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
Past Events
Koji Tanaka (Auckland): Diagrams, Proofs, and the Norms of Reasoning
Logicians and mathematicians often use diagrams. Diagrams are helpful in coming up with a proof and understanding logical and mathematical concepts.…
Gerard Vong (Fordham): The Personal Value of Opportunity & Well-Being Pluralism
This paper defends a new counterfactual conditional account of the personal good of opportunity. Section I provides case based support for this…
Daniel Stoljar (ANU): Evans on Transparency: A Rationalist Approach
Gareth Evans famously observed that he can answer the question ‘Do you think there is going to be a third world war?’ by attending to ‘precisely the…