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
Vincent Redhouse (ANU): Limits of Public Reason (Thesis Proposal Review)
I will present a chapter of my thesis in which I argue that liberal public reason does not appear to be able to justify the current coercive…
Bronwyn Finnigan (ANU): Know-how and the practical mode of presenting a proposition
A sustained worry about how Jason Stanley’s (possible world) semantic analysis of know-how can integrate with philosophy of mind.
Anna Taitslin (ANU College of Law): On the origin of terms of Duty, Obligation and Right in Roman law and beyond: could ‘Duty’ and ‘Obligation’ be distinguished?
In De Finibus 3.20 Cicero introduced a notion of duty – officium – translating Greek ‘appropriate action’ (kathekon) that had the Stoic connotation.…