2016
Topic | Month |
2017
Topic | Month |
The ethics of big data eg privacy, profiling, surveillance. | Jan |
The Philosophy of Humour | Feb |
The identity and impact of God | Feb |
Aristotle’s Poetics: The Nature of Tragedy | Mar |
The Philosophy of Organised Crime | Mar |
Alan’s mystery speaker | Apr |
ANZAC Day. No meeting | Apr |
Euthanasia.: moral imperative or slippery slope? | May |
The effect of cliché and hyperbole in society | May |
New economic thinking with Thomas Piketty / Hyeck | Jun |
Vasiliev: study of the paranormal | Jun |
Lucietius De Rerum Natura | Jul |
The philosophy of Martha Nussbaum | Jul |
Greg's guest, Prof Douglas Adeney: 'What makes the study of philosophy important' | Aug |
What is the best illusion under which to live? | Aug |
The Philosophy of Chaos | Sep |
Thomas Jefferson: A little rebellion now and then is a good thing | Sep |
If the first duty of love is to listen, what would be the second? (Paul Tillich) | Oct |
Seeing Reason | Oct |
Jainism | Nov |
Is there an objective reality? | Nov |
A 5-minute review of our philosophical journeys. Lunch | Dec |
2018
Topic | Month |
Thomas Paine | Feb |
Hannah Arendt | Feb |
Edward Bernays; The birth of public relations and its consequences | Mar |
Group discussion What really matters? | Mar |
Group discussion Michel Foucault | Apr |
Marsilio Ficino The Birth of Renaissance philosophy | Apr |
The Meaning of Life: Sisyphus to Monty Python | May |
Bullying | May |
TBA | Jun |
TBA | Jun |
Group discussion Metaphilosophy | Jul |
Philippa Foot | Jul |
Peter Higgs and the God Particle | Aug |
Aristotle | Aug |
Nietzsche saw suffering as the greatest transformer of character. Was he right? | Sep |
TBA | Sep |
Why Sisyphus? | Oct |
Karl Marx | Oct |
Woody Allen | Nov |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin or Herbert Marcuse | Nov |
Christmas lunch | Dec |