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
Philip Gerrans (Adelaide): "Self-Awareness: Tracking or Binding?"
Philip Gerrans (Adelaide)
Abstract: Mental representations of selfhood are ultimately grounded in representations of the body, with the internal physiological milieu providing…
Mark Colyvan (University of Sydney): “Logic in Fiction"
Mark Colyvan
Abstract: This paper will address the question of whether the logic of a fiction can be specified as part of the fiction. For example, can one…
Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick): "Getting Rights out of Wrongs"
Kimberley Brownlee
Abstract: Sometimes, we gain new moral rights by acting wrongly. Sometimes, we gain new moral rights (in addition to restitution rights) from other…