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
James Dreier (Brown): Is there a supervenience problem for moral realism?
The moral supervenes on the descriptive: things can’t differ morally without differing in some descriptive way. The connection is a necessary one, so…
Jessica Isserow (ANU): Evolutionary Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism
Evolutionary debunking arguments that target morality comprise three premises: the first puts forward a particular account of moral evolution, the…
Edward Elliott (ANU): A Representation Theorem for Highly Irrational Agents
The typical representation theorem for expected utility theory can be roughly understood as asserting that: If an agent’s preferences satisfy…