CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY GROUP

	Meeting regularly every second Sunday of the month, public holidays excepted, 3 pm. All genres of philosophy examined. All Welcome. 

Sun. 12th March: Marc Marusic: An Introduction to 
‘Philosophy’: A Personal Exploration of the Nature 
of a Religious Cult(?)

   This paper will by introduced with a short essay introduction by N.Tointon looking at how religions create and fulfill a need for the sense of the reli-gious. The following question will also be raised - is it possible to do a phenomenological(-like) descrip-tion of our experiential involvement in a religious context? In the main paper read by Marc he will closely examine his interaction with the group known as the School of Philosophy.

Sun. 9th April: Noël Tointon: In Authentic Space: 
The Epistemology and Ontology of Relationships

This paper investigates the general nature of rela-tionships from an experiential perspective and pro-poses that this type of research could eventually act as a middle ground between, on one hand, our theoret-ical understanding of quantum physics and, on the other, gravity along with its astrophysical conse-quences. The emphasis in this paper being on an ex-periential understanding of relationships and how this type of insight can be used to recreate a sense of the authentic.

Sun. 14th May: Open Forum: After the Recent Death of the 
(Post-)Modern University Is There a Future Without 
    Them?
The idea behind this open forum is to address the post-modern challenge confronting Australian universities. All contributions welcome.

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