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
Peter Clutton: 'Doxastic States: Intentionality, Phenomenology, Pathology'
Peter Clutton (ANU)
I present an overview of my project on doxastic states. I also discuss three specific papers in more detail, and their contribution to the overall…
Chris Mole (University of British Columbia). 'Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Computational Mind
Chris Mole
Philosophers have tended to suppose that a computational theory of the mind would need to be a version of functionalism, and so that it would treat…
Stephen Mann: 'We should get rid of the distinction between Shannon information and semantic information' (Pre-submission)
Stephen Mann
Biologists use the word "information" a lot. In particular, they use it to describe communication, whether between animals, plants, cells or microbes…