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
Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern): Inarticulacy and Reasonable Commitments
We often come to value someone or something through experience of that person or thing. Call such an experience direct appreciation of the…
Patrick Forber (Tufts): Evolution through Enmity or Charity?
Recent thinking on the evolution of human cognition and morality increasingly emphasizes the importance of cooperative behavior to the lifeways of…
Carolina Sartorio (Arizona): Actual Causes and Free Will
The topic of this talk is the contrast between two conceptions of free will: the classical model, which understands freedom in terms of alternative…