Staff Seminars 2006
Here are details of most of the seminars from 2006; please see our seminars page for the current program.
Friday, March 3:
Susan Wolf (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Moral Psychology and the Unity of Virtue'
Friday, March 10:
Brian Ellis (Latrobe)
Two Conceptions of Individual Liberty'
Friday, March 17:
Neil Thomason (Melbourne)
Do human Randomized Control Trials give us the information we think they are giving us?
Answer: No, not by a long shot!'
Friday, March 24:
Hud Hudson (Western Washington)
Confining Composition'
Friday, March 31:
Graham Oppy (Monash)
Cosmological Arguments'
Friday, April 7:
David Velleman (NYU)
So It Goes'
Monday, April 10 at 3.00 pm:
Nick Zangwill (Oxford)
Metaphor and Music'
Friday, April 28:
Uriah Kriegel (Arizona/Sydney)
The self-representational theory of consciousness'
Friday, May 5:
Aubrey Townsend (Monash)
A Hole in the Bucket: Circularity and Scepticism'
Friday, May 12:
Karen Jones (Melbourne)
Reasons to Feel, Reasons to Believe'
Friday, May 19:
John Bigelow (Monash) and Toby Handfield (Monash)
Count the Ways'
Friday, May 26:
Lloyd Humberstone (Monash)
Sufficiency and Excess'
Friday, May 5:
Jo Asscher (Monash)
VERE: Virtue Ethics Reflective Equilibrium'
Friday, July 21:
Doug Kutach (Brown University)
Causation as Important Determination'
Friday, July 28:
Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Monism'
Thursday, August 3 at 4.30 pm:
Robert Hanna (University or Colorado, Boulder)
A Nonconceptualists solution to Benaceraf's Dilemma'
Friday, August 4:
Robert Hanna (University or Colorado, Boulder) and Monima Chadha (Monash)
Is there a Problem of Non-Conceptual Content?'
Friday, August 11:
Rob Sparrow (Monash)
Procreative Beneficence, Obligation and Eugenics?'
Friday, August 18:
Christopher Hill (Brown)
Visual Qualia'
Friday, August 25:
Alex Byrne (MIT)
"Knowing What I am Thinking"
Friday, September 1:
Jessica Wolfendale (Monash) and Steven Clarke (CAPPE)
"Consistency, Consent and the Military"
Friday, September 8:
Karen Green(Monash)
Frege on Existence and Nonexistence'
Friday, September 15:
Presentations by 2006 Honours Students
Friday, October 6:
Hartley Slater (University of Western Australia)
Proving 2+3=5'
Friday, October 13:
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Monash)
Does evolved seeing red imply ought to see red?'
Friday, October 20:
Daniel Star (CAPPE)
After Virtue Ethics'
Friday, October 27:
Andrew Brenan (Latrobe)
Entailment, conditions and conditionals'
Friday, November 3:
Lynda Burns (Monash)
Vagueness, Decision and Stipulation: When is enough enough?'