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
Are there neural representations?
Professor Adina Roskies (University of California)
Are there neural representations? This talk lays out traditional philosophical criteria for mental representations, and considers whether…
Appearance or Reality: Does AI Need Emotions?
Professor Colin Allen (University of California)
Commercially available AI systems for the detection of sentiment or emotions from human faces, text, and non-verbal behavior are already widely…
Logic for Virtual Worlds
Professor Gillian Russell (ANU)
In the second half of "Two Dogmas", Quine argued that there could be empirical grounds to revise logic---at least in principle. Since then, the most…
Past Events
Reanimating Ayer's Significance Criterion
Professor James Justus (Florida State University)
The unmitigated failure of A. J. Ayer’s significance criterion in Language, Truth, and Logic reveals the fundamental folly of any…
Kantsequentialism and Agent-Centered Restrictions
Professor Douglas W. Portmore (University of Notre Dame)
On a given moral view, an agent-centred restriction (hereafter, simply ‘restriction’) prohibits agents from performing acts of a certain type, even…
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…