Philsoc seminars
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.
Submit a paper
You can submit a paper by emailing the Philsoc convenors, currently Shalom Chalson and Justin Mendelow Justin Mendelow.
Past events
Marta Halina (University of Cambridge): "Insightful AI"
13 Aug 2019
In March 2016, DeepMind’s computer program AlphaGo surprised the world by defeating the world-champion Go player, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo has a novel, surprising...Patrick Forber (Tufts): Joint agency and the uniquely-human-cooperation hypothesis
6 Aug 2019
Abstract: Group action and collective action call for different explanations than individual action. To this end, philosophers invoke some version of joint...Erick Llamas (ANU): "The Realiser-realiser Identity Theory of Mind"
30 Jul 2019
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 for any...Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University): Semantic Supervenience and Haecceitism
23 Jul 2019
Abstract: This paper takes issue with the widely held view that semantic properties supervene on some class of non-semantic properties. The focus here is on...Kate Vredenburgh: Philsoc Seminar
16 Jul 2019
Predictively powerful yet opaque models are increasingly used by governments and private actors to make high stakes decisions in the healthcare system, the...Cailin O'Connor: “Why Do Retractions Fail?”
2 Jul 2019
Abstract: It has been widely documented that retracted papers are often cited long after they have been retracted. Scientific beliefs, such as in the truth of...Bryce Huebner: 'Does it Really Matter if We are Hallucinating? A Neuro-Yogācarin Perspective
25 Jun 2019
A number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have recently started to explore the possibility that perception is really a kind of ‘controlled...
