Postgraduate seminar (2018)
The postgraduate seminar is for postgraduate students in philosophy and related academic areas to present their research for discussion in a friendly and supportive environment. Staff and postgraduates with an interest in philosophy are welcome to attend.
Seminars take place on Fridays in the departmental seminar room (117 Union Street East), from 3:00-4:00.
(Note: in addition to the postgraduate seminar, postgraduate students also attend the main departmental seminar series.)
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 09 Mar | Kourken Michaelian | Building professional relationships |
| 16 Mar | Chris Lernpass | Debunking, Defeat and Dogmatism |
| 23 Mar | Charles Pigden | Does Kant Commit a Quantifier-Shift Fallacy? A Reconstruction of the Central Argument in the Grundlegung |
| 30 Mar | No workshop (Good Friday) | |
| 06 Apr | No workshop (mid-semester break) | |
| 13 Apr | Adam Carter | Making People Happy or Making Happy People? |
| 20 Apr | Briony Blackmore | Transparency in Criminal Justice Algorithms |
| 27 Apr | Ben Whitcombe | The AI Boxing Problem |
| 04 May | Zachary Swindlehurst | Doxastic Realism and the Normativity of Belief: A New Error Theory? |
| 11 May | Chloe Wall | What are the Functions of Collective Memory? |
| 18 May | André Sant'Anna | Representationalism and the Relational Particularity of Perception |
| 25 May | Joseph Burke | In Defense of Human Germline Gene Editing |
| 01 Jun | Finn Butler | To Where Can Sceptical Arguments Lead? |
| winter break | ||
| 13 Jul | Chris Lernpass | How Not to Respond to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments |
| 20 Jul | Briar Topp | Trash Trade Awakening: Repercussions of China's Ban on Trash lmports and an Analysis of the Global Circular Economy |
| 27 Jul | Andrew Rutherford | The 'Further Fact' View About Personal Identity |
| 03 Aug | Charles Pigden | Conspiracy Theories, Deplorables and Defectibility: a Reply to Patrick Stokes |
| 10 Aug | Joseph Burke | Subjects of Well-Being |
| 17 Aug | Adam Carter | The Tragedy that is Every Life |
| 24 Aug | Anthony Gambrell | TBA |
| 31 Aug | No workshop (mid-semester break) | |
| 07 Sep | Zachary Swindlehurst | TBA |
| 14 Sep | Chloe Wall | TBA |
| 21 Sep | Finn Butler | TBA |
| 28 Sep | Briony Blackmore | TBA |
| 05 Oct | Charles Gibson | TBA |
| 12 Oct | João Carvahlo | TBA |