Staff Seminars 2008
Here are details of seminars held in 2008. For the current program, please see our seminars page.
Friday, February 29:
"Welfare as Success."
Friday, March 7:
Susanna Schellenberg (ANU)
"The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience."
Friday, March 14:
Rob Sparrow (Monash)
"If People Were Movies? Free Speech and Free Association."
Friday, March 28:
John Bigelow (Monash)
"Time is a Vector."
Monday, March 31, 4.30 - 6.00 pm:
Prof. Agnes Heller (Visiting Lecturer, Monash)
"The Beauty of Morality."
Friday, April 4:
Thomas Pogge (CAPPE, Columbia)
"Do Rawls' Two Theories of Justice Fit Together?"
Friday, April 11:
Janna Thompson (La Trobe)
"History, Identity and Responsibility."
Friday, April 18:
Paul Thom (Sydney)
"The Performing Art of Opera."
Friday, May 2:
Andrew Benjamin (Monash CCLCS)
"Obdurate Love: Towards a Metaphysics of Intimacy."
Friday, May 9:
Jo Asscher (Monash)
"Moral Apologists."
Friday, May 16:
Brian Ellis, Stephen Ames
"Temporal Asymmetry."
Friday, May 23:
Graham Oppy (Monash)
"Popping Out of Existence."
Friday, May 30:
"How thin can thick concepts afford to be?"
Friday, July 18:
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 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."