February 3
| Peter Menzies (Macquarie University)
The Causal Efficacy of the Mental |
February 10th
| Charles Barton (Charles Sturt University)
Revenge as a Form of Justice: A Recipe for Law Reform in Criminal Justice |
February 17th
| Claire Finkelstein (UC Berkeley Law)
A Puzzle About Hobbes on Self-Defense
Joint with Social and Political Theory |
February 24th
| R. Jay Wallace (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin and UC Berkeley)
Caring, Reflexivity, and the Structure of Volition |
March 2nd
| Greg Restall (Macquarie)
Logical Pluralism and the Transmission of Warrant |
March 9th
| Chandran Kukathas (University of New South Wales (ADFA))
Pluralism within the limits of reason: from Isaiah Berlin to David Hume
Joint with Social and Political Theory |
March 16th
| Lukas H. Meyer (Universitaet Bremen, InIIS)
Historical Justice Symposium
Social and Political Theory Program Seminar |
March 23rd
| Susan Wolf (Johns Hopkins University)
Avoiding Objectivity
Social and Political Theory Program Seminar |
March 30th
| Susan Mendus (University of York)
Life's Ethical Symphony
Social and Political Theory Program Seminar |
April 6th
| Josh Parsons (ANU)
Are There Irreducibly Relational Facts? |
April 13th
| Steve Clarke (Latrobe)
Defensible Territory for Entity Realism |
April 20th
| Akeel Bilgrami (Columia University)
How To Reduce Two Mysteries To One |
April 27th
| Heather Dyke (University of Otago)
Tensed Meaning: A Tenseless Account |
May 4th
| John Burgess (University of Wollongong)
Vicious and Virtuous Circularity -- What is the Difference? |
May 11th
| Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney, HPS)
Emotions, Feelings and the Frame Problem |
May 18th
| Chandran Kukathas and Philip Gerrans (University of New South Wales (ADFA) and ANU)
The Liberal Archipeligo: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom
2pm-6pm in Seminar Room D Joint with Social and Political Theory |
May 25th
| Carol Rovane (Columbia University)
Is the problem about mind and body or mind and mind? |
June 1st
| Mark Colyvan (University of Tasmania)
Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class? |
June 8th
| John Collins (Columbia University)
Subjunctivity |
June 15th
| Christian List (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Mission Impossible? Incommensurability and the Multidimensional Arrow Problem
Joint with SPT |
June 22nd
| Mark Bickhard (Lehigh University, Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and the Philosophy of Knowledge)
The Dynamic Emergence of Representation |
June 29th
| Philip Gerrans (ANU)
Delusions and the Norms of Rationality: Prospects for a Cognitive Theory of Madness |
July 5th
| NO TALK (AAP WEEK)
Week of the AAP in Brisbane; Thursday Series cancelled for this week |
July 12th
| Christine Korsgaard (Harvard)
Human Action and Normative Standards
PLEASE NOTE: SPECIAL DATE: WEDENSDAY, 4:00, Seminar Room C |
July 13th
| Patricia Kitcher (Columbia)
Kant's Grounding of the Categorical Imperative |
July 20th
| Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Some Remarks About Minimalism |
July 27th
| Geoffery Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas |
August 3rd
| Geoffery Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Mill's 'Proof': A More than Half-Hearted Defense |
August 10th
| Ernest LePore (Rutgers)
Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions? |
August 17th
| Loren Lomasky (Bowling Green)
A Refutation of Instrumentalism About Practical Reasoning |
August 24th
| Peter Singer (Princeton)
Outsiders: our obligations to those beyond our borders
NOTE: ANNUAL JACK SMART LECTURE, COOMBS LECTURE THEATRE, 4:15-6:15 PM. |
August 31st
| John Heil (Davidson)
Levels of Reality and the Reality of Levels |
September 7th
| Hugh Clapin (Sydney University)
Content and Cognitive Science |
September 14th
| Frank Jackson (ANU)
A Talk About the Epistemic Theory of Vagueness |
September 28th
| Karen Green (Monash University)
Why There is No Population Paradox |
October 5th
| Daniel Stoljar (ANU)
On the Possession of Phenomenal Concepts |
October 12th
| Daniel Nolan (Macquarie University)
Defending a Possible Worlds Account of Indicative Conditionals |
October 19th
| Brian Garrett (ANU)
Lowe's Paradox |
October 26th
| Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)
Descartes' theory of
Cognition |
November 2nd
| Tim Dare (Aukland)
What's wrong with the institutional definition of art, and what does it tell us about institutional definitions in general? |
November 9th
| Charles Pigden (Otago)
NIETZSCHE, NIHILISM AND THE DOPPELGANGER PROBLEM |
November 16th
| Francois Schroeter (ANU)
The Locus of Autonomy |
November 16th
| Charles Pigden (Otago)
Hume, Motivation and the Moral Problem |
November 16th
| Alfred Mele (Florida State University)
Human
Agency Par Excellence |
November 23rd
| Jonathan Opie (University of Adelaide)
The Gestalt Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness |
November 30th
| Tony Stone (South Bank University)
Delusions and Brain Injury: Some Further Thoughts |
December 7th
| David Macarthur (Macquarie)
Skepticism Unveiled: Is the Skeptical Problem Worse Than We Thought? |
December 11th
| Richard Holton (Edinburgh)
What is the role
of the self in self-deception?
NOTE: MONDAY, 11:00, SEMINAR ROOM E - SPECIAL TIME AND DATE |
December 12th
| Rae Langton (Edinburgh)
Values, Conditioned and Conferred
NOTE: TUESDAY 5:00, SEMINAR ROOM D - SPECIAL TIME AND DATE |
December 13th
| Alexander Miller (Cardiff)
Manifestation, Understanding, and Semantic Realism
NOTE: WEDNESDAY, 4:00, SEMINAR ROOM D - SPECIAL DATE |