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
Social Scripts - Tom Dougherty
Tom Dougherty
Speaker: Tom Dougherty Social scripts specify the normal way for people to interact in certain situations. For example, a social script for a…
Belief and its Linguistic Representation - Frances Egan
Speaker: Frances Egan Abstract: Beliefs play a central role in our commonsense practice of…
The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account - Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Speaker: Gualtiero Piccinini According to simple mapping accounts, a physical system implements a computation just in case there is a…