Semester 1, 2008

• Tue. 1st April: Peter Quigley speaking on psychological manipulation and free will.
  
  
• Tue. 8th April: Demetrios Bastiras speaking on love.
  
  
• Tue. 15th April: Kieren Nanasi - 'Much Ado About Nothingness'
  
  
• Tue. 22nd April: No meeting, due to mid-semester break.
  
  
• Tue. 29th April: John Mercier speaking on multi-valued logic
  
  
• Tue. 6th May: Pizza night and discussion on philosophy of eating
  
  
• Tue. 13th May: Beneficence, part 1: Al Couch speaking on Peter Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
  
  
• Tue. 20th May: Beneficence, part 2: Prof. Garrett Cullity presenting his alternative to Singer's views, followed by critical discussion between Garrett and Al
  
  
• Tue. 27th May: Dr. Jordi Fernandez: 'Love and Object'.
  
  
• Tue. 3rd June: Chris Walsh speaking on religious experience
   

• Wed. 30th July: Kieren Nanasi speaking on the difference between logics and theories 

• Wed. 6th August: Peter Quigley - 'Creativity and a criticism of Kuhn's theory of revolutions' 

• Wed. 13th August: Chris Letheby - 'Interests and concepts in moral thought - a critical response to Cora Diamond' 

• Wed. 20th August: Dr. Philip Gerrans - 'Perceiving Personal Identity' 

• Wed. 27th August: Esther Speight - 'Can you accidentally coerce someone?'

• Wed. 3rd September: Tim Nailer - 'Zombies and Ethics'  

• Wed. 10th September: Screening of Red Dwarf episode 'Marooned', followed by discussion on the value of people vs. the value of things. 

• Wed. 17th September: Discussion of Philosophy in the Pub papers (from Sun. 14th September) 

• Wed. 24th September & Wed. 1st October: No meeting due to mid-semester break. 

• Wed. 8th October: Matt Nestor - 'Lakatos and a Conventionalist Methodology of Scientific Progress'
  
• Wed. 15th October: Aaron Guthrie - 'Why Do Philosophy?' 

• Wed. 22nd October: Dr. Jon Opie - 'What the Fly's Eye Tells the Philosopher's Brain'
  
• Wed. 29th October: Dr. Jenny McMahon speaking on Philosophy of Art.  

• November 26th: end-of-year break-up event, pizza night and drinks, with discussion of Alice through the Looking Glass. $10 cost for food.