Philosophy Programme

Programme seminar series (2020)

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
26 Feb	Carl Mika (Waikato)	Aspects of Māori philosophy
04 Mar	Charles Pigden (Otago)	Sidgwick, Moore and Supervenience: the metaphysics of Robust Moral Realism
11 Mar	Guillermo Badia (U of Queensland)	How do we fix mathematical language if the universe has too many objects?
18 Mar	No speaker (postgraduate conference)
25 Mar	Casey O'Callaghan (Washington University in St. Louis)	our apologies - cancelled until further notice
01 Apr
08 Apr
15 Apr	No speaker (mid-semester break)
22 Apr
29 April	Michael LeBuffe (Otago)	Acting Well: A Leibnizian Account (virtual online seminar)
06 May
13 May	Mark Boespflug (Otago)	Faith in Science, Science without Scientia and the Social Epistemology of Scientific Belief
20 May
27 May	Heather Dyke (Otago)	Moral obligations to future generations and the non-identity problem
winter break
08 Jul	Zach Weber (Otago)	New proofs with old tools
15 Jul
22 Jul	Charles Pigden (Otago)	Causality and the Solipsistic Prison
29 Jul	Chloe Wall (Victoria UoW)	Making Memories Together: Why Social Epistemologists Should Care About Memory
05 Aug	No speaker (postgraduate conference)
12 Aug	Andrew Moore (Otago)	What ethical values best inform our response to a pandemic? (online via Zoom; not in-person)
19 Aug	James Maclaurin	What is it like to be a bot?
26 Aug	No speaker (mid-semester break)
02 Sep	Steve Clarke (Charles Sturt University)	Conscientious Objection and the Priority Thesis
09 Sep	Mark Boespflug (Otago)	An Analysis of Irrationality: Locke's Epistemology of Partisan Belief
16 Sep	Alex Miller (Otago)	Metaphysical and Epistemological Scepticism in Kripke’s Wittgenstein
23 Sep	Greg Dawes (Otago)	Towards a Practice-Based Pluralist Theory of (Cultural) Knowledge
30 Sep	Lisa Ellis (Otago)	The Collective Implications of Discrete Decisions

For archives of past seminars, click here.