Upcoming talks in the Philosophy Departmental Seminar Series are listed below. Seminars are held on Thursdays (unless indicated on the schedule) from 3:30-5:00pm in the Auditorium, Level 1, RSSS Building. They're followed by tea and a casual dinner within walking distance of campus. All are welcome.
The 2025 seminar convenor is Alex Duval (alexandre.duval@anu.edu.au).
Other philosophy seminars at ANU
- The ANU Philosophy Society (Philsoc), which is run by ANU Philosophy students, also operates a seminar series, on Tuesdays. Papers are read by students, staff and visitors, and there is wine and snacks.
- The Centre for Consciousness has regular seminars, most of which are part of the RSSS Thursday Seminar Series or the ANU Philosophy Society series.
- The Automated Reasoning Project has occasional seminars on logic that may be of interest to philosophers.
Seminar announcements
Announcements of forthcoming meetings of all four seminar series are distributed by means of the philsoc list. To join the philsoc mailing list or unsubscribe from it, click here.
Contact
- Alexandre Duval
Upcoming Events
Die Hard: Chance and Selective Causal Decision Theory
Alexander Sandgreen
Many existing causal decision theories do not correctly handle cases in which agents have information about the outcome of a chance process. Those…
Past Events
Rachael Briggs (ANU): Accuracy Dominance Arguments for Conditionalization
Probabilism is the theory that rational degrees of belief have the structure of probabilities; conditionalization is the view that rational…
Philip Pettit (ANU/Princeton): Doing Good and Doing Evil: the Robustness Issue
In doing good for others, we often provide certain benefits on a robust basis: we control for the provision of those benefits not just as…
Paul Bernier (Université de Moncton): Phenomenal Concepts and Physicalism
According to what Stoljar (2005) has called the phenomenal concept strategy, the basic intuitions underlying the main antiphysicalist arguments –…