Programme seminar series (2019)
Seminars took 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 |
| 1 March |
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth). Please note Friday session, with a start of 3.30pm (same room) |
Neurointerventions and Agency |
| 06 Mar |
Andrew Mason (Warwick) |
The Ethics of Appearance Discrimination |
| 13 Mar |
Martin Lin (Rutgers) |
Spinoza's Faith |
| 20 Mar |
no speaker (postgraduate conference) |
| 27 Mar |
Jacqui Broad (Monash) |
Ralph Cudworth (1617–88) on the Self and Free Will |
| 03 Apr |
Charles Pigden (Otago) |
Freedom, Reason and a Quantifier-Shift Fallacy: Kant’s Attempt to Fend Off the Error Theory in the Groundwork |
| 10 Apr |
Greg Dawes (Otago) |
The Autonomy of Science: Historical Reflections |
| 17 Apr |
Zach Weber (Otago) |
On Richard Routley’s "Ultralogic as Universal?" Program, 40 years Later |
| 24 Apr |
no speaker (mid-semester break; ANZAC day) |
| 01 May |
Mike LeBuffe (Otago) |
Spinoza: Citizen and State |
| 08 May |
Grant Gillett (Otago Bioethics) |
Models of the Mind: Getting Over Post-industrial Models |
| 15 May |
Heather Dyke (Otago) |
Explaining Manifest Time: What Language Can't Tell Us About Time |
| 22 May |
Jessie Bering (Otago, Sci Comm) |
Adaptation or pathology? A look at contemporary evolutionary accounts of human suicide |
| 29 May |
Karen Green (Melbourne) |
Did Tarski Refute Frege? |
| winter break |
| 10 Jul |
Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley) |
Taylor Fellow: Wittgenstein on Going On |
| 17 Jul |
Fabien Medvecky (Otago, Sci Comm) |
Science, communication and epistemic paternalism |
| 24 Jul |
Malcolm Forster (Fudan; UW Madison) |
How Predictive Brains Distinguish Appearance from Reality |
| 31 Jul |
no speaker (postgraduate conference) |
|
| 07 Aug |
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter) |
Newton’s Metaphysics in Practice |
| 14 Aug |
Adrian Currie (Exeter) |
Peculiarity and Narrative in History |
| 21 Aug |
Tim Dare (Auckland) |
Big Data, Transparency, and Explainability |
| 28 Aug |
no speaker (mid-semester break) |
| 04 Sep |
Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow) |
Ambition, Love, and Happiness |
| 11 Sep |
James Maclaurin (Otago) |
Why Work? |
| 18 Sep |
Lisa Ellis (Otago) |
Sectoral responsibility for climate justice: How much of the global carbon budget should we spend on international air travel? |
| 25 Sep |
Alex Miller (Otago) |
Ecumenical Expressivism and the Frege-Geach Problem |
| 02 Oct |
Cei Maslen (Victoria, U of Wellington) |
More of a Cause |
| 09 Oct |
Anthony Gambrell (Otago) |
Locke's Sovereign |
For archives of past seminars, click
here.
