Professor Phillip Pettit Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Congratulations to Professor Phillip Pettit form the ANU School of Philosophy on being awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Professor Pettit delivered the…
Decision Theory and the Future of AI Workshop
The newly launched Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge will be hosting the Third Annual Workshop on Decision Theory and the Future of AI, lead by Associate Professor Seth Lazar, Mario…
Feasibility and Poverty Workshop
The ANU Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory from the School of Philosophy will be hosting a two-day workshop on Feasibility and Poverty on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 August 2019. The…
Motherhood under the Microscope: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
The ANU Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences joins the ANU Gender Institute in presenting a workshop examining “Motherhood under the Microscope: Perspectives from the Social Sciences” as part of the…
Revolutions and Trust in Science: Rachael Brown (ANU), Kirsten Walsh (Exeter) and Adrian Currie (Exeter)
With the rise of "anti-science" sentiment, the need to communicate what science is and how it works is ever more important. Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences visitors, Kirsten Walsh (Exeter) and…
Material Evidence and Cognitive Evolution workshops
Did ancient humans think like us? How can we use the archaeological record to answer this question? A group of archaeologists, philosophers and biologists came together in mid-July to address…
2019 Jack Smart Lecture
The School of Philosophy would like to thank Professor Frances Kamm (pictured, centre), who travelled from Rutgers University to deliver the 2019 Jack Smart Lecture. The lecture was well attended…