The Russellian Society

Archives: Philosophy around Sydney: First semester, 2005

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm, Sunday 9 January -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. The theme for this month is "Confucius, Part II". Cost: $5, which includes free tea/coffee and afternoon tea. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 11 January -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Brian Weatherson of Cornell University will present a paper entitled "Intuitions and meanings". Please visit the website for further information, or contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Research School of Social Sciences -- 1.30pm-6pm, Thursday 13 January -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Workshop on vagueness. Papers will be presented by Nick Smith of Sydney University and Brian Weatherson of Cornell University. For further information, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Friday 14 January -- Milgate coffee room, AD Hope building, Australian National University. Topic: book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics. All welcome. For further information, please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected].

Ethics reading group -- 4.30pm, Wednesday 19 January -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Reading: chapter 3 of Gabriele Taylor's Pride, Shame and Guilt. For further information, contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

ANU Centre for Consciousness -- Thursday 20, Friday 21 January -- National Europe Center, Australian National University. Conference on "Concepts and conceptual analysis". The focus will be on the nature of concepts, the nature of conceptual analysis, and the relationship between these. Speakers will include: John Bigelow and Laura Schroeter of Monash University, David Braddon-Mitchell of Sydney University, and Anna Wierzbicka, David Chalmers and Frank Jackson of ANU. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 25 January -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Daniel Friedrich of RSSS will present a paper entitled "A Normative-Affective Account of Self-Deception". Please visit the website for further information, or contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Griffin Theatre -- 2pm, Wednesday 26 January -- SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod Street, Kings Cross. A matinee performance of Stephen Sewell's "Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America" and a discussion forum led by John Pilger (journalist), Stephen Sewell (playwright) and Steven Hopper (solicitor representing Mamdouh Habib) on the topic "Following the leader but where are are now? -- the consequences for Australia of our compliance with a US president running wild". Cost: $30 (full); $25 (concession); $22 (groups of eight or more); $20 (under 30). For bookings, please contact MCA Ticketing at 1300-306-776; or book online at the website.

Soames reading group -- 1.30pm, Thursday 27 January -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Reading: introduction and first three chapters of Scott Soames' new book Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For background reading, please click here. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Research School of Social Sciences -- 4pm, Thursday 27 January -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Susanna Siegel of Harvard University will present a paper entitled "The Phenomenology of Efficacy". For further information, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Friday 28 January -- Milgate Coffee Room, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. The reading this week will be book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics and can be found online here. In addition, discussion will involve the introduction and chapter 1 of Aristotle's Ethics by David Bostock. All welcome. Please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected] for further information.

Soames reading group -- 1pm, Tuesday 1 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Reading: chapter four of Scott Soames' Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For background reading, please click here. A reply to Soames is at http://consc.net/papers/soames.pdf. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Research School of Social Sciences -- 5pm, Tuesday 1 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Stewart Saunders of RSSS will speak on "Intentionality Harmanized Harmoniously". For further information, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Ethics reading group -- 4pm, Wednesday 2 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Reading: chapter 3 of Gabriele Taylor's Pride, Shame and Guilt. For further information, contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 2 February -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. Adrian Tan will present some reflections on the tsunami. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Please visit the website for more information.

Research School of Social Sciences -- 4pm, Thursday 3 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Adam Pautz of RSSS and the University of Texas at Austin will speak on "Can the Colour Physicalist Explain Colour Structure in Terms of Colour Experience?". For further information, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Friday 4 February -- Milgate Coffee Room, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. The reading this week will be book 2 of the Nicomachean Ethics and can be found online here. Discussion will also involve chapter 2 of Bostock's Aristotle's Ethics. All welcome. Please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected] for further information.

Soames reading group -- 2pm, Tuesday 8 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Reading: chapter five of Scott Soames' new book Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For background reading, please click here. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 8 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Havi Carel of the Australian National University will present a paper entitled "Moral and Epistemic Ambiguity in Oedipus Rex". Please visit the website for further information, or contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 8 February -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Adrian Heathcote of the University of Sydney will speak on "Quantum Dusk at Cubist Castle". Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession, which includes bread and cheese, and wine or juice. Please book with Marg Hamilton by e-mail, giving your phone number for confirmation, or phone Marg at 9953-6374 or 0418-457-877. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 8 February -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Dorothy Rowe will speak on "Finding the Courage to Change". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Research School of Social Sciences -- 4pm, Thursday 10 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Daniel Stoljar will present a paper entitled "Did Moore Fail to Follow his Own Method". For further information, please visit the website or contact Karen Riley at [email protected].

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- Friday 11 February. Loren Lomasky (University of Virginia, USA) and John Braithwaite (REGNT The Australian National University) will debate on "Should pharmaceuticals be advertised on television?". For further information, please visit the website.

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Friday 11 February -- Milgate Coffee Room, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. The reading this week will be book 2 of the Nicomachean Ethics and can be found online here. Discussion will also involve chapter 2 of Bostock's Aristotle's Ethics. All welcome. Please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected] for further information.

Corporate, Customer and Governmental Social Responsibility -- 4pm-7pm, Friday 11 February -- AGSM, 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney. This symposium seeks to examine the role of corporations, customers and governments in developing civil society. Although quite a great deal of discussion of late has been on corporate �misbehaviour� and the need for greater corporate governance, less attention has been paid to issues such as the role of the consumer or corruption in government. Speakers will include Dr Gina Eckhardt, Jonathan Doh and Dr Simon Longstaff. The symposium will be moderated by Professor Timothy Devinney. Cost: $35. Registration essential. Please visit the website for further information.

Dollars and sense -- Saturday 12 February. Not everything that can be counted, counts; and not everything that counts, can be counted. Would you say that "living a better life" is a proper incentive for being alive? But what does a "better life" imply? Behram Ghista, who teaches Buddhism around the world, guides us on an exploration of what it means to live a richer life. For further information please visit Sydney Talks at http://www.sydneytalks.com.au.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm, Sunday 13 February -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. This month there will be an open forum on the topic of "Where is the World of Politics Heading?". Cost: $5, which includes free tea/coffee and afternoon tea. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

Soames reading group -- 2pm, Monday 14 February -- Coombs seminar room F, Australian National University. Reading: chapter seven of Scott Soames' new book Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For background reading, please click here. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- Monday 14 February. Thomas Pogge (CAPPE, The Australian National University) will speak on "Moral Priorities for International Human Rights NGO's". For further information, please visit the website.

Department of Critical and Cultural Studies -- Tuesday 15 February -- Macquarie University. "The Political Futures of Derrida" -- a symposium to celebrate the enduring and urgent political significance and relevance of Derrida's work, as well as considering and enacting the ethical/political future horizons that it opens. For more information, please visit the website.

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 15 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Bernard Nickel of MIT will present a paper on "What Idealizations Can Teach Us About Theories". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Jacek Brzozowski at [email protected].

State Library of New South Wales -- 5.30pm, Tuesday 15 February -- Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Wing. "Stem cells and their application". Stem cell research offers unprecedented opportunities in developing medical therapies for debilitating diseases. Research of this type in the medical field is controversial. In this illustrated talk, Professor Bernard Tuch, Director of the NSW Stem Cell Network and Director, Diabetes Transplant Unit at Prince of Wales Hospital and UNSW will discuss the science, ethics, religion and politics of stem cell research, as he addresses the provocative and conflicting claims both inside and outside the scientific community. Cost: $16.50/$11. Please visit the website for further information.

New Acropolis Australia -- Tuesday 15 February -- Bridge Business College Imperial Arcade, level 1, 83-85 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. "Live according to nature". Cost: free. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 16 February -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum. Please visit the website for more information.

Research School of Social Sciences -- 4pm, Thursday 17 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Elijah Millgram of the University of Utah will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for further information.

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Friday 18 February -- Milgate coffee room, AD Hope building, Australian National University. Topic: book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics, which can be found at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.3.iii.html. Discussion will also involve chapters 3 and 5 of Bostock's Aristotle's Ethics. All welcome. For further information, please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected].

Soames reading group -- 12pm, Monday 21 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Reading: chapter eight of Scott Soames' new book Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- 3.30pm, Monday 21 February -- room 2177, Hayden-Allen Building, Australian National University. Professor Elijah Millgram (Erickson Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah) will speak on "Why Didn�t Nietzsche Get His Act Together?". After the seminar drinks will be provided, followed by dinner around 7pm. All welcome. For further information, please visit the website.

Gleebooks -- 6.30pm, Monday 21 February -- Valhalla Cinema, 166 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Bill Bryson will be speaking on his latest book. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. Cost: $9/$6. To book, please phone 9660-2333 or e-mail [email protected]. Please visit the website for further information.

Research school of Social Sciences -- 12.30pm-2pm, Tuesday 22 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, Australian National University. Adrian Walsh of the University of New England will speak on "Environmental Values and the Commercialisation of Wild Native Fauna". For further information, please contact James Rice at [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 22 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Karen Riley of RSSS will present a paper on "Evans on Negative Existentials". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 22 February -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Derek Maitland will speak on "The philosophy of the kitchen sink". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Ethics reading group -- 4pm, Wednesday 23 February -- seminar room F, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Reading: Elijah Millgram's "Hume, Political Noncognitivism, and the History of England". For further information, please contact Tyler Doggett at [email protected].

Parramatta philosophy group -- 8pm, Wednesday 23 February -- Mars Hills Caf�, 331 Church Street, Parramatta. This month the group will discuss Kierkegaard's book The Present Age. For more information, please contact Adrian Emilsen at [email protected].

Perception and the external world -- Thursday 24 February -- Sparke Helmore lecture theatre 1, ANU law school, Australian National University. The ANU Centre for Consciousness will hold a one-day workshop. Speakers are Susanna Siegel (Harvard), William Fish (Massey) and (ANU/Macquarie). The focus will be especially on issues related to direct realism about perceptual experience. Cost: free. For registration, please e-mail Karen Downing at [email protected].

School of philosophy -- 9am-12pm, Thursday 24 February -- School of Philosophy, level 1, 142-144 Elizabeth Street, Sydney. "What mind?". Is the mind the same as the brain? Psychologist Phillip Wolfers explores the psychological nature of mind expansion and the experience of levels of consciousness in the light of recent clinical and experimental studies. Cost: $5. For enquiries, please call 9481-0559, or visit the website. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Gleebooks -- 6.30pm, Thursday 24 February -- The Well, Sydney University Village, 90 Carillon Avenue, Newtown. Stephen Chan, Professor of International Relations and Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, will speak on the notion of "evil" in the language of international politics? What are its historical origins and its moral, political and legal foundations? Is the fight against evil merely a new form of imperialism? Cost: free. To book: please phone 9660-2333 or e-mail [email protected].

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 25 February -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Research ethics workshop. Please visit the website for more information.

Research School of Social Sciences -- 12.30pm-2pm, Friday 25 February -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, Australian National University. Lunchtime seminar. Richard Bellamy (Professor of Government, University of Essex, and Academic Director of the European Consortium for Political Research) will speak on "Do Democratic Procedures Need Constitutional Protection?". All welcome. For further information, please contact Akira Inoue at [email protected].

Soames reading group -- 2pm, Monday 28 February -- Coombs seminar room E, Australian National University. Reading: chapter nine of Scott Soames' new book Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism. For more information, please contact David Chalmers at [email protected].

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- 3.30pm, Monday 28 February -- room 2177, Hayden-Allen Building, Australian National University. Jeanette Kennett (CAPPE, The Australian National University) will speak on "Internalism and the Evidence from Psychopathy and Acquired Sociopathy". For further information, please visit the website.

Aristotle reading group -- 4pm, Monday 28 February -- Milgate coffee room, AD Hope building, Australian National University. Topic: book 3 of the Nicomachean Ethics, which can be found at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.3.iii.html. Discussion will also involve chapter 5 of Bostock's Aristotle's Ethics. All welcome. For further information, please contact Katrina Hutchison at [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 1 March -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Istvan Aranyosi of the Central European University will speak on "On Sense as Reference". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Honesty matters: The ethics of daily life -- 7.30pm-9.30pm, Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 March (lecture repeated) -- Performing Arts Centre, Loyola Senior High School, 91 North Parade, Mount Druitt. Have truth and honesty become disposable commodities in our poll-driven and spin-ridden society? Do we shy away from honesty when it discomforts and disturbs us? If so what consequences might that have for our future? Join speakers Morag Fraser AM, Robert Fitzgerald AM and Michael Kelly SJ in the first of the 2005 Jesuit Lenten Seminars. Cost: free. For further information, please visit the website or call 9356-3888. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

O Week at Sydney University -- Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 March. Look out for Russoc's stand on the front lawns. Renew membership for the year ($5), meet the exec, and get a head start on all things Russoc.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 2 March -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "What is art?". Please visit the website for more information.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 4 March -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Andy Egan of the ANU will speak on "Self-Locating Assertion and Sensible Relativism". Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 4 March -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. This week we ask "What is Philosophy? And what do Philosophers do?". Discussants include: John Fox, Robert Farrell, Mark Hodges and Jo Faulkner.

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- 3.30pm, Monday 7 March -- room 2177, Hayden-Allen Building, Australian National University. Pepe Chang (University of Utah) will speak on "Who's in the business of saving Lives". For further information, please visit the website.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 7 March -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Jorge Fernandez (Macquarie) will speak on "Self-Knowledge for Desires". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am, Tuesday 8 March -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Joe Mintoff (University of Newcastle) will present a paper entitled "Could an Egoist be a Friend?". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 8 March -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. John O'Dea of RSSS will speak on "Representational Nonrepresentational Qualia". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 8 March -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century may not have been Wittgenstein, or Russell -- he may have been a somewhat obscure and conservative Australian philosopher named David Stove. Dr Jim Franklin of the University of New South Wales will speak on �Who is David Stove?�. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan, by e-mail at [email protected], giving your phone number for confirmation, or by phone at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 8 March -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Novo will speak on "Philosophical Melancholy". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Aquinas Academy -- 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 9 March -- Crypt of St Patrick�s Church in The Rocks (enter off Grosvenor St). James Franklin will speak on �Traditional Catholic philosophy: baby and bathwater�. The lecture will argue that some officially-sanctioned deductions on particular cases have not been correct, and that the lack of a natural law foundation for ethics would throw out the baby with the bathwater. The sense of the basic objective worth of persons that is the centre of natural law ethics is essential to any ethics better than a simple �might is right� approach. The consequences for topics of current interest will be considered, such as values in schools and the adjustment of doctrines on �morals� in the light of a better understanding of human nature. Cost: $10. Please visit the website for more information.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 11 March -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Thomas Pogge of CAPPE will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm, Sunday 13 March -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. This month Lindsay Mell will present a paper "On values". Cost: $5, which includes free tea/coffee and afternoon tea. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- 3.30pm, Monday 14 March -- room 2177, Hayden-Allen Building, Australian National University. Helen Nissenbaum (New York University) will speak on "Privacy as Contextual Integrity". For further information, please visit the website.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 14 March -- Science Faculty Meeting, room 450, Carslaw building, University of Sydney. Carroll Pursell (Department of Modern History, Macquarie University) will speak on "The History of Technology: Its Past and Future". For further information, please contact Gail Stewart White at [email protected] or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 15 March -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr John O�Dea (Philosophy, RSSS, ANU) will speak on "The Distinction between the Senses and a Possible Structure of Experience". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm and 4pm-6pm, Tuesday 15 March -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Krzysztof Ziarek (State University of New York, Buffalo) will speak on "An Other Politics: Anthropocentrism, Power, Nihilation". Then Ewa Ziarek (State University of New York, Buffalo) will speak on "Irigaray, the Reader of Marx: Commodification, Essentialism, and the Impasses of Social Construction". For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 15 March -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Aisling Crean of Bristol University will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 16 March -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "Moral relativism". Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 17 March -- Tripod Gallery Cafe, 262 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (walk from the Wentworth building towards Redfern station, and you won't be able to miss it; we'll probably be in the room upstairs, but look for people with philosophy books on the table). What is humour? Why do people laugh when? Why do people laugh at Jackass or Mr Bean? How do you write a good joke? Is there a peculiarly Australian humour? -- These and other humorous questions will be addressed at the first Russoc discussion group of the year. For more info, visit the discussion section of this website.

Platonic Society -- 10am-12pm, Friday 18 March -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Russell Downham (Macquarie University) will speak on "The living past remembered". For further information, please visit the website.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 18 March -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Drew Khlentzos of the University of New England will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 18 March -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. This week we ask "The Continental-Analytic Divide: is there a real difference between them?". Discussants include: John Fox, Robert Farrell, Ali Rizvi and Mark Hodges.

Know thyself -- 9am-12.30pm, Saturday 19 March -- Office 8, Level 4, 22 Macquarie St, Parramatta. The exhortation "Know Yourself" was carved on the temple portal at Delphi. People from all walks of life have tried to understand this simple yet powerful phrase. What does it mean for you? Join Leba Sleiman as he helps unravel the answer. Cost: $50/ $30. For further information, please visit the website. The details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine -- 2pm-4pm, Monday 21 March -- room 535, Carslaw building, University of Sydney. Richard Ashcroft will speak on "Allocating HIV Treatment in the Developing World: Doing the Best We Can in Non-Ideal Situations".

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics -- 3.30pm, Monday 21 March -- room 2177, Hayden-Allen Building, Australian National University. Catriona McKenzie (Macquarie University) will speak on "Relational Autonomy, Sexual Justice and Cultural Pluralism". For further information, please visit the website.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 21 March -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Prof Stephen Mumford (Nottingham) will speak on "Negative Truth and Falsehood". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 22 March -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Joe Mintoff (University of Newcastle) will speak on "Does full rationality require a strong ultimate end?". For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 22 March -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Karen Riley of RSSS will speak on "Kroon on Negative Existentials". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

New Acropolis Australia -- Tuesday 22 March -- Bridge Business College Imperial Arcade, level 1, 83-85 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. "What is man". Cost: free. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 22 March -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Maureen Ten will speak on "Imagining the human". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Russoc guest lecture -- 7pm, Wednesday 23 March -- Holme Building, Sydney University. A welcome to new members, and a talk by Dr Luke Russell on "Does Human Nature Play a Role in Ethics?". Cost: Russoc members $3; non-members $6; annual membership $5 (you can join on the night). For further information, please contact Guida Nolasco-Spooner at [email protected].

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 24 March -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Iain Stewart (Macquarie University) will speak on "Customs in common". For information please visit the website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 25 March -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topc this week: to be announced.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 29 March -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Luke Russell (University of Sydney) will speak on "Evil-Revivalism vs Evil-Scepticism". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

Gleebooks -- 6.30pm, Wednesday 30 March -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe. Dr Philip Nitschke will be talking about his new book Killing me softly: voluntary euthanasia and the road to the peaceful pill. Cost: $9/$6. To book, please phone 9660-2333 or e-mail [email protected]. Please visit the website for further information.

Parramatta philosophy group -- 8pm, Wednesday 30 March -- Mars Hills Caf�, 331 Church Street, Parramatta. This month the group will discuss Levinas and ethics. Recommended reading is Levinas' "Responsibility for the Other" in Ethics and Infinity. For more information, please contact Adrian Emilsen at [email protected].

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 31 March -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Chris Greer (Northumbia University) will speak on "Delivering death: capital punishment and the American news media". For information please visit the website.

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 31 March -- Tripod Gallery Cafe, 262 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (walk from the Wentworth building towards Redfern station, and you won't be able to miss it; we'll probably be in the room upstairs, but look for people with philosophy books on the table). What is an apology? What is involved in the act of apologising? What is the effect of an apology? When do and don't people apologise? -- All welcome to the second Russoc discussion group of the year! For more info, visit the discussion section of this website.

Gleebooks -- 6.30pm, Thursday 31 March -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe. Professor Raimond Gaita argues for a conception of politics in which morality is not an optional extra. He discusses why successful politicians must at times be economical with the truth, but shows a way beyond cynicism on the one hand and moralising on the other. Politics, he says, is conceivably a noble vocation, as well as potentially a tragic one. He looks closely at patriotism and its distortions, and the temptation to betray our deepest values in the act of protecting ourselves. Cost: $9/$6. To book, please phone 9660-2333 or e-mail [email protected]. Please visit the website for further information.

Platonic Society -- 10am-12pm, Friday 1 April -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Oliver Granger (Macquarie University) will speak on the topic "Is the mind a sandwich". For further information, please visit the website.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 1 April -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Jeremy Shearmur of the ANU will speak on Popper's political philosophy. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 1 April -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

The Philosophy of Freedom -- 6.30pm, Friday 1 April and 4pm, Sunday 3 April -- AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney, corner of Philip and Bridge Streets, Sydney. "The Philosophy of Freedom" explores the Hellenistic philosophy of Epicurus and Epictetus through a philosophical talk, and a performance of an original play ("The Oracle of Light") by Edward Spence, with discussion following. Cost: $29/$25. Please book through MCATix at 1300-306-776 or http://www.mca-tix.com. For further information, please contact Edward Spence at [email protected].

Buddhist philosophy reading group -- 11am-1pm, Saturday 2 April -- Bar Italia, Norton Street, Leichhardt. Current reading: "Recognising Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations". Group usually meets every second Friday. For further information, please visit the Platonic Society website.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 4 April -- Science Faculty Meeting, room 450, Carslaw building, University of Sydney. John Forge (Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney) will speak on "What are the (Moral) Limits of Weapons Research?". For further information, please contact Gail Stewart White at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 5 April -- philosophy seminar room, room G55, Morven Brown Building. Philip Cam (University of New South Wales) will speak on "Inquiry as a way of life". All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 5 April -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Brett Calcott of RSSS will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 5 April -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Lisa Thatcher will speak on "Sarte on Literature". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 6 April -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "Truth relativism". Please visit the website for more information.

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 7 April -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Fleur Johns (University of Sydney) will speak on "Global governance: an heretical history play". For information please visit the website.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 8 April -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. David Wall of the ANU will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 8 April -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 9 April -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Professor Brian Ellis will speak on "The philosophy of the welfare state". The welfare state deserves a philosophy of its own. It is not a half-hearted socialist state, or a soft-hearted liberal one, as critics of the left and right wings of politics have often portrayed it, but one that has its own distinctive aims and rationale. Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm, Sunday 10 April -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. The topic for this month is "Who now Owns the Truth?". Cost: $5, which includes free tea/coffee and afternoon tea. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 11 April -- New Common Room, Main Quad, University of Sydney. Elijah Milgram (University of Utah) will speak on "The Truth in Bivalence". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 12 April -- philosophy seminar room, G55, Morven Brown Building, Kensington. Elijah Millgram (University of Utah) will speak on "Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy". All welcome! For more information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 12 April -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Ben Blumson of RSSS will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 12 April -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Anne Newstead of the University of New South Wales will speak on "Saying, Showing & Knowing: On Responding to Scepticism with Action". What is the appropriate response to the sceptic? Perhaps one of the best and most effective responses actions, not words. This line of thought has its roots in Wittgenstein's idea that we show our certainty about how things are through action. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Marg Hamilton by e-mail, giving your phone number for confirmation, or phone Marg at 9953-6374 or 0418-457-877. For further details, please visit the website.

Aquinas Academy -- 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 13 April -- Crypt of St Patrick�s Church in The Rocks (enter off Grosvenor St). "The genetic future: how might we respond?". It is sometimes said that, for the first time, our species is gaining the capacity directly to manipulate its own genome, and that this could lead to fundamental changes in the nature of humanity. Is this really likely? If so, what would be a wise attitude to take to the new possibilities? Cost: $10. Please visit the website for more information or call 9247-4651. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Humanist Society -- 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 13 April -- Humanist House, 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale. Mark Braham will speak on "Multiculturalism, Israel and the Holocaust". Cost: $3, including supper. For further information, please visit the website.

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 14 April -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Professor Andrew Buck (Macquarie University) and Dr Nancy Wright (University of Newcastle) will speak on "Understanding property: the interface of law and the humanities". For information please visit the website.

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 14 April -- Tripod Gallery Cafe, 262 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (walk from the Wentworth building towards Redfern station, and you won't be able to miss it; we'll probably be in the room upstairs, but look for people with philosophy books on the table). John Bentley will give a talk on what it means to condemn or commend an ego. All welcome! For more info, visit the discussion section of this website.

CHIMP -- 6pm-8.30pm, Thursday 14 April -- McRae Room (S418), Main Quadrangle (A14), University of Sydney. Inaugural Conceptual and Historical Issues in Modern Physics meeting. Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics) will speak on "Are quantum states incomplete descriptions of reality?" and Stephen Bartlett will speak on "Quantum coherence: fact or fiction?". To assist with catering, please RSVP to Brad Weslake ([email protected]) by Tuesday 12 April.

Russoc guest lecture -- 7pm, Thursday 14 April -- Reading Room, Holme Building, Science Road, University of Sydney. Dr Timothy Rayner will speak on "Who is Antonio Negri?". This event is a product of the recent controversy surrounding Negri and his intended visit to Australia. Dr Rayner's paper promises to reveal the truth behind allegations made in the Australian press and to bring attention to Negri's current work and status as a leading theorist of globalisation. Who is Antonio Negri? What does he have to contribute to world political debate? Cost: Russoc members $3; non-members $6; annual membership $5 (you can join on the night). All welcome!

Philament -- date of event: Friday 15 April 2005 -- deadline for proposals: 18 February 2005 -- Darlington Centre, University of Sydney. Philament, the online journal of cultural studies and literary arts affiliated with the University of Sydney, will be holding a conference on "The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal". For further information, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Platonic Society -- 10am-12pm, Friday 15 April -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Suzie Bliss (Macquarie University) will speak on a topic to be announced. For further information, please visit the website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 15 April -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 18 April -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Luke Russell will talk on "Anti-Innatism and the Evolution of Cooperation". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 18 April -- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Alison Bashford (Deptartment of History, University of Sydney) (Department of Modern History, Macquarie University) will speak on "The History of World Health". For further information, please contact Gail Stewart White at [email protected] or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 19 April -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Elijah Millgram (Utah University) will speak on "Why Didn�t Nietzsche Get his Act Together?". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 19 April -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Nic Southwood of RSSS will speak on "The Normativity of Hypothetical Agreement". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 19 April -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "The philosopher's character" or Jurgen Lawrenz will speak on "Can you trust a philosopher?". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Humanist Society -- 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 20 April -- Humanist House, 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale. Ken Marslew will speak on "Journey towards justice". Cost: $3, including supper. For further information, please visit the website.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 20 April -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "Prejudice, generalisations, and judging individuals". Please visit the website for more information.

Body Modification: Mark II -- Macquarie University -- 21-23 April 2005. Abstracts are invited for this international conference. Abstracts should be 300-500 words and should be forwarded to Dr Nikki Sullivan by 1 November 2004. Proposals for panels and for performance pieces are welcomed. The aim of this conference is explore the many and varied ways in which bodies are modified, selves are formed and transformed, and culturally specific knowledges and practices are mediated and transfigured. We hope to include a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to the question of what constitutes body modification, as well as performative and visual presentations. Please visit the website for further information.

Buddhist philosophy reading group -- 2pm-4pm, Friday 22 April -- Bar Italia, Norton Street, Leichhardt. Current reading: "Recognising Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations". Group usually meets every second Friday. For further information, please visit the Platonic Society website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 22 April -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: "Do academics have a duty to participate in the public sphere?".

Know thyself -- 2pm-5.30pm, Saturday 23 April -- Level 2, 5-11 Wentworth Ave, Sydney. The exhortation "Know Yourself" was carved on the temple portal at Delphi. People from all walks of life have tried to understand this simple yet powerful phrase. What does it mean for you? Join Leba Sleiman as he helps unravel the answer. Cost: $50/ $30. For further information, please visit the website: http://www.articulatesolutions.com.au. The details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 23 April -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Professor Paul Redding will speak on "Art and aesthetics in the age of popular entertainment". For Plato the quality of psychological and social life was directly influenced by the nature of the sound patterns we take in, and commensurate with this he expressed definite views about the acceptability of particular instruments and their tunings. Many of Plato's claims have a familiar ring -- for various critics of rock music, for example, the pathologies that Plato attributed to the three-corned lyre are readily transferable to the electric guitar. In this talk, the aesthetic possibilities of rock are explored in relation to the work of singer-songwriter-guitarist Richard Thompson. Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 26 April -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Sarah McGrath (Holy Cross University) will speak on "Uneventful causation". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 26 April -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Anne Newstead (University of New South Wales) will speak on "Understanding Agent's knowledge". All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 26 April -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Adam Pautz of RSSS will speak on "Color Primitivism and Color Realism". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Humanist Society -- 6pm-8pm, Wednesday 27 April -- Humanist House, 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale. Open forum this week. Cost: $3, including supper. For further information, please visit the website.

Parramatta philosophy group -- 8pm, Wednesday 27 April -- Mars Hills Caf�, 331 Church Street, Parramatta. This month the group will discuss Derrida and hospitality. Recommended reading is Derrida's On Cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. For more information, please contact Adrian Emilsen at [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 28 April -- Tripod Gallery Cafe, 262 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (walk from the Wentworth building towards Redfern station, and you won't be able to miss it; we'll be in the room upstairs, with philosophy books on the table). An "extempore philosophy" game will be played. All welcome! For more info, visit the discussion section of this website.

H-Ideas -- 10am (EST), Thursday 28, Friday 29 April -- online. A virtual Symposium on George Cotkin's article "The Democratization of Cultural Criticism". Professor Cotkin's Chronicle article, along with a new introduction, will be published electronically on the H-Ideas website. Rejoinders by Professors Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and David Steigerwald of Ohio State University will be published electronically shortly thereafter. After a further round of responses, the symposium will be opened up to members of the H-Ideas community. In order to participate, you must register as a participant in the forum. Please visit http://www.h-net.org/~ideas/forum/ for information.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 29 April -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Peter Grundy of the ANU will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 29 April -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: Ali Rizvi (La Trobe) converses with Dr Robert Farrell (La Trobe) about his "encounters" with Quine, Rawls, Chomsky, Davidson, Goodman, and Heidegger.

Know thyself -- 2pm-5.30pm, Saturday 30 April -- Office 8, Level 4, 22 Macquarie Street, Parramatta. The exhortation "Know Yourself" was carved on the temple portal at Delphi. People from all walks of life have tried to understand this simple yet powerful phrase. What does it mean for you? Join Leba Sleiman as he helps unravel the answer. Cost: $50/ $30. For further information, please visit the website: http://www.articulatesolutions.com.au. The details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Symposium on Gender, Race and Philosophy -- May 2005 -- online. The first symposium is on Lionel McPherson and Tommie Shelby's article, "Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity". The second is on Jose Medina's article, "Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference". All symposia include commentaries and replies by the authors.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 2 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Ned Markosian (WWU) will talk on "The Right Stuff". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 2 May -- science faculty meeting room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. John Gascoigne (School of History, University of New South Wales) will speak on " The Pacific and the German Enlightenment". For more information, please contact Gail Stewart White at 9351-4226 or [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 3 May -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Ned Markosian (University of Washington) will speak on "Agent causation as the solution to all the compatibilist's problems". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 3 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Robert Dunn (University of Wollongong) will speak on " Perverse Agency and Wholeheartedness". All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 3 May -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Martin McAvoy will speak on "The impossibility of philosophy". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Physionomy of origin: multiplicities, bodies and radical politics � date of event: Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 May 2005 � deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday 31 January 2005 -- University of Sydney. This conference brings together two key figures in the contemporary reconsideration of the concept of origin: Antonio Negri, who has introduced a materialist perspective on the concept of origin through his investigations of constituent power and multitudes; and Adriana Cavarero, who has been engaged in reconceiving origin through the thought of sexual difference, an ethics of embodiment and more recently, the politics of vocal expression. What forms does the concept of origin take as it progresses and changes? How does its changing character affect the constitution of life? What are the historical and (bio)political conditions of the transformation of origin? What are the sites of precariousness and potentiality to which this progression gives rise? How does the materiality of the origin disclose its inner character? And how does the concept of origin inform a conception of the human, in both its material and normative modes? Does embodiment necessarily entail a return to origin, or does the genealogical focus on conditions of emergence allow for alternative ways of understanding embodiment? In what ways can a democratic politics configure the social body to allow for diversity to take shape and qualify the powers of origin? Please direct all submissions and enquiries to: [email protected]. For more information, please see the website.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 4 May -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "The rights of non-human animals". Are there morally significant differences between humans and non-human animals? Is being a vegan a silly new age notion like healing crystals and iridology? Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc guest lecture -- 7pm, Wednesday 4 May -- Reading Room, Level 4, Holme Building, Science Road, University of Sydney. Professor Ned Markosian (Western Washington University) will speak on "Rossian Minimalism". What is the most promising ethical theory that can be formulated making use of WD Ross�s notion of a prima facie duty? Cost: Russoc members $3; non-members $6; annual membership $5 (you can join on the night). All welcome!

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 5 May -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Alex Reilly (Macquarie University) will speak on "Remembering, forgetting and remembering to forget: the use of the past in law and history". For information please visit the website.

Presentism and passage -- 9.30am-5pm, Friday 6 May -- University of Sydney. This workshop on issues in the philosophy of time is being organised in conjunction with a visit to the Centre for Time by Ned Markosian. Registration is free, with morning and afternoon tea provided. To assist with catering, please RSVP by email to Brad Weslake ([email protected]) by Tuesday 3 May. Please visit the website for further information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 6 May -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 7 May -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Yola Lucire will speak on "Mass hysteria and moral panic". Iatrogenic illnesses are illnesses caused by the processes of medical examination or treatment. Our speaker will discuss the current epidemic of iatrogenic illnesses (such as repetitive strain injury) and suicide caused by the side effects of drugs such as prozac, and will explore the biomedical and political philosophies that have allowed this modern tragedy to happen. Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 8 May -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Marc Marusic will speak on "Is Anti-Terrorism Legislation Antithetical to Democratic Practice?". All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 9 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Mark Colyvan (UQ) will talk on "When Maximising Fails". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 3 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Psy Broadcasting Corporation -- Monday 9 May to Thursday 19 May -- online. "What is the role of sexuality in the mindset of the religious fundamentalist?" Position paper by Walter (Mac) Davis. Discussant: Ruth Stein. The 2005 symposium series focuses on the question: Why do religious beliefs so often generate political violence? Each session will feature a presentation, followed by an online discussion. Please visit the website for more information or contact Orion Anderson at [email protected].

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 9 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Mark Colyvan is speaking on "An Argument for Pluralism about Rationality". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 10 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 10 May -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Gerry Nolan will talk on "Og and the mammoths", the Philosophy of Mathematics. Did mathematical formulae somehow "pre-exist" the universe as Platonic forms, or were they created by humans? Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Marg Hamilton by e-mail, giving your phone number for confirmation, or phone Marg at 9953-6374 or 0418-457-877. For further details, please visit the website.

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 12 May -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Michelle Arrow (Macquarie University) will speak on "'Thank you for the opportunity to reminisce': ABC Radio, memory and popular culture". For information please visit the website.

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 12 May -- Level 5, Wentworth Building, University of Sydney. A philosophy game will be played. All welcome! For more info, including more info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 13 May -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

CG Jung Society of Sydney -- 7pm-8.30pm, Saturday 14 May -- Blavatsky Lodge, level 2, 484 Kent Street, Sydney. "The Art of Maternal Holding". The journey of the emerging self that unfolds through infancy and early childhood is largely influenced by our experience of how we are held and contained in the physical world. Leonie Reisberg explores how weaving different experiences together can help develop a more intact experience of self and further the process of individuation. Cost: $5 members/$20 non-member/$15 non-member concession. Please visit the website for further information. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 16 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Catharine Abell (Macquarie) will speak on "Depiction, Indeterminacy and Imagery". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 16 May -- science faculty meeting room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Deirdre Coleman (Department of English, University of Sydney) will speak on "Entertaining Entomology: Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century". For more information, please contact Gail Stewart White at 9351-4226 or [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 17 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Nicholas Smith (Macquarie University) will speak on "Economic Recognition". All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 17 May -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Peter Schmiedgen will speak on "Habermas and the Question". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 18 May -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Karen Crighton will speak on free will and determinism. Please visit the website for more information.

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 19 May -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Deborah Staines (Macquarie University) will speak on "A legal trauma -- the Lindy Chamberlain case". For information please visit the website.

Platonic Society -- 10am-11.30pm, Friday 20 May -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dale Tweedie (Macquarie University) will speak on "Economics and Social Policy: A Philosophical Analysis". For further information, please visit the website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 20 May -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: a rerun of a program from last year exploring philosophical perspectives on the "war on terror".

Buddhist philosophy reading group -- 11am-1pm, Saturday 21 May -- Bar Italia, Norton Street, Leichhardt. Current reading: "Recognising Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations". Group usually meets every second Friday. For further information, please visit the Platonic Society website.

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 21 May -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Nicholas Smith will speak on "Identity and recognition". Over the past decade or so the concepts of identity recognition have risen to prominence in social philosophy. It is now widely acknowledged that recognition, in the sense of some external affirmation of identity, is crucial for self-esteem and is, in certain circumstances, a requirement of justice. Dr. Smith will explain the contribution that a theory of recognition can make to our understanding of "the good society" today. Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

Sydney seminar for the arts and philosophy -- 4.30pm-6.40pm, Sunday 22 May -- Barton Room, Sydney Grammar School, College Street, Sydney (opposite Hyde Park). "Ideas in Movement -- About Dance". A cognitive scientist and a scholar of performance history will join two influential figures in Australian dance to ask how (and what) dance makes us think. Each presenter will speak for approximately 20 minutes, with a further 10 minutes dedicated to questions from the public. The panelists include: Elizabeth Cameron Dalman; Associate Professor Jane Goodall; Dr Stephen Malloch; and Tess de Quincey. The event will be convened by Dr Anthony Uhlmann from the UWS School of Humanities. Cost: free. For more information, please visit the website.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 23 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Dr Samir Okasha (Bristol) will speak about essentialism and biological taxonomy. All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 24 May -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Havi Carel (Australian National University) will present a paper entitled "Epistemic and moral ambiguity in Oedipus Rex". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 24 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Parramatta philosophy group -- 8pm, Wednesday 25 May -- Mars Hills Caf�, 331 Church Street, Parramatta. This month the group will discuss Kristeva's Revolt, She said. For more information, please contact Adrian Emilsen at [email protected].

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 26 May -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Dr Ny�ri P�l (Macquarie University) will speak on "'Culture Matters': the perils and opportunities of the culture fever in decision-making". For information please visit the website.

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 26 May -- Level 4, Wentworth Building, University of Sydney. A philosophy game will be played. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

ANU Philosophy seminar series -- 11am, Friday 27 May -- Milgate Seminar Room, room 159, AD Hope Building, Australian National University. Jeremy Moss will speak on a topic to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 27 May -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

University of Sydney -- 4pm, Monday 30 May -- New Common Room in the Main Quad. Professor Jeff Malpas (Tasmania) will read his paper "Fourfold and Framework: Heidegger on the Revealing and Concealing of Technology". All welcome! For further information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 30 May -- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Dr Monica Azzolini (School of History, University of New South Wales) will speak on "Critical Days: Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Illness and The Body Politic in Renaissance Milan (1480-1494)". This lecture is part of "Presentations in the History of Medicine", a series devoted to exploring the history and development of medicine. Please RSVP to Alyson Dalby at [email protected]. Cost: $5, which includes lecture and refreshments. For further information, please contact Gail Stewart White at [email protected] or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 31 May -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Havi Carel (Philosophy, ANU) will speak on "Moral and Epistemic Ambiguity in Oedipus Rex". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 31 May -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Catharine Abell (Macquarie University) will speak on "Depiction, indeterminacy, and imagery". All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philsoc -- 5pm, Tuesday 31 May -- seminar room E, Coombs Building, Australian National University. Adam Pautz of RSSS will speak on "Intentionalism, Propositions and Properties". Please visit the website for further information, or contact Daniel Friedrich at [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 31 May -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Nevo will speak on "Philosophy problems". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

British Undergraduate Philosophy Society: "Provocations Online" -- June 2005 -- online. In June the topics "The Status of Jacques Derrida's Philosophy" and "The Incompatibility of Determinism and Responsibility" will be discussed. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 1 June -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Mark Virtue will speak on "Is time travel possible?". In both directions? Is it just a matter of "time" before we fulfil the sci-fi writers' predictions and invent some kind of time-machine? Or is it some sort of philosophical or scientific impossibility, no matter how advanced our technology? Learn the difference between a paradox and a causal loop, find out if time-travel violates free-will, and explore how a time-travelling society would look. Would the invention of a time-machine really be the last invention we would ever make? Please visit the website for more information.

Macquarie Law -- 1pm-2pm, Thursday 2 June -- level 3, Trevor Martin Moot Court, W3A, Macquarie University. Professor Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide) will speak on "Customs not in common: the decline of cultural relativism". For information please visit the website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 3 June -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 4 June -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Professor Stephen Johnston will speak on "Technology and the good society". Various technical systems are woven into our modern society and economic system to such an extent that they constitute major component of our environment. Not only has technology transformed the natural environment, but in many areas of our lives technology has become our environment. Will advances in such fields as biotechnology and genetic modification compel us to rethink what it is to be human? Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 6 June -- Science Faculty Meeting, room 450, Carslaw building, University of Sydney. Rachel Ankeny and Fiona Mackenzie will speak on "Non-linguistic representation". For further information, please contact Gail Stewart White at [email protected] or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 7 June -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Anne Newstead (University of New South Wales) will speak on "Understanding Agent's Knowledge". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 7 June -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 9 June -- Level 4, Wentworth Building, University of Sydney. A philosophy game will be played. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Buddhist philosophy reading group -- 2pm-4pm, Friday 10 June -- Bar Italia, Norton Street, Leichhardt. Current reading: "Recognising Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations". Group usually meets every second Friday. For further information, please visit the Platonic Society website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 10 June -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. This week's program will look at the question of whether God "wants" us to eat meat. Discussants will include John Drennan (The Australian Catholic Study Circle for Animal Welfare), Robert Young (La Trobe University), and Mark Hodges (La Trobe University). Jo Faulkner will be the anchor.

CG Jung Society of Sydney -- 7pm-8.30pm, Saturday 11 June -- Blavatsky Lodge, level 2, 484 Kent Street, Sydney. "Von Franz's Murderous Burglar Dream". Dr Sue Austin explores Von Franz's interpretation of her dream and also looks at Jung's concept of animus, exploring how women simultaneously live, resist and subvert female identity in everyday life. Cost: $5 members/$20 non-member/$15 non-member concession. Enquiries to 9290-1519. Please visit the website for further information. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 12 June -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. No�l Tointon will speak on "Does a Theological Vision of the Life-World Make Sense, and, Does a Religious Lifestyle Make Sense?". We will explore what differences, if any, there might exist between having a religious point of view and having no religious point of view. The provocative subtext is the question: does being religious make any difference to our being in the life-world? All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy 5 -- 2.30pm-4.30pm, Wednesday 22 June -- Statement Bar, State Theatre, Market Street, Sydney. "Is it possible to think in images rather than words?". Cinema can be understood as a way of thinking in its own right: as a way of posing questions, exploring ideas, and transforming our experience. Cinema can be a way of forcing us to think, and to think differently, all through the use of sound and image. Film theorists and philosophers have often drawn upon films to illustrate various theories or ideas, from psychoanalysis and semiotics to theories of gender and personal identity. The more challenging question is whether film is less a vehicle for ideas than an independent medium for thinking in visual and narrative terms. How does cinema "think" in images? What can films explore that other artistic media fail to capture? Can films be philosophical in their own right? How do films speak to our lived ethical, social, and cultural concerns? Admission free.

Psy Broadcasting Corporation -- Monday 13 June to Thursday 23 June -- online. "What is the relationship between attachment to [the idea of] God and the proclivity or tendency toward violence?" Position paper by Richard Koenigsberg. Discussant: Donald Moss. The 2005 symposium series focuses on the question: Why do religious beliefs so often generate political violence? Each session will feature a presentation, followed by an online discussion. Please visit the website for more information or contact Orion Anderson at [email protected].

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 14 June -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 14 June -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Workshop on "Causation". Was David Hume right when he said that causation is only ever "constant conjunction"? A reading list will be provided in May. Cost: $10 adult; $5 concession. Please book with Marg Hamilton by e-mail, giving your phone number for confirmation, or phone Marg at 9953-6374 or 0418-457-877. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 14 June -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Our Lord, Don Quixote". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Sydney Bioethics Seminar Series -- 5pm-7pm, Wednesday 15 June -- room 273, Carslaw building, University of Sydney. Inaugural event. Dr Thomas Pogge (Columbia; ANU) will speak on "Medicine for the Developing World: Just Rules for Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research". The rules should be redesigned so that the development of any new drug is rewarded in proportion to its impact on the global disease burden (not through monopoly rents). This reform would bring down drug prices worldwide close to their marginal cost of production and would powerfully stimulate pharmaceutical research into currently neglected diseases concentrated among the poor.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 15 June -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Phil Wong will speak on "A first principles approach to drugs, crime, capital punishment, terrorism, nuclear proliferation and other social issues." Please visit the website for more information.

Australian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) -- Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 June -- Macquarie University. Annual conference. The theme is "The politics of being". For program and other details, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 17 June -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

Judith Butler lecture -- 2pm, Saturday 18 June 2005 -- City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney. Judith Butler will be visiting Australia for the first time, and will be delivering a public lecture entitled, "Giving an account of oneself". Abstract as follows: -- The poststructuralist critique of the subject has been criticized for offering only an opaque, divided, or incoherent theory of the moral subject. Can one assume responsibility and give an account of oneself if one is partially opaque to oneself, inconsistent or divided? Butler suggests here that the opacity of the subject is a necessary dimension of it sociality, and that the emergence of the subject depends on social relations and social norms that are never fully thematizable. As a consequence, the ways in which we fail to be able to give a full account of ourselves refer to those dimensions of relationality that are crucial to any ethical philosophy. In effect, Butler here tries not only to offer an ethical philosophy for poststructuralism, but suggests that any account of oneself requires a turn to social theory and critique. Otherwise, moral philosophy becomes ethical violence. Cost: $25/$15. For bookings, please visit the website or call +61 (02) 8256-2222. For further information, please contact Cristyn Davies at 9772-6784 or [email protected].

Blackheath Philosophy Forum -- 4pm, Saturday 18 June -- Blackheath Public School Hall, corner of Great Western Highway and Leichhardt Street, Blackheath. Professor Helen Irving will speak on "Why a good society needs good law". Most people would agree that a "lawless" society is a frightening prospect. We all have images in our minds of the looting and unchecked violence that often follow a major catastrophe. But law is far more than a matter of policing. Most experiences of law lie outside the field of criminal law. This talk considers law from the perspectives both of its utility and of its constitutive character. It also considers where the limits of law lie and where other forces for good should step in. Cost: $5. For further details, please visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 21 June -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Department of Pure Mathematics, University of New South Wales -- 2pm, Tuesday 21 June -- RC-4082, Red Centre, University of New South Wales. Professor Jim Franklin (UNSW) will speak on "The 'Sydney School' in the philosophy of mathematics". The recently founded "Sydney School" (www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/structmath.html) says that previous philosophy of mathematics has got it all wrong. Mathematics is not about numbers and sets in some other "abstract" world, nor is it "merely" anything (eg logic, or what you can derive from arbitrary axioms, or manipulation of formal symbols). What mathematics is really about is� well, come and hear about it. Enquiries to Catherine Greenhill, 9385-7105 or [email protected].

Fabian society -- 6pm, Wednesday 22 June -- Theatrette, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney. "Are moral values the new politics? -- the challenge from religion". The 2004 US and Australian elections saw religious and ethical issues make unprecedented inroads into pre-poll debates. Bush and Howard then rode back to power on waves of morality and �family values�. The left parties in both nations were marginalised and ridiculed as holdouts of �secular humanism� or worse. What does this mean for the future of politics in general and for the left parties in particular? John Russell will chair a discussion with David Marr, Brian Houston and Stephen Crittenden. Cost: free. To book: please phone 9660 2333 or e-mail [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 4.15pm, Thursday 23 June -- Level 4, Wentworth Building, University of Sydney. A philosophy game will be played. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Philosophy radio program -- 2pm-3pm, Friday 24 June -- online. Philosophical debate and excursion, hosted by postgraduates of the La Trobe University Philosophy Program. On air every Friday, 2pm-3pm, streamed online at the Sub FM website. Topic this week: to be announced.

Psy Broadcasting Corporation -- Monday 27 June to Sunday 10 July -- online. "What is the relationship of the religious fundamentalist to [the idea of] God?" Position paper by Charles Strozier. Discussant: Ana-Maria Rizzuto. The 2005 symposium series focuses on the question: Why do religious beliefs so often generate political violence? Each session will feature a presentation, followed by an online discussion. Please visit the website for more information or contact Orion Anderson at [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 28 June -- room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Professor. Jay Garfield (University of Massachusetts/University of Melbourne) will speak on "Why Did Bodhidharma Go to the East? Buddhism�s Struggle with Mind in the World". For further information, please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink at [email protected] or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1pm-3pm, Tuesday 28 June -- philosophy seminar room, Morven Brown Building, room G55. Topic to be announced. All welcome! For further information, please contact Simon Lumsden at 9385-2369 or [email protected], or Soon Ng at 9385-2371 or [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 28 June -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Maria Contempree will speak on "Kierkegaard: Subjective Experience of Self". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Parramatta philosophy group -- 8pm, Wednesday 29 June -- Mars Hills Caf�, 331 Church Street, Parramatta. This month the group will discuss Irigaray and love. Recommended reading is Irigaray's "Being with the Other" in The Way of Love. For more information, please contact Adrian Emilsen at [email protected].

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