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
Nomy Arpaly: Philsoc Seminar - Deliberation and Fetish
18 Jun 2019
Nomy Arpaly (Brown University): “Deliberation and Fetish” We often take it as speaking well of a person that before she has acted, she deliberated as to what...JD Trout: Explanation, Truthiness, and the False Climb to Knowledge
11 Jun 2019
Abstract: Drawing on themes from Wondrous Truths – from epistemic contingency in the history of science and the drab status of IBE as mere induction, to the...Peter Clutton: 'Doxastic States: Intentionality, Phenomenology, Pathology'
4 Jun 2019
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 project. One...Chris Mole (University of British Columbia). 'Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Computational Mind
28 May 2019
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 mental...Stephen Mann: 'We should get rid of the distinction between Shannon information and semantic information' (Pre-submission)
21 May 2019
Biologists use the word "information" a lot. In particular, they use it to describe communication, whether between animals, plants, cells or microbes....Brenna Barker-Lamb & Oliver Rawle (TPRs): Philsoc seminar
14 May 2019
Brenna Barker-Lamb (3.30-4.30pm): Corrective Justice for Climate Refugees Climate change could force over 140 million people to migrate by 2050. These ‘...Zina Ward: 'Rational Analysis and Human Variation'
7 May 2019
Rational Analysis and Human Variation Rational analysis is a research program in psychology that tries to understand the mind by identifying the problems it...
