Upcoming talks in the Philosophy Departmental Seminar Series are listed below. Seminars are held on Thursdays (unless indicated on the schedule) from 3:30-5:00 pm in the Auditorium, Level 1, RSSS Building. They are followed by drinks and a casual dinner within walking distance of campus. All are welcome.
The 2025/2026 seminar convenor is Dr Nuhu Ossman Attah.
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.
Seminar announcements
Announcements of forthcoming meetings of all seminar series are distributed by means of the philsoc list. To join the philsoc mailing list or unsubscribe from it, click here.
Contact
- Dr Nuhu Osman Attah
Upcoming Events
A-lieving that ChatGPT loves you
Marco Facchin-Clerici (University of Antwerp)
We increasingly form enduring and emotionally salient bonds with AI-powered technologies. Yet, arguably, most of the users don’t actually believe…
Wonder upon Wonder
Brandon Yip (Singapore Management University)
Brandon Yip proposes a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and explains and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The…
Counterfactual Skepticism Reloaded (and Refuted?)
Josua Pearson (ANU)
According to Counterfactual Skepticism, we know next to none of the counterfactuals we assert in ordinary life. The most influential argument for…
Past Events
Sahotra Sarkar (Texas) : Whither Reduction?
The broadly hierarchical material structure of the universe invites the reductionist question whether, at every level of the hierarcy, laws and…
Christian Barry (ANU): Contribution-Based Responsibilities and Uncertainty
Many affirm that individuals have relatively stringent responsibilities not to contribute to harming innocent people and also to address harms to…
Jussi Haukioja (NTNU): From Reference to Essence
Causal theories of reference for natural kind terms are widely agreed to play a central role in arguments for the claim that theoretical identity…