The Seminar programme for 2011 will be updated regularly from the commencement of Semester One.
The Philosophy seminars are held in Burns 4 at 11am on Wednesdays (unless otherwise stated). The session normally runs for one and a half hours.
| March 7 |
Professor Danielle Macbeth |
Haverford College |
The Peculiar Role of Writing in Mathematical Reasoning
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| March 14 |
Professor Robert Veatch |
Mt Sinai School of Medicine |
Organ Transplantation: Emerging Controversies |
| March 21 |
Professor Andy Miah |
University of the West of Scotland |
Is Transhumanism All Too Transhuman? |
| March 28 |
Associate Professor Greg Dawes |
Otago |
Belief is Not the Issue: A Defence of Inference to the Best Explanation |
| April 4 |
Assistant Professor Dan Korman |
Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) |
The Language of the Ontology Room |
| April 9 - 13 |
Mid-Semester Break :
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| April 18 |
Associate Professor Andrew Moore |
Otago |
Hedonism |
| April 25 |
Associate Professor Andrew Moore |
Otago |
Hedonism |
| May 9 |
Dr Colin Cheyne |
Otago |
The Asymmetry of Formal Logic |
| May 16 |
Peter Anstey |
Otago |
John Locke on human understanding |
| May 23 |
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Otago |
Hume's Four Dissertations: Revisiting the essay on taste |
| May 30 |
Dr Alberto Vanzo |
Otago |
Rationalism and Empiricism in the Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy |
| June 6 |
Dr Alberto Vanzo |
Otago |
Rationalism and Empiricism in the Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy |
| June 11 - July 6 |
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| July 11 |
Dr Gillian Crozier |
Loyola (Chicago) |
Feyerabend on Newton: A defense of Newton’s empiricist method |
| July 18 |
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Otago/UConn |
Dialetheism Without Detachment |
| July 25 |
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The Phenomenology of C.S. Peirce
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| August 1 |
Dr Cei Maslen |
VUW |
Keeping score of causal claims: Causal Contextualism applied to a medical case |
| August 8 |
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North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Experience and Asymmetry |
| August 15 |
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Canterbury |
Rehabilitating the anthropic principle |
| August 22 |
Dan and Gwen Taylor Lecture 5pm |
St Andrews |
God, science, and the ethics of belief
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| August 27 - August 31 |
Mid-Semester Break
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| September 5 |
Dr Josh Parsons |
Otago |
Fuzzy Mereology |
| September 12 |
Mr Jonathan Jong |
Otago |
Is the cognitive science of religion philosophically interesting? |
| September 19 |
Professor Alan Musgrave |
Otago |
Getting over Gettier |
| September 26 |
Dr Robert Sinnerbrink |
Macquarie University |
Scenes from a Marriage: On the Idea of Film as Philosophy |
| October 3 |
NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK |
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| October 10 |
Dr James Maclaurin & Associate Professor Heather Dyke |
Otago |
Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience |
| October 12 on |
Examinations and Summer Break |
