CANCELLED Rachel Ankeny: Thursday Seminar
Seminar
This event has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak and social distancing recommendations.
Sarita Rosenstock (ANU): "A Category Theoretic Framework for Physical Representation"
Seminar
Abstract: It is increasingly popular for philosophers of science to use category theory, the mathematical theory of structure, to adjudicate debates about the (in)equivalence of formal physical theories. In this talk, I discuss the theoretical foundations of this strategy. I introduce the concept…
The emergence of inequality in the transition from forager to sedentary lives
Seminar
Almost all living humans live in social world that are profoundly unequal in wealth and influence. By the standard of deep human history, that is a recent change. For most of our history humans lived in egalitarian, acephalous communities. This paper focusses on two questions. First: how and why…
EAGxAustralia 2020 Workshop on Global Priorities
Workshop
We are delighted to announce the EAGxAustralia 2020 Workshop on Global Priorities. This two-day workshop will be held at the Australian National University on the 26th-27th of September, in conjunction with the Effective Altruism Global x Australia conference. As a result, presenters will have…
Philip Gerrans (Adelaide): "Self-Awareness: Tracking or Binding?"
Seminar
Abstract: Mental representations of selfhood are ultimately grounded in representations of the body, with the internal physiological milieu providing a primary reference –a material me that supports adaptive interaction with the environment. (Anil Seth 2013) If there is a consensus in…
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE): Equality for Possible People: A Defence
Seminar
Abstract: Marc Fleurbaey and I have proposed a form of egalitarianism for possible people, on which we should be concerned with people’s expected well-being, conditional on their existence. (An example is what a person’s healthy life expectancy would be if they were created.) Critics, including…
Suki Finn: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy
Seminar
Abstract: One of the central questions in the metaphysics of pregnancy is this: Is the fetus a part of, or contained by, the gestator? In this paper I seek not to answer this question, but rather to highlight various alternative mereotopological options for the fetus-gestator relationship and to…