| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| March 18 |
Jakob Hohwy (Monash University) |
Dimensions of Consciousness |
| March 11 |
Frank Jackson (La Trobe University and Princeton) |
Thought Experiments and Possibilities: Some Thoughts Prompted by Recent Discussions, Including By Williamson |
| March 4 |
Rob Sparrow (Monash University) |
Better Than Men? Sex and the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction. |
| February 18 |
Jack Reynolds (LaTrobe University) |
The Problem of Other Minds: Solutions and Dissolutions in Analytic and Continental Philosophy. |
4 February |
James Williams
Dundee University |
Reason and anti-reason in Whitehead, Michel Henry and Deleuze
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| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| February 27 |
Prof. Nicholas Griffin (McMaster University, Canada) |
'Russell's Early Decompositional Method of Analysis'. |
| March 5 |
Assoc. Prof. Igor Primoratz (Melbourne) |
'The Terror Bombing of German Cities in World War II: A Case Study in Applied Ethics'. |
| March 12 |
Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (Monash/VCA) |
'Politics in a Postsecular World: Permutations of Political Theology'. |
| March 19 |
Dr. Uriah Kriegel (Sydney/Arizona) |
'Phenomenal Intentionality and the Normativity of Intentional Ascription'. |
| April 2 |
Dr. Daniel Star (ANU) |
' Two levels of moral thinking: A New and More Satisfactory Approach'. |
| April 9 |
Professor Jeff Malpas (La Trobe/Tasmania) |
‘Davidson and Realism' |
| April 16 | Behan McCullough (La Trobe) |
'Lessons of History: Generalizations, Trends and Inspirations' |
| April 23 |
Assoc. Prof. Janna Thomson (La Trobe) |
'Liberalism and Historical Obligations' |
| April 30 |
Dr Peter Chang (La Trobe) |
'A Comparison of the Confucian and Christian Theory of Human Nature and Notion of the Ideal Moral Self' |
| May 7 |
Prof. Frank Jackson (La Trobe/Princeton) |
'How to be a sceptic about Twin Earth'. |
| May 14 |
Dr George Duke (Melbourne) |
'Dummett on Abstract Objects' |
| May 21 |
Dr Matthew Sharpe (Deakin) |
'Necessary or Impossible? Zizek and Arendt on Objective Enemies and Modal Collapse in Stalin's Show Trials'. |
| May 28 |
Dr Lubica Ucnik (Murdoch) |
'Patocka on the Sacrifical Victim'. |
| June 4 |
Prof. Hugh J. Silverman (SUNY, Stonybrook) |
'Vestiges of Responsibility: Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on the Between'
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| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
23 July |
Dr Peter Chang
(La Trobe) |
“China’s Contemporary Human Rights
Challenges: A Historical and Comparative
Analysis” |
| 30 July |
John Fox (La Trobe) |
“Why the Case Against Propositions is Really
Strong” |
| 6 August |
Prof. Andrew Benjamin
(Monash) |
“Obdurate Love: Towards a Metaphysics of
Intimacy” |
| 13 August |
Prof. Richard Boyd
(Cornell) |
“Natural kinds, natural things and natural
events: Causation, representation and the
metaphysics of aggregate phenomena” |
| 20 August |
Sandy Boucher (La Trobe) |
“Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Biology” |
| 27 August |
Dr David Coady (Tasmania) |
“The Politics of Knowledge: Epistemic
Rights and Epistemic Responsibilities” |
| 3 September |
Prof. Jeff Malpas (Tasmania) |
"Heidegger, Biology and Politics" |
| 10 September |
Dr Robert Sinnerbrink
(Macquarie) |
“’Not What We Do Around Here’: Reflections
on the Analytic/Continental Debate” |
17 September |
Dr James Chase (Tasmania) |
“Appeals to Theoretical Conservatism in
Analytic Philosophy” |
| 24 September |
Dr Andrea Leon-Montero
(La Trobe) |
“Human Transcendence as Exteriority” |
| 8 October |
Dr Cameron Shingleton (La
Trobe, MSCP) |
“Concepts of Nature in the Three Projects of Modernity: Science, Society and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change ” |
| 15 October |
Assoc. Prof. Greg Restall
(University of Melbourne) |
"What Philosophers need from Proof Theory and what Proof Theorists need from Philosophers" |
| 22 October |
Jon Roffe (La Trobe) and
Dr Justin Clemens (UMelb) |
“Deleuze: The Kant of the Twentieth Century”
more details are on this link |
| 4 November |
John Fox |
Why on earth did anyone ever think mind-independence was a criterion of reality? |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 28 February |
Simon Lumsden (University of New South Wales) |
'Hegel, Derrida and Responsibility' |
| 7 March |
John Fox (La Trobe University) |
'On an argument of Fitch and Williamson' |
| 14 March |
Prof John Bigelow (Monash University and La Trobe University) |
'Poetry, prose, paintings and Platonism' |
| 21 March |
Dr Behan McCullagh (La Trobe University) |
'Lessons of History: Generalizations, Trends and Inspirations' |
| 28 March |
Stan van Hooft (Deakin University) |
'Subsistence Rights and Moral Realism' |
| 4 April |
Jan Srzednicki (La Trobe University) |
'The Japanese Concept of Ma versus the Parmenidean Way of Truth - Exploring and Contrasting Different Intellectual Bases of Eastern and Western Thought ' |
| 18 April |
Prof Andrew Brennan (La Trobe University) |
'Entailment, Conditions and Conditionals' |
| 2 May |
Prof Krishna Mallick (Salem State College and La Trobe University) |
' "Capabilities Approach" and Sustainable Environment: The Case of 'Save the Narmada River ' Movement in India ' |
| 9 May |
Dr Jorge Reyes (National Autonomous University of Mexico, and La Trobe University) |
'Ethics and Language in Gadamer ' |
| 16 May |
Prof Brian Ellis (La Trobe University) |
'Free Will as a Kind of Meta-Causal Agency ' |
| 23 May |
Barry Maund (University of Western Australia ) |
'Perception: Intentionalism and How Things Look ' |
| 30 May |
Chris Russell (La Trobe University ) |
'Kant and Russell's Logicism' |
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| 8 August |
Monima Chadha (Monash University) |
'Nonconceptual Content and Demonstrative Strategy' |
| 15 August |
Fabrizio Cariani (University of California at Berkeley) |
'Disjunctive Obligations ' |
| 22 August |
David Coady (University of Tasmania) |
'Evolution and Moral Error Theory' |
| 29 August |
Max Bini (La Trobe University) |
' Ereignis; the precondition for Being and Time - a premonition ' |
| 5 September |
Andrea Leon-Montero (La Trobe University) |
'The Limits of Understanding Justice as Responsibility' |
| 12 September |
Jack Reynolds (La Trobe University) |
'Derrida, Friendship and the Transcendental Priority of the “Untimely”' |
| 24 October |
Prof Brian Ellis (La Trobe University) |
‘What Metaphysics is Really About' |
