Seminar series (2015)
Seminars take place on Wednesdays in Burns 5, from 11:00-12:30.
(Note: in addition to the departmental seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)
DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
25 Feb | Ben Schontal (Otago - Religion) | Protecting religion in law? Managing monks' mobility in Sri Lanka |
4 Mar | Greg Dawes (Otago) | Are religious beliefs hinge beliefs? |
11 Mar | Monica Janzen (Hennepin Tech) | Beyond Theories: Using Civic Engagement Projects in Online and Traditional Classrooms |
18 Mar | Framk Jackson (NYU) | Three Grades of Involvement in Conceptual Analysis |
25 Mar | Elijah Millgram (Utah) | Who Was the Author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra? |
1 Apr | Charles Pigden (Otago) | NOFI and Non-Cognitivism: the History of a Mistake |
mid-semester break | ||
15 Apr | Justine Kingsbury (Waikato) | Thinking critically about beliefs it's hard to think critically about |
22 Apr | Fabien Medvecky (Otago - Sci/Com) | Science communication and epistemic justice |
29 Apr | Neil Pickering (Otago - Bioethics) | Could we do without a concept of disease? |
6 May | James Maclaurin (Otago) | Is biodiversity a natural quality? |
13 May | Grant Gillett (Otago - Bioethics) | The active global workspace theory of consciousness |
20 May | Morteza Sedaghat | Triangulation and the causal theory of reference |
27 May | Kourken Michaelian (Otago) | Collaborative memory and the extended knowledge debate |
winter break | ||
15 Jul | Daniel Wee (Otago) | Quietism in the Individualist vs. Communitarian Debate on Rule-following |
22 Jul | Melissa Lane (Princeton) | The Politics of Unsustainability: Plato on the Logic of Constitutional Change |
29 Jul | graduate student conference | |
5 Aug | Jeremy Waldron (NYU) | What Do the Philosophers Have Against Dignity? |
12 Aug | Ali Kalantari (Isfahan) | Norms: guidance, redundancy and the norm of belief |
19 Aug | Thomas Forster (Cambridge) | What is Logic for? |
winter break | ||
2 Sep | Alex Miller (Otago) | Moral supervenience revisited |
9 Sep | Andrew Moore (Otago) | Theory and meta-theory of well-being |
16 Sep | Mike Lebuffe (Otago) | Naturalism, theomorphism, and the status of ideas in Spinoza |
23 Sep | Alexandra King (SUNY Buffalo) | The amoralist and the anaesthetic |
30 Sep | Ruth Boeker (Melbourne) | Locke, Shaftesbury and Hume on Personal Identity |
7 Oct | Lisa Ellis (Otago) | Majoritarianism in the Age of Environmental Crisis |
25 Nov | Unsal Cimen (Otago) | Two fundamental commitments of Francis Bacon which determines his attitude towards mathematics |
For archives of past seminars, click here.