Friday, June 24, 2011

Moral and Political Philosophy - 29 June


The MPP reading group will be continuing its reading of Hursthouse. We will covering Chapter 11(the last one!) of the book, on "Objectivity".

Wednesday 29 June
2:45-4pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jonathan Herington for the reading

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Moral and Political Philosophy - 22 June

The MPP reading group will be continuing its reading of Hursthouse. We will covering Chapter 10 of the book, on "Naturalism for Rational Animals".

Wednesday 22 June
2:45-4pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jonathan Herington for the reading

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 21 June


Next meeting: Tuesday 21 June, 1-2pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room B.

Informal presentation: Jonathan Pickering: 'Climate Finance: aid, compensation or neither?'

Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc

Monday, June 13, 2011

Moral and Political Philosophy - 15 June

The MPP reading group will be continuing its reading of Hursthouse. We will covering Chapter 9 of the book, on "Naturalism" in virtue ethics (i.e. the telos of humans etc etc)

Wednesday 15 June
2:45-4pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jonathan Herington for the reading

Friday, June 10, 2011

Foundations Meeting 14/06/2011

Tuesday 14 June at 1.30pm in Coombs seminar room D.

Topic: The relationship between the representational states posited by cognitive science and the intentional mental states featured in folk-psychology.

The reading is Kathleen Akins' 1996 JPhil paper, 'Of Sensory Systems and the Aboutness of Mental States'. See also Dennett on 'True Believers' for more on the ontological issue.

Contact Zoe Drayson for the reading.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Foundations Meeting

Tuesday June 7, Seminar Room D

Focus on non-mental representation, mainly the notion of representation involved in computation.
 
Key reading for Frances Egan's 'Computation and Content', in which she argues (against the orthodoxy) that there's nothing essentially 'representational' about computational states. I'll be expecting everyone to have read at least this paper in full.

For a defence of the orthodox 'received view' and a response to Egan, see Mark Sprevak's 2010 paper. Bill Ramsey's 1997 Mind & Language paper is a nice exploration of the explanatory role of representations in cognitive science, with a focus on connectionist systems.
 
Contact Zoe Drayson for the readings.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 8 June 2011 in Coombs seminar room E, to discuss:

Elliott Sober, Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macro Probabilities (temporarily available here).

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 7 June

Next meeting: Tuesday 7 June, 1-2pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room B.

Informal presentation: 'Ethical and Philosophical Considerations of Nuclear Energy: Lessons From Fukushima'

Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc