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
Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy
Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)
Speaker: Deborah Brown It is often assumed that in the early modern collapse of the Aristotelian distinction between art and nature,…
Kraemer’s Puzzle and the Theory of Intentional Action - Kyle Blumberg
Kyle Blumberg
Speaker: Kyle Blumberg Jane is given the opportunity to push a button which will send a lethal arrow shooting down one of ten specified…
A Control Theory of Action - Mikayla Kelley
Mikayla Kelley
Speaker: Mikayla Kelley One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what…