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
In defence of Pigou-Dalton for chances - Orri Stefánsson
Orri Stefánsson
Orri defends a weak version of the Pigou–Dalton principle for chances. The principle says that it is better to increase the survival chance of a…
Pleasure Fundamentalism - Neil Sinhababu
Neil Sinhababu
Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments for…
Patching up and tearing apart the Hart-Rawls Principle of Fairness- Richard Arneson
Richard Arneson
In 1955 HLA Hart asserted a norm that he said was a source of special rights and obligations, not generated by consent, that rendered political…