January 7
| John Campbell (Oxford University)
Memory Demonstratives |
January 14
| Christopher Peacocke (Oxford University)
The Integration Challenge and Necessity |
January 21
| David Chalmers (University of Arizona)
Modal Rationalism and the Scrutability of Truth |
January 28
| Christopher Peacocke (Oxford University)
Freedom |
February 11
| Adam Vinueza (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Sensations and the Language of Thought |
February 18
| Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney)
The Many Faces of the Gene |
March 4
| Cathy Legg (RSSS, ANU)
Subjunctive Realism Defended |
March 11
| Robert Goodin (RSSS, ANU)
Bargaining over Beliefs |
March 18
| Jane Stapleton (RSSS, ANU)
Causation in Law: Normal Expectancies, 'Plausibility', and Normative Choices |
April 1
| Daniel Stoljar (RSSS, ANU)
A Trivialization Problem in Intentionalism |
April 8
| Caroline West and David Braddon-Mitchell (Macquarie University and University of Auckland)
Temporal Phase Pluralism |
April 15
| Chandran Kukathas (ADFA)
Responsibility for Past Injustice |
April 22
| J.J.C.Smart (RSSS, ANU)
Concsciousness |
May 6
| Dirk Baltzly (Monash University)
Peripatetic Perversions: A neo-Aristotelian account of sexual perversion |
May 13
| Greg Restall (Macquarie University)
TBA |
May 20
| John Sutton (Macquarie University)
Training My Brain: Descartes on self-knowledge, the body, and the passions |
May 27
| Richard Arneson (UC-San Diego)
The Currency of Justice |
June 3
| Richard Flathman (Johns Hopkins)
Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences, Through the Lens of Peter Winch
(Joint with the Social and Political
Theory Group.) |
June 10
| Karen Green (Monash)
Analysing Analysis |
June 17
| Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
Digust and the Law
(Joint with the Social and Political
Theory Group.) |
June 18
| John Deigh (Northwestern)
Emotions and Values |
June 24
| Joseph Levine (North Carolina State University)
Consciousness and Cognition: What We Can Learn from Zombies |
July 1
| Alex Byrne (MIT)
The Hard Problem of Perception |
July 1
| David Hilbert (University of Illinois at Chicago)
What do the Color Blind Really See? |
July 1
| Louise Antony (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Multiple Realizability, Projectibility, and the Reality of Mental Properties |
July 14
| Lynne Rudder Baker (UMass-Amherst)
The Very Idea of Material Constitution |
July 15
| Maite Ezcurdia Olavarrieta (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM)
Demonstratives and their Linguistic Meaning |
July 22
| Michael Martin (University College London)
Memory, Knowledge, and Events |
July 29
| Al Mele (Davidson College)
Goal-Directed Action: Teleological Explanations, Causal Theories, and Deviance |
August 5
| Peter Roeper (ANU)
No identity without entity |
August 12
| Helen Beebee (RSSS)
TBA |
August 23
| Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck)
Conceptual Analysis and the Mind/Body Problem |
August 26
| Mariam Thalos (SUNY Buffalo)
Modeling Practical Reason |
September 2
| Mark Greenberg (Oxford)
Thoughts Without Masters |
September 9
| Brian Garrett (ANU)
Scepticism |
September 13 Seminar Room C
| Peter Godfrey Smith and Russell Gray (Stanford University and Auckland Department of Psychology)
What is Developmental Systems Theory and Why Does it Matter? |
September 16
| Harry Lewis (University of Leeds)
Memes and Meaning |
September 23
| Karen Jones (ANU)
Emotional Rationality as Practical Rationality |
September 30
| Denis Robinson (Auckland)
On Failing to Agree and Failing to Disagree: Personal Identity, Supervenience, and Relativism |
October 7
| David Armstrong (University of Sydney)
Combinatorialism Revisited |
October 14
| Martin Davies and Max Coltheart (Oxford and Macquarie)
Pathologies of Belief |
October 21
| Cynthia MacDonald (Canterbury)
Shoemaker on Introspective Self-Knowledge |
October 28
| Graham MacDonald (Canterbury)
Kinds and Emergent Properties |
November 11
| Gregory Currie (Flinders University)
Desire in Imagination |
November 18
| Michael Ridge (ANU)
Non-cognitivist Rationalism |
November 25
| Janna Thompson (Latrobe University)
Historical Injustice and Reparation |
December 2
| Kim Sterelny (ANU and Victoria University at Wellington)
The Evolution of Agency |
December 6
| Peter Gardenfors (Lund University)
On the geometry of thought: Symbolic,
conceptual, and subconceptual representations of knowledge |
December 9
| Stephen Barker (Monash University)
Expressivism Without Non-Cognitivism |
December 16
| Folke Tersman (Stockholm University)
The Argument From the Persistence of Moral Disagreement |