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
Nicholas DiBella (Stanford): The World Is (Almost Surely) a Strange Place
Are simpler metaphysical theories more likely to be true than more complex theories? Many have thought that they are. Others have stayed silent on…
Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera (ANU): A model of normative cognition: norms, emotions and decision-making [Mid-Term Review]
My goal in this paper is to show how neurocomputational models of decision-making can help us to pinpoint key explanatory targets for evolutionary…
Yoaav Isaacs (Princeton): Duty and Knowledge
How should a deontologist make decisions in light of his or her deontological scruples? It is surprisingly difficult to find a decision theory which…