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
Rachael Brown (ANU): Generating benefit: Social learning and the other cooperation problem.
Abstract: Explaining how cooperation evolves is one of the primary research projects in evolutionary biology and philosophy of biology.…
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund): Incommensurability Meets Risk
This talk focuses on value comparisons between risky actions whose possible outcomes are guaranteed to be mutually incommensurable in value: they…
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv): Learning and minimal consciousness: an evolutionary connection?
Inspired by an origin-of- life research program, I (and my colleagues) propose an evolutionary-transition approach to the study of minimal…