"The Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory" in the School of Philosophy organises a lunchtime seminar every week. The MSPT seminar normally takes place on Mondays from 12:30 to 2:00 in Coombs seminar room D. The current convenor for the MSPT seminar series is Oliver Rawle (oliver.rawle@anu.edu.au). Recent and upcoming papers are listed below.
MSPT Seminars are announced on both the the philsoc mailing list, and the CMSPT mailing list.
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Contact
- Oliver Rawle
Past Events
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund): Goodness and Numbers
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
David is stranded on one island, Peter and Mary on the other. You can either save David alone or both Peter and Mary. Is there a good argument for…
Katie Steele (ANU): Crime, Punishment and Inadequate Evidence
Katie Steele
Various imagined criminal law cases provoke the intuition that there is something wanting with statistical evidence in the courtroom. The cases are…
Professor Josiah Ober (Stanford): Rational choices in classical Greek thought
Prof Josiah Ober (Stanford)
Rational choices in classical Greek thought The paper focuses on Plato's (Republic book 2) restatement, via the thought experiment of “Gyges and the…