The Russellian Society

Archives: Philosophy around Sydney: First and second semesters, 2006

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 4 January -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: What significance does death have for our life? Would you choose to be immortal if you could? If you discovered you had X time period to live is the extent to which you would change your life the extent of its failure? If you are in your prime is it necessarily counter to self interest to kill yourself on whim? Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-6.30pm, Thursday 5 January -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: Do all humans belong to a single moral community? Do the arguments of liberal egalitarianism naturally lead beyond the nation state? Is the welfare state unsustainable in the long term, for whatever reason? Or are nation states morally and economically desirable or even necessary? What forms might "cosmopolitanism" take? All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 11 January -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: What is logic? What does it mean to think logically? Can anyone be logical? What sorts of issues are logicians interested in reconciling? Is being logical better than being illogical? Is it always better? If so, why? Why should people think logically? What benefits are there to thinking in a logically consist manner? Are there different kinds of logic? If so, how should we evaluate the merits of a particular logical system? Please visit the website for more information.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 18 January -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 18 January -- Bondi Beach. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Adrian Tan will speak on photographs and torture. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-6.30pm, Thursday 19 January -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: An overview of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, including discussion of happiness, virtue, weakness of will, and friendship. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

New Acropolis -- 6.30pm, Tuesday 24 January -- Imperial Arcade, Level 1, 83-85 Castlereagh Street. A presentation of philosophical courses, and a talk entitled: "Philosophy: know yourself". For further information, please visit the website, phone 9807-4818, or e-mail [email protected].

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 25 January -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: What is Intelligent Design Theory? Is Intelligent Design Theory a scientific theory? If so, is it a good theory? What is the philosophical significance of the debate about intelligent design? How is Intelligent Design Theory different from other theories or theses involving design? What claims are Intelligent Design Theorists committed to? What claims are they not committed to? What is the explanatory aim of Intelligent Design Theory? Are we justified in teaching Intelligent Design Theory in public schools? What would make it justified or unjustified? Do certain religious views force one to decide between intelligent design and evolution? Please visit the website for more information.

Sydney Shove -- 6.30pm (for 7pm start), Tuesday 31 January -- beer garden, Royal Exhibition Hotel, 86 Chalmers Street (Devonshire Street corner, close to Central Station). Topic: presentations by John August and Brad Row, respectively on limitations of the market requiring extra market consideration and the utility of government spending and intervention, and the ability of the market to deliver benefits without any additional intervention. For more information, please contact John August at [email protected].

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 1 February -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: philosophy and film. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 1 February -- Bondi Beach (outside the Pavilion). All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: your offensive idea. Bring along your offensive idea or criticize the offensive ideas of others. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 2 February -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: sustainability, technology, and society. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 7 February 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Dorothy Rowe will speak on "The state of psychology in the world today and the state of the world in psychology today". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 8 February -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: Philosophy of language 101. What is the philosophy of language? How does the philosophy of language differ from linguistics, or from other branches of philosophy? Why do philosophers study language? What is the purpose of language? How does language relate to the mind, both of the speaker and the interpreter? How does language relate to the world? What is the nature of meaning? What is the relation between meaning and reference? How are sentences composed into a meaningful whole, and what are the meanings of the parts of sentences? Why do expressions have the meanings they have? How do words and sentences acquire meanings?. Please visit the website for more information.

Continuing Education -- 10.30am-5pm, Saturday 11 February 2006. "The courage to be" with Dr Ray Younis. Do you have the courage to be? Are you frightened by the thought of non-being? Many philosophers, from Socrates and the Stoics to Nietzsche, Kierkegaards, Spinoza, Heidegger and Tillich, have reflected on being and its ground, the threat of non-being or meaninglessness, and affirmation and self-affirmation. We look closely at some of the central claims and their meaning, influence and endurin significance. Cost: $115. Please visit the website for further information.

CJ Jung Society of Sydney -- 7pm-8.30pm, Saturday 11 February -- Blavatsky Lodge, level 2, 484 Kent Street. "It's all very simplistic this Buddhism stuff. Or is it?" Most cultural stories begin with the persistent psychological questions "Who am I?", "Who are you?", and "Can we be happy"? as articulated in programs such as Desperate Housewives. Join Dr Brendan Stewart as he reflects on how Buddhism can help us find psychological meaning in our lives. Cost: $20/$15. Please visit the website for more information or call 9290-1519. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 12 February 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Francesco Amati will speak on "The stoics". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 14 February 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Jim Franklin will speak on mathematics and ethics: how objectivity in mathematics supports objectivity in ethics, the role of equality in both maths and ethics, accountancy and rights, and why Plato demanded that politicians spend years being trained in mathematics. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 14 February -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Derek Maitland will speak on "Philosophy of humour". What is humour? Moreover, why is there humour? What makes us laugh? Why do we laugh. What makes something funny? What makes us think something is funny? Are there underlying ethical and moral messages in humour, or is laughter just a spasmodic physiological and psychological relief from stress? Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 15 February -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 15 February -- Botanical Gardens. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: open forum on "How can we stop the United States from being an immoral dictatorship?" Philorum is open to all political views so you could challenge that the US is this. Is global justice desirable? If so, what form should it take and how do we get there? Please visit the website for more information.

International politics, religion and global justice in the new century -- Thursday 16 February 2006 -- Woolley Building N395, University of Sydney. A University of Sydney summer symposium. Speakers include Professor Genevieve Lloyd (UNSW), Professor Garry W. Trompf (Sydney), Professor Stuart Rees (Sydney), Mark Kelly (Sydney), John Nijjem (Sydney). For more information, please contact Philip Quadrio, Carrol Besseling or Frances Di Lauro at 4759-1712, 8819-2750, [email protected] or [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 16 February -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: a discussion of various ethical topics, based on Peter Singer's book and Caroline West's course reader. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6:15 pm (for 6:30 pm start), Monday 20 February -- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 145 Macquarie Street. Judith Godden (Sydney) will speak on "Germs, gender and governance: conflict and myth-making at Sydney Infirmary". Cost: $7. Please RSVP by the Wednesday before to Alyson Dalby at [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 21 February 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Derek Maitland will speak on "Philosophy of Humour". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 22 February -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Sydney bioethics seminar series -- 5pm-7pm, Wednesday 22 February -- Carslaw 275, University of Sydney. Jackie Leach Scully (Institut f�r Geschichte und Epistemologie der Medizin, Basel, Switzerland) will speak on "Uncomfortable choices: prenatal testing, preimplantation diagnosis, and disability". Event is free and open to the public.

Modelling the brain's operating system -- 1pm-2pm, Monday 27 February 2006 -- room 952, building J03, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. Professor Dana H. Ballard (University of Rochester) will present a seminar. To make progess in understanding human brain functionality, we will need to understand its basic functions at an abstract level. One way of accomplishing such an integration is to create a model of a human that has a useful amount of complexity. Essentially, one is faced with proposing an embodied "operating system" model that can be tested against human performance. Recently technological advances have been made that allow progress to be made in this direction. Graphics models that simulate extensive human capabilities can be used as platforms from which to develop synthetic models of visuo-motor behavior. Currently such models can capture only a small portion of a full behavioral repertoire, but for the behaviors that they do model, they can describe complete visuo-motor subsystems at a level of detail that can be tested against human performance in realistic environments. We outline one such model and shows both that it can produce interesting new hypotheses as to the role of vision and also that it can enhance our understanding of visual attention.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm-7.30pm, Monday 27 February -- Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Andrew Webster (University of York) will speak on "Understanding innovative health technologies: where does their novelty lie?". For further information, please call 9351-4226 or e-mail [email protected], or visit the website.

On what there is not -- Tuesday 28 February -- room S422, Main Quad, University of Sydney. The Centre for Time is hosting a mini-conference on anti-realism on. Please RSVP by e-mail to Brad Weslake at [email protected] by Friday 24 February. Cost: free. Please visit the website for further information.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 28 February -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Nevo will speak on "Politics". He will will define and expand the subject in terms of an undecidable sphere of relations meshed with those other sets of relations we call the ethical and the religious or cultural. He will argue that it is a basic fact of our society in Australia that politics is much more religiously determined by Christian culture than the normative media discourse on politics allows. Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 1 March -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 1 March -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: John Bentley will speak on "Should fucking in public be legalised?" After George Michael's arrest for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet he released a track with the exhortation: "Let's go outside." Is he right (on one interpretation)? Should fucking in Hyde Park on any midday be legal? Perhaps in limited public areas like the southern end of Manly Beach? Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 2 March -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: a discussion of various ethical topics, including abortion, pornography, animal rights, and the environment, based Caroline West's course reader. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Sydney Ideas -- 6.30pm, Monday 6 March -- Seymour Theatre Centre, cnr of City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale. Robert Fisk will speak. Robert Fisk is a rare visitor to Australia and this is his exclusive Sydney talk. If you want to gain a true insight into the Middle East from someone who has a unique historical view come and hear him. Cost: $20/$15. Bookings: 9351-7940. Please visit the website for more information.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 7 March -- philosophy seminar room, G55, Morven Brown Building. Stephen Cohen (UNSW) will speak on "The role of individual judgement in organisational ethical behaviour". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Russoc guest lecture -- 7pm, Tuesday 7 March 2006 -- Holme Reading Room, Holme Building, Science Road, University of Sydney. Adam Elga (Princeton) will speak on "Should your beliefs survive scrutiny of their origins?". Food and drink provided. Cost: $3 (USU and Russoc), $6 (USU and non-Russoc), $7 (non-USU and Russoc), $10 (non-USU and non-Russoc). Membership is $5 (all welcome to join). Having trouble finding the Holme Building? It's D14 on this map. It's very close to the Footbridge Theatre on Parramatta Road.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 7 March 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Nevo will speak on "Politics". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 8 March -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Socratic Society -- 12pm-1pm, Wednesday 8 March -- philosophy seminar room, G55, Morven Brown building, University of New South Wales. Michaelis Michael will talk on "The seductive attractions of relativism". All welcome! For more information, please visit the website.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 8 March -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Professor Adam Elga (Princeton) will present a paper entitled "Reflection and disagreement". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Center for Independent Studies -- 5.30pm (for 6pm start), Wednesday 8 March -- ASX Auditorium, Australian Stock Exchange, 18 Bridge Street, Sydney. "The Role of the State in the Twenty- First Century" -- a discussion with Lindsay Tanner MP. RSVP required by Friday 3 March. Cost: $15/$10. For more information, please contact [email protected] or 9438-4377, or visit the website.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 10 March -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: the divine watchmaker argument.

"Women in science" -- 5pm-7.30pm, Friday 10 March -- Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney. In January, 2005 the President of Harvard University Larry Summers, stated that: "Males have an innate or natural ability for the science or engineering. Women don't, and that's why they are under represented in the sciences and engineering." In honour of International Women's Day 2006, come join a discussion with science writer and broadcaster Bernie Hobbs about the issues posed by and for women in science. Event is free, but bookings are required. Please contact 9320-6390.

Continuing Education -- 10.30am-5pm, Saturday 11 March 2006. "Philosophical investigations: on purpose" with Dr Ray Younis. The question of purpose has fascinated philosophers since Socrates and Aristotle, and links vastly different disciplines such as philosophy, science and religion. In this fully illustrated day course we look carefully at the meaning, nature and evolution of our understanding of "purpose" in metaphysics and ontology, teleology and the natural and physical sciences. Cost: $115. Please visit the website for further information.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 12 March 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. No�l Tointon will speak on "Skepticism and the transcendental attitude". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information.

"Old evidence, logical omniscience, and Bayesianism" -- 3pm, Monday 13 March -- Eastern Avenue Seminar Room 403, University of Sydney. Branden Fitelson (Berkeley) will: (1) explain what the problem of old evidence is; (2) explain Garber's resolution of the problem of old evidence, which involves a novel and subtle Bayesian approach to logical learning (ie the learning of logical relations); (3) compare and contrast Garber's approach to logical learning with a previous approach sketched by IJ Good; (4) offer an alternative approach to logical learning (with an application to the problem of old evidence); and (5) briefly discuss and critique Jeffrey's approach to logical learning (and old evidence). Along the way, various important foundational observations will be made about Bayesian models of rational epistemic agents. All welcome.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 13 March -- Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Gary Wersky will speak on "Three generations: 'Long Waves' in the history of science, politics and science studies, 1931-2006". For further information, please call 9351-4226 or e-mail [email protected], or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 14 March -- philosophy seminar room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Stephen Wilkinson (Keele) will speak on "Is the therapy-enhancement distinction morally significant?". For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

"Does the world have a future?" -- 6.30pm-8.30pm, Tuesday 14 March -- Trinity Chapel Macquarie, 136 Herring Road, North Ryde. World-renowned cosmologist/physicist Professor Paul Davies and leading New Testament expert Dr Tom Wright discuss this topic from their contrasting perspectives. Cost: $20/$15. For more information, please call 9850-6133 or visit the website. Details of this event were found at Sydney Talks.

New Acropolis Australia -- 6.30pm, Tuesday 14 March -- Bridge Business College Imperial Arcade, level 1, 83-85 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. "Raising the quality of life by philosophy": a presentation of philosophical courses. Please visit the website for more information.

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 14 March 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Rafe Champion will talk about Karl Popper and his philosophy. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 14 March -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Love". Love is the most powerful and enduring human experience. St Paul built a church on it and Dante knew that it moves the sun and all the stars. As Spinoza said, what we love makes us happy or unhappy. Stendhal wrote his main book on it and Freud saw to the bottom of it, as it were. It is not only central to every human experience, but if the Beatles are right, love is all you need. A subject that calls for wise reflection and discussion. Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 15 March -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 15 March -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Douglas MacLean (UNC Chapel Hill) will be speaking on "Is longevity a virtue". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Science forum -- 5:30pm-7:15pm, Wednesday 15 March -- Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney. Rachel Ankeny, Ian Kerrige and Tamra Lysaght will feature a talk on stem cells. Although the public is increasingly knowledgeable about science, they are not necessarily more supportive of it. A research group at the University of Sydney has been examining the public's views on the controversial topic of stem cell research, and has been involved in recent legislative debates on the permissibility of such research in Australia. Join them as they uncover the complexities emerging in bioethics today, explore whether moral consensus is possible in such a contentious field of science, and have your say in the post-lecture discussion to learn more about what issues are at stake beyond the moral status of the embryo. Lecture is free, but bookings are essential: [email protected].

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 15 March -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Ian Woolf will speak on laws against terror. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 16 March -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: an open forum on whatever ethical issues participants raise. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 17 March -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

"Hume on other minds" -- 4pm, Friday 17 March -- philosophy common room (Main Quad S413), University of Sydney. Anik Waldrow (Berlin/Oxford) will deliver this postgraduate seminar. For more information, please contact Peter Anstey at [email protected].

"Can the physicists' description of reality be considered complete?" -- 6.30pm, Friday 17 March -- Eastern Avenue lecture theatre, University of Sydney. Professor Brian Josephson FRS is Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. While a graduate student he predicted that currents could tunnel with no resistance through an insulating barrier between two superconductors, for which prediction he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Since then he has been mainly concerned with the question of the logic of brain functioning, as well as being interested in a number of topics that have become the subject of "pathological disbelief". He was one of the instigators of the website archivefreedom.org, which publicises cases of the bureaucratic censorship of research that does not fit in with conventional thinking. In his book Atomic physics and human knowledge, Niels Bohr argued that because of the uncertainty principle quantum methodology might not be applicable to the study of the ultimate details of life. Delbruck disagreed, claiming that biosystems are robust to quantum disturbances, an assertion that is only partially valid rendering Bohr's argument still significant, even though normally ignored. The methods of the quantum physicist and of the biological sciences can be seen to involve two alternative approaches to the understanding of nature that can usefully complement each other, neither on its own containing the full story. That full story, taking into account the biological/cognitive/semiotic perspective, may involve anomalies that are incomprehensible from the standard physicist's point of view. It provides a fascinating challenge for the future of physics. Further information from: Fred Osman (4736-0750 or [email protected]).

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 21 March -- room 211, Morven Brown Building. Christoph Fehige (RSSS/University of Konstanz) will speak on "The others and I: Hutcheson's moral mathematics". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 21 March 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Love". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 22 March -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 22 March -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Susan Woolf (Chapel Hill) will speak on moral obligation. The paper canvasses the field of plausible interpretations of the concept of moral obligation, and defends a social command theory. The paper argues that our use of the language of moral obligation contains multiple strands that may come apart. On the one hand, to say something is morally obligatory is to say that one has decisive moral reason to do it; on the other, it is to say that it is the sort of action a person may be legitimately blamed or punished for not doing. All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 24 March -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: skepticism (negative and positive).

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 27 March -- Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Stephen Gaukroger (Sydney) will speak on "'Home Alone': Cognitive solipsism in the early-modern era". For further information, please call 9351-4226 or e-mail [email protected], or visit the website.

Macquarie University -- 10am-11am (student workshop), 11am-1pm (lecture), Tuesday 28 March -- philosophy seminar room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Arto Laitinen (Jyvaskyla) will speak on "Mutual recognition -- knowing or making?". For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 28 March -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Timothy O'Leary (University of Hong Kong) will speak on "Foucault, experience, literature". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 28 March -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Gregory McCormick will speak on "The importance of Freud". If Marx provided the 20th century with a secular millennialism, Freud provided it with a secular gnosticism. These secular myths give us something that the special sciences cannot -- a symbolic system in which we "live, and move, and have our being". This is why we cannot do without them. Despite the refutation of almost all of Freud's scientific claims, our understanding of the mind is still more Freudian than it is pre-Freudian. Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 29 March -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Socratic Society -- 12pm-1pm, Wednesday 29 March -- philosophy seminar room, G55, Morven Brown building, University of New South Wales. Jim Franklin will discuss "On the parallel between mathematics and morals", which can be downloaded here. All welcome! For more information, please contact Benjamin Schulz at [email protected].

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 29 March -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Hud Hudson (Western Washington University) will speak on "Confining composition". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Practical identity and narrative agency -- Thursday 30 March to Saturday 1 April 2006 -- Macquarie University, Sydney. Practical and narrative approaches shift the focus of philosophical reflection about personal identity away from metaphysical issues concerning necessary and sufficient conditions for continuity of identity and toward broader concerns about the nature of practical reflection and deliberation, the conditions for normative agency, and the constitution of selfhood. Keynote speakers for this intensive workshop will be J David Velleman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbour) and Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois, Chicago). For more information please visit the website or contact Kim Atkins (University of Tasmania) at (03) 6324-3522 or [email protected], or Catriona Mackenzie (Macquarie University) at 9850-8865 or [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 30 March -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: An introduction to and discussion of legal theory and various philosophy of law issues, partly based on Margaret Davies' Asking the law question. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Gleebooks -- 6pm, Thursday 30 March -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. "Activist wisdom: practical knowledge and creative tension in social movements": panel discussion with Sarah Maddison, Sean Scalmer, Verity Burgmann, Danny Kennedy. Peace marches, protest demonstrations and campaigns have long been part of the Australian social and political landscape. In Activist wisdom, Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer examine the successes, failures and political impact of social movements in Australia. Cost: $9/$6. Bookings: 9660-2333. Please visit the website for more information.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 31 March -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: If the world of the X-men were real (mutants exist and there are government efforts to get them to register), what would be the moral implications?

The philosophy of love -- 1pm-4pm, Sunday 2 April -- Perama Restaurant, 88 Audley Street, Petersham. Through a talk by Dr Edward Spence, a dramatic performance by actors, audience participation and liberating discussion, the contemporary relevance and significance of aspects of Plato's philosophy of love will be explored. The philosophical presentation will be accompanied by a sumptuous banquet of food on the theme of love with a selection of wines. Cost: $110. Contact: 9569-7534 or [email protected].

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6:15 pm (for 6:30 pm start), Monday 3 April -- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 145 Macquarie Street. Jill Gordon (Medical Humanities) will speak on "Interpreting shell shock: The work of WHR Rivers during the Great War". Cost: $7. Please RSVP by the Wednesday before to Alyson Dalby at [email protected].

Sydney Ideas -- 6.30pm, Monday 3 April -- Seymour Theatre Centre, cnr of City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale. Professor Frank Furedi (Kent) will speak on "Can our belief in humanity survive the 21st century?". Furedi calls for a reintroduction of the Enlightenment ideals of positive humanism or the pursuit of individual autonomy. He believes this will form the foundation for choice making, moral and political decision making and social engagement in the future. Furedi will provide an insight into contemporary culture that will challenge your perceptions on the many issues. His passion and vision for the future of humanity may inspire you. Cost: $20/$15. Bookings: 9351-7940. Please visit the website for more information.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 4 April -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Gary Genosko (Lakehead University, Canada) will speak on "Felix Guattari's Ecosophical Vision in The Three Ecologies". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Russoc guest lecture -- 6pm (for a 6:10pm start), Tuesday 4 April -- Philosophy Common Room (S247), Main Quad, University of Sydney. Nick Zangwill (Oxford) will speak on "Music and mysticism". Munchies will be provided. No cost. All welcome!

Sydney ideas -- 6.30pm, Tuesday 4 April -- Sound Lounge, Seymour Theatre Centre. "Whose history?": a public forum on teaching history. In a speech on the eve of Australia Day this year the Prime Minister weighed into the debate on how modern history is taught in Australian schools: "Too often it is taught without any sense of structured narrative, replaced by a fragmented stew of themes and issues. And too often history, along with other subjects in the humanities, has succumbed to a postmodern culture of relativism where any objective record of achievement is questioned or repudiated." But how is Australian history taught at school today and is the Prime Minister's comment true or even relevant? Why do our political leaders believe history and the way it is taught is so important to our national identity? University of Sydney academics from History and Education, along with a visiting scholar from the UK and a high school history teacher, react to the Prime Minister's statements in a public forum. Free event, all welcome. Reservations: please phone 9036-6509. Please visit the website for more information.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 5 April -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 5 April -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Nick Zangwill (Oxford) will speak on "Moral dependence and moral epistemology". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 5 April -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Ansgar Fehnker will speak on "Freedom of speech and the Danish cartoons". Please visit the website for more information.

Socratic society -- 7pm, Thursday 6 April -- Trinity Bar, corner of Crown and Devonshire Streets, Surry Hills. The Critical Drinkers (a dissident faction of the Socratic Society) are getting together for drinks and (maybe) a meal. All are welcome, no philosophy background required.

On-line philosophy conference -- Friday 7 April 2006 -- online. The first installment of OPC will be hosted on the newly created On-line Philosophy Conference Blog and will include invited papers by some of today's top philosophers, such as Stephen Stich, Jonathan Kvanvig, John Martin Fischer, Alfred Mele, Julia Driver, Terence Horgan, Graham Priest, RA Duff, Thomas Hurka, Susanna Siegel, Brian Weatherson, Uriah Kriegel, Manuel Vargas, Kit Wellman, Joshua Gert, Joshua Knobe, Brie Gertler, Jessica Wilson, Benj Hellie, Amie Thomasson, Elizabeth Harman, Noa Latham, Andy Egan and Neil Levy. Our goal is to give scholars a much wider audience for their working papers, while at the same time saving everyone (both individuals and departments) the cost of travel stipends, etc. Moreover, we humbly believe that hosting an online philosophy conference would be an excellent way of fostering philosophy's growing presence on the web. The format of the conference will tentatively be as follows: First, once we have selected papers for online "presentation", they will each be sent to one or two scholars in the relevant field for invited comments (the number of commentators per paper will depend on how many papers we end up with as well as how many people are generous enough to offer their philosophical services). Second, once we have received all of the invited comments, we will forward them to the original authors of the papers, who will have the chance to write responses if they wish. Finally, once we have the papers, invited comments, and responses in hand, we will divide them into three groups. All of the papers, commentaries, and responses from each respective group will be posted on a Friday (7 April for group 1, 15 April for group 2, 22 April for group 3). While the public will be able to download all of this material to read over the weekend, the comment threads will not open until Monday (10 April for group 1, 18 April for group 2, and 25 April for group 3). The comment threads will be closely monitored for relevance, and they will only remain open for a week (unless the original authors specifically request that the comment threads on their papers remain open). When all of the comment threads close, the authors will have one last opportunity to post responses to all of the comments they found particularly helpful or interesting. Please visit the website for more information or contact [email protected].

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 7 April -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: religion and morality.

Gleebooks -- 6pm (for 6.30pm start), Friday 7 April -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Launch of Gay Hawkins' The ethics of waste by Stephen Muecke. While much has been written about the catastrophic effects of waste matter and wasteful consumption on the environment, we know little about how we actually live with waste. How do we decide something has reached the end of its value? What is the relationship between over-consumption and disposability? How did the rise of streamlined waste removal technologies, like the sewer, impact on our sense of disgust and privacy? How has the rise of "new" habits, from recycling to composting, made us think differently about waste and the claims it can make on us? Cost: free. RSVP: 9660-2333. Please visit the website for more information.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 9 April 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. No�l Tointon will speak on "�Entry� into the transcendental dimension: part I: Overlooking of this dimension in traditional (mis)interpretations of Vasubandhu�s Vimsatika". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Gleebooks -- 6pm (for 6.30pm start), Monday 10 April -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Launch by Bryce Courtney of The ethics of inheritable genetic modification: a dividing line?, edited by John Rasko, Gabrielle O'Sullivan, and Rachel Ankeny. Cost: free. RSVP: 9660-2333. Please visit the website for more information.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6:15 pm (for 6:30 pm start), Monday 10 April -- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 145 Macquarie Street. Jill Gordon (Sydney) will speak on "Interpreting shell shock: the work of WHR Rivers during the Great War". Cost: $7. Please RSVP by the Wednesday before to Alyson Dalby at [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 10am-11am (student workshop), 11am-1pm (lecture), Tuesday 11 April -- philosophy seminar room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Mark Paterson (University of the West of England) will speak on "Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and the kinaesthetic background of experience". For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 11 April -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Phil Cam (UNSW) will speak on "Dealing with desire". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 11 April 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Phil Cam will talk on �Inquiry as a way of life�. Although we may not share Socrates' philosophical commitments, and may doubt the wisdom of his methods, he still has much to teach us about the reflective life and the inquiring society. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 11 April -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Jurgen Lawrenz will speak on "The importance of Hegel". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 12 April -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 13 April -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: an introduction to and discussion of the methodology of economics, based on the anthology The philosophy of economics, edited by Daniel M Hausman. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 13 April -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

New Acropolis -- 6.30pm-8pm, Thursday 13 April -- room 11, Bridge Business College, Level 1, 83-85 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. "Philosophy versus problems: How can we see our problems differently through philosophy?". Join Guner Orucu as he offers his perspective. Cost: free. Enquiries: 9807-4818. Please visit the website for more information.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 14 April -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- Saturday 15 April -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 18 April 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Jurgen Lawrenz will speak on "The importance of Hegel". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 19 April -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 19 April -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Greg Scherkoske (Dalhousie University) will speak on a topic to be announced. All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Gleebooks -- 6pm, Wednesday 19 April -- Gleebooks bookstore, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. "Is racism the new nationalism?": panel discussion with Paula Abood, Michael Duffy, George Megalogenis, and John Russell. Since the Cronulla riots debate has raged about ethnic tension, the compatibility of Islam and "Australian" values and the future of multiculturalism. Is deformed nationalism or the policy of multiculturalism threatening social cohesion? Does Australia have a problem with racial conflict and what part have politicians, media and the community leaders played in this malaise? Cost: free. Bookings: 9660-2333. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 19 April -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: "Does more material wealth make you better off?" (5-7 minute introduction by John Bentley). Siddhartha Gautama, Christ, and Francis of Assisi renounced material wealth to some extent. Were they wrong? To be charged with "materialism" can mean spending too much time seeking or getting satisfaction from material wealth. Yet many economies, if not all, are directed toward increasing material wealth without bound. Assuming no environmental or distribution issues, shouldn't increases in material wealth improve our lives? Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 20 April -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Causation, probability and decision -- Friday 21 April -- Refectory, Main Quad, University of Sydney. A one-day mini-conference, with talks by Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Arif Ahmed (Cambridge), Stephan Hartmann (LSE) and Philip Dawid (UCL). The conference is free, and open to all, but advance registration is required by Wednesday 19 April. To register, simply send an e-mail to [email protected], with the subject "Please register me for the Causation, Probability and Decision Conference". Please visit the website for more information.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 21 April -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The origins and functions of causal thinking III -- Friday 21 April 2006 to Monday 24 April 2006 -- University of Sydney. A workshop on the theme of "Causation, time and physics". Talks by Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Arif Ahmed (Cambridge), Stephan Hartmann (LSE) and Philip Dawid (UCL). Conference is free and open to all, but registration is required. Please visit the website for further information. Enquiries to John Cusbert ([email protected]).

The Philosopher's Zone -- Saturday 22 April -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 25 April -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Freedom". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 26 April -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 26 April -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Greg Scherkoske (Dalhousie University) will speak on "Integrity and moral danger". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Sydney ideas -- 6.30pm, Wednesday 26 April -- Seymour Theatre Centre. Mathis Wackernagel will speak on "Making sustainability real with the ecological footprint". Are we running out of planet? Was Malthus wrong? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? In the Western world we are constantly told we consume a great deal more of the earth's resources than a person in China, but how is this measured and what do we do once we know this? Cost: $10/$5. Bookings: 9351-7940. Please visit the website for more information.

Sydney Shove -- 6.30pm (for 7pm start), Wednesday 26 April -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. Topic: employment -- full employment (Peter Kreisler), full unemployment (John Bentley), welfare (Ian Woolf), and laissez-faire (Brad Row). For more information, please visit the website.

CHIMP -- 5pm, Thursday 27 April -- Physics Lecture Theatre 5, Physics Building, A28, University of Sydney. Robert Spekkens (Cambridge) will speak on "Liouville mechanics with an epistemic restriction and Bohr's response to EPR". He will discuss a toy theory -- the ontology of the theory is that of classical particle mechanics, but it is assumed that there is a constraint on the amount of knowledge that an observer may have about the motional state of any collection of particles. Despite admitting a simple classical interpretation, the theory includes all of the features of quantum mechanics to which Bohr appeals in his response to EPR. This theory demonstrates, therefore, that Bohr's arguments fail as a defense of the completeness of quantum mechanics. For further information, please contact Dr Stephen Bartlett at [email protected]. For details on the CHIMP mailing list, please click here.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 27 April -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: discussion of some introductory readings in metaphysics, based on Richard Taylor's Introductory readings in metaphysics. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 27 April -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 28 April -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

Russoc guest lecture -- 2pm, Friday 28 April -- Philosophy Common Room (S413), Main Quad, University of Sydney. Dr Greg Scherkoske (Dalhousie University) will speak on "Trust and respect". No cost. All welcome!

A meaningful life: the philosophy of Peter Singer (part 1) -- 10.30am-5pm, Saturday 29 April. Day course presented by Ray Younis. Peter Singer is one of our best known and, in some senses, most controversial contemporary philosophers. We look at some of the questions that have preoccupied Singer in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of science and political philosophy. We also look at some of his answers to these questions, from early work on practical ethics to later reflections on humanism and scepticism, the ethics of responsibility and "making a difference". Cost: $120. Please visit the website for further information.

The Philosopher's Zone -- Saturday 29 April -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Catholic values and Australian realities -- 3pm, Sunday 30 April -- Crypt of St Patrick's Church Hill, Grosvenor Street, Sydney. Launch of James Franklin's new book by Stephen Crittenden. Australian Catholics have made a unique contribution to the nation. At its centre is a solid grasp of the objectivity of ethics. Persons or societies cannot "choose their own values", because what is right and wrong is founded in the way things are. In his wide-ranging book on Australian Catholic thought and action, James Franklin, author of the much-praised polemical history of Australian philosophy, Corrupting the youth, shows how core Catholic values have played out in the issues where Catholics have challenged their host society -- in debates on land rights, immigration and values in schools, and in combats with Freemasons, Protestants and Communists. All welcome! RSVP by Monday 24 April to Anthony and Brigid Cappello (5368-2570; [email protected]). Please visit the website for more information.

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 1 May -- Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Fiona Gill (Sydney) will speak on "Farming on the frontline: new technologies and family dairy farms". For further information, please call 9351-4226 or e-mail [email protected], or visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 2 May 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Freedom". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 3 May -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Duty to disclose medical error: guidelines, ethics and laws -- Wednesday 3 May -- Lorimer Dods Lecture Theatre, level 4, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, corner of Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Ave, Westmead. Much excellent work has been done in Australia over recent years to encourage medical adverse event reporting so as to facilitate system improvement by the establishment of guidelines. More recently, limited ethical obligations have been recognised under the Medical Practice Act (NSW) and followed elsewhere. But there remains no comprehensive ethical or legal duty throughout Australia to disclose such adverse events to patients by a medical practitioner in relation to the practitioner's own outcomes, or those of other practitioners. This inaugural Slater & Gordon Medical Law Forum seeks to examine the current position in respect of guidelines, ethics and law; and to consider the relative benefits of each. For registration information, please visit the website. For enquiries, please contact Slater & Gordon Lawyers on 1800-789-009.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 3 May -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Robert Dunn (Sydney) will be speaking on "Purely first-person self-knowledge". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 3 May -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Shouldn't we exorcise spirituality from our lives? Some atheists and agnostics claim a wish for, or success at, living spiritually. Is this mere religious residue that will lead them to waste their time? Is a "spiritual life" vague nonsense? If we don't live spiritually what might be an alternative? Shopping? Happiness? Meaning, authenticity, the sublime, being productive, enlightenment, being ethical, art, peace of mind, improving the world, it's-all-for-the-music, striving to be your best, becoming part of something larger than yourself, or cricket? Are some of these alternatives vague nonsense too or otherwise troubling? Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 4 May -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 5 May -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 6 May -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 9 May -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Thomas Pogge (CAPPE ANU/Columbia University) will speak on "Kant's vision of a just world order". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 9 May -- room 107, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Steven Ross (City University of New York) will speak on "When worlds collide - intentional realism and normative attribution". For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

Russoc guest lecture -- 4pm, Tuesday 9 May -- Oriental Room, Main Quad S204, University of Sydney. Dr Thomas Pogge (Columbia) will speak on "Why inequality matters: an instrumental argument". No cost. All welcome!

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 9 May 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Gerry Nolan will question the current interpretations of "Dispositions". When we say that salt is soluble in water, that a piece of metal is flexible, that glass is fragile, or that a person is generous, we are ascribing dispositional properties to these things. If we drop a bottle onto a hard floor we expect it to break. Why? Because glass bottles usually break when they are dropped. But wouldn't expectation be only an epistemic justification? Most philosophers think an ontological justification is required, something real in the world, not something we just think we know. Philosophical study of �dispositions� quickly reveals that whatever disposition is being discussed, disagreement about what dispositions are is rife. Gerry will attempt to show that this is because all of the current interpretations are wrong and will propose an alternative interpretation that removes the reasons for disagreement. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 9 May -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Nevo will speak on "Death". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 10 May -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 10 May -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Drew Khlentzos (UNE) will give a seminar entitled "What does the knowledge argument have to do with knowledge?". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Sydney Shove -- 12.30pm, Wednesday 10 May -- chessboard in Hyde Park. Lunchtime meeting on Iraq, just war theory and realpolitik, with a presentation by Graham Hoskin and discussion. For more information, please visit the website.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 11 May -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: metaphysics -- paradoxes of time travel, nature of time, free will and fatalism, persistence and personal identity, based on Usyd course "Reality, time and possibility". All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 11 May -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 12 May -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 13 May -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 14 May 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Lindsay Mell will speak on "Early modern reflections on perception". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Unit for History and Philosophy of Science -- 6pm, Monday 15 May -- Science Faculty Meeting Room, Carslaw 450, University of Sydney. Chris Degeling (Sydney) will speak on "Bones of contention: fractures, expertise and practice at the end of the nineteenth century". For further information, please call 9351-4226 or e-mail [email protected], or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 16 May -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Marguerite la Caze (Queensland) will speak on "Thinking through ethics and politics with Kant and Derrida". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Russoc guest lecture -- 6pm, Tuesday 16 May -- Philosophy Common Room, Main Quad S413, University of Sydney. Dr Stephen Ross (City University of New York) will speak on "When worlds collide: mental state naturalism and normative attribution". No cost! All welcome!

New Acropolis -- 6.30pm-8pm, Tuesday 16 May -- room 11, level 1, Bridge Business College, 83-85 Castlereagh St, Sydney. Guner Orucu will talk on "Philosophy: enhancing the quality of life". Cost: free. Enquiries: 9807-4818. Please visit the website for more information.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 16 May 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Matt Del Nevo will speak on "Death". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 17 May -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 17 May -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Dr Luke Russell will speak on "The real situationist challenge to virtue ethics". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Sydney science forum: mathematics and sex -- 5.30pm-6.45pm, Wednesday 17 May -- Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney. Dr Clio Cresswell (Sydney) will unravel the equations that explain love, marital bliss, and the number of partners you should have before you stop playing the field. Cost: free, but bookings are essential: 9351-3021.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 17 May -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: John August will speak on "Abortions: beyond access". Are abortions ethical? Assuming a woman has the right to remove an unwanted foetus, should the state pay for it? Or should the state merely ensure an availability of abortion services? How does responsibility, community and the public good factor in? Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 18 May -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 19 May -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 20 May -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 23 May -- philosophy seminar room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow, ANU) will speak on "Synaesthesia and art". For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

University of New South Wales -- 1.15pm-3pm, Tuesday 23 May -- room G55, Morven Brown Building. Jana Sawicki (Williams College) will speak on "Foucault and sexual freedom: Should we embrace an ethics of pleasure?". All welcome! For further information please contact Simon Lumsden (9385-2369; [email protected]) or Soon Ng (9385-2371; [email protected].

Policy responses to contemporary health issues -- 5.30pm-7.30pm, Tuesday 23 May -- auditorium, Kerry Packer Education Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown. There are serious unintended side effects of economic growth. Many of these manifest in relation to health -- global warming, excessive proximity of humans to farm animals and heightened risk of zoonotic diseases such as bird flu, and a pandemic of illness associated with smoking, eating too much and exercising too little. Is it possible to find a compatible path between development (with its health gains) and development (with its health losses)? If so, what is the responsibility of the health professions in this matter? Speakers include: Professor Bob Douglas; Professor Tony McMichael; and Professor Stephen Leeder. Admission is free. RSVP by 18 May 2006 to Diana Freeman ([email protected]; 9351-2818).

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 23 May -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Knowledge". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 24 May -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

University of Sydney -- 3.30pm, Wednesday 24 May -- Refectory, south-west corner of Main Quad, University of Sydney. Robert Dunne (Sydney) will be speaking on "Purely first-person self-knowledge?". All welcome! For more information, please contact Dr David Braddon-Mitchell at [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 25 May -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: Foucault's three books on the history of sexuality. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 25 May -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Steki Taverna -- 7pm, Thursday 25 May -- 2 O'Connell Street, Newtown. Topic: to be announced. Cost: $40 (for a philosophy presentation and discussion, a drama, and a Greek banquet). Bookings essential: 9516-2191. The 10th annual series of the Philosophy Nights is on "Everything that matters". For further information, please contact Edward Spence at [email protected].

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 26 May -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 27 May -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Cafe Scientific -- 2pm-3.30pm, Saturday 27 May -- Sydney Dance Caf�, Wharf 4/5 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Sydney. As part of the Sydney Writers' Festival, Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Doherty and philosopher/writer Alain de Botton will be discussing "The science and philosophy of resistance". Can philosophy help the mind become more resilient to life's problems, just as the immune system can help fight illness? Discuss insights into how the body and the mind can strengthen resistance to both disease and despair. Free, no bookings taken. Limited seating. For more information, please contact Abigail Thomas at [email protected].

Macquarie University -- 11am-1pm, Tuesday 30 May -- philosophy seminar room 720, building W6A, Macquarie University. Dr Philippa Byers (Macquarie) will speak on a topic to be advised. For further information, please contact Catriona Mackenzie (9850-8865; [email protected]), Clara Wong (9850-8837; [email protected]) or visit the website.

Russoc guest lecture -- 6pm (for a 6.15pm start), Tuesday 30 May -- Holme Reading Room, Holme Building, Science Road, University of Sydney. Dr Arif Ahmed (Cambridge University) will speak on a topic to be announced. Food and drink will be provided! Cost: $3 (USU and Russoc), $6 (USU and non-Russoc), $7 (non-USU and Russoc), $10 (non-USU and non-Russoc). Membership is $5 (all welcome to join).

Sydney Shove -- 6.30pm (for 7pm start), Tuesday 30 May -- Humanist House, 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale. David Bofinger and John August will talk on globalization. Cost: $3. For more information, please visit the website.

Philosophy cafe -- 8pm, Tuesday 30 May 2006 -- Berkelouw's Books, 70 Norton Street, Leichhardt. Geza Karacsony will speak on "Knowledge". Evening includes presentation and discussion. Cost: $5, which also buys you a coffee, tea or hot chocolate. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 31 May -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Cloning and stem cell research: towards more flexible regulation -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 1 June -- auditorium, Kerry Packer Education Centre, RPA Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown. Speaker: Professor Loane Skene (Melbourne). There are numerous traps in drafting and administering legislation. It is inevitably difficult to anticipate and to regulate in advance discoveries that will be made later. Many legislative provisions in Australia have been found almost immediately to be defective in regulating embryo research. Some activities are clearly covered by the legislation but for others it is uncertain whether they are covered or not. The recent federal Legislation Review Committee on cloning and stem cell research, chaired by the late Hon John Lockhart AO, made a novel suggestion to promote flexibility. It recommended that the Licensing Committee should be permitted to give "rulings" on the interpretation of the legislation, with an obligation to report to Parliament immediately afterwards. People who act in good faith on the basis of the ruling should have statutory immunity. Free and open to the public. RSVP to Diana Freeman at [email protected] or phone 9351-2818.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 1 June -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 2 June -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

Being and time -- 10.30am-5pm, Saturday 3 June. Philosophers have reflected on the question of "being" and on the question of the "ground of being", from the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to Kant, Husserl, Tillich, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Quine. What is the relationship, if any, between being and time or finitude? Do philosophy and science in the modern era lead us to forget, ignore or overlook "being" or to sanction its neglect? Is the concept of "being" graspable in some sense apart from philosophical systems or scientific theories? Expand your thinking by joining Ray Younis as he answers these questions and many others. Cost: $125. Please visit the website for more information.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 3 June -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 7 June -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 7 June -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Edward Neylan will speak on why schooling is bad for you. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 8 June -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 8 June -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 9 June -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 10 June -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 11 June 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Open forum on "Semiotic proliferation in the textualization of the world: what�s happening to the world as it sinks in a flood of signs, laws, forms, questionnaires, roads, concrete constructions?". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics conference -- Monday 12 June to Wednesday 14 June 2006 -- University of New South Wales. The 13th annual conference. Tentatively, dedicated streams are planned in the areas of business ethics, healthcare ethics, public sector ethics, environmental ethics, and defence ethics. Please visit the website for more information or contact Stephen Cohen at [email protected].

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 13 June 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Topic tonight: workshop on the identity of things. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 14 June -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 15 June -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 16 June -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 17 June -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 21 June -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 21 June -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: Catherine Jones will speak on madness (tentative). Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 22 June -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 22 June -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 23 June -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 24 June -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 28 June -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 29 June -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 30 June -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra -- 10.30am-5pm, Saturday 1 July. Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra is an astonishing book that combines philosophy, poetry, satire, wit, hyperbole, polemics and rich metaphor. This book amplifies a number of his philosophical ideas and introduces some new ones too: the rise of nihilism, the will to power, the critique of theism and of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and Darwin, the eternal recurrence, the emergence of the �bermensch, and "the meaning of the earth". Come along and explore with Dr Ray Younis the central ideas in this profound, provocative and imaginative book, and understand the reasons for its enduring appeal and influence in modern culture. Cost: $125. Please visit the website for more information.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 1 July -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Australasian Association of Philosophy -- Sunday 2 July (evening) to Friday 7 July (lunchtime) -- Australian National University. The 2006 annual meeting. There will be various topical streams during the AAP and papers in those areas are particularly encouraged: philosophy of biology, philosophy of probability, philosophy of consciousness, logic, applied philosophy, and women in philosophy. Please visit the website for more details.

War, culture and democracy in classical Athens -- Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 July 2006 -- University of Sydney. An international conference, convened by Dr David Pritchard. Please visit the website for more information.

Australasian Bioethics Association conference -- Wednesday 5 to Saturday 8 July 2006 -- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. 11th conference of, incorporating the 10th annual conference of the Australian Institute of Health Law and Ethics": "Life, death and human nature: bioethics and biolaw in the twenty-first century". Join us to discuss issues in bioethics and health law, arising from the influence of the progress of science on the non-scientific aspects of health care, such as choice, freedom, meaning, justification, community, and clinical wisdom. Areas such as biology, genetics, identity, end-of-life, human rights, equity, education, the professions, and the biosphere may be explored, in the context of the broader themes of moral knowledge, ethical method, and contested conceptions of human nature, life, death and power. Please visit the website for more information, or contact [email protected].

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 5 July -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 5 July -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 6 July -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 6 July -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 7 July -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 8 July -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 9 July 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. No�l Tointon will speak on "�Entry� into the transcendental dimension: part II: 'Like a dream' -- Vasubandhu answers his realist critics?". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 11 July 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Karyn Lai will give an introduction to "Chinese philosophy", including Confucius and the Daodejing. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 13 July -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2006 Conference -- Wednesday 12 July to Friday 14 July 2006 -- Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront campus, Victoria. "Trauma: Historicity, Philosophy". Keynote speakers: Professor Robert Pippin (Chicago), Professor Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research), Professor Gyorgy Markus (Sydney). For further information, please e-mail [email protected].

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 12 July -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 14 July -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 15 July -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4) -- time of event: Sunday 16 July 2006 to Friday 21 July 2006 -- deadline for submissions: Sunday 16 December 2005 -- University of New South Wales. In a celebration of memory research, ICOM-4 will bring together scientists and practitioners from around the world. The tone of the conference will be set by keynote addresses from ten internationally renowned memory researchers: Alan Baddeley, Fergus Craik, Eric Eich, Robyn Fivush, Marcia Johnson, Jay McClelland, Morris Moscovitch, Henry Roediger, Daniel Schacter, Endel Tulving. In addition to keynote addresses, the academic program will include themed symposia, and paper and poster presentations. For more info, please visit the website or contact [email protected].

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 19 July -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 19 July -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Symposum on Hannah Arendt -- Date of event: Thursday 20 to Friday 21 July -- Last date for abstracts: Thursday 1 June -- University of Sydney. When Hannah Arendt stated that �forgiveness is the key to action and freedom� and that �Love, by its very nature, is unwordly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces�, she stressed the moral choices presupposed by all human emotions. And yet she herself also said that her philosophy is concerned with �man in the singular� and with �the real humans that inhabit the world�. Her complex and to some degree contradictory political and moral philosophy inspired heated debates about the subject, identity and ethics. What is her legacy today? How do we see her political critique of modern totalitarianism and the human condition? Was she only a controversial thinker of her times or rather a conceptual pioneer of the future global subject? Enquiries: Vrasidas Karalis, 9351-7252, [email protected].

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 20 July -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 20 July -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 21 July -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 22 July -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 26 July -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 27 July -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 28 July -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 29 July -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 2 August -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 2 August -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 3 August -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 3 August -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 4 August -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 5 August -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 9 August -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 10 August -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 11 August -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 12 August -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 13 August 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Topic to be announced. Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 16 August -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

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

Walter Benjamin and the architecture of modernity -- date of event: Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 August 2006 -- deadline for submission of abstracts: Sunday 30 April -- Centre for Social Theory and Design, University of Technology, Sydney. Walter Benjamin's work remains central to discussions of modernity. This conference will bring together scholars working on all aspects of Benjamin's work as well as those who deploy the insights of that work in developing projects of their own. Keynote speakers include: Carol Jacobs (Yale); Gyorgy Markus (Sydney); Winfried Menninghaus (Freie); Henry Sussman (Yale). For further information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 17 August -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 17 August -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 18 August -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 19 August -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 23 August -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 24 August -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 25 August -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 26 August -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 30 August -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 31 August -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 31 August -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 1 September -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 2 September -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 6 September -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 6 September -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 7 September -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 8 September -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 9 September -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 10 September 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Topic to be announced. Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 12 September 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr Caroline West will talk on either personal identity or the philosophy of well-being. Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 13 September -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 14 September -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 14 September -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 15 September -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 16 September -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 20 September -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 20 September -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 21 September -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 22 September -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 23 September -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 27 September -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 28 September -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 28 September -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 29 September -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

Biennial conference in philosophy, religion and culture -- date of event: 9am-6pm, Saturday 30 September 2006 and Sunday 1 October 2006 -- deadline for proposals: 23 June 2006 -- Catholic Institute of Sydney, 99 Albert Road, Strathfield. "Truth and truthfulness in uncertain times". Contributions may examine specific claims of truth seeking and truth telling or may engage issues such as fundamentalism, relativism and nihilism. Reflection on contemporary issues such as terror and the political uses of fear will be welcomed. The conference specifically aims to foster interaction between scholars in the universities and scholars in theological colleges. Registration fee: $88 ($55 students). An informal reception will be held on the Friday night. A conference dinner will be held on the Saturday night. Booking and payment of $44 required by September 22. Please visit the website for further information or contact Andrew Murray at 9752-9500 or [email protected].

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 30 September -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 4 October -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 4 October -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 5 October -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 6 October -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 7 October -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 8 October 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Francesco Amati will speak on "The stoics -- part II". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

2nd Tuesday Philosophy Forum -- 7pm, Tuesday 10 October 2006 -- Crows Nest Centre, corner of Ernest Street and Willoughby Road, Crows Nest. Dr John Bacon will talk on the question of "What are values?". Cost: $15 adult; $10 concession. Please book with Gerry Nolan by e-mail at [email protected], or phone Gerry at 9929-2589 or 0409-999-991. For further details, please visit the website.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 11 October -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 12 October -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 12 October -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 13 October -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 14 October -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 18 October -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 18 October -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 19 October -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 20 October -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 21 October -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 25 October -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 26 October -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 26 October -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 27 October -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 28 October -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 1 November -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 1 November -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 2 November -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 3 November -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 4 November -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 8 November -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 9 November -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 9 November -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 10 November -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 11 November -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 1.30pm, Sunday 12 November 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Mini-conference. Bring a plate. People wishing to read a paper need to register title one month before. Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 15 November -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 15 November -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 16 November -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 17 November -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 18 November -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 22 November -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 23 November -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 23 November -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 24 November -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 25 November -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 29 November -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 30 November -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 1 December -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 2 December -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 6 December -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 6 December -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 7 December -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 7 December -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 8 December -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 9 December -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Continental Philosophy Group -- 3pm-6pm, Sunday 10 December 2006 -- Surry Hills Neighbourhood Centre, corner of Collins and Norton Streets. Open forum on "Should university be free?". Cost: $5. All welcome! Please visit the website for further information or contact: No�l (9332-2886; [email protected]), Marc (9517-1206), or Lindsay (9523-3749).

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 13 December -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 14 December -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

Platonic society -- 1pm-2pm, Friday 15 December -- SAM bar, Macquarie University. Philosophy conversations every Friday during semester. This week's conversation starter: to be announced.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 16 December -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 20 December -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Philorum -- 6.15pm for 6.30pm start, Wednesday 20 December -- The Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills. All welcome! Cost: buy yourself something from the bar. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Russoc discussion group -- 5pm-7pm, Thursday 21 December -- upstairs bistro section at the back of The Royal pub, corner of Abercrombie Street and Codrington Street, Chippendale (close to Sydney University). Topic this week: to be announced. All welcome! For more info, including info as to how to get there, visit the discussion section of this website.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 21 December -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 23 December -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

Guerrilla Radio Show -- 1am GMT, Wednesday 27 December -- online. Webcasts every Wednesday at http://www.kcsb.org. Topic this week: to be announced. Please visit the website for more information.

Ghost in the machine -- 5.30pm-6pm, Thursday 28 December -- 89.7FM in Sydney. Weekly radio show -- everything to do with mind, machines and memory. Witchcraft to robotics, smells to delusions, music perception to near-death experience.

The Philosopher's Zone -- 1.30pm, Saturday 30 December -- 576AM in Sydney. Weekly philosophy show with Alan Saunders on ABC Radio National, Saturdays at 1.30pm, repeated on Wednesdays at 9.35pm.

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