ANU Philosophy

14/09/2026

🎉Great news! Christian Barry and Garrett Cullity have received the 2026 Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize for Best Article on Ethics, Leadership & Public Policy for 'Which Emissions Belong to Us?'.
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Christian Barry and Garrett Cullity have been awarded the 2026 Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize for Best Article on Ethics, Leadership, and Public Policy for their fantastic paper, “Which Emissions Belong to Us? The Case for Contributory Value-Chain Emissions Accounting”, published in Politics, Philo...

30/07/2026

Welcome to the newest Senior Lecturer in the school, Daniel Muñoz. A moral philosopher, Daniel joins us from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

24/07/2026

This week, Colin Klein discussed AI sentience and ethics with
ABC News - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-22/the-ai-model-that-autonomously-hacked-a-company/106946936

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22/07/2026

🤔 Is it ever right to take risks on someone else’s behalf? Join Lara Buchak , our speaker, in this fascinating talk on risk, consent, fairness, and ethical decision-making under uncertainty.
30 July - 3.30 pm
RSSS Auditorium
ℹ️https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/lcs2

20/07/2026

Congratulations to Corey McCabe. His paper ‘Philosophical Anarchism with Teeth’ has been selected as the winner of the annual postgraduate essay prize by the high-ranking journal, Res Publica, and will be published in a later issue. Well done, Corey!

13/07/2026

Pop the ch*****ne for our PhD candidate Magdalen Elmitt, who has won the 2026 AAP Postgraduate Presentation Prize. Very well deserved!
Arts & Social Sciences at ANU

06/07/2026

Congratulations to Kirsten Mann for being awarded the 2026 (given each year for an outstanding philosophical paper published by an Australasian woman during the previous calendar year. Find her paper here: https://tinyurl.com/bdcznus9.

02/07/2026

It is never too late to share good news: Former HDR student Heather Browning (currently a lecturer at University of Southampton) was a joint recipient of the 2026 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare Early Career Animal Welfare Researcher of the Year Award. Congrats!

01/07/2026

Our Professors Christian Barry and Katie Steele were awarded the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowships at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.
We look forward to your work !

ℹ️ https://tinyurl.com/bdesj2cx

01/07/2026

We are handing AI more and more of the decisions that shape our lives. But can a machine handle a choice that has no clear right answer?

That is the question at the heart of this year's Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture. Professor Ruth Chang argues that current approaches to AI "value alignment" miss something fundamental about how humans actually decide, and she offers an alternative framework to design systems that take hard choices seriously.

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Wednesday 19 August 2026, 5pm
RSSS Auditorium, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton

A Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture.