Contacts

Legal Gluts? - Guest Lecture Professor Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle)

21 April 2023 2:00pm
In a recent paper, Bradley Armour-Garb (2022) outlines the debate between Graham Priest (2006, 2017) and Jc Beall (2017) concerning the existence of legal gluts -- i.e. of true contradictory laws or statutes. He argues that Priest's positive position is more plausible than Beall's negative one. In this paper, we offer some reasons to think otherwise.

Alleged Epistemological Consequences of Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem - Guest Lecture Professor Graham Oppy (Monash)

18 November 2022 2:00pm
I shall provide a bunch of different reasons for thinking that it is just a mistake to suppose that Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem has interesting epistemological consequences.

Dr. Strange Levine, or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gap - HDR Progress Review Jake Taylor

31 October 2022 4:00pm
My main aim in this chapter is to examine the “uneasiness” about physicalism common to self-confessed qualophile philosophers such as Nagel, Levine, and Chalmers, and to investigate the notion of explanation that such thinkers rely on when they claim the physical sciences cannot explain consciousness. I review two responses to Saul Kripke’s classic argument against the identity theory in philosophy of mind.

Routes to Relevant Logics - Guest Lecture Dr Shawn Standefer

28 October 2022 2:00pm
Relevant logics are a family of non-classical logics characterized by the behaviorof their implication connectives. They are characterized by the rejection of principles of irrelevance for their implication connectives. In the purely implicational fragment, this means rejection of the paradoxes of material implication. Unlike some other non-classical logics, such as intuitionistic logic, there are multiple philosophical views motivating relevant logics.

Explanatory and Non-explanatory Proofs in Mathematics (Guest Lecturer Professor Mark Colyvan)

7 October 2022 2:00pm
In this talk I look at the contrast between explanatory and non-explanatory proofs in mathematics. This is done with the aim of shedding light on what distinguishes the explanatory proofs. I argue that there may be more than one notion of explanation in operation in mathematics: there does not seem to be a single account that ties together the different explanatory proofs.

THE STRANGE PHENOMENON OF TURING DENIAL - Professor Jack Copeland & Mr Zhao Fan

23 September 2022 2:00pm
Shortly before the Second World War, Alan Turing invented the fundamental logical principles of the modern digital computer. Turing was, however, a misunderstood and relatively isolated figure, who made little attempt to communicate with the main centres of postwar computer development in the US. He generally received at best a minor mention in histories of the computer written in the 20th and early 21st centuries. All that changed in 2012, Turing’s centenary year, and he is now popularly regarded as the founding father of computer science. But an academic backlash has developed. ‘Turing deniers’ seek to show that Turing made no very significant contribution to the development of computers and computing. We examine the arguments of some leading Turing deniers.

“The Phenomenology of Work” (HDR Progress Review) - Anton Chang

9 September 2022 1:30pm
Some hold that work is the ultimate expression of human nature. Work is said to give meaning to life and have moral value. Paid work is theoretically the central mechanism for the distribution of wealth and status in our industrial world, while unpaid work underpins our economy and silently supports our culture. But what exactly is it? How does work, work? To answer these questions, in this presentation, I will outline the phenomenological approach of my thesis, which aims to both frame and to situate the “everydayness” of work. I will also summarise my thesis, where I work through a series of literary, ethnographic “fictions”. These specific and detailed descriptions of work are set in the context of contemporary advanced industrial urban consumer society, focusing on contemporary anxieties around work. I hope my innovative method of combining literature, philosophy, and sociology produces original fiction that will “flesh out” my phenomenological description and our understanding of work.

Should the Batter Walk? Fairness and Ethical Decision-Making in the Sport of Cricket (HDR Progress Review) - Tony Cupitt

9 September 2022 11:00am
In cricket there is a moment when the batter has hit the ball, a fair catch has been taken, and the bowler appeals for the wicket. The batter faces a moment of ethical testing - should they give up their wicket by walking or stand their ground and wait for the umpire to make a decision that may be incorrect. I use this dilemma to examine the role of fair play in sport as professional practice.

QUANTUM EXISTENTIALISM

2 September 2022 2:00pm
Presented by Prof. Dean Rickles

By contrast with older views of physics, some not unreasonable new approaches to quantum mechanics, known collectively as Participatory Realism, ascribe what appear to be cosmogonical powers to those putting questions to the world. This talk will describe some of these ideas and compare them with a range of other, much older, ideas. Lurking at the heart of all of these ideas is the view that we are capable of shaping the world to a degree not commonly understood.

“The Logic of Settler Colonialism and Ontoepistemic Injustice” (HDR Progress Review) - Kaitlin Smalley

26 August 2022 9:30am
In this presentation, I draw on the work of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, bell hooks, and Val Plumwood to argue that settler colonisation entails ontoepistemic injustice not only because it relies upon the dispossession and displacement of existing inhabitants to carry out its aims but due to the nature of the logic employed by settler colonisers to justify their actions – a logic which necessarily comes to influence the formation of settler colonial society, as well as generations of colonisers to continue to make decisions in service of the regime. To argue that this logic remains operational in contemporary Australian society, I contrast the government’s unprecedented action taken in the form of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (the NT Intervention) with their lack of action to shut Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

Philosophy Seminar - States’ Culpability Through Time

12 August 2022 2:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Stephanie Collins

The Women Who Brought Logic to America

20 May 2022 2:00pm
Presented by Professor Adriane Rini

Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-violence, and Resistance

13 December 2021 3:30pm4:30pm
Studies of Indian and Australian Historical Contexts Through Philosophy, Film and Literature

Philosopy Seminar: Coincidence in Fiction and Literature

Cancelled
29 October 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
Session Cancelled

Becoming Cisgender

3 September 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
Please RVSP A/Prof Marguerite La Caze (m.lacaze@uq.edu.au) to register.

Philosophy Seminar

Cancelled
20 August 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
In light of the developing COVID-19 Queensland Government restrictions, regretfully this event will be postponed until further notice. While we are disappointed the event will not go ahead as planned, the health and safety of our community is our highest priority.

Masterclass with Peter Singer

Cancelled
13 August 2021 4:00pm7:00pm
In light of the developing COVID-19 Queensland Government restrictions, regretfully this event will be postponed until further notice. While we are disappointed the event will not go ahead as planned, the health and safety of our community is our highest priority.

Bilateralism and dialogue

12 March 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
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.

Buddhist Logic from a Global Perspective

5 March 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
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.

The Origins and Persistence of Possibilism

26 February 2021 2:00pm3:00pm
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.

Music of Spheres: In-conversation

18 September 2020 3:00pm4:00pm
Join Music of Spheres student curator Elena Dias-Jayasinha in conversation with ARC Fellow at UQ School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Dr Peter Evans as they explore how the Pythagorean concept of 'music of the spheres' applies to modern Physics, Shakespeare and UQ Art Museum’s current exhibition.

CANCELLED Relevance and Verification

Cancelled
1 May 2020 3:00pm4:30pm
POSTPONED until further notice
I use relevant logic to defend the cogency (but not the truth!) of A. J. Ayer's verificationism.

CANCELLED The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Cancelled
3 April 2020 3:00pm4:30pm
POSTPONED until further notice
Jessica Whyte will discuss the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism in the twentieth-century.
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CANCELLED Three Mistakes about Semantic Intentions

Cancelled
27 March 2020 3:00pm4:30pm
POSTPONED until further notice
Philosophers of language make three mistakes about speakers’ intentions and their alleged role in explaining meaning.
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Learning from the Other: Levinas on Ethics, Discourse and Language

13 March 2020 3:00pm4:30pm
This talk explores the role of language and discourse in Levinas’s ethical theory, arguing that ethical relations depend not so much on linguistic capacities, as our ability to learn deeply and authentically from the other.

Public Deliberation and the Intellectual Dark Web - A Socio-epistemic Investigation

13 March 2020 1:30pm2:00pm
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.
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Autonomy and Choices

19 February 2020 2:00pm2:30pm
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.
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Analogy and Reflective Reasoning

29 November 2019 1:00pm1:30pm
This is an HDR milestone presentation. All are welcome.

The Will to Death: Philipp Mainländer’s Philosophy of Redemption and its pretensions to Schopenhauer’s legacy

25 October 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
The philosophical relationship between Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), the atheistic philosopher of the ‘will to life’, and Philipp Mainländer (1841-1876), the deicidal philosopher of the ‘will to death’.

Compliance, reliance and defiance: The rule of law and the question of substantive content

11 October 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
I argue that the ‘rule of law’ doesn’t only apply to formal qualities of laws (e.g., clarity and publicity), but also requires substantive protections of persons and their property.
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Moral Character, the Aesthetics of Humour, and the Ethical Criticism of Stand-Up Comedy. Or, Why Dave Chappelle Is Still Funny, but Louis C.K. (Mostly) Isn’t

27 September 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
This talk explores the nature and warrant of the ethical criticism of stand-up comedy with reference to a number of contemporary cases. Presented by Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland).
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From Homo Faber To Post Human: How material practices design psychosocial agency

30 August 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
This talk is about the loss of making skills, their connection to thinking, learning and doing and why we need to re-imagine them in order to adapt (or become androids). Presented by Eleni Kalantidou (Griffith University).

The Reference of Proper Names: Testing Usage and Intuitions

29 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Experiments on theories of reference have mostly tested referential intuitions. We think that experiments should rather be testing linguistic usage.

Feminism Reloaded? The Serial Debate on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence, or: What’s New about #MeToo?

22 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Sexual harassment and sexual violence have been an issue of debate among social reformers and political activists long before the term feminism itself was coined. These serial discussions underscore how ubiquitous sexual violence remains in the power dynamic of human relations and social hierarchies and how, as a consequence, feminist critique has had to repeat its central arguments incessantly for centuries. The insistent return of the controversy also demonstrates, though, how feminist concerns mutate along with transforming social and cultural economies and media ecologies, which newly frame, channel, and absorb our attention.

Refocusing on Newcomb's Paradox: The Predictor as time traveller

8 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
The plethora of papers and chapters on Newcomb's Paradox is sometimes described as Necombmania. In our view Newcombmania is not phony as Bealtemania was once criticised as phony.

Moral Self-Defense without Omniscience

1 March 2019 3:00pm4:30pm
Presented by Renee Bolinger (Australian National University)

Unity of Thought and Constitution of Selfhood in Descartes

23 November 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Vili Lähteenmäki (University of Helsinki)

Women's suffrage: A panel discussion to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage in NZ

15 November 2018 3:00pm4:30pm
with Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier (School of Communication and Arts), Ms. Sameema Zahra (School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry), introduced by A/Prof Marguerite La Caze (School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry)

LOOKING FOR MITHRA IN MALTA

9 November 2018 4:00pm5:30pm
Presented by Dr. Claudia Sagona (Melbourne)

Can Robots Learn to Talk?

9 November 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi)

Aquinas and Whitehead: Metaphysics of Divine Power

9 November 2018 10:30am11:00am
Presenter: Mr Joseph Vu, PhD candidate, Philosophy

Epistemological issues in high resolution and long term climate modelling

2 November 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Vincent Lam (University of Bern, Université Grenoble Alpes & University of Queensland)

Robotics and the rarity of care: Adoption issues of social robots in healthcare

19 October 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Kate Devitt (Queensland University of Technology)

Bildung, the Humanities and the Idea of a Liberal Education

12 October 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Peter Banki (University of Western Sydney)

Accommodation, inference, generics and pejoratives

5 October 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Greg Restall (University of Melbourne)

Two Senses of Belonging: Descartes on Thinking

21 September 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)

Health Ethics and Indigenous Ethnocide

14 September 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Richard Matthews (Bond University)
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The Epistemic Challenge of Hearing Child’s Voice

17 August 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Karin Murris (University of Cape Town) – Atkins Visiting Professor in Philosophy

Schopenhauer and the Unconscious

10 August 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Stephan Atzert (University of Queensland)

Reggio Emilia inspired philosophical teacher education: the family (tree)

10 August 2018 1:30pm2:45pm
Presenter: Karin Murris (University of Cape Town) - Atkins Visiting Professor in Philosophy

This is a joint seminar held by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry and School of Education.

Socratic Guises and Epistemic Biases

27 July 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Bob Pasnau (University of Colorado)

Spinoza on Harmony and Concord, or, why "the absence of war is not the same as peace"’.

1 June 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Challis Professor of Philosophy, Prof. Moira Gatens (University of Sydney)
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Developing thinking capacity in children: the role of Philosophy for Children

18 May 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Keith Topping (University of Dundee)
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Developing Thinking Capacity in Children: The role of Philosophy for Children

18 May 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Public lecture by Professor Keith Topping, from the University of Dundee. Organised in collaboration with the UQ School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry and the UQ School of Education.
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Nothing but the Truth? Cognitive Bias in Forensic Reporting

15 May 2018 6:00pm8:00pm
Workshop on the complex issue of cognitive bias in forensic reporting, with Catherine Skellern, Peter Ellerton, Karen Healy and Benjamin Dighton. Organised in collaboration with the HEAL (Health, Ethics and Law) Discussion group.
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Causal Footprints in Quantum Data

11 May 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Sally Shrapnel (University of Queensland)

Bex, Lies and Truth-tables

4 May 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Rod Girle

The Experience of Time and the Bihemispheric Brain

27 April 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor William Grey

Newton’s Epistemic Triad

20 April 2018 12:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Kristen Walsh (University of Nottingham)
PLEASE NOTE TIME AND VENUE DETAILS

Justifying Scientific Realism: Forget About “The No-Miracles Argument”

16 April 2018 2:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Michael Devitt (City University of New York)
PLEASE NOTE THE TIME AND VENUE DETAILS

PATRICIA PICCININI – DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ALIVE?

25 March 2018 11:30am1:30pm
PATRICIA PICCININI – DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ALIVE?

Suffering’s double disclosure and the structure of normality in experience

23 March 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by James N. McGuirk (Nord University)

I can't get no satisfaction: the concepts we need to reconstruct arguments in applied math

9 March 2018 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Nic Fillion (Simon Fraser University)

Love Letting: Recognising Sexual Difference as the Basis of a New ‘Praxis’ and ‘Ethos’ of Love

9 March 2018 1:00pm2:00pm
Presented by Nathan Pickels (Confirmation PhD milestone)

Dimensions of Vulnerability

13 February 2018 11:00am11:30am
Michael Hearn PhD confirmation

Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental Metaphysic

2 February 2018 10:00am10:30am
Confirmation milestone

Wise Trust

24 November 2017 6:00pm8:00pm

Posthuman Child and the Diffractive Teacher: Decolonising the Nature/Culture Binary

16 November 2017 3:30pm5:00pm
World Philosophy Day Public Lecture

Three Wise Women

16 November 2017 1:30pm3:00pm
A Panel Discussion

Women and Public Space

16 November 2017 11:30am1:00pm
A symposium presented by PhD students from HAPI

World Philosophy Day 2017

16 November 2017 11:30am5:00pm
Ethics, Epistemology, Education and Institutions

The Strategy of the Quasi-Cause

20 October 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Jason Cullen (UQ)

Feminist Evolutionisms: Theories of Creativity, Change and Connection

6 October 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Dr Karin Sellberg (IASH, UQ)

The Dark Side

22 September 2017 3:00pm5:00pm

What is it to Rethink the Enlightenment?: Between History and Philosophy

8 September 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Martyn Lloyd (University of Queensland)

Dwelling in Carceral Space

1 September 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Lisa Guenther (Vanderbilt University)

Why fish do not feel pain: insights from neuroscience

25 August 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Brian Key (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland)

Two Sides of Positional Goods

18 August 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Daniel Halliday (University of Melbourne)
Fortitudo, Spinoza

Imagining Fortitudo

17 August 2017 4:00pm5:00pm
Joint event with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, presented by Susan James (Birkbeck College)
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The Evolution of Non-Natural Meaning

15 August 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Josh Armstrong (University of California, Los Angeles)

Dignity, Cartesian Metaphysics, and Women’s Rights, 1650-1750

14 August 2017 10:00am12:00pm
Presented by Jacqueline Broad

Hume on the Cultivation of Moral Capacities

14 August 2017 10:00am12:00pm
Presented by Anik Waldow (University of Sydney)

Undoing Bayle’s Scepticism: Astell’s Critique of the Pensées Diverses

11 August 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Jacqueline Broad (Monash University)

What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?

4 August 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Peter Evans (The University of Queensland)

Žižek’s Dialectical Materialism – The Corollaries of Immanent Transcendence

28 July 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Presented by Christopher Boerdam (Confirmation)

Truth, synthesis and unity

9 June 2017 10:00am11:00am
Presenter: Alain Guillemain (Milestone)
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Ghosts of Eugenics’ Past: Some Discourses on “Childhood” and Race

2 June 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Joanne Faulkner (University of New South Wales)

Philosophy Seminars

30 May 2017 12:30pm1:30pm
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In Defence of Tropes as Abstract Particulars

26 May 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Anthony Fisher (University of Manchester)
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Emotional enlightenment: Kant on love and the beautiful

19 May 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze (UQ)
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Philosophy and Film

12 May 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Damian Cox (Bond University), Thomas Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College, USA) & Jane Stadler (UQ)
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A critical study of the hermeneutics of home/alien experience via the generative phenomenology of Husserl

12 May 2017 10:00am10:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Hora Zabarjadisar
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The Ethics of Digital Piracy

28 April 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Hugh Breakey (Griffith University)
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Should the Batsman Walk: Identifying Common Interest in the Sport of Cricket

13 April 2017 10:00am10:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Anthony Cupitt
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Two Approaches to Belief Revision

7 April 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Ted Shear (UQ)
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Journal capture and the dominance of analytic philosophy

31 March 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Joel Katzav (UQ)
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Seeing, Feeling, Doing: Obstetric ultrasound, abortion and the politics of empathy

24 March 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Catherine Mills (Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University)
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Phase Transitions: A challenge for reductionism?

17 March 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Patricia Palacios (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
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Negative Results, Limited Results, and Real Life Catastrophes in the Experimental Work of Robert Boyle

10 March 2017 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Jack MacIntosh (University of Calgary)
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Transparency and the First Person

16 December 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Andre Gallois (Syracuse University, NY)
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Ethics, Politics and Cinema

2 December 2016 10:00am5:00pm
A Visual Politics Research Symposium
Speakers: Carl Plantinga, Robert Sinnerbrink, Marguerite La Caze, Damian Cox, Paolo Magagnoli
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Ethical Restoration after Oppressive Violence: a multidisciplinary roundtable on atonement and redress

1 December 2016 10:00am5:00pm
Speakers: Dr Magdalena Zolkos (ACU, Sydney), Dr Annie Pohlman (UQ), Dr Daniel Brennan (Bond), Ms Elese Dowden (UQ), Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze (UQ)
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Three Wise Women

17 November 2016 6:00pm7:30pm
A panel discussion on philosophy as a way of life
Part of World Philosophy Day 2016
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Sex, Feminism and Philosophy of Life

17 November 2016 4:00pm5:30pm
World Philosophy Day Public Lecture
Part of World Philosophy Day 2016
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Camus as a way of life: the surfer, the gamer and the guillotine

17 November 2016 2:00pm3:30pm
A Roundtable conversation
Part of World Philosophy Day 2016
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Dr Who, facebook, and Kim Kardashian!

17 November 2016 12:00pm1:30pm
A symposium on pop culture and philosophy
Part of World Philosophy Day 2016
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World Philosophy Day 2016

17 November 2016 12:00pm8:00pm
Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Tastes of Arendt: A Symposium

8 November 2016 12:00pm4:00pm
An interdisciplinary event hosted by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
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Spinoza on human freedom: deliberation and the delusion of free will or choice

4 November 2016 1:00pm1:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Jason Tillett
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If we could get an ought from an is, could we get a must from an ought

3 November 2016 1:00pm1:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Peter Shaw
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Questions and Connectives

28 October 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Roderic Girle (UQ)
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You say potato, I say potato: can definition debates be worthwhile?

21 October 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Toby Meadows (UQ)
Professor Lars Hertzberg

Master Class presented by Professor Lars Hertzberg: "Language is Things We Do"

20 October 2016 1:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University), Atkins Visiting Professor in Philosophy 2016
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Ethics as We Talk it

14 October 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Professor Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University), Atkins Visiting Professor in Philosophy 2016
Professor Lars Hertzberg

Master Class presented by Professor Lars Hertzberg: "Language is Things We Do"

13 October 2016 1:00pm4:00pm
Presented by Professor Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi University), Atkins Visiting Professor in Philosophy 2016
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Explaining Temporal Qualia

7 October 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Matt Farr (UQ)
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Hermeneutical study of refugee identity: Hermeneutical injustice, social integrity failure and extremism

7 October 2016 1:00pm2:00pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Hora Zabarjadi Sar
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Aristotle and the Uniqueness Thesis

16 September 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Brennan K. McDavid (Ormond College, The University of Melbourne)
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Aesthetic Values in Science

9 September 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Milena Ivanova (Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximillian Universität)
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Ethical Eating

2 September 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor William Grey (UQ)
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Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Praxis

26 August 2016 2:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Darcy Burgin
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Woman and the Other

26 August 2016 9:00am9:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Sameema Zahra
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Desire, Emotion, and Attention

19 August 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore)
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Function and design

12 August 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Gregory Bamford
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A Philosophical Account of Self-Destruction

12 August 2016 2:00pm2:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Grace Campbell
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How to argue for and against abstracta

5 August 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dan Marshall
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Causal Modelling for Republicans

5 August 2016 2:00pm2:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by George Nguyen
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Rethinking Eudaimonism in Greek and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics

29 July 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Professor Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY)
Dario Perinetti

Hume, recognition and the self

18 July 2016 11:00am1:00pm
Presented by Professor Dario Perinetti (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
Otavio Bueno

The Epistemology of Modality and the Epistemology of Mathematics

1 July 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Professor Otavio Bueno (University of Miami)
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Converging on Quietism

3 June 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr John Atkins (UQ)
flowing water; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Nietzsche’s relational conception of life, art and reality

27 May 2016 3:00pm3:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Riccardo Carli
dew on leaf; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

The other Side of the Other: Val Plumwood and Emmanuel Levinas

6 May 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Dr Frances Gray (UQ)
spiral book tunnel; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

The problem of directive moral education

29 April 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Michael Hand
earth in space; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

The Other Side of the Chiasm

15 April 2016 2:00pm2:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Mark Cutler
choppy water breaking over row of wood; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Arendt, Peirce and Unger on the Necessities and Possibilities of Political Thought and Action

15 April 2016 1:00pm1:30pm
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Katherine Diserens
grieving woman, head down, black and white; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Reconciling the Impossible: Forgiveness and Grief in Rwanda, New Zealand and Australia

15 April 2016 11:00am11:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Elese Dowden
sky at sunset; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Lucid Inquiry: a critical eco-pragmatist framework of education

15 April 2016 10:00am10:30am
Confirmation milestone seminar presented by Simone Thornton
wooden spiral staircase; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

A Liability Model of Moral Responsibility

18 March 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Keith Hankins
Robinson Crusoe on a raft, black and white drawing

Robinson Crusoe and the Epistemologists

11 March 2016 3:00pm5:00pm
Presented by Associate Professor Rod Girle (UQ)
olive tree with fruit; Image via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain

Ethical Restoration after Oppressive Violence: a multidisciplinary roundtable on maintaining and restoring trust

30 November 2015 10:00am5:00pm
Speakers: Dr Simone Drichel (Otago, NZ), Dr Stephen McLaughlin (Griffith), Dr Anne Brown (UQ), A/Professor Marguerite La Caze (UQ), Professor Roland Bleiker (UQ)