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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'.

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