The Dianoia Institute of Philosophy hosts regular seminars, as well as occasional workshops and conferences, showcasing leading scholarship from around Australia and the world on a wide range of philosophical issues.
Time: 12 January 2023, 3:00 4:45pm
Level4 Conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 19 December 2022,3:00 4:45pm
Title: Pure Referentialism and the Cognitive Grounds of Sense
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 09 December 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title:‘Plato’s Holographic Cave: String Theory and Spatial Dimensionality’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 2 December 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Axiological non-evidentialism’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 25 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Moral Fictionalism and the Problem of Imaginative Barriers’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 21 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Minding Our Business: Why Inference Is Still a Problem for Laws of Nature’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 14 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Consequentialism, Cluelessness, Clumsiness, and Counterfactuals’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time:11 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘I’m mistaken’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 14 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Consequentialism, Cluelessness, Clumsiness, and Counterfactuals’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Title: ‘Partiality and Blame’
Time: 28 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Ethics & Metaethics
Mercy Lecture Theatre, 17 Young Street, Fitzroy
Title: Freedom for Humans
Time: Thursday 27 October, 4:00 pm (Melbourne) | Thursday 27 October, 6:00 am (London) | Wednesday 26 October, 10:00 pm (Los Angeles)
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Title: From Scientific Methodology to Philosophical Aesthetics
Time: 21 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time: 7 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Degrees of Consciousness’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Time:16 September 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title:‘Transduction, calibration, and the cognitive penetration of pain’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Title: ‘Knowledge and Understanding in Analytic Philosophy’
Time: 9 September 2022, 3:00-4:45 pmLevel 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Social & Political Philosophy
Title: The Justice Argument Against Catholic Integralism
Time: Friday 2 September, 9:00 am (Melbourne) | Thursday 1 September 7:00 pm (New York)
Download Vallier Flyer (PDF, 377KB)
‘How can we improve peer review?’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
“We Are Not Self Made”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
“Affective Regulation and Resistance”.
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
‘The aboutness argument against the modal theory of states of affairs’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
'How could narrative unify a person?'
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
“Counterfactual Decision Theory”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
"A Timid Response to the Consequence Argument... Plus a Little Sumpin' Sumpin"
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Metaphysics & Epistemology
Mercy Lecture Theatre, 17 Young Street, Fitzroy
Zoom registration link: tinyurl.com/DASME22
Download Scepticism and the Simulation Argument flyer (PDF, 236KB)
“Ideal vs Non-Ideal Theory in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
“Metarevisions”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade
“Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science: The repliCATS project”
Level 7 conference room (room 460.7.03), 250 Victoria Parade
“Experimental Philosophy and Ordinary Language Philosophy”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade Level
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Logic & Language
Title: On the Optimality of Vagueness
Time: Friday 1 April, 5:00--6:45 pm (Melbourne) | Friday 1 April, 8:00 am (Paris) | Thursday 31 March 11:00 pm (Los Angeles)
Download On the Optimality of Vagueness flyer (PDF, 188KB)
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Ethics & Metaethics
Title: Participatory Moral Reasons: Their Scope and Strength
Time: Thursday 18 November, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Wednesday 17 November, 10:00-11:45 pm (London) | Wednesday 17 November, 5:00-6:45 pm (New York)
Download Participatory Moral Reasons: Their Scope and Strength flyer (PDF, 350KB)
Title: Indecisive Decision Theory
Time: Thursday 28 October, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Wednesday 27 October, 11:00-0:45 am (London) | Wednesday 27 October, 6:00-7:45 pm (New York)
Download Indecisive Decision Theory flyer (PDF, 336KB)
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Social & Political Philosophy
Title: ‘It Might Have Been!’: What Matters in Alternative Possible Lives
Time: Thursday 30 September, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Thursday 30 September, 12:00-1:45 am (London) | Wednesday 29 September, 7:00-8:45 pm (New York)
Download ‘It Might Have Been!’: What Matters in Alternative Possible Lives flyer (PDF, 420KB)
Title: Causalism
Time: Friday 27 August, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Friday 27 August, 12:00-1:45 am (London) | Thursday 26 August, 7:00-8:45 pm (New York)
Download Causalism flyer (PDF. 354KB)
Title: Scientific Realism, Empiricism, and Instrumentalism
Time: Thursday 22 July, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Thursday 22 July, 12:00-1:45 am (London) | Wednesday 21 July, 7:00-8:45 pm (New York)
Download Scientific Realism, Empiricism, and Instrumentalism flyer (PDF, 307KB)
Title: Knowledge and Knowledge Attribution in Neural Networks
Time: Friday 25 June, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Friday 25 June, 12:00-1:45 am (London) | Thursday 24 June, 7:00-8:45 pm (New York)
Download the Knowledge and Knowledge Attribution in Neural Networks flyer (PDF, 210KB)
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Logic & Language
Title: Accepting a Logic, Accepting a Theory
Time: Thursday 27 May, 5:00-6:45 pm (Melbourne) | Thursday 27 May, 8:00-9:45 am (London) | Thursday 27 May, 12:00-1:45 am (Los Angeles)
Download Accepting a Logic, Accepting a Theory flyer (PDF, 270KB)
Dianoia Annual Seminar in Metaphysics & Epistemology
Title: Going Underground
Time: Thursday 22 April, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Thursday 22 April, 12:00-1:45 am (London) | Wednesday 21 April, 7:00-8:45 pm (New York)
Download Going Underground flyer (PDF, 322KB)
Title: Value Capture
Time: Thursday 25 March, 9:00-10:45 am (Melbourne) | Wednesday 24 March, 6:00-7:45 pm (New York) | Wednesday 24 March, 10:00-11:45 pm (London)
Download Value Capture flyer (PDF, 244KB)
This event is an interdisciplinary workshop about philosophy of language, featuring a series of talks by leading international researchers.
Level 5, 250 Victoria Parade
East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002
115 Victoria Pde,
Fitzroy 3065