Ethics & International Public Policy - Fri 4 Nov (Anderson)

Next meeting: Friday 4 November, 12.30-1.30pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room F.

Reading: Elizabeth Anderson (2010), 'The Imperative of Integration' - chapters 6 ('The imperative of integration') and 7 ('understanding affirmative action').

Contact: jonathan [dot] pickering [at] anu [etc]

Evolution reading group, meeting 4

The next meeting of the Evolution reading group will be 2.30 PM Friday 28 October, in Seminar Rm E.

The reading is Richard Byrne's and Anne Russon's "Learning by imitation: a hierarchical approach".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Marx's Capital - Seminar 10 - 21 October

Seminar 10 is on this Friday 21 October.

It will be on in Seminar room F in the Coombs building at 3pm as usual. We will be discussing Chapter 3 part 2.

Evolution reading group, meeting 3

The next meeting of the Evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 21 October, in Seminar Rm E.

The reading is Mohan Matthen and Andre Ariew's "Selection and causation".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Ethics & International Public Policy - Fri 21 Oct (Anderson)

Next meeting: Friday 21 October, 12.30-1.30pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room F.

Reading: Elizabeth Anderson (2010), 'The Imperative of Integration' - chapters 5 ('democratic ideals and segregation') and 6 ('the imperative of integration')

Contact: jonathan [dot] pickering [at] anu [etc]

Foundations meeting: Tuesday October 18, 12 noon

Meeting of the foundations reading group, students only.

Where: Benjamin Library
When: Tuesday October 18, 12 noon - 2pm

Reading: MacFarlane's forthcoming "Relativism and Knowledge Attributions"

Ethics & International Public Policy - Fri 14 Oct (Anderson)

Next meeting: Friday 14 October, 12.30-1.30pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room F.

Reading: Elizabeth Anderson (2010), 'The Imperative of Integration' - chapters 4 ('racial segregation today: a normative assessment') and 5 ('democratic ideals and segregation).

Contact: jonathan [dot] pickering [at] anu [etc]

Foundations meeting: Tuesday October 11, 12 noon

Meeting of the foundations reading group, students only.

Where: Benjamin Library
When: Tuesday October 11, 12 noon - 2pm

The group read two chapters (Chs. 1&7) from Cappelen & Lepore's Insensitive Semantics.

Ch.1 will give you a nice overview of the way C&L lay out the debate over contextualisms.
Ch. 7. is the material to focus on. C&L offer three tests for context sensitivity and maintain that virtually no expressions beyond the most obvious indexicals, pronouns, and demonstratives pass the tests.
What's nice about this from our perspective is that C&L are looking at the whole range of debates over contextualisms (and not approaching each individual expression piecemeal), offering fairly clear tests, and also coming to a *very very extreme* conclusion (all in an entertainingly opinionated way)!