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The University of Western Australia
Philosophy Society is the University's main forum for
philosophical discussion outside the context of instruction. The
regular flow of visitors to Perth also ensures that there is a
steady supply of presentations from interstate and overseas.
Click here to see the Current Programme of seminars.
Visitors who have given papers to
the Society over the years include the following:
Michael Arbib, David Armstrong,
Michael Ayers, John Bigelow, Margaret Boden, Andrew Brook, Andy
Clark, Lorraine Code, John Cottingham, Martin Davies, Phil Dowe,
Hubert Dreyfus, Robyn Ferrell, Peter Forrest, Paul Griffiths,
Cliff Hooker, David Hull, Frank Jackson, John Kleinig, Peter
Lamarque, David Lewis, Brian McLaughlin, Alfred R. Mele, D. H.
Mellor, Alan Millar, Chris Mortensen, Adam Morton, Graham
Nerlich, Justin Oakley, Philip Pettit, Graham Priest, Holmes
Rolston III, Mark Sagoff, Mark Sainsbury, Eike von Savigny, Peter
Slezak, Michael Smith, Stephen Stich, Charles Taylor, Douglas
Walton, Karen Warren, Bernard Williams, Robert A. Wilson, Peter
Winch, Julian Young, Uriah Kriegel,
Bill Fish, Lisa
Bortolotti, Andy
Hamilton, Lubica Ucnik,
Richard Hamilton, Barry
Maund,
Hartley Slater,
Martin Smith,
Miri Albahari,
Michael Levine
The person who arranges the
Philosophy Society seminars is currently Nic
Damnjanovic. (Click on the name to find an email
address.)
Current Programme of Seminars (Semester 2 2009)
Meetings are held: Fridays
UWA Arts: Room 1.33
4.30pm
Click on the title below to see an abstract (if
available).
July
31st |
| Tamas Pataki |
'In this paper I consider various relations between
religion and mental illness, and try to determine (i) whether religion is, in
some corporate sense, a mental illness or class of such illnesses and (ii)
whether certain religious people (mostly at the fundamentalist end of the
contemporary monotheisms) are, by virtue of their religion, mentally ill.
The fact that both the concepts of religion and of mental
illness are so stubbornly vague complicates the inquiry
considerably.' |
August
7th |
| Timothy Mooney (Univ College Dublin) |
'Conceptualising Seeing in Hussari' |
August
14 |
| Andy Lamey |
'Temple Grandin and the Ethics of Humane Slaughter'
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August
21 |
| David Scaife |
tba |
August
28 |
| Danny Cairns |
'Towards a characterization of the basic orientation of Heidegger's early philosophy (1919 - 1929):
Authenticity and the Ontological Difference' |
| September 4 |
| Katherine Dellar |
tba |
| September 18 |
| Mike Workman |
'Token Identity and the Exclusion Problem' |
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| September 25 |
| Kieran Golby |
' "Thank goodness that headache which McTaggart's paradox gave me is over": why an A-theorist who adopts the theory known as ERSATZ PRESENTISM can say it and mean it.' |
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October
2 |
| Ryan Cox |
"Great Expectations: Cognitivism About Intention and the Transparency of Mental Attitudes. |
October
9 |
| Luke Russell |
tba |
October
16 |
| Amanda Prestipino |
tba |
October
23 |
| Patrick Greenough |
tba |
October
30 |
| Craig Edwards |
Craig Edwards: 'Substituted decision-making and the 'Other Self' problem' |
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Abstracts from some previous seminarsA
Perfect Language, A
Projectivist Theory of Perceptual Experience, The Scope
of Parity Reasoning, Against Secular Creationism: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Biology, Should the classical notion of self be preserved?, Ethical Egoism: It May Be Nasty, but is it also Incoherent? |
