2025 Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture
Lecture
Leibniz's Dream: How to Automate Legal Reasoning with Artificial Intelligence In the 17th Century, the philosopher, mathematician, and lawyer Gottfried Leibniz envisioned the creation of a characteristica universalis and calculus ratiocinator that would enable reasoning in law and morals as…
Continuity, Catastrophic Risk, and Severe Uncertainty
Seminar
The Continuity axiom of expected utility theory implies that no catastrophe is so bad that one should not be willing to accept a gamble that might result in that catastrophe, as long as the gamble is sufficiently likely to instead result in some improvement on the status quo. This is implied by…
Lebanon Days to Les Murray: The Memoirist Turned Biographer
Seminar
How do we ensure that writing about the personal past illustrates something beyond the person? How do we emphasise the salient fact in a tangle of intimately recorded details? And how do we achieve this when writing from memory, as opposed to when writing from evidence? This discussion will…
The Tragedy of the Conventions
Seminar
Many pressing social problems require coordinated changes across multiple interconnected domains. Climate action, for instance, requires simultaneous transitions in energy, transportation, agriculture, and consumer behaviour, where success in each domain depends on progress in others. In their…
Mortality Gaps & Cause Composition: A Methodological View
Seminar
How have leading causes of death shifted by age and over calendar time, and what do the gaps between major causes reveal about population health? This talk unifies two distributional perspectives within an age–period setting: First, Associate Professor Andrea Nigri models differences in death…
Women, Gender and Queenship through the ages
Workshop
The ANU School of History and ANU Centre for Classical Studies present the third in the annual series of Women and Gender workshops organised by the ANU Late Antique and Medieval Group: 'Women, Gender and Queenship through the Ages'.Registration is essential: RSVP by 12 (noon) - Monday, 3 November…
Affect and the Body
Seminar
The paper examines the sense of body ownership through various empirical and clinical phenomena, including somatoparaphrenia and the Rubber Hand Illusion. These examples demonstrate that both the sense of ownership and its disownership are experiential phenomena, with specific neurological and…