Kraemer’s Puzzle and the Theory of Intentional Action - Kyle Blumberg
Seminar
Speaker: Kyle Blumberg Jane is given the opportunity to push a button which will send a lethal arrow shooting down one of ten specified paths. Jane has no idea which path the arrow will travel down if she pushes the button. But she does know that Bill is standing on path three. Jane…
Space & Number in Animal Minds
Workshop
This workshop brings together scientists and philosophers who are interested in how animals represent properties like distance, location, time, and number. The goal is to pursue a richer understanding of how brain and behaviour intersect in natural contexts (e.g. in navigation tasks) and assess the…
Australian Social Policy Conference
Conference
2023 Australian Social Policy Conference: Social Policy for Social Change We are excited to announce that the 2023 Australian Social Policy Conference (ASPC) will be hosted by the Australian Social Policy Association and held at the Australian National University in Canberra. When: Monday 11…
History is Calling: Historians, the Constitution and the Voice
Symposium
Join us as we bring together leading historians and thinkers from across the University to shed light on the paths that have led to the upcoming referendum on a constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament. From the insights of deep history to the Uluru Statement from the…
Politicisation of refugee and immigration policy - Australia and Latin America
Panel discussion
This event will be held in person and online. The recent trend for governments to politicise refugee and immigration policy through the manipulation of public sentiment and policy decisions raises complex and contentious questions. It often involves tapping into existing fears and concerns about…
Statehood à la Carte in the Caribbean and the Pacific: Secession, Regionalism, and Postcolonial Politics (Jack Corbett, Monash University)
Seminar
This talk considers the role of comparison in interpretive research by applying Boswell et al’s (2019) approach to how leaders in the Caribbean and Pacific regions balance the autonomy -viability dilemma of postcolonial statehood - that political self-determination is a hollow achievement unless it…
A Control Theory of Action - Mikayla Kelley
Seminar
Speaker: Mikayla Kelley One of the central problems in the philosophy of action is to spell out the distinction between action and what merely happens, e.g., a wink versus an eye twitch. This talk proposes a theory of action offering an account of this distinction. The central claim of…