marburg)
Speaker: Nadia Mazouz The question of the conditions of possibility of doing TechEthics and its relation to the normative foundations of democracy…
Vague Preferences - Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University)
Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University)
Speaker: Simon Goldstein Abstract: Sometimes it's vague what you prefer. How should you act when this happens? One theory says that if it's unclear…
Incommensurateness is Vagueness - John Broome (ANU/Oxford University)
John Broome (ANU and Oxford University)
Speaker: John Broome Abstract: We often encounter pairs of objects where neither seems better than the other, and yet they do not seem to be…