The ANU Philosophy Society is a group of academics and graduate students in Philosophy and other disciplines, who meet regularly, giving seminars and discussing them.
All philosophy events at ANU, including Philsoc talks, are announced on the philsoc mailing list. Subscribe to the philsoc mailing list.
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You can submit a paper by emailing the Philsoc convenors, currently Theo Murray and Darryl Mathieson.
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Past Events
Marta Halina (University of Cambridge): "Insightful AI"
Marta Halina
In March 2016, DeepMind’s computer program AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world-champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo has a novel,…
Patrick Forber (Tufts): Joint agency and the uniquely-human-cooperation hypothesis
Patrick Forber
Abstract: Group action and collective action call for different explanations than individual action. To this end, philosophers invoke some version of…
Erick Llamas (ANU): "The Realiser-realiser Identity Theory of Mind"
Erick Llamas
In this talk I will present a new kind of identity theory of mind that I call the realiser-realiser identity theory. Roughly put, the view holds that…