Skip to the content | Change text size

Center for Public Philosophy Events

2006 (to date)

1st May, 2006 Workshop on perception, thinking and arguments with year 10 students.
Carey Baptist Grammar School.
7th June, 2006 Workshop with health professionals on ethical issues in enteral therapy.
Mayfield Education.
The specific bioethical topics include beneficence, justice, autonomy and privacy in the context of intensive care or palliative care.
18th July, 2006 Seminar and workshop with teachers (secondary level) on reasoning styles and pedagogy, and implementing critical thinking in the classroom.
Northcote Schools Network B.
Workshop is consistent with the recent introduction of VELS, the Victorian Essential Learning Standard .
25th August, 2006 Workshop on perception, thinking and arguments with year 10 students.
Carey Baptist Grammar School.
Seminar and workshop with teachers (secondary level) on reasoning styles and pedagogy, and implementing critical thinking in the classroom.
Carey Baptist Grammar School.
Workshop is consistent with the recent introduction of VELS, the Victorian Essential Learning Standard .
Melbourne Writers' Festival: Two presentations for schools on "Philosophy in the Public Sphere'.
One is concerned with critical writing, argument mapping, and elite reasoning; the other with ethical or bioethical issues as they arise in the secondary school cirriculum.
26th August, 2006

Melbourne Writers' Festival, CUB Malthouse Theatre.

  • Barry Taylor (University of Melbourne), "David Lewis in Australia and New Zealand".
    The late David Lewis was one of the world's leading philosophers. Barry Taylor discusses his work and its importance, as well as Lewis' longstanding and enduring relationship with Australian philosophy and culture.
  • Val Plumwood (ANU), "Nature in the Active Voice".
    Val Plumwood speaks on environmental philosophy in Australia.
2nd September, 2006

Melbourne Writers' Festival, CUB Malthouse Theatre.

  • John Bigelow (Monash University),"Metaphysics in Australiana".
  • Tony Coady (University of Melbourne), "Philosophy in Melbourne".

See also A History of Australasian Philosophy, an ARC Research Project.
10th September, 2006

Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools (VAPS).
Fiona Leigh gave a presentation to VCE philosophy students on a core VCE text, Plato's Republic, focussing on the famous passages that deal with the allegories of the sun, line and cave.
24th October, 2006 Seminar and workshop with teachers (secondary level) on reasoning styles and pedagogy, and implementing critical thinking in the classroom.
Northcote Schools Network B.
Workshop is consistent with the recent introduction of VELS, the Victorian Essential Learning Standard .
14th November, 2006 Seminar and workshop with teachers (secondary level) on reasoning styles and pedagogy, and implementing critical thinking in the classroom.
Northcote Schools Network B.
Workshop is consistent with the recent introduction of VELS, the Victorian Essential Learning Standard .

2007

20th January, 2007

3rd February, 2007

17th February, 2007

 Multiculturalism Forum, 'Multiculturalism in Perspective: The Community and the Academy', Melbourne Town Hall.
CPP is hosting a series of free forums, to be attended by multicultural community leaders and academics alike, which directly address the fundamental issues facing Australian society and the framing of public-policy today. We also expect to publish the forums' papers, together with the discussions they initiate, in a non-technical format, readily accessible to a wide sector of the community. Speakers include Tim Costello, George Lekakis, Waleed Aly, Melba Marginson, Geoffrey Braham Levy, Helen Killmier, David Burchell, Michael McGann and Fiona Leigh. For further information, download a poster or brochure on the forums.
   

Centre for Public Philosophy