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.

Details of our annual seminars can be found here.

Upcoming seminars

Matt Mandelkern (NYU)

Time: 11th May, 9am-11am
Location: Zoom

Claude Romano (University of Paris-Sorbonne/ACU)

Time: 25th May, 3pm
Location: 4th Floor Seminar Room, 250 Victoria Parade

 


Past events

2023


Tristan Grotvedt Haze (University of Melbourne)

Title: Perspicuous Representation in Logic, and the Case of Adverbs
Date: 4th May

Jack Spencer (MIT)

Title: Knowledge and Perspective
Date: 27th April

Graham Oppy (Monash University)

Title: Alleged Epistemological Consequences of Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem
Date:
13th April

Toby Handfield (Monash University)

Title: How Can We Improve Peer-Review?
Date: 30th March 2023

Daniel Wodak (University of Pennsylvania)

Title: Political Equality of What?
Date: 23th March

Joe Horton (University College London)

Title: Practical Reason and Permissible Preferences
Date: 16th March

Annina Loets (Humboldt University Berlin)

Title: Possibilities for Action

Date: 9th March

Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Annual Seminar in Logic and Language

Title: How to Build a Knowledge Ascription

Date: 2th March

Alex Roberts (University of Oxford)

Title: De Re Modality without Counterparts
Date: 23th February

Michael Caie (University of Toronto)

Title: (Empty) Names and Higher-Order Logic
Date: 16th February

Ben Holguín (Johns Hopkins University)

Title: Bouletic Voluntarism
Date: 12th January

Recorded Lectures

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)

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East Melbourne, Victoria, 3002

Mailing address

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Fitzroy 3065