9 events Coming up
03 Apr 2012
10:30AM–5:00PM
Centre for Ideas present 'In Flesh and Blood: The Animal in Art and Philosophy'
A symposium series in 3 parts with leading artists, writers and philosophers, focusing on animals. Part 1: Translating The Animal: philosophy, schema, chimera. Key note speaker: Peter Singer Morning: 10.30am – 11.40am: Panel around the work ...
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Conference
Peter Singer on Global Poverty
Our responsibility and opportunity to respond to global poverty Professor Peter Singer in conversation with Daniel LewisToakley from Live Below the Line, Australia's fastestgrowing antipoverty campaign. Recent events such as the KONY2012 film ha...
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Professor Peter Singer & Daniel Lewis-Toakley of the new anti-poverty campaign, Live Below the Line
Free Public Lecture12 Apr 2012
Free Will as Moral Competence
2012 Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture: Free Will as Moral Competence Do recent discoveries of neuroscience prove that we have no free will? Some neuroscientists claim that free will is an illusion. But according to Dennett, this cl...
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Free Public Lecture24 Apr 2012
10:30AM–5:00PM
Centre for Ideas present In Flesh and Blood: The Animal in Art and Philosophy
A symposium series in 3 parts with leading artists, writers and philosophers, focusing on animals. Part 2. “The Philosopher’s Dog” Key note speaker: Raimond Gaita Raimond Gaita (Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melb...
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Seminar/Forum6:00–7:30PM
Centre for Ideas present From Fear to Instability: On the Philosophy of Photography, presented by Andrew Benjamin
Part 1: Baudelaire's argument that photography could not be the work of the imagination. Presented by the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy project funded by the Sidney Myer Foundation
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Free Public Lecture01 May 2012
6:00–7:30PM
Centre for Ideas present From Fear to Instability: On the Philosophy of Photography - Part 1
Part 2: How the instability of photography both as document and art revels the truth of the photographic image. Presented by the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy project funded by the Sidney Myer Foundation
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Free Public Lecture02 May 2012
Why the Stoics Think There is No Right Way to Grieve
Grief is an emotional response to loss that we think can be healthy and even appropriate. Epictetus and other Stoic philosophers disagree: they hold the radical view that there is no healthy way to grieve, and that true happiness depends entirely ...
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Free Public Lecture11 May 2012
11:00AM–5:00PM
Centre for Ideas present "In Flesh and Blood: The Animal in Art and Philosophy - Part 3"
A symposium series in 3 parts with leading artists, writers and philosophers, focusing on animals. Part 3: Of Jews and Animals Key note speaker: Andrew Benjamin, Monash University Presented by the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy project funde...
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Seminar/Forum27 Nov 2012
Can Neuroscience Explain Consciousness? - SOLD OUT
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Specialising in the physiology of the brain, Susan researches the impact of 21st century technologies on the mind, how the brain generates...