48/1967 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

List of Staff:

FACULTY OF ARTS

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

ANNUAL REPORT 1966

Professor P. Herbst, M.A. (Melb. ), B.A. (Oxon.) Associate Professor Q.B. Gibson, B.A. (Melb.), M.A. (Oxon.) G. Schlesinger, B.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Melb.) - Reader W.J. Ginnane, M.A. (Melb.), B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Senior Lecturer K. Lycos, B.A. (Syd.), B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Senior Lecturer D. Bostock, M.A., B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Lecturer T.R. Mautner, fil. lie. (Goteborg) - Lecturer

R. Poole, B.A. (Syd.) - Senior Tutor.

For the first time in many years the Department of Philosophy was fully staffed. The vacant temporary lectureship was filled at senior tutor's level by Mr. Ross Poole who came to us from the University of Sydney. We were assisted in our teaching by Dr. Robert Brown from the Institute, who supervised one of our honours students in a special course of philosophical logic, and by Messrs. Graham Kerrison, Robert Nola, Reginald Naulty, John Kleinig and by Miss Elizabeth Reid who acted as part-time tutors. Professor Quentin Gibson was absent throughout the year on study leave.

Teaching:

The department offered six units for the pass degree together with two full units and six half units for the honours degree. Philosophy of Mathematics, intended specifically for the combined honours degree in Pure Mathematics and Philosophy was taught for the first time. One candidate for the degree of M.A. was supervised by the department.

Courses Offered:

The following units were offered:-

Introduction to Philosophy and Logic

History of Philosophy

Ethics and Politics

Greek Philosophy

Professor Herbst Mr. Bostock Mr. Ginnane Mr. Poole Dr. Mautner Professor Herbst Mr. Ginnane Dr. Mautner Mr. Lycos

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Logic

Philosophy of Science

Contemporary Philosophy I

Contemporary Philosophy II

Philosophical Psychology

Philosophy of Mathematics

Philosophy of Religion

Aesthetics Philosophy of Science (Honours)

Special course: Philosophical Logic

Mediaeval Studies (part)

Visitors:

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Dr. Schlesinger Mr. Bostock Dr. Schlesinger Mr. Bostock JYT..r. Lycos Dr. Mautner Mr. Bostock Professor Herbst Mr. Lycos Mr. Ginnane Mr. Bostock Mr. Poole Professor Herbst Mr. Lycos Mr. Ginnane Mr. Poole

Professor Herbst Mr. Bostock

Professor Herbst Dr. Schlesinger Mr. Lycos Mr. Ginnane Dr. Mautner Professor Herbst Dr. Schlesinger Mr. Bostock

Dro R.R. Brown Mr. Ginnane.

During the year we had visits from Professors R.M. Hare from the University of Oxford, Max Black from Cornell University, and from Mr. William Weinstein from Balliol College Oxford. Series of seminars were arranged by the Department of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences for each of these visitors. This department participated fully. The subject of Professor Hare's seminars was the theory of speech acts and of Mr. Weinstein's the concert of liberty. Professor Black conducted seminars on a variety o topics.

Other Activities:

The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy was held in Canberra this year. The organizing secretary was Mr. K. Lycos. Professor Herbst was elected President for the ensuing year. Dr. Schlesinger and Mr. Bostock contributed papers to the Conference.

A Conference by the two Departments also held in Canberra. contributed.

on the Philosophy of Religion, organized of Philosophy in this University, was Dr. George Schlesinger and Professor Herbst

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Papers Read by Members of the Department During the Year:

Professor P. Herbst

The Alle~ed Duty to Eelieve . Read in reply to Professor Hare, Philosop y of Religion Conference, lVIay .

Speech-Acts. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, July, and to the Staff Seminar Sydney University, September.

Ideologies. Read to the Philosophy Group, April.

Current Ideologies in West Africa. Read in the University of Sydney, October.

Dr . G. Schlesinger

Entailment and Significance. A contribution to a symposium, Philosophy Group, March.

The Problem of Evil. Read in reply to Professor Bradley, Philosophy of Religion Conference, June.

Entailment. Read to the Australasian Association of Logic Conference, Sydney, May .

S~ace and Time. Read to the Australasian Association for the History and Philosophy of Science, Sydney, May .

Confirmabilitl and Determinism. Read to the Annual Conference of the Austra asian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, August.

The Even Flow of Time. Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, October, and also to the History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Melbourne , October.

Two papers, Counterfactuals and Logical Paradoxes, were read to the History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Melbourne, October.

IVIr. W. J. Ginna.ne

Nature and Convention in the Speech-Act. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, August.

Mr. D. Bostock

Entailment and Significance. A symposium contribution, Philosophy Group, March.

Category Trees. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, May. The Problem of Entailment. A symposium contribution, Australasian Association of Logic Conference, Sydney, May.

The Thesis of Intentionality. Read to the Annual Conference of the Austra~asian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, August.

Publications:

Professor P. Herbst Private Morality Today. pp. 59-96 and Public Morality Today. pp. 97-105 both included in a collection of lectures entitled Man and Morals, published by the University of Western Australia , Adult Education Board, 1966.

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Professor Q.B. Gibson

Knowing the Future, lmalysis, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, pp. 59-64. Is tbere a Problem about A~pearances?, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No . 6 1 1966, pp. 319-328.

Dr. G. Schlesinger

Instantia tion and Confirmation, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol . II . (Chapter)

Examination Statistics:

PASS

Exam Simple Merit Entries Pass or

Distinction Fail Absent Pass

Credit or Rate

Introduction to Philosophy and Logic

History of Philosophy

Greek Philosophy

Ethics and Politics

Logic

Philosophy of Science

Contemporary Philosophy I

Philosophy of Science

Aesthetics

Philosophy of Mathematics

Philosophy of Religion.

Philosophical Psychology

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16

10

30

15

4

6

1

3

6

6

6

53 16

8 3

5 4

18 8

6 2

2

HONOURS

3

1 2

3 1

1 1

2 2

High Distinction

8

3

2

1

3

1

2

4

2

34

1

1

1

6

2

Two students sat for the final honours examinations in philosophy. Both were placed in the upper division of the second class.

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