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
Daniel Stoljar (ANU): Is there a persuasive argument for a reflexive theory of consciousness?
According to (what is sometimes called) a reflexive theory of consciousness, a subject S is in a conscious state C (to put it roughly) if and only if…
Russell Gray (University of Auckland): The Evolution of Cognition without Miracles
Debates in the study of animal cognition of often oscillate between over-hyped claims of "human-like" cognitive abilities and deflationary "killjoy"…
Jonathan Pickering (ANU): What should count as aid? *Pre-submission presentation*
For better or for worse, one of the most prominent measures of wealthy countries’ fulfilment of their responsibilities towards the global poor is how…