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Philsoc

The ANU Philosophy Society is a group of academics and graduate students in Philosophy and other disciplines, who meet regularly, giving seminars and discussing them.

All philosophy events at ANU, including Philsoc talks, are announced on the philsoc mailing list. Click here to subscribe to the philsoc mailing list.

Also, a Google Calendar of philosophy activities at ANU is maintained by Ole Koksvik here.


Submit a paper

You can submit a paper by e-mailing one of the Philsoc convenors, currently Jonathan Farrell ().

Upcoming Papers

Tuesday, February 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Kate Devitt (Rutgers)
The Danger of the Extended Mind
Tuesday, March 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jens Kipper (Koln)
Changing the Subject
Tuesday, March 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Leon Leontyev (RSSS)
TBA
Tuesday, March 23rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Markos Valaris (NSW)
TBA

Recent Papers

Tuesday, February 9th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Piero Moraro (Stirling)
An(other) attempt to reconcile coercive behaviour with liberal autonomy
Tuesday, February 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Michael Sollberger (Lausanne)
A ruthlessly structural account of perceptual consciousness
Tuesday, January 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Alexander Harper (UQ)
Philosophical Intuitions and the Need for an Explanation
Tuesday, December 15th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Rachael Brown (RSSS)
Motivations For a New Approach To Behavioural Biology (Mid-term)
Tuesday, December 8th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jonathan Tapsell (RSSS)
The logical structure of philosophical thought experiments (6-month review)
Tuesday, December 1st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
The Gap Between Thought and Ought
Tuesday, November 24th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Joachim Wuendisch (Saarland)
Nozick's Non-Identity Crisis: How the Entitlement Theory Runs the Danger of Indeterminacy in the Face of Different-People Choices
Tuesday, November 10th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Kelvin McQueen (RSSS)
Everettian Quantum Mechanics & Mind-Body Dualism
Tuesday, October 27th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Tobias Wilsch (RSSS)
Realism About Grounding (6-month review)
Tuesday, October 6th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Katrina Hutchinson (ANU)
Humanism, Objectivity and Free Will
Tuesday, September 29th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Mette Hansen (Bergen)
Is there a Cognitive Phenomenology?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Broome (Oxford)
Instrumental reasoning
Tuesday, September 15th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Kleinig (ANU)
Friendship and Loyalty
Tuesday, September 8th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar Ilan)
A semantics of overall goodness
Tuesday, September 1st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Nic Southwood (RSSS)
In defence of the moral/conventional distinction
Tuesday, August 25th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Rachael Brown (RSSS)
Reassessing the modern synthesis
Tuesday, August 18th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Gabriel Rabin (UCLA)
Physicalism and the idealization of a priori entailment
Wednesday, August 12th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Elizabeth Schier (Macquarie)
Connectionism, content and mental causation
Tuesday, August 4th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Paolo Santorio (MIT)
Communication for expressivists
Tuesday, July 28th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Michael Smith (Princeton)
Moral obligation and reasons for action
Tuesday, July 21st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
David Plunkett (Michigan)
Complete versus incomplete mind-dependent accounts of normativity
Tuesday, July 14th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Zoe Drayson (Bristol)
Functionalism and the extended mind
Tuesday, June 23rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Simone Duca (Bristol)
Some logical remarks on introspection
Tuesday, June 16th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Peter Fritz (Konstanz)
Higher-Order Vagueness and Degrees of Truth
Thursday, June 11th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Johan Gersel (Copenhagen)
Combining Epistemic Internalism and Disjunctivism
Tuesday, June 9th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Dan Marshall (RSSS)
A New Problem for Counterpart Theory
Tuesday, June 2nd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Rachael Brown (RSSS)
What's So Special about Behaviour?
Tuesday, May 26th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Joanne Lau (RSSS)
Political Obligation and Civil Death (six-month review)
Tuesday, May 19th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Clas Weber (Uppsala)
Semantic Values, Monsters, and Belief Reports
Tuesday, May 12th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Fiona Macpherson (RSSS/Glasgow)
Cognitive Penetration
Tuesday, May 5th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Wolfgang Schwarz (RSSS)
Chance, Counterfeit Chance and Credence
Tuesday, April 28th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Brett Calcott (RSSS)
Explaining How Complexity Evolves
Tuesday, April 21st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ryan Young (ANU)
A Short Guide to Solving the Liar Paradox
Tuesday, April 14th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Stuart Crutchfield (Glasgow)
A (Primitive) Paper on a Primitive Relation
Tuesday, April 7th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Martine Nida-Rumelin (Fribourg)
What is Phenomenally Present in Experience?
Tuesday, March 31st, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Ole Koksvik (RSSS)
The Nature of Intuition (mid-term review)
Tuesday, March 24th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jan Sprenger (Tilburg)
Artefactual Probability
Tuesday, March 17th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
David Hodgson (Supreme Court of NSW)
The Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem
Tuesday, March 10th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Parker Crutchfield (Arizona State)
A Revision of the Contextualist Analogy
Tuesday, March 3rd, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
John Matthewson (RSSS)
Tidying Up Generality
Tuesday, February 24th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Carl Brusse (RSSS)
Personal Identity and Common Sense
Tuesday, February 17th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Michael Titelbaum (RSSS)
Feigning Indifference
Tuesday, February 10th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Jonathan Schaffer (RSSS)
Limning the True and Ultimate Structure of Reality
Tuesday, January 27th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Aisling Crean (RSSS)
Dispositional/Categorical
Tuesday, January 20th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Weng Hong Tang (RSSS)
Intentionality With an Eye on Graded Beliefs
Tuesday, January 13th, 4:00pm
Coombs Seminar Room B
Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews)
Relativism, Assertion, and Belief