Philosophy Seminars
Semester 2, 2016
All seminars held from 3.00-5.00pm in room E302, Forgan Smith Building (1), unless indicated otherwise.
| Date | Title | Presenter |
| Thursday, 28 July | 1.30pm: A Computable Model of Dual Attention: Integrating Philosophy of Engineering and Philosophy of Mind using Impedance Analogy |
Sholto Maud
(Confirmation milestone)
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| Friday, 29 July | Rethinking Eudaimonism in Greek and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics | Iakovos Vasiliou |
| Friday, 5 August | 2.00pm: Causal Modelling for Republicans |
George Nguyen
(Confirmation milestone)
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| 3.00pm: How to argue for and against abstracta | Dan Marshall | |
| Friday, 12 August | 2.00pm: A Philosophical Account of Self-Destruction |
Grace Campbell
(Confirmation milestone)
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| 3.00pm: Function and design | Gregory Bamford | |
| Friday, 19 August | Desire, Emotion and Attention |
Neil Sinhababu
(National University of Singapore)
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| Friday, 26 August |
9.00am: Woman and the Other
(held in room 216, Michie Building (9))
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Sameema Zahra
(Confirmation milestone)
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(held in room E219, Forgan Smith Building (1))
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Darcy Burgin
(Confirmation milestone)
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| Friday, 2 September | Ethical Eating |
William Grey
(University of Queensland
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| Friday, 9 September | Aesthetic Values in Science |
Milena Ivanova
(Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximillian Universität)
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| Friday, 16 September | Aristotle and the Uniqueness Thesis |
Brennan K. McDavid
(University of Melbourne)
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| Friday, 23 September | Does education need philosophy? Philosophical research and empirical studies in educational philosophy say it does! |
Gilbert Burgh
(University of Queensland)
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Semester 1, 2016
All seminars held from 3.00-5.00pm in room E302, Forgan Smith Building (1), unless indicated otherwise.
| Date | Title | Presenter |
| Friday, 11 March | Robinson Crusoe and the Epistemologists | Rod Girle |
| Friday, 18 March | A Liability Model of Moral Responsibility | Keith Hankins |
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Friday, 15 April
(held in room 215,
Gordon Greenwood Building (32))
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Simone Thornton
(Confirmation milestone)
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Elese Dowden
(Confirmation milestone)
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Katherine Diserens
(Confirmation milestone)
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2.00pm: The Other Side of the Chiasm
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Mark Cutler
(Confirmation milestone)
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| Friday, 29 April | The problem of directive moral education | Michael Hand |
| Friday, 6 May | The other Side of the Other: Val Plumwood and Emmanuel Levinas | Frances Gray |
| Friday, 13 May | RHD Confirmation milestone seminars | |
| Friday, 20 May | Climate debt and lax liabilities: The analogous liability for historical breeding practices | Hugh Breakey |
| Friday, 27 May | 3.00pm: Nietzsche’s relational conception of life, art and reality |
Riccardo Carli
(Confirmation milestone)
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| Friday, 3 June | Converging on Quietism | John Atkins |
| Friday, 1 July | The Epistemology of Modality and the Epistemology of Mathematics |
Otavio Bueno
(University of Miami)
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| Monday, 18 July | 11.00am: Hume, recognition and the self |
Dario Perinetti
(Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
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