
PORT MACQUARIE PHILOSOPHY FORUM
PAST EVENTS

Thank you! to all the speakers who have supported the Forum
2022 talks
May 2022 Kyle Redman, Research and Design Project Manager at the newDemocracy Foundation spoke on "Are Elections bad for Democracy?"
April 2022 Mark Alfano, Associate Professor at Macquarie University's Department of Philosophy spoke on "Dark Humour in Dark times: The Sustaining Virtue of laughter"
March 2022 Teresa Bell, an independent scholar, spoke on "Drinking from the Stagnant Cup of Dionysus"
2021 talks
November 2021 Glenn A Albrecht, Honorary Associate in the School of Geo-sciences, University of Sydney, spoke on "From the Age of Solastalgia to the Symbiocene"
October 2021 David Smith, one of the Forum organisers spoke on "Philosophy of Science according to Sir Karl Popper"
October 2021 Kerry Hinton, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, spoke on "Concepts of Time through the Ages"
September 2021 Carol Baker, one of the Forum organisers, spoke on "Knowledge, Truth and Belief"
June 2021 Christopher Falzon, Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales spoke on "Film, Thought Experiments and Philosophical Experiences"
May 2021 Jeremy Moss, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Practical Justice Initiative at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Carbon Majors and Corporate Responsibility for Climate Change"
April 2021 Danielle Celermajer, writer and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, was in conversation with Carol Baker, one of the forum organisers, discussing "Living Climate Catastrophe in a Multispecies World"
February 2021 Gary Dowling, one of the Forum organisers, spoke on "The Philosophy of Religion"
2020 talks
November 2020 Tony Swain, an independent scholar, spoke on "The Diverse World of Daoism"
October 2020 Kerry Hinton, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, spoke on "Mathematics and Our World"
March - Sept Talks cancelled due to COVID-19.
February 2020 Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, spoke on "Crime, Punishment and Statistical Evidence"
January 2020 Kerry Sanders, Associate Professor to the Department of Philosophy, in the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney, spoke on "The Philosophy of Time"
2019 talks
November 2019 Professor Bill Boyd at Southern Cross University spoke on "The Future of Education"
October 2019 Stephanie Collins, Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University, spoke on "Citizens' Responsibility for their States' Actions"
September 2019 Simon Lumsden, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Habit, Ecological Crisis and Social Change"
August 2019 Tony Swain, an independent scholar, spoke on "The Revival of Confucianism in Contemporary China"
July 2019 Kerry Hinton, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne, spoke on "Problems with Particles"
June 2019 Jessica Whyte, Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Killer robots, collateral damage and the philosophy of war"
May 2019 Hannah Tierney, Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, spoke on "Free Will, Moral Responsibility and Guilt"
April 2019 John Jorgensen, an independent scholar, spoke on "Fundamental Philosophical Aspects of Basic Buddhism"
March 2019 Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Truth, Post-Truth and Politics"
February 2019 Gary Dowling, one of the Forum organisers, spoke on "Tolerance and its Relationship to Social Development"
2018 talks
November 2018 Jeremy Moss, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Practical Justice Initiative at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Ethics, Exports and Climate Change"
October 2018 Graham Oppy, Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, spoke on "The Historical Rise of Atheism"
September 2018 Teresa Bell, an independent scholar, spoke on "The Ambiguity of Freedom: the Philosophical Choices of Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir"
August 2018 Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, spoke on "Rights,Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples"
July 2018 Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, spoke on "A Parade of Philosophical Paradoxes"
June 2018 Carol Baker and Dave Smith, two of the Forum organisers, spoke on "Values and Ethics: Thinking About What Constitutes a Well-lived Life"
May 2018 Lyn Carson from the newDemocracy Foundation, and former Professor in Applied Politics at the University of Sydney Business School, spoke on "How to Strengthen our Weakened Democracies"
April 2018 Brian Hedden, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney, spoke on "Personal Identity and Rationality"
March 2018 Terry Lovat, Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle, spoke on "Distinguishing Islam from Jihadism: an Imperative for Harmonious Understanding"
February 2108 Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, gave the inaugural talk on "The Wisdom of Crowds and Mindlessness of Mobs"