Staff Seminar Series 2010
Staff Seminars will be held on Fridays at 2.15 p.m. in the Philosophy Department Library, Room 916, Menzies West, unless otherwise indicated.
Semester 2, 2010
July 23 Robert Hanna (Colorado) ‘Taking Simple Arithmetic Seriously'
July 30 Edward Khamara (Monash) ‘Evangelical Scepticism'
August 6 Stewart Cohen (ANU) ‘Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasoning'
August 13 Neil McKinnon (Monash) ‘Constitution and Mereological Pluralism'
August 20 Paul Biegler (Monash) and Patrick Vargas ‘Epistemic paternalism, unconscious persuasion, and regulation of pharmaceutical advertising'
August 27 Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) TBA
September 3 Simon Keller (Victoria University Wellington) ‘Motives, Reasons, and the Ethics of Special Relationships'
Semester 1, 2010
March 12 Toby Handfield (Monash University) "The nature of chance in current physical theories"
March 19
Karen Green (Monash University)
"When is a contract theorist not a contract theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as critics of Thomas Hobbes."
March 26
Rob Sparrow (Monash University)
"What should advocates of human enhancement say about sex selection?"
April 16
Jacqueline Broad (Monash University
"Mary Astell and the Virtues"
April 23
no seminar
April 30
John Kleinig (ANU)
"Nationalism: A Qualified Defense."
May 7
Janna Thompson (Latrobe University)
"The Interests of the Dead"
May 14
John Bigelow (Monash University)
"Quine, mereology, and inference to the best explanation"
May 21
Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
"The Fabric of Existence. Place as the Ground of Ethics."
May 28
Rachel Briggs
T.B.A
June 4
Cathy Legg (University of Waikato)
"The Hardness of the Iconic Must: Can Peirce's existential graphs assist modal epistemology?"
For further information about the seminars, please contact the Seminars Convenor, Karen Green.
For information about parking at Monash, please email Eleanor Horsburgh or phone her on (03) 9905 3209.
For details of previous speakers, see our archives for 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 or 2004.