Programme seminar series (2024)
Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11am to 12.30pm in St David F.
(Note: in addition to the programme seminar series, there is a regular postgraduate seminar series.)
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 28 Feb | Charles Pigden (PHIL, Otago) |
Can Truth
Subvert the Inference-Barriers? A Reply to Mark Nelson |
| 6 Mar | Fernando Cano-Jorge (PHIL, Otago) |
Rethinking
the computer |
| 13 Mar | Jan
Mihal (Law, Otago) |
Big Data, Free
Riding, and Fair Play |
| 20 Mar | Drew Khlentzos (Macquarie) |
Semantic
Processing And Mental Logic |
| 27 Mar | no speaker: postgraduate conference
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| 3 Apr | mid-semester break |
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| 10 Apr | Michael LeBuffe (PHIL, Otago) |
The Principle
of Sufficient Reason in Spinoza's Ethics |
| 17 Apr | Dennis C. Rasmussen (Syracuse) |
The Infidel
and the Professor: David Hume and Adam Smith |
| 24 Apr | Greg Dawes (PHIL, Otago) |
Is Science
Western? Yes and No |
| 1 May | John Matthewson (Massey) |
TBC |
| 8 May | Elizabeth
Fenton (Bioethics, Otago) |
TBC |
| 15 May | Malcolm Forster (Maidson-Wisconsin) |
TBC |
| 22 May | Zach Weber (PHIL, Otago) |
TBC |
| 29 May | no seminar (PHIL Staff Meeting) |
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| 5 June | no seminar (winter break) |
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| 17 Jul | ||
| 24 Jul | Lisa Ellis (PHIL, PPE, Otago) |
TBC |
| 31 Jul | Joseph Burke (doctoral candidate PHIL, Otago) |
TBC |
| 7 Aug | Chen Hai (Si-Mian Institute, East China Normal University) |
TBC |
| 14 Aug | no speaker: postgraduate conference | |
| 21 Aug | ||
| 28 Aug | ||
| 4 Sep | no seminar (mid-semester break) | |
| 11 Sep | Simon Walker (Bioethics, Otago) |
TBC |
| 18 Sep | ||
| 25 Sep | ||
| 2 Oct | ||
| 9 Oct | ||
| 16 Oct | Alex Miler (Otago) |
TBC |
For archives of past seminars, click here.