Staff Seminars 2009
Here are details of seminars held in 2009. For the current program, please see our seminars page.
Friday, March 6:
Sui-Fan Lee (Kings College, London)
"Fictional Names."
Friday, March 13:
Phil Dowe (University of Queensland)
"Loops in time and A-theories of time."
Friday, March 20:
Rob Sparrow (Monash)
"A Not-So-New Eugenics: Harris & Savulescu on Human Enhancement."
Friday, March 27:
Toby Handfield (Monash)
TBA
Friday, April 3:
Stephen Barker (University of Nottingham)
"Metaphysics as a Cognitive Illusion."
Friday, April 24:
Graham Oppy (Monash)
"Perfection, Near-Perfection, Maximality, and Anselmian Theism."
Friday, May 1:
Frank Jackson (Princeton, Latrobe Universities)
"Thought Experiments and Possibilities: Some Thoughts Prompted by Recent Discussions, including by Williamson."
Friday, May 8:
Elizabeth Schier (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science)
"Making the Mind Higher-Level."
Friday, May 15:
Karen Green (Monash)
"Will the real Enlightenment historian please stand up? Catharine Macaulay vs David Hume."
Friday, May 22:
Neil McKinnon (Monash)
"McTaggart's 'No Change' Objection."
Friday, May 29:
Luca Moretti (Latrobe University)
"Failure of transmission of warrant from a Bayesian perspective."
Friday, June 5:
Neil Levy (Oxford and Melbourne Universities)
"Resisting 'Weakness of the Will'."
Friday, June 12:
Alexander Bird (University of Bristol)
"The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds."
Friday, July 31:
Steve Gardner (Monash University)
"When Bayesians Disagree."
Friday, August 7:
John Armstrong (University of Melbourne)
"Intimate Philosophy."
Friday, August 14:
John Skorupski (St Andrews)
"Modality and Normativity."
Friday, August 21:
Joel Anderson (University of Utrecht)
"How Autonomy depends on Recognition: Psychological Vulnerability, Normative Corrigibility, and the Intersubjective Conditions of Full Human Agency."
Friday, August 28:
Edoardo Zamuner (Latrobe University)
"Visual Experiences of Others' Emotions."
Friday, September 4:
Allen Hazen (University of Mebourne)
"Carnap, Colors, and Mice."
Friday, September 11:
Honours Day
Friday, September 18:
Jakob Hohwy (Monash University)
"The hypothesis testing brain: philosophical implications"
Friday, September 25:
Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
"From neuroethics to consciousness ethics"
Friday, October 9:
Laura Schroeter and François Schroeter (University of Melbourne)
TBA
Friday, October 16:
Justin Oakley (Monash University)
"Reproductive liberty, assisted reproduction, and the values of parental love"
Friday, October 23:
Craig Taylor (University of Adelaide)
TBA