Programme seminar series (2018)
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 | |
| 28 Feb | Mike LeBuffe (Otago) | Hobbes on reason about action | |
| 07 Mar | Charles Pigden (Otago) | The case of comrade Tuvel | |
| 14 Mar | Patrick Girard (Auckland) | If I were Spiderman, I could climb walls | |
| 21 Mar | no speaker (postgrad conference) | ||
| 28 Mar | Andrew Moore (Otago) | Which entities have well-being? | |
| 04 Apr | no speaker (mid-semester break) | ||
| 11 Apr | Grant Gillett (bioethics, Otago) | Foucault's Kant: A departure from dualism | |
| 18 Apr | Kourken Michaelian (Otago) | Episodic memory is not immune to error through misidentification: Against Fernández | |
| 25 Apr | no speaker (ANZAC day) | ||
| 02 May | Bill Fish (Massey) | Perceptual paradigms | |
| 09 May | Chris Lean (ANU/Otago) | Invasive species and naturalized function in ecology | |
| 16 May | Greg Dawes and Zach Weber (Otago) | On the analytic/continental divide: in defence of Derrida? | |
| 23 May | André Sant'Anna (Otago) | The hybrid contents of memory | |
| 30 May | Kai Wehmeier (UC Irvine) | A Fresh Look at Frege's Begriffsschrift Theory of Identity | |
| winter break | |||
| 11 Jul | no speaker (NZAP/AAP conference in Wellington) | ||
| 18 Jul | Carl Craver (Washington, St Louis) | Constitutive Relevance Redux | |
| 25 Jul | Shmulik Nili (Northwestern and ANU) | From Charlottesville to the Nobel: political leaders and the morality of political honours | |
| 01 Aug | no speaker (postgrad conference) | ||
| 08 Aug | Gillian Russell (UNC Chapel Hill) | Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Logical Consequence | |
| 15 Aug | Tiddy Smith (Otago) | Animism and Common Consent Arguments | |
| 22 Aug | John Zerilli (Otago) | Multiple realization and commensurability of taxonomies | |
| 29 Aug | no speaker (mid-semester break) | ||
| 05 Sep | Lisa Ellis (Otago) | How should we share the risks of sea-level rise? | |
| 12 Sep | Brian Garrett (ANU) | Re-reading Dummett's "Bringing about the past" | |
| 19 Sep | Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm) | Is logic normative? | |
| 26 Sep | Alex Miller (Otago) | What is the sceptical solution? | |
| 03 Oct | Renee Bolinger (ANU) | Objective rights and epistemic rights | |
| 10 Oct | Jesse Wall (law, Otago) | Justifying and Excusing Sex | |
For archives of past seminars, click here.