Our department hosts an exciting series of philosophical talks
Learn about the cutting edge in philosophical research
Dr Oisin Deery, organiser of the 2024 Session 1 Philosophy Seminar series, is bringing together a fascinating series of talks by both our own department members and distinguished guest scholars.
Please refer to this link for the Session 1, 2024 Philosophy seminar schedule.
2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/03/2022 | Professor Richard Menary | Enculturating the Self: Narrative Interactions in Development | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 15/03/2022 | Dr Narcyz Ghinea | Shedding light on Australia’s “hidden” pharmaceutical market | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 22/03/2022 | Dr Marinus Ferreira | A tragic coalition for irrationality: the case of Covid-19 collective irrationality | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 30/03/2022 | Dr Mary Walker | Ethical issues in alcohol policy in Australia: A key informant interview study | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2:30pm [NOTE THE EXTENDED TIME] Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 05/04/2022 | Dr Paul Podosky | Talking Real and True? The Politics of Race and Gender Classification | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 23/04/2022 | Dr Hojjat Soofi | Using Antipsychotic Medications for Self-Defence Purposes by Care Staff in Residential Aged Care Facilities: An Ethical Analysis | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 03/05/2022 | Professor Kristie Miller | Temporal Passage and the Rationality of Future-Bias | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 17/05/2022 | Thomas Corbin and Dr Alexander Gillett | Cicada Hunting, Distributed Cognition, and Skilled Auditory Perception | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm Or attend via zoom. Please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2021 | Dr Ignacio Ojea Quintana | The Coordination Dilemma for Epidemiological Modelers | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 09/03/2021 | Dr Kathryn MacKay | Compassion as a Virtue in Public Health | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 16/03/2021 | Associate Professor Cailin O’Connor | Measuring Conventionality | Zoom - please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details |
| 23/03/2021 | Dr Pierrick Bourrat | Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: From Ecology to Individuals | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 30/03/2021 | Professor Paul Redding | Decoding the Syllogisms of Plato’s Philosophical Arithmetic | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 20/04/2021 | Thomas Corbin | Hobbes and Civic Equality | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 27/04/2021 | Associate Professor Markos Valaris | Knowledge Out of Control | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 04/05/2021 | Associate Professor David Kaplan | TALK POSTPONED | |
| 11/05/2021 | Dr Luara Ferracioli and Dr Samuel Shpall | Scepticism about Cultural Appropriation | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 18/05/2021 | Associate Professor Jennifer Mensch | Embodied Minds: How Comparative Linguistics Became a New Branch of Philosophical Anthropology | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 25/05/2021 | Dr Karen Pearlman | Cooperative Cognising: A Case Study in Distributed Creativity in Film Making Practice | 25b Wally's Walk, Level 5, Room C326, 1-2pm |
| 17/08/2021 | Naïve Objectivism and the Challenges of Operationalising Ethical Concepts in ICU Triage Protocols for the COVID-19 Surge | Zoom - please email Dr Hutchison for Zoom details - 1-2pm | |
| 24/08/2021 | A Process Theory of Biological Sex | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm | |
| 31/08/2021 | Assistant Professor Qiaoying Lu | On the Causal Interpretation of Heritability in Light of Structural Causal Modeling | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm |
| 07/09/2021 | Clearing the Ethical Stalemate in the Cognitive Enhancement Debate | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm | |
| 28/09/2021 | Dr Mark Howard and Joshua Hatherley | The Uses and Abuses of Black Box AI: Lethal Prejudice | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm |
| 19/10/2021 | Associate Professor Wendy Lipworth | Is it Really all About the Money? Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest in Medicine | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm |
| 25/10/2021 | Associate Professor David Kaplan | Noise as Signal in Neuroscience | Zoom - please email Dr Bourrat for Zoom details - 1-2pm |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/08/2020 | Associate Professor Karyn Lai | Learning from examples: a new way of reading Confucius’ Analects | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |
| 11/08/2020 | Neil Durrant | Friends and Heroes: Nietzsche's Agonistic Ethics of Friendship | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |
| 25/08/2020 | Jelle Bruineberg | The world at our fingertips: embodied cognition and the attention crisis | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |
| 08/09/2020 | Associate Professor Stephanie Collins | Organisations as Wrongdoers: Volitionist, Attributivist, and Aretaic Lenses | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |
| 13/10/2020 | Professor Stephen Hetherington | Knowing Can Include Luck | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |
| 03/11/2020 | Dr Sacha Molitorisz | The Formula of Humanity as a Formula for Privacy, How Kant's categorical imperative can set us free in an age of surveillance | Virtual meeting, 1-2pm |