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
Kate Lynch (Macquarie University): Causal Information and the Norm of Reaction
Behavioural and quantitative geneticists routinely employ the heritability statistic to make causal claims about the ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’ of a…
Brian Garrett (ANU): Lewis on time travel
In this talk I will discuss issues arising from David Lewis's classic paper on time travel.
Jesse Hambly (ANU): Prospects for normative reduction (TPR)
In this talk I will introduce and clarify reductive theories of normativity. (Roughly, views which suggest that normative truths are, in some sense,…