THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ARTS

DEPARTIVIENT OF PHILOSOPHY

ANNUAL REPORT 1968

List of Staff:

Professor P. Herbst, M.A. (Melb.), B.A. (Oxon.)

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Associate Professor Q.B. Gibson, B.A. (Melb.), M.A. (Oxon.) W.J. Ginnane, M.A. (Melb.), B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Reader K. Lycos, B.A. (Syd.), B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Senior Lecturer T.R. Mautner, fil. loc. (Goteborg) - Lecturer P. Thom, M.A. (Syd.), B.Phil. ( Oxon.) - Lecturer Mrs. G. Small, B.A. (Syd.), B.Phil. (Oxon.) - Lecturer R.J. Campbell, M.A. (Syd.), B.D. - Lecturer

Mr. Bostock who had been in charge of the teaching of Logic as well as Classical Philosophy, left in August 1967 to take up an appointment at Merton College, Oxford. After his departure the teaching of Logic was divided between Mr. Paul Thom and Mr. Richard Campbell, both of them newly appointed from Oxford. Mrs. Genevieve Small, also from Oxford, took up her duties in August 1967. Thus the department began work in the new year with three newly appointed lecturers to all intents and purposes.

Professor Herbst was absent on study leave from the beginning of January till the beginning of September. The department operated at full teaching strength in third term.

Assistance in the form of part time tuition was given to us by Miss Diane Austin, Mr. James Nichterlein and Mr. Robert Nola.

Teaching:

The department offered the usual six units for the pass degree together with two full units and four half units for the degree with honours. A new half unit, Phenomenology, was offered for the first time.

Enrolments for pass units exceeded our expectations but there was only one student taking final honours. However more students than in previous years attempted the second or third years of the honours course. The department supervised six students for the M.A. degree. Two of these completed during the year.

Research :

The research interests of the department are reflected in the titles of the papers read to learned societies. Overall, interest shifted slightly from scholarship in classical authors, to scholarship in mediaeval logic. On the borderline of Ethics and Philosophical Psychology our interest continued in such topics as Action and Eudaimonia •

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Several members of the department worked on problems of intensionality. Questions in philosophical logic, affecting metaphysics, received increased attention. Professor Herbst continued in pure metaphysics, especially the distinction between form and matter.

Courses Offered ~

The following units were offered : -

Introduction to Philosophy and Logic Professor Herbst Mr. Lycos Mr. Campbell Dr. Mautner Mr. Thom

History of Philosophy Mrs. Small Mr. Campbell Professor Gibson Professor Herbst Mr. Ginnane

Ethics and Politics Mr. Ginnane Dr. Mautner

Greek Philosophy Mr. Lycos

Logic Mr. Thom Mr. Campbell

Philosophy of Science Professor Gibson Mr. Campbell

Modern (Post-Kantian) Philosophy (Honours) Professor Gibson Mr. Lycos Mr. Campbell Mrs. Small Dr. Mautner

Contemporary Philosophy The staff. Co­ordinated by Mrs. Small

Honours Logic Mr. Thom Mr. Campbell

Phenomenology (Honours) Mrs. Small Professor Gibson Dr. Mautner Mr. Ginnane

Philosophy of Religion (Honours) Mr. Ginnane Dr. Mautner Mr. Campbell

Greek Philosophy (Honours) Mr. Lycos Mr. Thom

Mediaeval Studies B Mr. Ginnane

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Visitors~

Professcr J ames Thomson and Professor Judith Jarvis­Thomson, both fro~ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited the A.N.U. during second term. Members of the department participated in their s eminars in the Institute, and Professor Judith Jarvis-Thomson read a paper on 1 Causation and Action' to t he staff-student seminar in this department .

Professor Alan Donagan, from the University of Illinois at Urbana, also visited the A.N.U. during second term. The paper which he read to our staff-seminar was entitled 1 Some Problems of Rule Utilitarianism v.

Papers to our staff-student seminar were read by Professor Brian Medlin of Flinders University and by Messrs. George Molna r and William Bonnie, both of Sydney University. Mr. J. Howes of Me lbourne University visited in June. He read a pa per t o students in Ethics and Politics. It was entitled 1 Eudaimonia in Aristotle v.

The department, i n conjunction with the Department of Asian Civilisatjon, sponsored a visit from Professor N.V. Bannerj ee of the University of New Delhi. Professor Bannerjee gave one i:;ublic lecture and read a paper on 'Dichotomies ' to a jojnt semina r of the two departments. The public lecture was entitled vTradition, Value and the Future of Civilisa tion 1

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Other Activi t i e s :

Six rr.embers of the de pa r t ment a ttended tho Annual Conference of t11e f u s t ral as ian Association of Philosophy in Melboun1e . f"j\vo read pa pers. Mr. Thom attended the conference of t he Australian Association for Logic, and Mr. Campbell and Professor Gibs on a ttended the conference of the Australian As socia tion for the ~istory and Philosophy of Science.

Papers Read by Members of the Department:

Professor P. Herbst

While he was away on study leave Professor Herbst read papers on various metaphysical topics at the -

University of Wisconsin (Madison) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) University of north Carolina (Chapel Hill) University of Pittsburgh (Penn.) To a conference on Metaphysics held under the auspice8 of the Council for Philosophical Studies and the Carnegie Corporation at Long Island University (South Hampton, N.Y.) and at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil).

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Mr. W.J. Ginnane

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The Church and the Sacred. Read to the University Catholic Federation of Australia, January.

Blind men, parrots, and ripe bananas: some reflections on concepts and judgments. Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, July.

Mr. K. Lycos

Does green look the same to others as it looks to me? Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, June.

Dr. T. Mautner

Consistency of Rules of Conduct. Read to the Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, August.

Aguinas's Third WaJJ:_. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosphy, Canberra, March.

On the Truth of Deontic Statements. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney, October.

An AppaFent Ptetitio Principii in Aristotle. Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, November.

Mr. P. Thom

Proposition~l L<~_g:Lc. Read to the Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, August.

Stoic Logic. Read to the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, November.

The Log_ic of Intensionality. Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, March .

Migrating, learnin_g_ the piano, and inferring. Read to the Philosophy Group,Canberra, September.

Mr. R. Campbell

Existence - a formal or pragmatic notion? Read to the Australasian Associa.tion of Philosophy, Canberra, April .

Defining the Intensional. Read to the Philosophy Group, Canberra, March.

Publications:

Professor Q.B. Gibson

The Limits of Social Prediction, The Monist, Vol. 52, 1968, pp. 359-373°

Mr. R. Campbell

Proper Names} Mind 1 Vol . 77, 1968, pp. 326-350.

Review of L. Linsky: Referring, Mind , Vol. 77, 1968, pp • 6 11 -6 1 3 .

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY EXAMINATION RESULTS -5-

Subject Enrolled Sitting High Distinction Credit Pass with Pass Fail Wastage or Unit Distinction Merit

Introduction to 184 142 3 10 24 65 40 36 76 Philosophy & Logic 77. 17% 2. 11% 7.04% 16.90% 28. 16% 45.78% 19.56% 41.30% History of Philosophy 25 23 2 1 5 1 1 4 2 6

92.00% 8.69% 4-34% 21.74% 47.82% 17.39% 8.00% 24.00% Ethics & Politics 47 38 3 1 1 22 2 9 11

80.85% 7.89% 28.94% 57.89% 5.26% 19. 14% 23.40% Greek Philosophy 10 7 3 4 3 3 70.00% 42.85% 57 .14% 30.00% 30.00%

Logic 24 16 1 4 6 5 8 13 66.66% 6.25% 25.00% 37.50% 31.25% 33-33% 54. 16%

Philosophy of Science 8 7 1 1 4 1 1 2 87. 50% 14.28% 14. 28% 57. 14% 14.28% 12.50% 25.00%

Modern (Post-Kantian) 3 3 2 1 Philosophy (Honours) 100.00% 66.66% 33-33%

Greek Philosophy 2 2 1 1 (Honours) 100.00% 50.00% 50.00%

Logic (Honours) 3 3 3 100.00% 100.00%

Philosophy of Religion 11 10 1 2 3 4 1 1 (Honours) 90.90% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 9.09% 9.09%

Phenomenology (Honours) 3 3 1 1 1 100.00% 33-33% 33-33% 33-33%

Enrolled Sitting Results

Final Honours 1 1 Second Class - Upper Division