Sun 14th April: Noel Tointon: Co-Authored Phenomena
Sun 12th May: Robert Zentner: Robert Norick: Free Market/Economic Rationalism... and Beyond?
Sun 9th June: Michael von Brasch: Terrorism - Part II
Sun 14th July: Noel Tointon: Process Theology - From Physics to Theology?
Sun 11th August: Refugees... Asylum seekers... Economic Migrants... What Difference is there in a Name... In so far as how Australian Immigration Policy Should be Formulated?
Sun 8th September: A Key Principle in Conflict Resolution - "What is good for one party is good for any other"?
Sun 13th October: Mary Harnett: What is God Like: Through the Analogy of Mind?
Sun 10th Nov: Blue Mts Conference/Symposium (no meeting at Green Iguana)
Sun 15th December: Alien Abduction - Have Your Been Taken?
2003
Sun 12th January: Lindsay Mell: Towards an 'Ethical Culture': How do we relate ethical principles to the state of contemporary culture?
Sun 9th February: Media or Medium:Does a Democracy Today Need to Fear a Monopolization of the Media?
Sun 9th Mar: Open Forum:Why is going to war (in Iraq) so controversial?
Sun 13th April: Noel Tointon: Beyond Therapy
Sun 11th May: Noel Tointon: Problem(s) of Deception and Self-Deception
Sun 8th June: Lindsay Mell: Looking at the work of Singer
Shift of Location to The Rustic Cafe/Surry Hills
Sun 13th July: How Sientific is Science? (A) Dark Matter or an Occult Science?
Sun 10th Aug: Francesco Amati: Ricoeur and Levinas, two modalities of self.
Sun 14th Sep: Noel Tointon: Finding a Place for the 'Idea' of God - Dead or Alive?
Sun 12th Oct: Michael von Brasch: Algabel and the arabessques of power
Sun 9th Nov: IVth Annual Conference (The Rustic Cafe/Surry Hills)
Sun 14th Dec: Marc Marusic: Rousseau and the French Revolution
2004
Sun 11th Jan: Lindsay Mell: Popular Philosophy: A Contemporary Reflection
Sun 8th Feb: Phil Wong: Scientific Hypothesis, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Proofs... A Review
Sun 14th Mar: May Harnett/Noel Tointon: Papers on Theological Topics
Sun 11th Apr: Michael von Brasch: Title to be announced
Sun 9th May: Francesco Amati: Ricoeur and Levinas, two modalities of self.
Part II - Ricoeur....
Sun 13th Jun: Marc Marusic: The Frankfurt School versus One Dimensional Man - Questions of Consciousness, Meaning, Identity, Everyday Life, Culture, Desire and Power?
Sun 11th Jul: Open Forum: Has Australia Now Become Merely a Mirror of American Society: Both Culturally and Politicaly?
Sun 8th Aug: Noel Tointon: On the Role of Textual Reflexivity in Determining the Contemporaneous Nature of the Post-Postmodern Condition? Between the Pre-Modern, the Modern, the Postmodern and the Contemporary is there a real difference in the production of their texts? Titled a "Current Controversy...."
Sun 12th Sep: Open Forum: Is a Culture Blind to its Own Myths?
Sun 10th Oct: Sandy Yang: Confucious....
Sun 14th Nov: Mini-Conference: Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre: From 12:30 - 5:30pm. Major Theme - Rationality. Bring a plate/beverage. Cost $5 (includes free teas/coffees, etc.).
Shift to Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre
Sun 12th Dec: Michael von Brasch: Title to be announced (Paper is on the theme of the 'concept' of democracy)
Sun 9th Jan: Confucius - Part II
Sun 13th Feb: Open Forum: If the Contemporary era is, theoretically, an era of pluralism where is the (Australian) world of politics heading? Are we moving into an era of oppositions? Whence the hegemony of the Right?
Sun 13th March: Lindsay Mell: On Values....
Sun 10th April: Open Forum: Now Who Owns the Truth?
Sun 13th May: Open Forum: Leaving Iraq? - When and How?
Sun 10th June: Francesco Amati: Science and Ideology
Sun 8th July: Lindsay Mell: Something to Believe in....
Sun 12th August: Open Forum: How Virtual is Virtual Reality? (Phenomenon, Interface and Implications)
Sun 9tth September: Open Forum: What are the Necessary Preconditions for a Democratic Society...?
Sun 14th October: N.Tointon: Freedom in the World of the Political, etc.
Sun 11th November: Mini-Conference Starts 1:30pm
Sun 9th December: Xmas Party/Mishka jambor: Comparing Other Cultures
Sun 13th Jan: Lindsay Mell: Experience as a Phenomenon - Part I
Sun 10th Feb: Lindsay Mell: Experience as a Phenomenon - Part II
Sun 9th March: Open Forum: How Should Civil Society Deal With Fundamentalism Conducive to
Terroism
Sun 13th April: Paper: Title to be announced
Sun 11th May: Paper: Title to be announced
Sun 8th Jun: Paper: Title to be announced
Sun 13th Jul: Paper/Forum: Ecological Philosophy - Do We Have One?
Sun 1oth Aug: Paper: N.Tointon: The Practical Treatment of Ecological Complexity
Sun 14th Sep: Open Forum: A Non-Heated Discussion of Global Warming??
Sun 12th Oct: Lindsay Mell & Bridget Tam: Friendship in the Social Context
Sun 9th Nov: Conference - Start at 2pm (Papers requested). Bring a plate.
Sun 14th Dec: Xmas Party: Its the Stupid Economy (Stupid)! Bring a plate.
2009
Sun 11th Jan: Lindsay Mell: Friendship in the Social Context - Part II
Sun 8th Feb: Noel Tointon: Negotiating Nqarratives: After the successful Post-Modern critique of grand narratives how do we negotiate a complexity of narratives without succumbing to group-think, misunderstanding, confusion and relativism, etc.
Sun 8th Mar: Open Paper: Things Bite Back - Examining Unintended Consequences
Sun 12th Apr: Michael von Brasch: Altona (Bad Faith and Authenticity)
Sun 10th May: Open Forum: Ater 100 Days of the Barack Obama Presidency What Can We Say?
Sun14th Jun: Noel Tointon: Some thoughts on the nature and circulation of value
Sun 12th Jul: Open Forum: Can We Make a Difference? - How Do We Make a Difference?
Sun 9th Aug: Mar Marusic: Open Forum- Do We Want a Designer/Designed Future?
Sun 13th Sep: Noel Tointon: Negotiating the Other - How does the Other Constitute Us and How do We Constitute Them?
Sun 11th Oct: Michael von Brasch: The curious story of Horst Wessel (Unhappy the nations that need heroes...)
Sun 8th Nov: Annual Mini-Conference: (Four papers were read).
Sun 13th Dec: Xmas Party: How Can Politics Be Improved (If At All?)? What would you like to see happen on the stage of Canberra? Bring your ideas along.
2010
Sun 10th Jan: Lindsay Mell: Part I: Experience and Emotion: Commonly, popular considerations of ‘Emotion’ in the context of ‘Experience’ tend to proceed through the substantial influence of a psychological orientation. Throughout this Continental Philosophy Group session, the extent to which such an orientation remains so supremely pertinent and relevant will be explored. Hence, the potential for various perspectives to contribute to the dimension of ‘Experience and Emotion’ will be explored and interpreted accordingly. Even though such perspectives may not be definitively derived primarily through a ‘psychology’ context, as such. Any dialogue contributions to this theme from those who attend will be most welcome.’
Sun 14th Feb: Marc Marusic: Break-up of Jugoslavia: Reflections on the diverse nation-state - What can go wrong and what can go right?
Sun 14th Mar: Lindsay Mell: Part II: Vocation and Emotion:
Sun 11th Apr: Noël Tointon: Transformation through Re-Self-Organization?
The Beneficial Engineering of Social Change. (The process of transformation as a problematic phenomenon in historical appreciation, governance, inter-personal and personal life).
Sun 9th May: Papers/Open Forum – Given Political Differences How is the Political Spectrum Shaped in Contemporary Australia? Is there a left, a right, is there a center? How should we define/re-define what might be meant by conservative, liberal, socialist, green, etc?
Now at Alchemy, 572 Crown St, backroom, downstairs
Sun 13th Jun: Papers/Open Forum - What are the Conditions for a Meaningful Inter-faith Dialogue? In what manner should religious traditions enter into a dialogue with each other and with the secular world, and, is there a place for (some forms of) fundamentalism in such a dialogue?
Sun 11th Jul: Paper/Open Forum – How Do We Find a Sense of Self Identity?
Sun 8th Aug: Paper/Open Forum – Break Up of Yugoslavia: More Reflections on the diverse nation state.
Sun 12th Sep: Lindsay Mell: Part III: Emotion and Awareness - Panel Dialogue
SOLAS 557 Crown St (upstairs) 4pm
Sun 10th Oct: Mini-Conference: Calling for papers. Starting at 4pm; Conference Dinner at 7pm
Sun 14th Nov: Paper/Open Forum – How Forward or Backward is the Current Political Climate?
Return to Cossies 638A Crown St (upstairs) 4pm
Sun 12th Dec: Xmas Party: Paper/Open Forum – Why do Philosophy in the 21st Century? What is Philosophy--Philosophy is??
2011 Quakers 119 Devonshire St, Surry Hills, Downstairs
Sun 9th Jan: Lindsay Mell: ‘Interpretation and Discernment – Experience and Process in the Life Journey Context’: Part I
Sun 13th Feb: Lindsay Mell: ‘Interpretation and Discernment – Experience and Process in the Life Journey Context’: Part II
Sun 13th Mar: Noël Tointon: Part I: Can there be (the ‘Discipline’ of) a (Post-)Postmodern Philosophy? After the Postmodernist ‘attack’ on disciplines like philosophy, history, theology, science, etc., can there be Contemporary return to such ‘disciplines’? A philosophical look at 'the history wars'.
Sun 10th Apr: Noël Tointon: Part II: Can there be (the ‘Discipline’ of) a (Post-)Postmodern Philosophy? ...A philosophical look at the ‘history wars’.
Sun 8th May: Mark Marusic : Language as social practice - analysing conversation to explore how language reflects and constructs identity (with emphasis on the ouvre of Roy 'Rampaging' Slaven and H.G. Nelson).
Sun 12th Jun: Lindsay Mell: Personality and Relationships
Sun10th Jul: Noël Tointon: Compacts versus Contracts? How Should Funding for Mental Health Be Spent? Investment in Social Augmentation – An Existential Approach to Social Interaction.
Sun 14th Aug: Mark Marusic: What are the implications for adult learners of their beliefs about knowledge and intelligence?
Sun 11th Sep: Noel Tointon: Privacy versus Transparency versus Freedoms (Rights and Associated Obligations)? How Should these Aspects be Negotiated?
Sun 9th Oct: Open Forum: Have We Seen the Future (for Australia?)? Current Innovations as Already Found Around the World?? What Predictions Could be Made?
TERU - 33 Glebe Pt Rd: Starting time now 2.30pm
Sun 13th Nov: Mini-Conference 2011: Note 2pm start!
Sun 11th Dec: Xmas Party: Open Forum - "The Bare and Bleached Bones of 'Global Warming' - The Phenomenon of Denial" - On the Contestation of a Major Discourse
Sun Jan 8th: Open Forum: The Problematic Nature of Problems
Sun 12th Feb: Lindsay Mel: Part I: Social Inclusion from a Communal Perspective - an Ontological Overview
Sun 11th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Part II: Social Inclusion from a Communal Perspective - an Ontological Overview
The Spanish Club, 88 Liverpool St, City
Sun 8th Apr: Open Forum: Do Current Political Parties Have Any Substantial Identity Beyond the Key Personalities that Lead Them?
Sun 13th May: Noel Tointon: Cultural Amnesia - A Phenomenological Examination
Sun 10th Jun: Open Forum: To What Extent Have Contemporary Forms of Work Become Virtual and/or Non-Productive and/or Convergent???
Sun 8th Jul: Lindsay Mell: The Perception of Consciousness - Experiential Awareness and Recognition
Sun 12th Aug: Open Forum: What is Art? Reflections on the Sydney Biennale 2012
Sun 9th Sep: Mark Marusic: Conceptual Change, an Issue in Education Psychology:
In relation to current issues, e.g., views on climate change and carbon tax, asylum seekers etc.
Sun 14th Oct: Noël Tointon: Can a Re-Localism Counter-Balance Globalism?
Sun 11th Nov: Mini-Conference 2012: Starting 2pm. Calling for papers/presentations
.
Sun 9th Dec: Xmas Party: Should the secular state still celebrate a religious festival like Xmas?
...How should the relationship/non-relationship between religion and state be re-written in this Contemporary era?
2013
Sun 13th Jan: Lindsay Mell: Behaviour/Values and Perception - Part I
Sun 10th Feb: Mishka Jambor: Cross Cultural Differences; is Australian society interested in exploration of the Other?
Sun 10th Mar: Lindsay Mell: Behavour/Values and Perception - Part II
Sun 14 Apl: Russell Shuttleworth: (The French Philosopher) Castoriadis
Sun 12th May: Noël Tointon: Free Will and Freedom
Sun 9th Jun: Mark Marusic: "Something touched me deep inside, the day the music died" - Philosophy and Rock/Pop Music
Shifting to the Imperial Hotel in Paddington
Sun 14th Jul: Noël Tointon: Consilience – Crossing Disciplines?
Sun 11th Aug: Mark Marusic: "Something touched me deep inside, the day the music died" - Philosophy and Rock/Pop Music: Part II
Sun 8th Sep: Lindsay Mell: Balance and Equilibrium
Sun 13th Oct: Mini-Conference: Starting time 2pm: Calling for presentations
Sun 10th Nov: Mark Marusic: Philosophy and Rock/Pop Music: Part III - Emotions, Authenticity and Artifice.
Sun 8th Dec: Open Forum: Philosophy Dinner: Details to be announced (Lindsay 0468 378 358)
Sun 12th Jan: Noel Tointon: The Existential Economy? The Creation and Circulation of Value?
Sun 9th Feb: Lindsay Mell: Part I: Psychology and Experience
Sun 9th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Part II: Psychology and Experience
Sun 13th Apr: Noël Tointon: Part I: Criticism of the Traditional Western Philosophical Project
(Looking at how correlations between objective, inter-objective, subjective and inter-subjective dimensions, and between other polarities, offers a way out of traditional philosophical controversies and cul de sacs as well as creating patterns of alignment wherein we can critically appreciate the simulation of our relationships along with an appreciation of their value that was/is/can be entertained for-us, by-us).
Sun 11th May: Noël Tointon:Part II: Critical Appreciation of (the) Contemporary
Philosophical Project/s
(Looking at how the phenomenon/phenomena of Contemporary Philosophy/ Philosophies can be read as an existential-like process that links correlations, alignments and simulations of relationships with a re-e/valuation of a new sense of subjectivity/inter-subjectivity, etc.)
Sun 8th Jun: Mark Marusic: Expectations of the electorate re politicians, political
parties and their policies
Sun 13th Jul: Christopher McCabe: Watson's Bay, Sydney: Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus, Revolt, Passion and Life."
Sun 10th Aug: Lindsay Mell: Authenticity and Perceptual Expression
Sun 14th Sep: Open Forum: Is the Environment No Longer Important: Green Sound or
White Noise??
Sun 12th Oct: Mini-Conference 2014: Call for papers and presentations. Note 2pm start!
Sun 9th Nov: Mark Marusic: Issues in Environmental Philosophy
Sun 14th Dec: Xmas Party: Noël Tointon: To Repeat Ourselves without Repeating Ourselves - Fron Ennui to Ecsatsy
2015
Sun 11th Jan: Noël Tointon: Theodicy’ – The Problem of ‘The Problem of Evil’
How a society or culture defines evil has shifted; a phenomenon we are witness to in this Contemporary era. How a theologian, e.g., defines/re-defines evil has consequences. At the opposite end of this diverse spectrum in opinion we have contrasting visions of goodness. How a theologian, e.g., defines/re-defines goodness also has consequences. In the discussion accompanying this paper we will be exploring these sea changes in public and private morality ideologically imposed upon us and re-written through forms of changing consensus sometimes barely reflected upon even though all these shifts in positioning are culturally fought over....
Sun 8th Feb: Lindsay Mel: Spirituality and Experience – Part I
'Psyche' (noun) can be defined as 'the soul, spirit, mind; the principle of mental and emotional life, conscious and unconscious'. (Chalmers Dictionary; 1085). While 'psychology' is the 'science of mind' in this context. Throughout this study, the phenomenon of 'psyche' as a facet of spirituality will be explored through the context of relational experience from the perspective of the relevance of psyche as spirituality in the contemporary life-world context.
Sun 8th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Spirituality and Experience – Part II
Sun 12th Apr: Mark Marusic: Some Reflections on Contemporary Attitudes to
the Environment.
Sun 10th May: Noël Tointon: Should the Theologian be Paid? Theological Difference, etc. Part I:
Given that more than half the population of this planet believes in the Divine in some form or other let us attempt to critically understand how this general mode of discourse appears to operate in order to discern what types of argument might better serve its apparent objectives? To this end, in Part I, I will examine the concepts of a theological difference and a meta-theological difference; how absolutism and relativism can and should be bypassed; and, the phenomenological nature of relationships in general.
Sun 14th Jun: Noël Tointon: Should the Theologian be Paid? Theological Difference, etc. Part II:
In part II I will use work done in Part I to outline a series of four arguments that need to be taken on board in order to arrive at both the possible conceptual and existential viability of this type of working construct?
Sun 12th Jul: Noël Tointon: Should the Theologian be Paid? Theological Difference, etc. Part III:
In Part III I will deconstruct and reconstruct The Western Philosophical Project (Prospect) in order to remove a plethora of misplaced aspirations be they theological or philosophical in orientation or otherwise.
Sun 9th Aug: Lindsay Mell: Mutual Experience in the Universal Context I
How does the intricate confluence of mutuality and experience pertain optimally in relational concerns? Meanwhile, how can we suitably situate these vital relational elements in the universal context of our life-world? These are pivotal considerations in the perspective of how and where we proceed with our lives.
Sun 13th Sep Lindsay Mell: Mutual Experience in the Universal Context II
Sun 11th Oct: Stephen Hill: Sacred Silence - the Stillness of Listening to Humanity: My way of approaching issues such as this is now through story telling, in this case, via day-by-day experiential records. Not your usual academic book, though the reviewers (of my book ”Merdeka - Hostages, Freedom and Flying Pigs”) say it seriously contributes. My sociological and philosophical theory and reasoning are fundamentally based on lived experience rather than abstractions… available as electronic copy via ‘amazon.com.au’ for around $10,
Sun 8th Nov: Mini-Conference (call for papers/presentations) 2 pm start!
Sun 13th Dec: Mark Marusic: Engagement/Disengagement, Conflict/ Mutuality, Tolerance/Intolerance in a Culturally and Socially Diverse Society: Part I
2016
Sun 10th Jan: Noël Tointon: Political Philosophy/Philosophical Politics: Revolution or Reformation? Some Observations on the Nature of Political Discourse: Somewhere between a paper and an open forum in which a number of concepts will be introduced and explored. The concept of a ‘parallel’ virtual world of the political will be introduced; exploring the ramifications of this new force on the political stage?
Sun 14th Feb: Lindsay Mel: Is the Economy Stupid? Part I: How the contempo-rary economic narrative and paradigm was braided and blended into its current form.
Sun 13th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Is the Economy Stupid? Part II:
Sun 10th Apr: Stephen Hill and Lindsay Mell: Economy?
Sun 8th May: Joffre Balce:"Henry George & the Village of 100." Like many economists with a philosophical bent, Henry George, a 19th CE self-educated jour-nalist, orator & politician confronted common notions that were actually myths -- e.g., that technological advances will result in massive unemployment, that capital was the source of employment and wages; and that population growth is a threat to prosperity or the converse, that controlling population will result in economic development. Ar-guing from both Henry George's philosophy & empirical data, the paper will debunk the last of the three myths mentioned.
Sun 12th Jun: Mark Marusic: Engagement/Disengagement, Conflict/ Mutuality, Tolerance/Intolerance in a Culturally and Socially Diverse Society: Part II
Sun 10th Jul: Noël Tointon: Political Imperatives: What Are They Today?
Sun 14th Aug: Stephen Hill: Building the Harmony of Humanity. This talk will be based on the third Keynote that I presented in the Kyoto International Symposium Series, "Platform for a New Economics - Community, Humanity and the Spiritual".
Sun 11 Sep: Lindsay Mel: Matuality and Maturity in Relational Experience
Sun 9 Oct:Noël Tointon: At What Cost? A Critque of the Neoliberal Mistreatment of the Political-Economy.
Sun 8th Jan: Noël Tointon: Neo-Liberalism? An Open Forum: Introducing the idea of a political-economy (with a hyphen), the phenomenal unity of the neo-liberal phenomenon, and, how we might reverse such ensuing adversity?
Sun 12th Feb: Lindsay Mel: Values and Ethos: Part I:
Sun 12th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Values and Ethos: Part II:
Sun 9th Apr: Chris McCabe: Machiavelli: `Power: how to get it and how to keep it - a review of `The Prince’ by Niccolo' Machiavelli’’
Sun 14th May: Mark Marusic: Reflections on contemporaneous attitudes to the environment: Part III:
Sun 11th Jun: Noël Tointon: Open Forum: Questioning Happiness?
Sun 9th Jul: Noël Tointon: Resolution: Striking Out! A Political Manifesto to Counter Neo-Liberal 'Terrorism' in the Home Space, Workplace and Marketplace.
Sun 13th Aug: Noël Tointon: Existential Application of Ideas on Human Freedom
Sun 10th Sep: Lindsay Mell: Resilience, Resonance and Equanimity: Mutual Relational Relativity
Sun 8th Oct: Noël Tointon: Critical Re-Appropriation: Leibniz's Monadism, and, the Impasse between Relativity and Quantum Physics
Sun 11th Feb: Lindsay Mel: Temporality and Relational Relativity: Part I:
Sun 11th Mar: Lindsay Mel: Temporality and Relational Relativity: Part II:
Sun 8th Mark Marusic: A Very Disturbing Year (2017) (Audio-Talk McKay and Discussion)
Sun 13th May: Noël Tointon: A Philosophy of Innovation: Outlining a Phenome-nological Approach to this Topic as well as Exploring Trends in a Futurist Con-text (based on my research as outlined in my Third Critique of Neo-Liberalism)
Sun 11th Jun: Noël Tointon: The Nunes 'Memo' as a Salutary Lesson in Self-Deceptive Self-Deconstruction in an Alternative Universe - Seizing the Major Dis-course or Seizing Up in a Non-Alternative Universe? Workshopping Postmodern-ism, Authenticity, Lying, Deconstruction, the Nature of Ethical Interaction… in the Context of the Infamous Nunes’ Memo.
Sun 8th Jul: Noël Tointon: A Brief Sketch of an Innovative Approach
To the Reversal of Indigenous Inequality in Australia as a Template
For the Possible Reversal of Non-Indigenous Inequality, and v.v.
One of the problems to be faced by the political-economy in the wake of neo-liberalism, populism and other disruptive social forces is rapidly rising inequality. In this presentation I will be looking at this more extreme phenomenon in the indigenous world/s in the hope of finding solutions both there and in the non-indigenous world. With this hope in mind I will be work-shopping some solutions I would like to pro-pose whilst also seeking other approaches that might resolve processes of inequality and it potentially destructive consequences for democratic governance.
Sun 12th Aug: Mark Marusic: Contemporary Attitudes to the Environment,
Part 5.
Sun 9th Sep: Lindsay Mel: tba
Sun 14th Oct: tba
Sun 11th Nov: 2016 Mini-Philosophy Conference: Starting 2 pm sharp!
Papers and presentations invited (20-40 minutes long plus time for questions).
Sun 9th Dec: Xmas Party: Open Forum
2019
Sun Jan 13: Noël Tointon: Fragments of a Philosophical Autobiography: Workshopping the philosophical observation that neither misunderstanding nor understanding can be absolute, etc.
Sun Feb 10 & Mar 10: Lindsay Mell: The Quest for Ethos: Ideas/ideals - and Qualities
Sun Apr 14: Marl Marusic: Environmental Philosophy - Part 6
Sun May 12: Christopher McCabe: Kant and the Categorical Imperative
Sun Jun 9: Noël Tointon: The Philosophy of Power and the Power of Philosophy
Sun 14th Jul: Christopher McCabe: Four Dialogues of Seneca
Sun 11th Aug: Noël Tointon: On the Existential Dimension, and, Speaking Truth to Power: Part 2 (& Part 3) in The Philosophy of Power and the Power of Philosophy.
Sun 8th Sep: Mark Marusic: Contemporary Attitudes to the Environment:
Part 7:
Sun 13th Oct: Lindsay Mell: Qualities Explored and Expressed – Quality and Concerns in the Context of late Modernity
Sun 10th Nov: 2018 Mini-Philosophy Conference: Starting 2 pm sharp!
Papers and presentations invited (20-40 minutes long plus time for questions).
Sun 8th Dec: Xmas Party: Noël Tointon: The Philosophy of Philosophy is
Non-Philosophy: Exploring Six Varieties of Non-Philosophy…
And the Existential Nature of Freedom: The photocopy of an original document is not an original document, yet, the photocopy of a photocopy is a photocopy… explor-ing this tension in reiteration through the lens of six varieties of ‘non-philosophy’.
May 24: Marusic: Contemporary Attitudes to the Environment: Part VIII
Jun 14: McCabe: Emil Cioran
Jun 28: Tointon: Father Xmas Revisited: Where is Father Xmas?
Jul 12: Tointon: The Future of Work
Jul26: Marusic: Responses to Covid 19: Moral Philosophy Perspectives.
Aug 9: Open Forum: The Past Exi(s)ts – The Future Does No Exi(s)t: Where & How?
Aug 23: McCabe: ‘The Roots of Romanticism’ and Isiah Berlin:
Sep 13: Tointon: A Set of Six Lectures on the Practicality of Philosophy…
Sep 27: Tointon: Answering Humean Concerns re Causal Experience
Oct 11: Mel: Qualities/Values/Ideals – A Relational Cultural Heritage: Part I
Oct 25: Mel: Qualities/Values/Ideals – A Relational Cultural Heritage: Part II
Nov 8: Mini-Conference: Part I (three presentations: Tointon: Critiquing the Political Economy; Andrade: Etty Hillesum; McDivitt: Reflections I)
Nov 22: Mini-Conference: Part II (four presentations: Tointon: Critiquing Neo-Liberalism; McCabe: Joseph de Maistre & Adorno; Andrade: German Philosophy; McDivitt: Reflections II)
Dec 13: Mel: Qualities/Values/Ideals – A Relational Cultural Heritage: Part III
Dec 27: Tointon: Thinking Six More Impossible Thoughts after Breakfast…
2021
Jan 10: Tointon: Can the Nihilist Live Happily with Conundrums?
Jan 24: Open Forum: Series of Reflections on What it Means to Be Critical? Part I
Feb 14: Open Forum: Series of Reflections on What it Means to Be Critical? Part II
Feb 28: Open Forum: Series of Reflections on What it Means to Be Critical? Part III
Mar 14: Mel: Qualities and Character – Context, Culture, and Process: Part I
Mar 28: Mel: Qualities and Character – Context, Culture, and Process: Part II
Apr 11: Tointon: Critical Philosophy and Existential Authenticity: Part I
Apr 25: Tointon: Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Part II
We are a group of people who have been regularly meeting on the second and fourth Sundays of the month to discuss philosophical issues, not necessarily on topics centered in Continental Philosophy (although many of us do share an interest in the same). We now meet via Zoom every 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month currently at 2.00 pm (Sydney time) (Please note earlier time). Hopefully returning soon to the Imperial on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. Refer to emails or Facebook for notifications. [
Meeting at 2 pm upstairs at Waverley Library in Study Room 4
32-48 Denison Rd, Bondi Junction
The approach is relatively informal, but posting of papers pre-presentation is welcomed. They can also be published on this homepage site.
Sometimes we have open forums/presentations on topics of interest in various formats.
Each year we hope to organise one or two mini-conference, usually November.
People wishing to read a paper can email the convenor Noël Tointon, email address:
noel.tointon@gmail.com
May 9 Open Forum: Provisional Topic: Just Who are Real Australians? Given that we can be redefined or ignored both historically and geographically does being Aus-tralian come in gradations of officially declared 'authenticity'? Witness the ignoring of an indigenous 'Voice' and the stranding of 'Australians' in India and overseas, along with a disvaluation of the unemployed, workers on a Visa, international students, the homeless, and so on!?
May 23?: Styles: Proust and the Modern Novel
Jun 13: Workshopping How the 'Culture War' Could break Democracy
Jun 27: Imagining the Possible versus the Reimagining of the Impossible. Part I: Radical Economics
Jul.11: Andrade: A Demonstration of Anti-Realism in Action
Jul25: Tointon: The Tulsa Race Massacre & Philosophies for Dealing with Reparations, ‘Questionable’ Monuments and ‘Challenging’ Histories… & Reimagining…
Aug.8: Marusic: Exploration of Contemporary Social and Political Issues in the Con-text of the Culture Wars
Aug 22: Tointon: Reimagination.... Part III: Radical Political-Economics
Sep 12: Tointon: Reimagination... Part IV/V: Radical Philosophy/Metaphysics
Sep 26: Tointon: Reimagination… Part VI: Radical Theology?
Oct 10: Mell: In Search of Lost – Proust?
Oct 24: Mell: In Search of Lost – Proust?
New Meeting Time of 3 pm (Returning to Imperial/Zoom at 3.15 pm)
Nov 14: Mini-Conference 2021: Part I: Presentations Welcome
Nov 28: Mini-Conference 2021: Part II: Presentations Welcome
Dec 12: Open Forum: The World of Quantum Physics: Presentations Welcome
Dec 26: Tointon: For What Purpose/s Education?
Note: listing of future presentations is provisional. Additional presenter welcome.
Jan 9: Noël Tointon: Navigating an Existentialism Secularism and Environmentalism. Parts I & II
Jan 23: Noël Tointon: An Overall Philosophy of History (and Not a History of Philosophy)
Feb 13: Noël Tointon: Covid Contestation - An Update on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Feb 27: Noël Tointon: Arts and Crafts, Values in a World of Re(-)E/Valuation? Is there an Ex-istential Difference in Valuational Formation?
Hybrid Return to Real-Time (Imperial Hotel and Zoom)
Mar 13: Christopher McCabe: Women and Philosophy -A Review of ‘The Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy’s Unsung Women ( (2020)
Mar 27: Noël Tointon: The Pragmatism of Pragmatism..?? Part I: A Critical Appreciation of Pragmatism.
Apr 10: Jakob Andrade: Presentation & Workshop: Pragmatic Anti-Representationalism vis-à-vis Darwinism and the Linguistic Turn
Apr 24: Noël Tointon: The Simulation of Simulation..?? Part II: A Radical Re-Appreciation of Pragmatism
May 8: Lindsay Mell: Part I: EQUABLE RELATIONAL PRAGMA: Some of the insights contributed by Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam will be explored.
May 22: Lindsay Mell: Part II: EQUABLE RELATIONAL PRAGMA
Jun 12: Noël Tointon: The Interpretation of Interpretation: Part III: Re(-)Approaching a Pre-Critical Re(-)Appreciation of this Topic? A Radical-Critique of Richard Rorty.
Jun 26: Open Forum: 95 Theses: Political Continuities and Discontinuities, Coincidences and Non-Coincidences in the Political Sphere: Recent Political Trends in Australian, American, and World Politics. An invitation to express our shared insights, reflections, aspirations, and cri-tiques of world politics. Short contributions welcomed.
10 Jul: Noël Tointon: Exploring the Possibility of Our Being Able to Do an Anti-Representational History
Zooming Only
24 Jul:Noël Tointon: Exploring an Existential Reading of History (within a Pragmatic Prospect).
14 Aug: Noël Tointon: Mythic manipulations: Exploring and exploding virulent bimodal cultur-al memes (and an excursion into existential choice)
28 Aug: Noël Tointon: 4 Thought-Experiments on Existential Choice, Relative-Objectivities, and a Critique of Rorty’s Solidarity, irony, and contingency…
11 Sep: Noël Tointon: Translating a pragmatic historical prospect into a pragmatic scientific prospect…
25 Sep: : Noël Tointon: Re-Righting ‘History’ through the Use of a ‘Pragmatic’ Narration:
A Pro-Relational Accounting of ‘History Doing History’
9 Oct: Lindsay Mell: Friendship & Mutual Relational Experience - Part I
Returning to Imperial Hotel plus Zoom
23 Oct: Lindsay Mell: Friendship & Mutual Relational Experience - Part II
13 Nov: Annual Conference (Part I)
27 Nov: Annual Conference Part II)
11: Dec: Nature and Culture: Three Texts for Discussion
25 Dec: (No meeting)
2023
8 Jan: Noël Tointon: Pragmatic Review of Historians and Their ‘Histories: Looking at Keith Windshuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, and Related Themes.
22Jan: Open Forum: The Great Transformation aka The Great Disruption
12 Feb: The Hermeneutics of the Re(-)Presentation of the War in the Ukraine.
26 Feb: History and an Anti-Representational Pragmatic Existentialism: Part I.
12 Mar: History and an Anti-Representational Pragmatic Existentialism: Part II
26 Mar: Janet Keller: What's Right and What's Wrong with Stoicism?
9 Apr: For Philosophy in the Contemporary era Where to?
23 Apr: Noël Tointon: Podcast: Negative Aspects, etc., of the ‘Economic’ Method
14 May: Open Forum: Contemporary Australian Constitutional Issues, etc.
28 May: Kathleen Styles: The Inauguration of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: A House of Cards...
