ANU Philosophy

30/04/2026

Warm congratulations to our Honorary Professor Lea Ypi for her recent election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

31/12/2025

🎉 from the ANU School of Philosophy! Here’s to a year of deep questions, bold ideas, and meaningful dialogue. May 2026 bring clarity, curiosity, and wisdom to all! 🌟📚
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

09/12/2025

Congratulations to Philosophy HDR students Theo Murray and Jenny Munt on their outstanding teaching achievements.
Theo was highly commended in the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Tutoring and Demonstrating, and Jenny received the CASS Award for Excellence in Tutoring and Demonstrating.

Well-deserved recognition of their commitment to high-quality teaching and learning 👏

Find out more about the VC’s Awards here:

26/11/2025

Only two weeks remain until the 2025 Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture:
“Leibniz’s Dream: How to Automate Legal Reasoning with AI” with Prof. Scott J. Shapiro (Yale).

📅 12 December, 5pm
📍 RSSS Auditorium, ANU
📝 Registrations close on 9 December

🔗 Event details and registration: https://myintzanlecture2025.eventbrite.com.au

Arts & Social Sciences at ANU ANU Law School

A Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture.

21/11/2025

Join us in congratulating Professor Gillian Russell on her election to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions to philosophical logic and the discipline as a whole.

13/11/2025

What if legal disputes could be solved like equations? The 2025 Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture will feature Professor Scott Shapiro (Yale Law School) on how AI and formal methods are transforming legal reasoning. Learn how Leibniz’s dream of “calculating” justice may soon become reality.
🗓 Friday 12 December 2025
🕘5pm
📍RSSS Auditorium
🔗Register here: https://myintzanlecture2025.eventbrite.com.au
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the future of law, philosophy and technology.
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU ANU Law School

A Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture.

03/11/2025

Big congratulations to our Philosophy students participating in the fourth AAPAE Tertiary Ethics Olympiad!! You brought us Gold!!

We also celebrate The University of Melbourne and Monash University teams for their Silver and Bronze Medals!
The event was held on 9 October 2025

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29/10/2025

🤩 Congrats to Professor Katie Steele for securing funding from Australian Research Council for her project “Ethics, Sustainability, and Future Generations” (with Dr. Susumu Cato), focusing on sustainability ethics and our responsibilities to future generations.
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

19/10/2025

📢 Massive ups to Aidan Ryall and Nick Willis on the publication of their joint paper 'Narrative Dead-Ends Down Memory Lane', in a special issue of Topoi on Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Narration (ed. Regina Fabry and Emily Hughes').
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Oral history interviews, and the testimony collected, depend on the interaction between the narrator and the interviewer. A different interviewer, interviewing for a different project, would prompt different responses. We argue that, to properly assess the status of the data collected in oral histor...

16/10/2025

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