Philsoc seminars
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.
Submit a paper
You can submit a paper by emailing the Philsoc convenors, currently Shalom Chalson and Justin Mendelow Justin Mendelow.
Past events
James Owen Weatherall: How to Beat Science and Influence People
29 Aug 2017
In their recent book Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010), Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway describe what they call the "Tobacco Strategy", which was the...Melissa Fusco: Splicing With Death
22 Aug 2017
Recent literature on causal decision theory (CDT) has featured much discussion of what Hare & Hedden call ``decision dependence''---the fact that, for a...Cailin O'Connor (UCI): Evolving Collaborative Networks
15 Aug 2017
Philosophers of science have recently argued that the structure of scientific networks matters to scientific progress. But where do these networks come from...Amy Kind: Imaginative Experience
8 Aug 2017
Philosophical attempts to understand imagination sometimes focus on its nature – what imagination is – and sometimes focus on its phenomenological character –...Carolina Sartorio (Arizona): More of a Cause?
18 Jul 2017
"The driver’s speeding was more of a cause of the accident than the bad state of the roads.” Claims like this, which are quite common in ordinary discourse,...David Chalmers (NYU & ANU): The Externalist and the Structuralist Responses to Skepticism
11 Jul 2017
I will discuss two ways of responding to Cartesian arguments for global skepticism about the external world. In an earlier paper ("The Matrix as Metaphysics...Gillian Russell: Could there be no logic?
27 Jun 2017
The spectre of logical nihilism---the view that there is no logic---has arisen recently in the literature on logical pluralism. Pluralists say that there is...
