
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
Anna Mahtani (LSE): "The designators that matter"
Anna Mahtani
Abstract: Suppose that you have a choice of two actions, A and B, and suppose that action A has better prospects for everyone than action B. Then…
Sergio Tenenbaum: Instrumental virtues and instrumental rationality
Sergio Tenenbaum
Most theories of rationality take it for granted that rationality is always a matter of conformity to certain principles, or responding to reasons. I…
Fiona Woollard (Southampton): "What a Mother's Got to Do: formulating a moderate account of maternal duty"
Fiona Woollard
What A Mother’s Got to Do: formulating a moderate account of maternal duty. Modern motherhood is hard. While raising children is never going to be…