Programme seminar series (2021)
Seminars take place on Wednesdays in Richardson Ground S2 from 11:00-12:30. Please note that this location may change, but this is noted on posters, in emails and on this webpage.
(Note: in addition to the programme seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 03 Mar | no speaker (Charles's talk postponed to 10 March) | |
| 10 Mar | Charles Pigden (Otago) | Updating My Solution to Prior's Dilemma |
| 17 Mar | Heather Dyke (Otago) and Tiddy Smith (Indonesia/Otago) | Memory and Epistemic Circularity |
| 24 Mar | no speaker: postgraduate conference | |
| 31 Mar | Elisabeth Ellis (Otago) | How Carbon Taxation Can Facilitate Just Interaction in a Non-Ideal World: the Case of International Aviation Fuel |
| 07 Apr | no seminar (mid-semester break) | |
| 14 Apr | Andrew Moore (Otago) | New challenges for rule consequentialism |
| 21 Apr | Zach Weber (Otago) | Pluralism and Paraconsistent Arithmetic |
| 28 April | Jeremy Wyatt (Waikato) | How to Canberra-plan disagreement |
| 05 May | Caitlin Fitchett (Otago/Harvard) | The Scope of Practical Deliberation |
| 12 May | Neil Pickering (Otago) | Harmful choices and health-care decision-making competence |
| 19 May | Michael LeBuffe (Otago) | The Identity of Indiscernibles, and Human Nature in Spinoza's Ethics |
| 26 May | Greg Dawes (Otago) | Decolonizing Philosophy: Differing Forms of Knowledge |
| 2 Jun | Vanessa Schouten (Massey) | A New Value Pluralism for Sexual Ethics |
| winter break | ||
| 14 Jul | Heather Dyke (Otago) | Explaining Temporal Experience in a B-theoretic World |
| 21 Jul | Grant Gillett (Bioethics Centre, Otago) | The ABC of action: a neuro-philosophical analysis |
| 28 Jul | Patrick Dawson (University of Sydney) | Reconciling relativity with a privileged present |
| 04 Aug | Sean McConnell (Classics, Otago) | Cicero and the moral importance of offense |
| 11 Aug | no speaker: postgraduate conference | |
| 18 Aug | Tiddy Smith (Massey) | (cancelled) Neanderthals, Denisovans, Ghosts, and God |
| 25 Aug | Tiddy Smith (Massey) | Neanderthals, Denisovans, Ghosts, and God |
| 01 Sep | no seminar (mid-semester break) | |
| 08 Sep | James Maclaurin (Otago) | What can’t AI do? |
| 15 Sep | Elizabeth Fenton (Bioethics Centre, Otago) | Reciprocity and Resources |
| 22 Sep | none | — |
| 29 Sep | none | — |
| 6 Oct | Fabien Medvecky (Centre for Science Communication, Otago) | In praise of ignorance |
| 13 Oct | Alex Miller (Otago) | Wittgenstein, Blind Rule-Following, and the Possibility of Meaning |
For archives of past seminars, click here.