Staff Seminar Series 2008
Staff seminars are held on a regular basis during the academic year and everyone is welcome to attend. They are usually held in the Library (Room W916) on the 9th floor west of the Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton campus. All seminars are on Fridays at 2.15 pm unless otherwise noted.
Friday, July 18:
Special Location: Building 12, L5.
Peter Singer (Princeton)
"Global poverty, ethics and psychology."
Friday, July 25:
Jesse Prinz (Chapel Hill)
"The role of emotions in morality."
Friday, August 1:
Linda Barclay (Monash)
"Disability, distributive justice and respect."
Friday, August 8:
John Sutton (Macquarie)
"How do we influence ourselves? Skilled movement and embodied cognition."
Friday, August 15:
"Disability discrimination in health care."
Friday, August 22:
Daniel Stoljar (ANU)
"Knowledge of perception."
Friday, August 29:
Michael Smith (Princeton)
"Secular vs religious approaches to values and reasons."
Friday, September 5:
Marilyn Friedman (Washington University at St. Louis, CAPPE)
"Understanding as a requirement for blaming."
Friday, September 12:
Honours presentations and info. session today. Contact Jakob Hohwy for more details.
Friday, September 19:
Neil McKinnon (Monash)
"The mental parts of artifacts."
Friday, September 26:
Jakob Hohwy (Monash)
"The inner world and the outer: introspection and consciousness."
Friday, October 3:
Mid-semester break.
Friday, October 10:
Toby Handfield (Monash)
"Collective self-defence."
Friday, October 17:
François Schroeter and Laura Schroeter, (Melbourne)
TBA
Friday, October 24:
Karen Green (Monash)
"Madeleine de Scudery on love and the emergence of the private sphere."
For further information about the seminars, please contact the Seminars Convenor, Linda Barclay.
For information about parking at Monash, please email Sharon Webb or phone her on (03) 9905 3209.
For details of previous speakers, see our archives for 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 or 2004.