Book Launch: The State (Philip Pettit)
Book launch
Join us for a presentation and discussion, followed by canapes and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as we launch The State by Philip Pettit, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the ANU and one of the foremost political philosophers in the world. The future of our species depends on the state. Can…
Truth in an age of irony - Regina Rini (York)
Seminar
Speaker: Regina Rini The online alt right is famous for its use of irony. Practitioners use fake-out goofy humor to openly encode violent messages and then refuse to be pinned down committing to their extreme ideas. But ironic detachment didn’t start on the political far right. It…
May 10 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 10 MAY 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
Sharing Pain: A Command for Concern
Seminar
When a person communicates that they are in pain, it is often assumed that the speaker is providing an assertion or report. Call this the cognitivist stance of pain utterances. Nevertheless, many sentential pain utterances seem to have both indicative and imperative communicative content in virtue…
Cancelled - Catherine Mills (Monash University)
Seminar
Speaker: Catherine Mills Please note that this seminar has been cancelled.
Memorial Celebration of the Life of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan
Other
The School of Philosophy at the Australian National University would like to invite you to celebrate the life and work of Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan. Geoff passed away on 29 July 2022 after a brief battle with leukaemia. He was an outstanding scholar, who did ground-breaking work at the…
Happiness Pluralism - Caroline West (University of Sydney)
Seminar
Speaker: Caroline West Attempts by philosophers to analyse the concept of happiness have traditionally been monistic, in the sense of seeking a single set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for its correct application. Sadly, there are counterexamples to…