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
What Makes a Behavior “Cognitive”? - Nick Brancazio (University of Wollongong)
Nick Brancazio (University of Wollongong)
Speaker: Nick Brancazio Active materials are self-propelled non-living entities which, in some circumstances, exhibit a number of cognitively…
Ethics of Technology in Polarized Societies – On the Challenge of Pluralism - Nadia Mazouz (University of Marburg)
Nadia Mazouz (University of Marburg)
Speaker: Nadia Mazouz The question of the conditions of possibility of doing TechEthics and its relation to the normative foundations of democracy…
Vague Preferences - Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University)
Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University)
Speaker: Simon Goldstein Abstract: Sometimes it's vague what you prefer. How should you act when this happens? One theory says that if it's unclear…