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Logic Seminar series 2010

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Friday March 5th Zach Webber Figures and Formulae
Friday March 19th Graham Priest (UOM)  
Friday March 26rd Greg Hjorth (UOM)  
Friday April 9th Ross Brady (La Trobe)  
  Su Rogerson and Sam Butchart (Monash)  
Friday April 16th Simon D'Alfonso The Logic of Being Misinformed
Friday April 23rd Dan Marshall (ANU) The Semantic Argument for Possible Worlds
Friday April 30th Greg Hjorth (Melbourne) Cardinality and Classification
Friday May 28th Mark Jago (Macquarie) TBA
Friday July 30th Takuro Onishi(Kyoto) TBA
Friday August 6th Shunsuke Yatabe On Evans's Vague Object from Set Theoretic Viewpoint
Friday August 20th Kit Fine(NYU) Joint Intention
Friday September 3rd Greg Restall (Melbourne) Normalisation, Cut-Elimination and the Identity of Proofs
Friday September 10th Minao Kukita (Kyoto) TBA
Friday September 17th Simon D'Alfonso (Melbourne) A Logic for Agent-Oriented Relevance
Friday October 8th Dave Ripley (Melbourne) Conservatively extending classical logic with naive truth
Friday October 15th Laurence Goldstein (Kent) The Liar Game
Friday October 22nd No talk - School Research Day  
Friday October 29th Bogdan Dicher (Melbourne) TBA
Friday November 5th Toby Meadows (Melbourne) Categoricity ... not so categorical
Tuesday November 16th Matthew Spinks "Paraconsistent constructive logic with strong negation is a contraction-free relevant logic" (25kb pdf)

 

Thursday Philosophy seminars 2010


Date

Speaker

Title

Semester 1 2010

March 4 Geoff Tansey (Joseph Rowntree Visionary for a Just and Peaceful World) 'Patents, power and our food future'
Joint Philosophy/CAPPE Seminar
March 11 Graham Priest (Melbourne) 'Buddhist Ethics'
March 18 Tim Oakley (La Trobe) 'The issue is meaninglessness'
April 8 Easter Break  
April 15 Paul Redding  (Sydney) 'Insights and Blindspots of Analytic Kantianism'
April 29 Laura Schroeter (Melbourne) 'Reference and Self-interpretation'
May 6 Rekha Nath (Melbourne) "Schould we care about global inequality?"
Joint Philosophy/CAPPE seminar
May 20 Sean Bowden (Melbourne) Leibniz and Neo-Pragmatism in Deleuze's 
'The Logic of Sense'
May 27 Rachael Briggs (Sydney) 'Truthmaking Without Necessitation'
     

Semester 2 2010

July 29 Tony Coady (Melbourne) TBA
Joint Philosophy/CAPPE seminar
August 3 Barry Taylor Memorial Lecture
John Bigelow (Monash)
'The Truth in Anti-Realism'
6.15-7.30, Old Arts Public Lecture Theatre
Reception to follow:
RSVP laura.schroeter@unimelb.edu.au
August 5 Stewart Cohen (Arizona) 'Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasoning'
August 12 Ruth Chang (Rutgers) TBA
August 13            Kit Fine (NYU)   TBA
Joint Logic Group/Philosophy seminar
August 19 Karen Jones (Melbourne) TBA
August 26 Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) TBA
September 2 Simon Keller (Victoria University) TBA
Joint Philosophy/CAPPE seminar
September 9 Karen Jones (Melbourne) "Masked Reasons"
September 16 Zach Weber (Melbourne) "Vagueness, Topology, and Paraconsistency"
September 23 Spring Break  
September 30 Spring Break  
October 7 Daniel Korman (ANU/Illinois) "The language of the ontology room"
October 14 Howard Sankey (Melbourne) "Science, Common Sense and Reality"
October 21 No Seminar  
October 28 John Maier (ANU) TBA

 

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) seminars 2010

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliations

Title/Abstract

4/08/2010 Dr Charles Webel University of New York in Prague Sydney University 'Give Peace a Chance: Can a Nonviolent Strategy of Conflict Resolution be Effective in Ending the Global War on Terrorism?'
25/08/2010 Assoc. Prof. Stan Van Hooft
** If you would like to join Stan for lunch before the seminar, please meet at 1pm at rm 141 Old Quad**
Deakin University 'Humanity or Justice'
08/09/2010 Andrew Alexandra University of Melbourne 'The Political Morality of Military Conscription'
29/09/2010 Phil Clark University of Oxford 'Power, Politics and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda'
06/10/2010 Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher   'Collective Moral Obligations and Climate Change'
27/10/2010
Old Arts Room 227 (Cecil Scutt Collaborative Teaching Room)
Dr Ned Dobos University of Melbourne 'Asymmetries in Jus ad Bellum: Explaining (and justifying?) Double Standards in the Prudential Constraints on War'
17/11/2010
Old Arts Room 227 (Cecil Scutt Collaborative Teaching Room)
Emma Larking University of Melbourne   'Lessons from Locke: Why slavery is consistent with natural freedom and equality (and why we should question the universality of human rights)'
24/11/2010
Old Arts Room 227 (Cecil Scutt Collaborative Teaching Room)
Dominique Martin University of Melbourne

 

'Beyond the Market - A new approach to the ethical procurement of human biological materials'

 

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