Upcoming events

Professor Tim Parkin, The University of Melbourne
In-person public lecture, followed by reception with light refreshments

Professor Tim Parkin, The University of Melbourne

Mark Mather, The University of Queensland

The events of the First Crusade were reimagined and rewritten repeatedly for generations after they took place at the end of the eleventh century.

Miles-Christian Maureira, The University of Queensland

In her recent book The Dialogical Roots of Deduction, Catarina Dutilh Novaes explores the role of dialogue in understanding deductive reasoning. In this talk, I approach these ideas from a bilaterialist perspective, focused on assertion and denial, and draw out some lessons for understanding the relationship between validity of arguments and the activity of deduction.

Why were some soldiers treated generously by governments when they returned home from war, while others were not? What determined whether veterans, disabled or not, received gratitude and material rewards in the form of generous pensions, educational, housing and other benefits, or were denied them?

Buddhist philosophers have developed a rich tradition of logic. Buddhist material on logic that forms the Buddhist tradition of logic, however, is hardly discussed or even known. This talk will present some of that material in a manner that is accessible to contemporary philosophers and sets agendas for global philosophy of logic.

Possibilism is widely defined to be the thesis that there are — in the broadest sense — things that do not exist, or that are not actual. Actualism is the denial of this thesis. In this talk I will discuss the historical origins of modern possibilism and address an important challenge to the coherence of the possibilism-actualism distinction.

The University of Queensland’s School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry invites you to virtually attend ‘Memories and Narratives, an ongoing reflection’, presented online by Professor Lynette Russell. All are welcome.