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
Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Helsinki): The Future of Predictive Ecology
Alkistis Elliott-Graves
Prediction is an important aspect of scientific practice, because it helps us to confirm theories and effectively intervene on the systems we are…
Tom Tillemans: Philosophical Quietism in Nāgārjuna and Nāgārjunians
Tom Tillemans
The 2-3rd century C.E. Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna – of whom, interestingly enough, a statue occupies a prominent position in ANU’s Philosophy…
Zach Weber (University of Ontago): Limits, contradictions and locality
Zach Weber (University of Ontago)
In this talk I revisit some famous logical paradoxes, and consider the possibility that they are utterly ordinary. To do this, I look at the…