[SydPhil] Special Event: Philosophical Reflections on the Bushfire Disaster and Climate Crisis

[Anik Waldow]

Special Event:

Philosophical Reflections on the Bushfire Disaster and Climate Crisis

When: Wednesday, 26th February, 3.30 -5 pm
Where: Muniment Room, Quadrangle Building, Camperdown campus, University of Sydney
Info: anik.waldow at sydney.edu.au


This year the Philosophy Department will start its weekly seminar series with a mini-workshop on the devasting events of this summer. Please join us for a series of talks by the members of the department to keep the conversation going.

There will be catered afternoon tea in the Philosophy Common Room from 3-3.30 pm.

Kristie Miller: “Bushfires: when a clueless, venal, government outsources its protection of its citizens to unpaid, under-resourced, volunteers”

David Braddon-Mitchell: “The Morton fire: impact on a community and a biota”



Mark Colyvan and Hannah Tierny: “Conspiracy theories”

Paul Griffith: “Is there a deficit in public understanding of climate science?”



Anik Waldow: “Resilience and adaptation: throwing away the privilege to act”



Chris Lean: “Invasive species and the bushfire crisis”



Rick Benitez: “Hope and hopelessness”




ANIK WALDOW | Associate Professor  | Department Chair
Department of Philosophy | School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
S404, Quadrangle Building A14 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia
T +61 2 9114 1245 | F +61 2 9351 3918
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