February 1st
| Lloyd Humberstone (Monash University)
Partly True, Partly False: An Experiment in Logic |
February 8th
| Michael Ridge (Philosophy Program, RSSS)
Disagreement In Attitude
Please note special room: Seminar Room E |
February 15th
| Laurie Paul (Philosophy Program, RSSS)
Constitution and Logical Parts |
February 22nd
| David Braddon Mitchell (University of Sydney)
How does a theory of conceptual change solve the problem of qualia? |
March 1st
| Stephen Barker (Monash University)
Expressivist Externalism |
March 8th
| Kendall Walton (University of Michigan)
In Other Shoes: Empathy, Simulation, and the Arts |
March 15th
| Joe Mintoff (University of Newcastle)
Is an Agreement an Exchange of Intentions? |
March 22nd
| Josh Parsons (RSSS/St. Andrews)
Entension Defended |
March 29th
| James Griffin (Oxford University)
Group Rights |
April 10th
| Deborah Brown (University of Queensland)
Descartes on Sensation and Mind-Body Union
Tuesday 5pm-7pm in Seminar Room F Joint with the Philosophical Society |
April 12th
| Calvin Normore (UCLA)
Persons and Kinds |
April 26th
| Keith Horton (CAPPE)
Aid: The Fair Shares Objection |
May 3rd
| Peter Forrest (University of New England)
The Mereology of Space and Time: A highly non-trivial matter |
May 10th
| Huw Price (University of Sydney)
Naturalism and the Functions of Representation |
May 17th
| Jennifer Whiting (Cornell University)
Personal Identity: The Non-branching Form of What Matters |
May 24th
| Jennifer McMahon (University of Canberra)
Perceptual principles as the basis for the notion of aesthetic form |
May 31st
| John Deigh (Northwestern University)
Promises under Fire |
June 7th
| Margaret Walker (Fordham University)
Resentment and Assurance |
June 14th
| Stewart Candlish (University of Western Australia)
Grammar, Ontology and Truth in Russell |
June 19th
| Julia Driver (Dartmouth)
Pleasure in Hume's Moral Philosophy
Tuesday 5pm-7pm in Seminar Room F Joint with the Philosophical Society |
June 21st
| Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)
Do Mathematical Objects Exist? |
June 27th
| David Lewis (Princeton University)
How Many Lives has Schrödinger's Cat?
ANNUAL JACK SMART LECTURE Wednesday 4:15 in the Law Link Lecture Theatre |
June 28th
| Richard Wollheim (Berkeley)
Emotions and their Kinds |
July 12th
| Gabriel Segal (King's College, London)
Meaning Holism and the Taxonomy of Cognitive Content |
July 19th
| Roy Sorensen (Dartmouth College)
Goethe's Colored Shadows |
July 26th
| Cheshire Calhoun (Colby College)
Moral Decency |
August 2nd
| Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
How Can Practical Reason be Theoretical?
Lecture Theater, 204 Innovations Building, 124 Eggleston Road |
August 9th
| Michael Ridge (RSSS)
Consequentialist Kantianism |
August 13th
| Helen Steward (Oxford University)
Rescuing the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
4:00 Monday in seminar room D |
August 14th
| Susan Hurley (University of Warwick)
Animal Action in the Space of Reasons
Tuesday 4:00-6:00 in Seminar Room F Joint with Philsoc and SPT |
August 16th
| Colin Cheyne (Otago University)
Problems with Plenitudinous Platonism |
August 24th
| Robert May (University of California - Irvine)
Identity Statements
Note special date: Friday 4:00 in seminar room D |
September 6th
| Timothy Mulgan (University of Auckland)
The Repugnant Conclusion |
September 12th Joint with Philsoc | Mohan Matthen (University of British Columbia)
Our Knowledge of Colours
Wednesday 4:00-6:00 in Seminar Room A |
September 13th Joint with SPT | John Broome (Oxford University)
Normative Practical Reasoning
Law Link Lecture Theatre, 4:00-6:00 |
September 20th
| Peter Godfrey-Smith (Stanford University)
Adventures in Indoor Ornithology |
September 27th
| John Bigelow (Monash University)
Bilocation, Colocation, Motion and Rest |
October 4th
| Brian Garrett (ANU)
Wittgenstein's Private Language Arguments |
October 11th
| Michael Smith (RSSS, ANU)
Evaluation, Uncertainty, and Motivation |
October 18th
| Wayne Christianson (ANU)
Science, navigation and gardening: how to solve open problems |
October 25th
| Jeanette Kennett (Monash University)
Mental Illness, Reciprocal Relations and the Self |
October 30th Joint with Philsoc | Ramon Das (Victoria University)
Beneficence and Deontology
Tuesday 5:00 - 7:00 in seminar room E |
November 1st
| David Armstrong (University of Sydney)
Truthmakers for Modal Truths |
November 8th
| Catriona MacKenzie (Macquarie University)
Critical Reflection and the Emotions |
November 15th
| Garrett Cullity (University of Adelaide)
Particularism and Presumptive Reasons |
November 21st
| Michael Devitt (CUNY)
Linguistics is not Psychology
Wednesday 4:00-6:00 in Seminar Room A |
November 29th
| Michael Pendlebury (University of the Witwatersrand)
Objective Reasons |
December 6th
| Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Ohio State University)
A Humean Perspective on the Rationality and Justification of Commitments |