Floods, Fires and Viruses: Indigenous Peoples Governing Disaster Risks and Recovery
Seminar
Overview of Issues The severity and duration of the Pandemic, alongside recent bushfires and floods in Australia, combined with the impacts of ever-present climate change and economic stress continue to test individuals, organisations and communities in unexpected ways. Internationally and in…
Beyond Normativity: Can Metaethics Escape Samsara's Wheel? - Stephen Finlay (ACU)
Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Finlay Abstract: What is the future of normativity? What should it be? I distinguish a narrow, recent inquiry conducted under the rubric ‘normativity’ (meta-‘normative’ theory) from a broad, timeless inquiry (metaethics), characterizing meta-‘normative’ theory as merely the latest…
UN World Population Prospects
Seminar
The ANU School of Demography in association with the United Nations Population Division invite you to the Australian launch of the UN 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects. The launch is being held as a public and freely accessible hybrid online and in-person event. The 2022 World…
Jonathan Quong (USC)
Seminar
Jonathan Quong (USC) 12–1PM 8 July 2022 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
Biannual AILASA conference
Seminar
The Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA) biannual conference is back! This year, our blended program offers virtual attendance for conference papers, keynote presentations, and postgraduate workshops, as well as in-person social events across major cities…
Knowledge and Understanding in Analytic Philosophy - Helen Beebee (Leeds)
Seminar
Speaker: Helen Beebee Abstract: Grant that pervasive and persistent peer disagreement undermines justification. If so, then — individually and collectively — we have very little philosophical knowledge, and the prospects for any radical turnaround in our epistemic fortunes don’t look good. And yet…
Indigenous electoral power within and beyond remote Australia: Prospects and problems
Seminar
Abstract Comprising only 3.3% of the Australian population, Indigenous people are often viewed as having limited electoral power outside of the remote Northern Territory. Yet this perception fails to consider the electoral geography in Australia where relatively small groups can wield significant…