Seminar series (2016)
Seminars will take place on Wednesdays in Richardson GS2, from 11:00-12:30.
(Note: in addition to the departmental seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 24 Feb | Francois Schroeter (Melbourne), Laura Schroeter (Melbourne) | The Generalized Integration Challenge in Metaethics |
| 02 Mar | Zach Weber (Otago) | Observations on the trivial world |
| 09 Mar | Charles Pigden (Otago) | Are conspiracy theorists intellectually vicious? |
| 16 Mar | Hannah Clark-Younger (Otago) | The Logic of Commanding and Permitting |
| 23 Mar | postgrad conference | mid-semester break |
| 6 Apr | Michael LeBuffe (Otago) | Spinoza, Michael Della Rocca, and the Question of Idealism |
| 13 Apr | Greg Dawes (Otago) | What's wrong with the philosophy of religion? |
| 20 Apr | Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield) | Are citizens culpable for what their states do? |
| 27 Apr | Neil Levy (Oxford) | Am I racist? |
| 04 May | Joseph Ulatowski (Waikato) | The Pragmatic Conception of Truth and Practical Considerations |
| 11 May | David Fielding (Otago -- Economics) | Traditions of Tolerance |
| 18 May | Grant Gillett (Otago -- Bioethics) | Embodied cognition, Propositions and the human mind/brain |
| 25 May | James Maclaurin (Otago) | Human obsolescence: Why strong AI is not the problem |
| 01 Jun | Kourken Michaelian (Otago) | Collective mental time travel: Ontology and epistemology |
| winter break | ||
| 13 Jul | Lisa Ellis (Otago) | The collective ethics of flying |
| 20 Jul | Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) | From Moral Twin Earth to Pleasure in Eden |
| 27 Jul | Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (North Carolina Chapel Hill) | On A Theory of a Better Morality and A Better Theory of Morality |
| 03 Aug | postgrad conference | |
| 10 Aug | Simon Wigley (Bilkent University) | Fairness, blame, and punishment |
| 17 Aug | Stephen Yablo (MIT) | Proportionality |
| 24 Aug | Penelope Mackie (Nottingham) | Perception, Mind-independence, and Berkeley | mid-semester break |
| 07 Sep | Robert L. Frazier (Oxford) | Intuition, models, and morality |
| 14 Sep | Emily Parke (Auckland) | Treasured Exceptions: Surprise and its Role in Science |
| 21 Sep | Andrew Moore (Otago) | Objectivism about animal well-being |
| 28 Sep | Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | The brain as a model of the world |
| 05 Oct | Eirik Lang Harris (City University of Hong Kong) | Shen Dao and the Development of Chinese Political Philosophy |
| 12 Oct | Alex Miller (Otago) | Ginsborg on Meaning and Understanding |
For archives of past seminars, click here.