
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
The making of emotional habits: A top-down approach - Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong)
Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Elena Walsh Abstract: Adaptations that trade false positives for speed are ubiquitous in evolutionary design. Many, like blinking, are…
Modelling as an Epistemic Activity in Ecology - Eden Smith (University of Melbourne)
Eden Smith (University of Melbourne)
Speaker: Eden Smith In addition to representing knowledge, models function as tools that contribute to generating new knowledge during investigative…
Agency: Who is Morally Responsible? - Monima Chadha (Monash University)
Monima Chadha (Monash University)
Speaker: Monima Chadha Abstract: In the Abhidharmakośa-Bhāṣya, Vasubandhu defends a no-agent view. Actions, he argues, can be explained in terms of…