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
Massimo Renzo (KCL): Consent and Intentions
What does it take to give morally valid consent? Is it enough that the consenter forms a particular mental state or does one need to communicate (or…
Victoria McGeer (ANU/Princeton): Intelligent Capacities
In The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle argued that a more sophisticated understanding of the dispositional nature of “intelligent capacities” could…
Deborah Brown (UQ): Automata
The rise of automation in the 17th century — the production of machines that “move of their own accord” — raised interesting questions for…