CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY GROUP

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

Sun. 11th June: Michael von Brasch: Virtual TAPS -  Boolean 
Logic Cenotaphs
   An investigation of the roles played by computers and the World Wide Web, etc., in the creation of a virtual reality and the implications this has for our living in this new millenium in non-virtual reality.
Sun. 9th July: Mishka Jambor: A Critique of the Philosophy 
and Theology of ‘A Course in Miracles’
   In this presentation I hope to outline this group’s thoughts on a number of key topics. Then I will ask the participants to conduct a ‘reality check’ on some of those points. E.g., as one of the main tenets of this course is that ‘the world is an illusion’, it follows, ‘that any fault I see in someone else or in the world is therefore only a projection of my illusory belief about myself’. As much New Age Thought seems to be structured along similar lines I believe that this type of examination has relevance for our appreciation of contemporary culture.
Sun. 13th August: Lindsay Mell: Education & the Babyboomers: 
How Australian Babyboomers Are Situated in the Con-text of Recent Developments in the Field of Education
Sun. 10th September: Simon Convy: Identical Senses 
(Meanings) Not Required For Communication: An Example From Computer Programming.
   In this paper I use an example of two computer programs that communicate with each other about some objects.  The programs use nouns to name the objects. Each program associates a set of criteria to determine which noun to apply to which objects. The programs have differing criteria for applying the nouns, yet they happen to apply the same nouns for the same objects  because the objects chosen for this example do not test the differences in the criteria. The example of the two programs embody a practical argument against the claim by Gottlob Frege that the sense of a word is objective, commonly held and not subjective? 

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