Philosophy

Programme seminar series (2017)

Seminars will take place on Wednesdays in Richardson GS2, from 11:00-12:30.

(Note: in addition to the programme seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
01 Mar	Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London)	Justice, Paradox & Values: Artificial Intelligence & Philosophy
08 Mar	Brett Calcott (Sydney)	What kind of program is a genetic program?
15 Mar	Shaun Nichols (Arizona)	Rational Meta-ethics
22 Mar	postgrad conference
29 Mar	Stephanie Collins (Manchester)	Filling duty gaps
05 Apr	Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch)	Are there global collective duties?
12 Apr	Jon Keyzer (Otago)	Disagreement and the Normativity of Meaning
mid-semester break
26 Apr	Zach Weber (Otago)	Ordinary paradox
03 May	Andrew Moore (Otago)	The self-supervenience of well-being
10 May	Ole Doering (Freie Universität Berlin)	Confucius and Kant on Ethics
17 May	Greg Dawes (Otago)	The Development of Medieval Empiricism
24 May	Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki)	Biochemical Realization. Or: Where do you get your protein?
31 May	Manuel Lechthaler (Otago)	Substitution Failures in Plural Logic
winter break
12 Jul	Michael LeBuffe (Otago)	Descartes' Wax Example
19 Jul	Colleen Murphy (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)	Transitional justice
26 Jul	Jacob Levy (McGill)	Political realism and moral microfoundations
02 Aug	postgrad conference
09 Aug	Stephen Gardiner (Washington)	Ethics and Intergenerational Extortion: On “Making the Grandchildren Pay” for Climate Action
16 Aug	Charles Pigden (Otago)	Reason the slave of the passions: what Hume meant, whether he was right, why it matters
23 Aug	Kourken Michaelian (Otago)	How generative can you get? Reconstruction and autonoesis in episodic memory knowledge
mid-semester break
06 Sep	James Maclaurin (Otago)	Discrimination, prejudice, and artificial intelligence
13 Sep	Tiddy Smith (Otago)	Alston and the Problem of Religious Diversity
20 Sep	Greg Currie (York, UK)	Learning from the imagination
27 Sep	Lisa Ellis (Otago)	The conceptual challenge of biodiversity loss for democratic theory
04 Oct	Cheryl Cottine (Oberlin)	Built on Roles? Contemporary Ethics and A Confucian Example
11 Oct	Alex Miller	Rule-Following, Meaning and Primitive Normativity

For archives of past seminars, click here.