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
Richard Menary (Macquarie): Cognition and Social Niche Construction
I’ll start by looking at the main differences between Sterelny and Clark’s accounts of niche construction, highlighting the importance of social…
Sara Bernstein (Duke): Possible Causation
Causation is thought to be an on or off matter: either an event is a cause of another event, or it isn’t. I challenge this assumption with two sorts…
Justin Bruner (ANU): A Taste for Punishment: Preference Evolution and Cooperation
Even before the advent of modern game theory, reciprocity and reputational effects have been invoked to help explain the sustained existence of…