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
Bruin Christensen (ANU): Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Essential Indexicality
Abstract Dan Zahavi argues for a Sartrean conception of consciousness which he regards as endorsed by numerous other thinkers in the…
Brian Garrett (ANU): Some Remarks on Backwards Causation
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss two classic articles on backwards causation, Max Black's 'Why cannot an effect precede its cause?' (1956…
Daniel Wodak (Princeton): 'Expressivism and Varieties of Normativity'
After Antigone’s brother Polynices was killed, Creon—the king of Thebes— forbade anyone to bury him on pain of death. A fellow Thebian might say: 1.…