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
Police Violence and White Supremacist Terrorism
Professor Jessica Wolfendale (Case Western Reserve University)
This paper will argue that there is an ongoing and mutually reinforcing relationship between state and nonstate white supremacist terrorism in the…
Babies, Bots and the Birth of Consciousness
Professor Tim Bayne (Monash University)
When does consciousness first emerge in human development? Professor Tim Bayne develops one answer to this question, and suggests that this…
Past Events
Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh), "'Ought' and Control" **FRIDAY**
Ethical theorists often assume that the verb ‘ought’ means roughly ‘has an obligation to’; however, this assumption is belied by the diversity of “…
David Ripley (Melbourne), "Revising up: Strengthening classical logic in the face of paradox"
At first blush, classical logic seems to be incompatible with certain intuitively valid principles. These principles include the T-schema for truth…