Department of Philosophy
Seminars 2008
First Semester 2008
| 4 March | Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario, and ANU) (Joint seminar with Women's Studies) Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities |
| 25 March | Albert Atkin (Macquarie University) What do Sceptics Presuppose? |
| 8 April | Anjan Chakravartty (University of
Toronto) On the Relationship between Science and Metaphysics |
| 15 April | Cathy Legg (The University of Waikato) Making it Explicit and Clear: From 'Strong' to 'Hyper-' Inferentialism in Brandom and Peirce |
| 6 May | Wayne Christensen (Macquarie University) Towards an Integrative Framework for Agency |
20 May |
Mario Perniola (University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Italy) Mediating Media: Marshall McLuhan and the Numbing Effect (Special SCMP seminar held jointly with Media, and Critical & Cultural Studies) |
| 3 June | Carol Gould (George Mason University, and ANU) Recognition in Redistribution: Care and Diversity in Global Justice (Joint seminar with Women's Studies) |
Second Semester 2008
26 August |
Lisa Bortolotti (MACCS, Macquarie University) |
| 9 September W6A Rm 720 |
Jordi Fernandez (University of Adelaide) Reduction and Levels of Reality (abstract) |
| 16 September W6A Rm 127 |
Sarah Sorial (Macquarie University) Law, Cosmopolitan Law, and the Protection of Human Rights |
| 14 October W6A Rm 107 |
Catherine Mills (UNSW) Normal Life: Liberal Eugenics, Normalization and the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction |
| 21 October W6A Rm 720 |
Cezary Józef Olbromsk (Maria Curie-SkÅ,odowska University in Lublin, Poland) Collective (post?)Democracy: Intentional Legitimisation of the De-political Power |
| 28 October W6A Rm 107 |
John Sutton (MACCS, Macquarie University) How Do We Influence Ourselves? Skilled Movement and Embodied Cognition |
| 4 November W6A Rm 127 |
Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California Riverside) Introspection, What? |
11 November |
Sue Dodds (University of Wollongong) |
1 December (Monday) |
Nikolas Kompridis (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto). The Disunity of Reason, Reflective Disclosure, and Democratic Politics |
