Global Utilities

Philosophy Program

Philosophy Seminar Program

 

All seminars before April 29 take place in Hu2 431 on Wednesdays and start at 11:00am.
From April 29 until May 28 the seminars will take place in EDUC1 415.
Enquiries should be directed to Jack Reynolds,
(9479 3605, email: jack.reynolds@latrobe.edu.au)

 

Date Speaker Topic
Wednesday
27 February
Prof Nicholas Griffin
(McMaster University, Canada)
Russell's Early Decompositional Method of Analysis
Wednesday
5 March

Assoc Prof Igor Primoratz (Melbourne)

The Terror Bombing of German Cities in World War II: A Cace Study in Applied Ethics

Wednesday
12 March

Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis
(Monash/VCA)
Politics in a Postsecular World: Permutations of Political Theology
Wednesday
19 March
Dr Uriah Kriegel
(Sydney/Arizona)
Phenomenal Intentionality and the Normativity of Intentional Ascription
Wednesday
2 April
Dr Daniel Star
(ANU, CAPPE)
Reasons: Explanations or Evidence?
Wednesday
9 April
Prof Jeff Malpas
(La Trobe/Tasmania)
On Not Giving Up the World: Davidson on the Grounds of Belief
Wednesday
16 April

Behan McCullagh
(La Trobe)

Explanations, Not Predicitions, Justify or Discredit Economic Theories

Wednesday
23 April

Assoc Prof Janna Thompson (La Trobe) Liberalism and Historical Obligations
Wednesday
30 April
Dr Peter Chang
(La Trobe)
A Comparison of the Confucian and Christian Theory of Human Nature and Notion of the Ideal Moral Self
Wednesday
7 May
Prof Frank Jackson
(La Trobe/Princeton)
How to be a Sceptic about Twin Earth
Wednesday
14 May
Dr George Duke
(Melbourne)
Dummett on Abstract Objects
Wednesday
21 May
Dr Matthew Sharpe
(Deakin)
Necessary or Impossible? Zizek and Arendt on Objective Enemies and Modal Collapse in Stalin's Show Trials
Wednesday
28 May
Dr Lubica Ucnik
(Murdoch)
Patocka on th Sacrifical Victim
Wednesday
4 June
Prof Hugh J. Silverman
(SUNY, Stonybrook)
TBA

 

 

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