CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY GROUP

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

Sun. 9th March: Open Forum: 
Why is Going to War (in Iraq) So Controversial!?
	Why should the decision of going to war/not going to war (in Iraq) be controversial? When is something controversial? How should a controversy be dealt with? What are the issues…?
Sun. 13th April: Noël Tointon: Beyond Therapy: Some Ideas on 
the Nature of Therapy…Should Therapy be Therapeutic?
	Sections of an essay on this topic will be read and opened to discussion. The context will be a phenomenological re-examination of the nature of illness, psychosis, etc; the process of therapy in general; the role transcendental suspensions have in dealing with complex, superficially incommensurable forms of value and in the very implementation of the process of treatment, in general, itself…?
Sun. 11th May: Noël Tointon: Problem(s) of Deception & Self-Deception?
Sun. 8th June: Lindsay Mell: 
Towards an ‘Ethical Culture’… Looking at the work of Singer.
Sun. 13th July: Panel of Short Papers Looking at the Field of Science:
         How Scientific is Science: (A) Dark Matter or an Occult Science..?!
Sun. 10th August: Francesco Amati: 
Ricoeur and Levinas, two modalities of self.
Sun. 14th September: Noël Tointon: Finding a Place for the Idea of God –  Brief Overview: Dead or Alive?: The Examination and Intersection of Three Arguments For an Actual, Personal and Positive Theological Difference? 
	Does the vision of the universe with a concept of the divine in some form or other make sense? In this short paper three simple arguments will be allowed to intersect to demonstrate that the idea of the divine is a reasonable possibility… but does this sense of deity have a religious future…?
Sun. 12th Oct: Michael von Brasch: Algabel and the arabesques of power.
Sun. 9th Nov: IVth Annual Conference (Surry Hills) No Meeting at Green Iguana

GREEN IGUANA Coffee Shop, 6 King St, Newtown (Upstairs)
(Just past Sydney Uni. on the left going towards Newtown)
Information: Noël  9332-2886 (email: philo@acay.com.au)
Marc  9517-1206,  Mary  9542-2205, Management 9516-3118 Webpage: http://www.homestead.com/noelshomepage2/index.html