Events

Forthcoming

Conferences

8-10 December 2008
Economics & Democracy
(coorganized with 'Productive Australia in the World Economy')
Speakers: Keynote by Tim Besley (LSE & Bank of England); 30 other speakers from Australia and abroad.
Subject: The interpenetration of democracy and the economy has been subject to longstanding suspicions, on both sides. Economists frequently decry what they regard as ill-conceived interventions into the market from populist politicians. For their part, political scientists are often concerned about the influence that ‘political money' has on the makeup of parliaments or decisions of government, and on keeping the forum separate from the market. What the appropriate relation between democracy and the economy should be remains a fraught question. Most of us rejoice in the extensions of the franchise and extending democracy, but many would baulk at extending it to workplaces or boardrooms. There are also important questions over whether contracting out more public functions to the private sector seriously constricts the range of democratic control. Some see democracy as just another kind of market: a market in votes, governed by the same logic as the economic market, while others regard the analogy as fundamentally misplaced.
Contact: Mary Hapel on administrative matters; on substantive ones Bob Goodin; Andrew Leigh; Keith Dowding.

Workshops

14 November 2008
Analysing Collaborative and Deliberative Forms of Governance

Cosponsored by ANU's Deliberative Democracy Group and The Crawford Schoolof Economics and Government and 'Comparative Public Policy and Government' and 'Public & Private Reasoning' Themes, RSSS/CASS

Venue: t.b.a.

Speakers:
- Frank Fischer (Rutgers)
- John Dryzek (RSSS, ANU)
- Paul 't Hart (RSSS, ANU)

Subject:
Public policy is increasingly developed and implemented through partnerships, networks, stakeholder collaborations, and citizen participation. In these spaces, the inherent politics of policy comes to the fore: definitions are questioned, 'facts' and findings are destabilised, and arguments and discourses contested.

To make sense of these new forms of governance and their meaning for contemporary democracy, scholars have stepped away from the dominant empiricist tradition of policy studies which favours hypothesis driven research and quantitative analysis. Alternative more interpretive forms of policy analysis are being embraced that are sensitive to meaning, context, and human subjectivity. Indeed much of the growing empirical research on collaborative and deliberative governance is informed by methods that explore the underlying norms, discourses, narratives and performances of policy practice.

This one-day workshop will explore the role of more interpretive forms of policy analysis in understanding collaborative and deliberative modes of governing. Its central themes include:
- new forms of collaborative and deliberative governance and their impact
on policymaking and institutions of representative democracy
- the politics of emerging forms of governance
- a rethinking the theory and practice of democracy
- methodological approaches that emphasise interpretation and critical analysis
- the roles and risks of policy analysts facilitating deliberative governance.

Contact: Carolyn Hendriks

18 August 2008
Political Feasibility

Venue: Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Speakers:
- Geoff Brennan (RSSS, ANU)
- Pablo Gilabert (Concordia University)
- Holly Lawford-Smith (RSSS, ANU)
- Christian Barry (CAPPE/SoH, CASS, ANU)

Subject:
Moral philosophers tell us what we ought to do. But their prescriptions are sometimes thought to be infeasible -- not because they are physically impossible but rather because there is simply not the political will to implement them. This workshop will analyze those issues.

Contact: Pablo Gilabert

Distinguished Visitor Public Lectures/Master Classes

A great many important international visitors working on Public and Private Reasoning themes come to ANU, many of them under the aegis of Programs, Projects and Centres associated with the Theme. Here we highlight only the three most 'high profile' visits, two associated with annual named lectures, one Adjunct Professor and one sponsored by the VC's Visiting International Academic program.

Larry Temkin (Philosophy, Rutgers) will be at ANU 1 Feb-21 June 2008 as the 2008 John Passmore Lecturer. During that time he will make the following public presentations:

Date: 11 June (5pm)
Topic: The John Passmore lecture, on the topic 'Illuminating Egalitarianism'
Venue: Sparke Helmore Lecture Theatre2 in the ANU College of Law)

Date: 13 March (4pm)
Topic: A public lecture on ' Exploring transitivity '
Venue: Coombs Sem Rm C

Date: 13 March (2pm)
Topic: A master class for interested MA and PhD students
Venue:Coombs Sem Rm C

Brian Skyrms (Philosophy, U California Irvine) will be at ANU in July 2008 as the 2008 Jack Smart Lecturer. During that time he will make the following public presentations:

Date:22 July (4pm)
Topic: The Jack Smart lecture, on the topic 'Game theory, evolution & the social contract'
Venue: Sparke Helmore Theatre 1, ANU College of Law

Date: 24 July (2pm)
Topic:A master class for interested MA and PhD students
Venue:Seminar Rm. B Coombs Building

Seyla Benhabib (Political Science, Yale) will be at ANU in December 2008 as the 2008 John Passmore Lecturer. During that time she will make the following public presentations:
• The John Passmore lecture (topic and date to be announced)
• A public lecture (topic and date to be announced)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Peter Wagner (Sociology, Trento University) will be at ANU (dates still to be determined) as a VC-sponsored Visiting International Academic. During that time he will make the following public presentations.
• An academic lecture open to all on campus on the topic 'Freedom and Solidarity' (date to be announced)
• A public lecture on 'Modernity: Experience or Interpretation?' (date to be announced)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Monthly Interdisciplinary Theme Seminars

On the last Monday of most months the four College themes organised within RSSS hold an interdisciplinary seminar on some topic of general interest. Upcoming events.

Past events

2008

7-8 February 2008
Theory & Practice of Deliberative Democracy
Speakers: Murray Goot (Macquarie); Craig Browne, Lyn Carson (Sydney); Sue Dodds, (Wollongong); John Yearwood, Andrew Stranieri (Ballarat); Rachel Ankeny (Adelaide); Janette Hartz-Karp (Curtin); John Dryzek, Simon Niemeyer, Robert Goodin, Bora Kanra, Selen Ayirtman (ANU)
Subject: Deliberative democracy has been a key topic on the research agenda of many disciplines in social sciences. In addition to theoretical approaches, in recent years, there has also been a growing interest in the practice of deliberative democracy both in Australia and overseas. Given this, the workshop aims to cover both theoretical and empirical issues around deliberative democracy. It will focus on the normative principles of deliberative democracy, how these principle guide empirical research, different forms and arenas of deliberative practices, and their impact on individuals, societies and policies.
Further details.
Contact: Selen Ayirtman

21-22 July 2008
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability
Subject: Various topics in the philosophy of science in general, and the philosophy of probability in particular.
Speakers: Bryan Skyrms (UCal Irvine); Alan Hajek (ANU); Mark Colyvan (U Sydney) Hannes Leitgeb (U Bristol).
Contact: Alan Hajek

24-25 July 2008
Evolution of Signalling
Speakers: Bryan Skyrms (UCal Irvine); Brett Calcott, Stuart Saunders, Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce (ANU); Carl Bergstrom (U Washington); Hanna Kokko (U Helsinki)
Subject: The plan is to have a roughly equal split between philosophers and those from a science-based discipline. Saunders, Calcott, Sterelny and Skyrms have all committed to speak and we aim to match these with four evolutionary theorists.
Contact: Brett Calcott

28-29 July 2008
Emotions & Commitment
Speakers: Bryan Skyrms (UCal Irvine); Brett Calcott, Stuart Saunders, Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce (ANU); Jesse Prinz (U North Carolina); Paul Zak (U Pennsylvania); Justin D’Ars (Ohio); William Brown (Brunel U, UK); Dan Fessler (UCLA).
Subject: Since commitment is inter alia a signalling problem, this workshop links well to the earlier one, and we would expect a significant overlap between both speakers and audience across the second and third workshops.
contact: Kim Sterelny

2007

7 December 2007
Workshop on Health Policy Across Nations
2pm-5pm, Innovations Building Lecture Theatre, ANU
Keike Okma (Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport, The Netherlands)
Health Policy Change in Six Democracies
Theodore Marmor (Yale School of Management)
Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Policy and Management
Stephen Duckett (Executive Director, Reform and Development Division, Queensland Health; formerly Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Human Services & Health 1994-1996)
An Australian Perspective
Further details.

6-7 December 2007
New Horizons in Political Philosophy: A Postgraduate Conference in Political Philosophy
Roland Wilson Building
Further details.

20 November 2007
Public lecture: 'The Dead Sea Scrolls'
Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Philosophy, Hebrew University)

12 November 2007
2008 John Passmore Lecture: 'Considerateness'
Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Philosophy, Hebrew University)

28-29 August 2007
Emotions, Morality, Co-operation in Evolutionary Context Workshop
Speakers: Ben Kerr (U Washington), Jesse Prinz (U N Carolina), Shaun Nichols (Ariz), Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard), Richard Joyce (Sydney/ANU), Kim Sterelny (ANU/Victoria Wellington)
Subject: Exploring the evolutionary bases of human emotions and morality.

25-26 August 2007
Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach 2
Speakers: Christian List (LSE); Ben Kerr (U Washington), Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard)
Subject: Exploring the structural parallels between evolutionary theory and social theory.

22-23 August 2007
Reasons, Reasoning and Rationality: Themes from the work of John Broome Workshop
Speakers: Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), Andrew Reisner (McGill), Garrett Cullity (Adelaide), Geoff Brennan (RSSS ANU), Jamie Dreier (Brown), Nic Southwood (RSSS ANU), Daniel Star (CAPPE ANU), and either (i) Daniel Cohen (CAPPE ANU) or Jeannette Kennett (CAPPE ANU); reply by John Broome (Oxford)
Subject: John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, is a leading figure in contemporary moral philosophy. The purpose of this conference is to bring together leading philosophers to engage with themes from his recent work, especially on the nature of (practical and theoretical) reasoning, rationality and normativity.

10 August 2007

Public Lecture on Knowledge & Democracy
Speaker: Philip Kitcher (Columbia)

8 August 2007

Jack Smart Annual Lecture
Speaker: Philip Kitcher (Columbia), 'Ethics after Darwin'

6 August 2007
Democracy Tracking the Truth Workshop
Speakers: John Deigh (Texas), Tom Christiano (Arizona), Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), John Dryzek (ANU), Bob Goodin (ANU); replies David Estlund (Brown)
Subject: Estlund is one of the leading scholars of deliberative democracy, and especially its epistemic virtues in tracking the truth. He has written a book on that which is bound to become a landmark in the discipline. Having begun the book while on a Harsanyi Visiting Fellowship in SPT, RSSS, he is now coming back to workshop the full text of a near-final draft of the book.

18-20 July 2007

Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis Conference
(preceded by Undergraduate Workshop July 17)
Speakers: Stephen Stich (Rutgers), John Doris (Washington, St. Louis), Joshua Knobe (N Carolina), Frank Jackson (Princeton/ANU/LaTrobe), Michael Smith (Princeton), David Chalmers (ANU)
Subject: the relationship between the experimental study of intuitions and reasoning and the use of these intuitions in conceptual analysis – how studying the public aspects of reasoning sheds light on private intuitive reasoning.

15 June 2007
Phenomenology and Intentionality Workshop

Speakers: Susanna Siegel (Harvard), Adam Pautz (ANU/Texas), William Lycan (North Carolina)
Subject: The focus of the conference will be on the relationship between the phenomenal character and the intentional content of conscious experience.

25 May 2007
The Epistemology of Experience Workshop
Speakers: Jim Pryor (NYU), Carrie Jenkins (ANU/Nottingham), Declan Smithies (ANU), Nico Silins (ANU/Cornell)
Subject: Pryor is one of the key figures in the emerging connection between epistemology (including the theory of rationality) and philosophy of mind. The workshop is designed to bring together his work in epistemology with the existing strength in philosophy of mind at ANU. Topics included: the epistemic properties of conscious experience, and whether we have a kind of epistemic access to our experiences that others do not.

16 March 2007
'What Ifs' in Theory & Practice
Speakers: Richard Ned Lebow (Dartmouth), Daniel Nolan (Nottingham)
Subject: Counterfactual reasoning – asking 'what would have happened if...' – is central to an understanding of historical causation. This mini-workshop brings together a prize-winning political scientist and a distinguished philosopher to discuss the principled bases and practical ramifications of 'what if' reasoning.

14 February 2007
Deliberative Democracy & Preference Transformation
Speakers: John Dryzek (ANU), Simon Niemeyer (ANU), Claudia Landwehr (Hamburg), Kasper Møller Hansen (Copenhagen)
Subject: One of the great benefits of deliberating together is that people can pool their ideas and their information. At least sometimes they should change their minds in consequence, if deliberative democracy works as it is supposed to do. This workshop brings both theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence (from Denmark and Germany as well as Australia) to bear on this issue.

5 February 2007
The Economics of Teacher Quality Conference (joint with Productive Australia and Comparative Public Policy and Government Themes)
Speakers: Eric Hanushek (Stanford), Ken Rowe (Australian Council for Educational Research), Chris Ryan (ANU), Gigi Foster (U South Australia), Hamilton Lankford (U Albany), Jonah Rockoff (Columbia U)
Subject: This conference discusses the latest research in teacher quality, including measurement of teacher quality, trends in teacher quality, teacher turnover and retention and merit pay.

2006

4-5 December 2006
Dialogue across Difference: Governance in a Multicultural Era Conference (joint with Comparative Public Policy and Government Theme)
Speakers: 40 altogether, keynoters Anna Yeatman (Alberta), Barry Hindess (ANU), Bonnie Honig (Northwestern), Daniel Bell (Tsinghua U, China), Chandran Kukathas (Utah)
Subject: Cultural difference poses challenges for deliberative democracy. This conference explores the possibilities for dialogue across such cultural differences, and the scope for governance of multicultural communities in a deliberative mode.

Projects

Ongoing Research Collaboration

Ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration along Public and Private Reasoning themes occur through:
•Two research Centres with which the Theme is associated:
- the Centre for Consciousness
- the Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology
•Seven research Projects with which the Theme is associated:
- 'The evolution of the social brain'
- 'Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Probability'
- 'Structure and content of consciousness'
- 'Epistemic warrant'
- 'Norms, reasons and values'
- 'Belief and beliefs'
- 'The hegemony of representation'

Discussions are underway concerning the establishment of new research Centres on:
- Deliberative Democracy - John Dryzek
- Rational Choice - Keith Dowding
- Social & Political Theory - Bob Goodin

Anyone interested in being associated with any of those proposed Centres should contact the individuals named above to register their interest by contacting the nominated convenor.

The Evolution of the Social Brain: How Emotions and Moral Judgement Interact in the Generation of Cooperative Behaviour
Dr RJ Joyce (RSSS, ANU/Sydney); Prof K Sterelny (RSSS, ANU/Victoria University, Wellington); Prof F Cowie (Caltech)
Understanding the psychological forces that underpin human interactions is a necessary step to knowing how to improve those interactions. Comprehending the complex interplay of emotions and moral judgements lying behind decision-making in the social sphere will help explain such things as corruption, risk-taking, domestic violence, and political affiliation. Such knowledge can guide the design of effective social policy, and is vital for a realistic educational strategy. This project will strengthen Australia's excellent reputation in philosophy, bring here leading scholars from diverse fields, build international research networks, and in particular forge an ongoing partnership between the ANU and the California Institute of Technology.

The Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Probability
Prof Alan R Hajek (RSSS, ANU)
We find probability wherever we find uncertainty: virtually everywhere in our lives. Probability is essential to almost every technology. High-stakes decisions are routinely made on the basis of probability judgments and risk assessment-for example, in engineering, medicine, agriculture, environmental management, urban planning, public policy, public health, the law, and in our national defence. And some of those decisions have been made badly because of poor probability estimates-witness the 1986 space shuttle disaster. Our current methodologies for using probability are inadequate. This project will make an important contribution to the collective enterprise of enhancing our understanding of probability and its myriad applications.

The High-Level Structure of Consciousness
Prof David Chalmers (RSSS,ANU); Prof Ned Block (NYU); Prof Susanna Siegel (Harvard)
The study of consciousness is often regarded as the last great frontier for science. Work in this area has flowered recently, but it has focused on low-level aspects of consciousness, such as visual perception of color and shape. We aim to discover the high-level structure of consciousness, which involves attention, self-consciousness, and the unity of consciousness, among other things. The project involves international collaboration in a three-way interaction between philosophy, cognitive science, and phenomenology. This work has potential social benefits, for example in understanding attention in distracted drivers, and potential medical benefits, in understanding breakdowns of the unity of consciousness in patients with mental illness.

Epistemic Warrant: Transmission Failure, Basic Knowledge and Entitlement
Prof MK Davies (RSSS, ANU/Oxford), Prof C Wright (University of St Andrews)
This project will bring substantial intellectual, cultural, and economic benefits to the nation – not only by increasing research strength, contributing to research output and establishing an international research partnership, but also by deepening the relationship between the study of the mind and theory of knowledge as a traditional area within philosophy and thus helping to maintain the pivotal position of philosophy in our intellectual life. Students, early career researchers and established philosophers will benefit from access to the intellectual and institutional resources of international partner universities and there will be substantial and quantifiable financial contributions by international universities and research agencies.

Norms, Reasons & Values
Prof RE Goodin (RSSS, ANU), Prof HG Brennan (RSSS, ANU/Duke/ University of North Carolina)
Social norms often come adrift from the reasons and values that they are supposed to serve. Strengthening Australia's social and economic fabric (a National Research Priority) requires understanding how norms work and revising them in changing circumstances. This project explores such ideas in relation to crucial issues – democracy, terrorism, historical injustice and sexuality – and interjects practical suggestions into the public debate over how norms ought be revised. It also furthers Australia's world standing in political science and philosophy and, by enlisting international scholars to help explore these issues, focuses the intellectual firepower of the world on problems of national importance to Australia.

Belief singular versus beliefs plural
Prof FC Jackson (RSSS, ANU/Princeton/LaTrobe), Dr D Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)
Research on the brain and how it represents the environment has the potential to reconfigure our ordinary conceptions of belief and rationality. This project explores the impact of the changes and their implications.

Conscious Experience and the Hegemony of Representation
Dr D Stoljar (RSSS, ANU), Prof FC Jackson (RSSS, ANU/Princeton/LaTrobe)
Many things make humans special but three stand out: the possession of a moral sense, rationality, and consciousness. This project aims to explain consciousness in a way fully compatible with the aspirations of cognitive science to see humans as a natural part of the physical world.

The Micropolitics of Deliberation
Prof J Dryzek (RSSS, ANU), Dr S Niemeyer (RSSS, ANU)
Deliberation is now widely regarded as central to democracy in both theory and practice. However, political scientists currently know little about how individuals actually experience deliberative settings, and the way policy preferences, value judgments, and beliefs change in these contexts. The project investigates how individuals respond to different kinds of institutions, and the variety of ways in which both plurality of opinion and consensus can be produced in deliberative democracy. The project will contribute to democratic theory and identify exactly how institutional design can lead to authentic deliberation.

The Contents of Consciousness
Prof David Chalmers (RSSS, ANU)
The Federation Fellowship project aims to develop a research centre that will be a world leader in the study of consciousness. The focus will be the question: How does human consciousness represent the world? The science of consciousness has seen explosive growth internationally in the past decade, but the relationship between consciousness and representation is not well understood. Through local and international collaboration, researchers will develop a framework for understanding the representational content of consciousness and will analyse experimental work at the leading edge of neuroscience and cognitive science. The project aims to improve understanding of consciousness, of representation and of associated neural and cognitive mechanisms. Potentially, this could lead to social and medical benefits such as contributing to ethical and legal considerations associated with patients in coma.

Projects ending 2007

The Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
Prof K Sterelny (RSSS, ANU/Victoria University, Wellington)
The aim of the project is to write a collaborative monograph that integrates the recent development in cognitive science of alternatives to classical cognitivism with recent developments in evolutionary biology. Those developments include in particular the recognition of the importance both of non-genetic inheritance and of the role agents play in constructing their own environments. The monograph will argue that these evolutionary processes are of particular importance in human evolution, and they are the key to explaining how it is that humans are simultaneously encultured beings and biological agents.

Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
Prof RE Goodin (RSSS, ANU)
Cross-national comparisons of welfare regimes and their gender divisions explore issues of income and employment. Those bring liberation of a sort, but they do not exhaust people's freedom and autonomy. This project will explore how paid and unpaid labour responsibilities interact, impinging on people's discretionary time and thus autonomy. A new measure of 'discretionary time' will be developed and its usefulness for cross-national comparisons illustrated through analysis of time use data from Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden and the US. Different ways of targeting assistance to the most time-pressured groups in society will be examined for policy lessons from abroad.

Grants

The Evolution of the Social Brain: How Emotions and Moral Judgement Interact in the Generation of Cooperative Behaviour
Dr RJ Joyce (RSSS, ANU/Sydney); Prof K Sterelny (RSSS, ANU/Victoria University, Wellington); Prof F Cowie (Caltech)
Australian Research Council DP0771459
2007: $65,118
2008: $60,118
2009: $60,118

The Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations of Probability
Prof Alan R Hajek (RSSS, ANU)
Australian Research Council DP0774343
2007: $60,000
2008: $50,000
2009: $50,000

The High-Level Structure of Consciousness
Prof David Chalmers (RSSS, ANU); Prof Ned Block (NYU); Prof Susanna Siegel (Harvard)
Australian Research Council DP0774147
2007: $70,000
2008: $60,000
2009: $70,000

Epistemic Warrant: Transmission Failure, Basic Knowledge and Entitlement
Prof MK Davies (RSSS, ANU/Oxford), Prof C Wright (University of St Andrews)
Australian Research Council DP0665579
2006: $75,553
2007: $75,553
2008: $80,500

Norms, Reasons & Values
Prof RE Goodin (RSSS, ANU), Prof HG Brennan (RSSS, ANU/Duke/University of North Carolina)
Australian Research Council DP0663060
2006 : $170,000
2007 : $180,000
2008 : $170,000

Belief singular versus beliefs plural
Prof FC Jackson (RSSS, ANU/Princeton/La Trobe), Dr D Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)
Australian Research Council DP0663049
2006 : $60,000
2007 : $35,000
2008 : $35,000
2009 : $55,000
2010 : $25,000

Conscious Experience and the Hegemony of Representation
Dr D Stoljar (RSSS, ANU), Prof FC Jackson (RSSS, ANU/Princeton/La Trobe)
Australian Research Council DP0664145
2006 : $80,000
2007 : $80,000
2008 : $90,000

The Micropolitics of Deliberation
Prof J Dryzek (RSSS, ANU), Dr S Niemeyer (RSSS, ANU)
Australian Research Council DP0558573
2005: $150,000
2006: $110,000
2007: $105,000

The Contents of Consciousness
Prof David Chalmers (RSSS, ANU)
Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship
2004: $322,560
2005: $322,560
2006: $322,560
2007: $322,560
2008: $322,560

Grants ending 2007

The Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
Prof K Sterelny (RSSS, ANU/Victoria University, Wellington)
Australian Research Council DP0451758
2004 : $64,343
2005 : $71,993
2006 : $64,343

Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom
Prof RE Goodin (RSSS, ANU)
Australian Research Council DP0450406
2004: $130,000
2005: $120,000
2006: $120,000

Visitors

2009

John Skorupski, St Andrews, June-September 2009


2008

Tim Crane, University College London, June-August 2008

Suzanne Dov, University of Arizona, May-July 2008

Katalin Farkas, Central European University, June-August 2008

Pablo Gilabert, Concordia, June-August 2008

Nathalie Karragiannis, Sussex, October 2008-November 2008

Christian List, London School of Economics, July 2008-August 2008

David Schmidtz, University of Arizona, June-August 2008

Hustom Smit, University of Arizona, May-July 2008

Larry Temkin, Rutgers, January-June 2008

Peter Wagner, Trento, October 2008-November 2008

2007

Philip Kitcher (Philosophy, Columbia University) will be at ANU 6-13 August 2007 as the 2007 Jack Smart Lecturer. During that time he will make the following public presentations:
• The Jack Smart lecture, on the topic 'Ethics after Darwin' (8 August 2008)
• A public lecture on 'Science and Democracy' (10 August 2007)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) will be at ANU October-December 2007 as an Adjunct Professor in RSSS. During that time he will make the following public presentations:
• An academic lecture open to all on campus on 'Changing Welfare States' (date to be announced)
• A public lecture on 'Changing Welfare States' (date to be announced)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Peter Wagner (Sociology, Trento University) will be at ANU 15 October - 15 November 2007 as a VC-sponsored Visiting International Academic. During that time he will make the following public presentations.
• An academic lecture open to all on campus on the topic 'Freedom and Solidarity' (date to be announced)
• A public lecture on 'Modernity: Experience or Interpretation?' (date to be announced)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Philosophy, Hebrew University) will be at ANU 8-22 November 2007 as the 2007 John Passmore Lecturer. During that time she will make the following public presentations:
• The Jack Smart lecture, on the topic 'Considerateness' (date to be announced)
• A public lecture on 'The Dead Sea Scrolls' (date to be announced)
• A master class for interested MA and PhD students (date to be announced)

Istvan Aranyosi, Central European University, January-April 2007

Jack Barbalet, Leicester, October-December 2007

Anna Bjurman, Lulea University of Technology, July 2006-June 2007

Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario, August 2007-July 2008

John Broome, Oxford, September 2007-November 2007

Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona, May 2007-August 2007

John Deigh, University of Texas at Austin, May 2007-August 2007

John Doris, Washington University, May 2007-July 2007

Julia Driver, Dartmouth, July 2007

John Ferejohn, Stanford, January 2007

Michael Glanzberg, UC Davis, May 2007-June 2007

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Harvard, June 2007-July 2008

Philip Goff, Reading, May 2007-December 2007

Nicholas Griffith, October 2007-June 2008

Kasper Moller Hansen, Kobenhavns Universitet, January 2007-June 2007

Benj Hellie, Toronto, February 2007-April 2007

Patricia Kitcher, Columbia, August 2007

Philip Kitcher, Columbia, August 2007

Joshua Knobe, UNC, July 2007

Claudia Landwehr, Hamburg, February 2007

Christian List, London School of Economics, July 2007-August 2007

William Lycan, UNC, June 2007

Tori McGeer, Princeton, January 2007-February 2007

Bernard Nickel, Harvard, June 2007-July 2007

Daniel Nolan, St Andrews, September 2006-June 2007

Claus Offe, Humbolt, October 2007-December 2007

James Pryor, NYU, May 2007-June 2007

Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, July 2007-September 2007

Agustin Rayo, MIT, May 2007-June 2007

Peter Riggs, RSSS, January 2007-December 2007

Joe Salerno, St. Louis, September 2007-December 2007

Maija Setala, Abo Akademi, September 2007-November 2007

Susanna Siegel, Harvard, June 2007-July 2007

Roy Sorensen, Dartmouth, July 2007

Stephen Stich, Rutgers, July 2007

Brad Thompson, SMU, March 2007-April 2007

Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew, November 2007

Alberto Voltolini, Modena, October 2007-November 2007

Jessica Wilson, Toronto, February 2007-April 2007

Lea Ypi, EUI, October 2007-December 2007