
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
Past Events
Causal Exclusion and Causal Inheritance: A Defense
This paper offers an interpretation of Jaegwon Kim’s “Causal Exclusion” and “Causal Inheritance” arguments for reductionism about special science…
All Cognitive Content is Conscious Content
I will argue that all cognitive content is conscious content. More specifically, I will argue that there are no genuinely representational standing…
The State of the Union: Descartes and Mind-Body Unity and Interaction
Having distinguished to his satisfaction mind and body so successfully, Descartes faced the challenge of sticking them back together so as to explain…