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
Timothy L Williamson (ANU): Causal Decision Theorists are Unstable [TPR]
Causal Decision Theorists (Gibbard & Harper 1978, Lewis 1981, Joyce 1999) think that an act's expected value is determined by what that act is…
Graduate and Postdoc Work in Progress presentations
Today's Philsoc is a graduate students/postdoc only special session.We'll have James Willoughby and Matt Kopec presenting.1) James WilloughbyWhy…
Brian Garrett (ANU): Beyond the Infinite: Bilking, Backwards Causation and Being Itself
In this short talk I attempt to spell out clearly the most plausible version of the so-called ‘bilking argument’ against the possibility of backwards…