The ANU Philosophy Society is a group of academics and graduate students in Philosophy and other disciplines, who meet regularly, giving seminars and discussing them.
All philosophy events at ANU, including Philsoc talks, are announced on the philsoc mailing list. Subscribe to the philsoc mailing list.
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You can submit a paper by emailing the Philsoc convenors, currently Theo Murray and Darryl Mathieson.
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Past Events
Rachael Brown (ANU): Fighting Cane Toads and Cane Toads - Learning and Evolvability
Abstract: Learning has long been thought to be evolutionarily unimportant. Traditionally learning being seen as a capacity limited to only relatively…
Stephan Kubicki (ANU): Modelling Signalling
Abstract: Sender-receiver games model signalling systems as solutions to coordination problems. I claim that sender-receiver games are minimal models…
Adrian Currie (ANU): Reduction, History and Unity; or, Fighting Dinosaurs with Dinosaurs
Abstract: This paper contains both philosophical and literal dinosaurs. Philosophical dinosaurs use a ‘reductive model’ to analyze the sciences. The…