Assoc. Prof. Rachael Brown joined Life Matters on ABC Radio National to discuss smartphones as parasites — reshaping our habits, attention, and society. Don't miss this provocative conversation: quicklink.anu.edu.au/6f9a

Have you registered? The #JackSmart2025 Lecture will focus on Explanatory Realism! Don't miss out on this thought-provoking event! 📅July 17, 2025 - 3.30pm 📍RSSS building ourANU 🔗Register Now quicklink.anu.edu.au/cqd4 #Philosophy #ExplanatoryRealism #GideonRosen ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Consent isn’t just about saying yes or no. It can change what others are allowed to do and what they must do. At this year’s Passmore Lecture, learn what consent really means (and why it’s more powerful than we think). 📆 Tue 22 July Register here: eventbrite.com.au/e/2025-john-pa…

📢 Conor Leisky and Corey McCabe have been shortlisted for the Graduate Presentation Prize at the 2025 AAP Meeting in Brisbane in July. Congratulations and good luck! ℹ️quicklink.anu.edu.au/uopl Minerva | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Thanks to Nick Schuster, Alex Duval, and Sean Donahue for your amazing contributions to our School! You will be missed!

Just two weeks to our #JackSmart2025 Lecture, with American philosopher #GideonRosen exploring his ideas on "Explanatory Realism". Interested? Register here: quicklink.anu.edu.au/cqd4 📅 July 17, 2025 - 3:30 PM - RSSS Auditorium ourANU #Philosophy | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Visitor season is here, bringing Colin Allen & Adina Roskies -UC Santa Barbara, Selim Berker -Harvard University, Rach Cosker-Rowland -University of Leeds, Jack Justus -Florida State University, Niko Kolodny -UC Berkeley, Doug Portmore -University of Notre Dame, Gideon Rosen -Princeton University, and Daniel Wodak -Penn.

⏳ The countdown is on. The 2025 Passmore Lecture is approaching, and there's still time to register. Think you understand consent? This will challenge everything. 📆 Tue 22 July 🎟️ Register now: quicklink.anu.edu.au/h40o ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Congratulations to our #ANUExpert Philip Pettit! Philip was a Brocher Speaker at the biennial medicine-related Brocher Harvard Summer Academy on Global Population Health and gave a paper on ‘Health Care in a Realistic Republic’. ℹ️quicklink.anu.edu.au/w9eh #Proudofyou | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

🚨 Only days left to register for the Passmore Lecture! Consent isn’t just “yes” or “no”. Is it permission? Is it power? Is it moral obligation? 🧠 Be there. It’s too good to skip. 📅 22 July 🎟quicklink.anu.edu.au/h40o ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Congratulations to Conor Leisky for winning the AAP’s 2025 Postgraduate Presentation Prize for “Bad Food and Immoral Tastes” - continuing what is becoming quite a tradition of ourANU PhD students winning this prize! ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

Congratulations to HDR student Aidan Ryall, who has been flying the ANU flag at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association in Glasgow and International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference in Porto this month.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the #JackSmart2025 Lecture! 🧠It was a full house for Professor #GideonRosen (Princeton University), who delivered a thought-provoking talk on "Explanatory Realism"—challenging us to think more deeply about the nature of explanation in philosophy.

🚨Our mailing list has a new home on Google Groups. Already subscribed? You’re all set. Not yet? You can join with a Google-associated email (Gmail works, or you can link your existing address). Details here 👉 quicklink.anu.edu.au/yl0l #PhilosophyCommunity #StayConnected

📢 #BIF 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'). 📰link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🤩 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. #ProudOfYou ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences

#BIF Big congratulations to our Philosophy students participating in the fourth AAPAE Tertiary Ethics Olympiad!! You brought us Gold!! ourANU We also celebrate University of Melbourne and Monash University teams for their Silver and Bronze Medals! The event was held on 9 October 2025 #ethicsOlympiad

From statutes to machine logic - can justice be computed? Prof. Scott Shapiro examines how AI is transforming legal reasoning and bringing Leibniz’s dream closer to reality at the ANU 2025 Myint Zan Law & Philosophy Lecture. 🔗Register: myintzanlecture2025.eventbrite.com.au ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU Law School

Huge congratulations to Prof Gill Russell on her election to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a fantastic recognition of her distinguished work in philosophical logic. researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gil…

Two weeks to go for Leibniz’s Dream: How to Automate Legal Reasoning with AI (Prof. Scott Shapiro, Yale). Don't miss out! 📝 Registrations close 9 December 📅 12 Dec | 5pm | RSSS Auditorium 🔗myintzanlecture2025.eventbrite.com.au ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU Law School