Staff Seminars 2005
Here are details of most of the seminars from 2005; please see our seminars page for the current program.
Friday 11th February:
Denis Robinson (Aukland)
"Ethical Quasi-relativism and Competing Ethical Concepts"
Friday 4th March:
Elijah Milgram (Utah)
"'Refuting Skepticism with Style"
Thursday 10th March:
Toby Handfield (Monash)
"The Privileges of Defensive Action"
Friday 11th March at 11.00 am:
Simon Keller (Boston University/Harvard)
"Four Models of Filial Duty"
Friday 11th March:
Keith Horton (CAPPE)
"Moral Prudence, and Authority"
Friday 18th March:
Stephen Mumford (Nottingham)
"Negative Truth and Falsehood"
Thursday 24th March at 2.15 pm:
Philip Gerrans (Uni of Adelaide)
"The cognitive architecture of irrationality: a 'middle out' theory of delusion"
Friday 8th April:
Andy Egan (RSSS/U Mich)
"Imagination, Delusion, and Self-Deception"
Friday 15th April:
Stephen Barker (Nottingham)
"Truth without Contradiction"
Friday 22nd April:
Karen Green (Monash)
"'Isabeau de Baviere and the Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan"
Friday 29th April:
Ned Markosian (Western Washington Uni)
"The Right Stuff"
Friday 6th May:
Tyler Doggett (RSSS/Vermont)
The Tiny Dualist Faction In My Soul Which Has Not Been Quieted'
Friday 13th May:
Rob Sparrow (Monash)
'It's every man's right to have a baby': Male pregnancy and the limits of reproductive liberty'
Friday 20th May:
Toby Handfield (Monash)
The metaphysics of causal models: Putting the *biff* back into causation'
Tuesday 19th July:
Richard Swinburne (Oxford)
'What Makes Me Me?: A Defence of Substance Dualism'
Friday 22nd July:
Allan Silverman (Ohio State)
Philosophical Anarchy and Realpolitik in Plato's Republic'
Friday 29th July:
John Heil (Washington University, St.Louis)
Flash! Philosophers Discover that Tables Exist!'
Friday 5th August:
Steve Yablo (MIT)
Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure'
Friday 12th August:
Dan Russell (Monash)
Virtue Ethics and the Enumeration Problem'
Friday 19th August:
Michael Walzer (Princeton, IAS)
Beyond Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights in a Global Society'
Friday 26th August:
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth)
That' response doesn't work: Against a demonstrative defense of conceptualism'
Friday 2nd September:
Daniel Cohen (Monash, RSSS)
Responsibility, Resentment, and Cognitive Dissonance'
Friday 16th September:
Presentations by 2005 Honours Students
Friday 23rd September:
Rob Sparrow (Monash)
Collective responsibility for historical injustice and its limits'
Friday 30th September:
Brian Weatherson (Cornell)
Knowledge and Practical Rationality'
Friday 7th October:
Graham Priest (Melbourne)
Contradictions in Buddhism'
Friday 14th October:
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Monash)
Jackson and the 'What?', 'How?' and 'Why' of Colour'
Friday 28th October:
Ram Neta (Chapel Hill)
A Refutation of Internalist Falliblism'
November ....
Fiona Cowie (Cal Tech)
Linguistic Nativism'.