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
Factfulness and Metalinguistic Agency in Humans and Language Models
Nuhu Osman Attah (ANU)
Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from a variety of infelicities of language such as hallucinations, inconsistencies, continuity and…
Past Events
Practical Reason and Permissible Preference - Joe Horton (UCL)
Joe Horton (UCL)
Speaker: Joe Horton How should you choose when you do not know how to evaluate your options? Suppose, for example, that a…
Bounded Utilities and Ex Ante Pareto - Petra Kosonen (UT Austin)
Petra Kosonen (UT Austin)
Speaker: Petra Kosonen This talk shows that decision theories on which utilities are bounded, such as standard axiomatizations of…
Lifetime Prerogatives and Moral Offsetting - Theron Pummer (University of Saint Andrews)
Theron Pummer (University of Saint Andrews)
Speaker: Theron Pummer Our everyday lives are filled with constant opportunities to help anonymous strangers, by giving to charity,…