Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. Should you present?Are you a postgraduate? Then yes, you should present. |
NEXT TALKRozemin Keshvani (PhD) Kant Thursday 25/06/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S1.50 ORGANISERS |
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WMA Talk: Kelsey Plaghat (Monash University) on 'Self-cognition and Predictive Processing'
Predictive processing claims that we model the world in order to minimize the distance between our expectations generated by this mental model and information we get through the senses. This explains both perception and action. In representing the world, we also must represent ourselves in order to understand our own role in causing many of our sensations. In this way, our self is one of the many inferred hidden causes of sensory input, and is subject to the same domain-general dynamic updating mechanisms. Pushing this idea further, as in Hohwy and Michael (2017), the self could be conceived of as a meta-model which tracks the performance of the internal model of the world. These computational models of the self generate many related hypotheses, including the functional role of self-stimulatory behaviour (eg. fidgeting) and the role of the self in psychiatric disorders.