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
Ben Blumson (Singapore): The Metaphysical Significance of the Ugly-Duckling Theorem
The premises of the following argument are plausible, but its conclusion is absurd: The number of (possible) predicates satisfied by two…
Rachael Brown (Macquarie): A Critique of the Argument from Animals: A reply to Margolis and Laurence
In a recent paper (Phil. Studies. 165(2): 693-718), Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence offer a renewed defence of nativism, arguing that it is the…
Nick Smith (Sydney): Truthier Than Thou: Why Supertruth Cannot be Truth
Different formal tools are useful for different purposes. For example, when it comes to modelling degrees of belief, probability theory is a…