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
The Coevolution of Commitment and Cooperation
Saira Khan
Abstract: In this talk, I argue that a significant factor in the evolution of human cooperation is the coevolution of commitment and cooperation. I…
The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting
Selim Berker
The evaluative categories (goodness, badness, betterness, and the like) and the deontic categories (requiredness, permittedness, forbiddenness, and…
The aboutness argument against the modal theory of states of affairs
Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Abstract: Define a state of affairs to be a way things are or a way things fail to be. The modal theory of states of affairs holds that, for any…