Triviality for indeterminate languages
Seminar
Paolo Santorio (University of California, San Diego) Triviality for indeterminate languages (Joint work with J.R.G. Williams, University of Leeds) 3:30-5:30PM Thursday 30 Aug 2018Room 3.02 Sir Roland Wilson Building, ANU Preceded by a pre-talk for graduate students, 1:30PM Benjamin Library…
"Group Duties: Their Possibility and Their Implications for Individuals"
Workshop
Manuscript Workshop on "Group Duties: Their Possibility and Their Implications for Individuals" by Stephanie Collins (ACU) The School of Philosophy will be holding a workshop on Stephanie Collins's new book "Group Duties: Their Possibility and Their Implications for Individuals" on August…
Counterfactuals and Causal Models Workshop
Workshop
Counterfactuals and Causal Models Workshop Schedule: 9:30-10:00 Morning tea 10:00 -12:00 Alan Hájek (ANU) "Countering Counterfactual Contextualism", Alex Sandgren and Katie Steele (ANU) 'Levelling Counterfactual Scepticism', joint Q&A 12:00-13:00 Lunch…
Automation, Unemployment, and Taxation - Tom Parr (Essex)
Seminar
Some believe that we should tax automation in order to slow down the rate at which capital replaces labour. One argument for this conclusion appeals to the interests of those individuals who would otherwise be made redundant by technological change. Against this view, I maintain that we can embrace…
Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries
Workshop
Recent work has extended the boundaries of animal sentience to an unexpected degree. Claims of non-mammalian consciousness, including invertebrates and even plants, have been seriously proposed.This one-day workshop, sponsored by the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, will explore the…
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen): The Social Epistemology of Argumentation
Seminar
Catarina Dutilh-Novaes (Groningen) The Social Epistemology of Argumentation Humans are famously a highly social species, and without collaboration with conspecifics a human being stands no chance to survive. At the same time, we compete with one another for resources at multiple levels.…
The Scope of Scorekeeping
Seminar
14 August, 3:30-5:30pm Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Room 1.02 Josh Armstrong The Scope of Scorekeeping Wittgenstein famously remarked that words are deeds. Contemporary work in semantics and pragmatics reflects this insight in modeling interpersonal communication as a process of updating a…