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
Upcoming Events
The Impropriety of Punishing Negligence in a Liberal State
Michael Moore and Heidi Hurd (University of Illinois)
On the suppositions that criminal punishment requires blameworthiness and that blameworthiness requires culpability in addition to wrongdoing, the…
Topic Continuity, Realism, and The Objects of Philosophical Inquiry
David Plunkett (Dartmouth College)
Some philosophical inquiry is directed at our thought and talk about a subject matter (e.g. how to understand the nature of moral thought, or our…
Left-wing is best wing? The meaning and justification of political orientation.
Timothy Scriven (University of Sydney)
Political philosophers rarely analyse the categories of “left” and “right” in their own right, yet these labels structure much of public political…
Past Events
Robert Audi (Notre Dame): Belief and the information-responsiveness of mind
Our beliefs are a map of our world. They shape our hopes, direct our desires and intentions, and structure our values. They are as multifarious as…