Dianoia Seminars

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.

Upcoming seminars

Ben Holguín (Johns Hopkins University)

Time: 12 January 2023, 3:00 4:45pm
Level4 Conference room, 250 Victoria Parade 

Past events

Carsten Hansen( (University of Oslo)

Time: 19 December 2022,3:00 4:45pm
Title: Pure Referentialism and the Cognitive Grounds of Sense
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade 

Baptiste Le Bihan (University of Geneva)

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

Nikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University)

Time: 2 December 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Axiological non-evidentialism’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade 

Stuart Brock (Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington)

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 

Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham/University of Glasgow)

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

Alan Hájek (Australian National University)

Time: 14 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Consequentialism, Cluelessness, Clumsiness, and Counterfactuals’

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade 

Jeremy Goodman (University of Southern California)

Time:11 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘I’m mistaken’

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Alan Hájek (Australian National University)

Time: 14 November 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Consequentialism, Cluelessness, Clumsiness, and Counterfactuals’

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade 

Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie University)

Title: ‘Partiality and Blame’
Time: 28 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Susan Wolf (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

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)

Download Freedom for Humans Flyer

John Haldane (Australian Catholic University / University of St. Andrews)

Title: From Scientific Methodology to Philosophical Aesthetics
Time: 21 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Andrew Lee (Australian National University/University of Toronto)

Time: 7 October 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm
Title: ‘Degrees of Consciousness’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Colin Klein (Australian National University)

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

Helen Beebee (University of Manchester, University of Leeds)

Title: ‘Knowledge and Understanding in Analytic Philosophy’
Time: 9 September 2022, 3:00-4:45 pmLevel 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Kevin Vallier (Bowling Green State University)
2 September 2022, 9:00-10:45 am

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)

Toby Handfield (Monash University)
26 August 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm 

‘How can we improve peer review?’

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College)
5 August 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“We Are Not Self Made”

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Karen Jones (University of Melbourne)
29 July 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“Affective Regulation and Resistance”.

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Dan Marshall (Lingnan University)
22 July 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

‘The aboutness argument against the modal theory of states of affairs’
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Mary Walker (La Trobe University)
15 July 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

'How could narrative unify a person?'
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Brian Hedden (ANU)
8 July 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“Counterfactual Decision Theory”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Michael McKenna (University of Arizona)
1 July 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

"A Timid Response to the Consequence Argument... Plus a Little Sumpin' Sumpin"

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

David Chalmers (New York University)
20 June 2022, 4:00-5:45 pm

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)

Michael Smith (Princeton)
3 June 2022

“Ideal vs Non-Ideal Theory in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy”

Daniel Muñoz (University of North Carolina)
20 May 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Jake Chandler (La Trobe University)
6 May 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“Metarevisions”
Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade

Fiona Fidler (University of Melbourne)
28 April 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science: The repliCATS project”
Level 7 conference room (room 460.7.03), 250 Victoria Parade 

Masaharu Mizumoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
8 April 2022, 3:00-4:45 pm

“Experimental Philosophy and Ordinary Language Philosophy”

Level 4 conference room, 250 Victoria Parade Level

Paul Egré (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS)
1 April 2022

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)

Garrett Cullity (Australian National University)
18 November 2021

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)

Brian Weatherson (University of Michigan)
28 October 2021

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)

Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford)
30 September 2021

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)

Carolina Sartorio (University of Arizona)
27 August 2021

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)

Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
22 July 2021

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)

Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto)
25 June 2021

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)

Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)
27 May 2021

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)

Karen Bennett (Rutgers University)
22 April 2021

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)

C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)
25 March 2021

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)

Language workshop

This event is an interdisciplinary workshop about philosophy of language, featuring a series of talks by leading international researchers.

1. Workshop on May 2021
   Download Language flyer (PDF, 95KB)
2. Workshop on June 2021
   Download Language flyer (PDF, 112KB)