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