Programme seminar series (2022)
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11am to 12.30pm in Burns 4 (ground floor of the Arts Building, 95 Albany Street). Under orange restrictions, masks are strongly encouraged.
(Note: in addition to the programme seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 02 Mar | Heather Dyke (Otago) |
Naturalising the Philosophy of Time |
| 9 Mar | Charles Pigden (Otago) |
What
Thrasymachus Should have Said |
| 16 Mar | — |
— |
| 23 Mar | no speaker: postgraduate conference | |
| 30 Mar | — |
— |
| 06 Apr | — |
— |
| 13 Apr | — |
— |
| 20 Apr | no seminar (mid-semester break) | — |
| 27 April | Greg Dawes (Otago) | Ways of Knowing: Posing the Question (moved from 30 March) |
| 04 May | Zach Weber (Otago) |
Revision without
revision? |
| 11 May | Michael LeBuffe (Otago) |
Human Essence
in Spinoza's Ethics |
| 18 May | Andrew Moore (Otago) |
Objective List Theory |
| 25 May | — |
— |
| 1 Jun | Zachary Swindlehurst (ANU) |
Is
Reasoning a Mental Action? |
| winter break | ||
| 13 Jul | — |
— |
| 20 Jul | — |
— |
| 27 Jul | — |
— |
| 03 Aug | Charles Pigden (Otago) |
‘Conspiracy
Theory’ as a tonkish term: The runabout inference-ticket
form truth to falsehood |
| 10 Aug | no speaker: postgraduate conference | |
| 17 Aug | Grant Gillett (Bioethics; Otago) |
Neurophilosophy
after Aristotle |
| 24 Aug | Elisabeth Ellis (Otago) |
Maximum
Scholarly Value for Minimal Harm: Practical Climate Ethics
for Academics |
| 31 Aug | no seminar (mid-semester break) | — |
| 07 Sep | Alex Miller |
Wittgenstein,
Blind Rule-Following and Wright's "Minor Premise Problem" |
| 14 Sep | (postponed: moved to 21 September) |
|
| 21 Sep | James Maclaurin (PHIL) and Mike King (Bioethics) (Otago) | An Ethics for Cryptocurrencies |
| 28 Sep | Joe Ulatowski (Waikato) |
Epistemic
Gatekeeping, Pride or Prejudice? |
| 5 Oct | Neil Valllelly (Rutherford Fellow, History, Otago) |
The Border
and the Flesh |
| 12 Oct | Justine Kingsbury (Waikato) |
Changing
pākehā minds |
For archives of past seminars, click here.