June Philosophy Café
David Turnbull presents ‘Performing Rapa Nui the Island at the End of the World: Contested Collapses, Cartographies, and Chronotopes’
Wednesday 30 November from 7-9pm at The Barking Dog hotel
At the Wednesday 30 November Philosophy Café, David Turnbull from the Victoria Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) at Melbourne University will discuss ‘Performing Rapa Nui the Island at the End of the World: Contested Collapses, Cartographies, and Chronotopes’.
DPS Meeting
Are boys’ brains different from girls’ brains?
Wednesday 30 November from 5-6pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus
This week the DPS will discuss William Saletan’s brief and deliberately inconclusive Slate article, ‘Sex on the Brain: Are boys’ brains different from girls’ brains? Scientists debate the question’.
The article flags 10 common problems facing scientific research into sex and how that research is used. Read it if you want to know what they are.
We don’t have to discuss the content of the article. We can go ‘meta’ on this one, if you want, and discuss the false framing of the question or its inherent idiocy.
Just a reminder, also, for anybody who wishes to suggest a topic for DPS discussion. Feel free to suggest anything you like, but be prepared to come up with some way to frame the debate and be prepared to give a five minute introduction on the topic (I’ve got better things to do than come up with intros to topics that other people want to discuss). Finding a short reading, audio recording or video is a nice and easy way to frame/introduce the topic. The content of the reading, audio or video doesn’t matter, so long as it provides a basis for discussion. Hell, you could submit two question marks on a piece of paper and we’d find something about it worth discussing.
The meeting will finish at 6pm this week to give people time to get to Philosophy Café.
Kind regards,
Dylan Nickelson,
Treasurer, Deakin Philosophical Society.
DPS Meeting
Following on from Michael Moore’s Capitalism: What is to be done? What can be done?
Wednesday 23 November from 5-6.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn ponds campus
Following the Chomsky presentation and our look at Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story last week, this week we’ll debate a short discussion piece by DPS member Linda Daley on the questions What is to be done? and What can be done?
You can find Linda’s piece here. Debate has already kicked off on the Deakin Philosophical Society’s Facebook page. Set your disdain for social media aside and come over and contribute. Think of it as a Socratic dialogue in hypertext. I play Alcibiades.
Kind regards,
Dylan Nickelson,
Treasurer, Deakin Philosophical Society.
DPS Meeting
Screening and discussion of Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story
Wednesday 16 November from 5-8pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn ponds campus
Following on from the Noam Chomsky presentation and some robust discussion on the Deakin Philosophical Society’s Facebook page, this Wednesday 16 November the DPS will screen and then discuss Michael Moore’s documentary Capitalism: a love story. The screening will begin at 5pm in ib3.307. The documentary runs for 127 minutes, so discussion will begin at about 7.10pm, finishing at 8pm.
Find a synopsis of the documentary at the Internet Movie Database.
Kind regards,
Dylan Nickelson,
Treasurer, Deakin Philosophical Society.
On Civilisation and its Discontents: A Half-Day Seminar
Thursday 24 November, 2-4.30pm
Department of Philosophy, LaTrobe University, Humanities Building 2, Room 228
Speakers:
- Associate Professor Russell Grigg (Deakin)
- Dr Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne)
- Dr Jon Roffe (MSCP, LaTrobe)
All are welcome. The event is free; no RSVP required.
Friends,
DPS meeting
Ethics after Darwin
Wednesday 9 November from 5-6.30pm in ib3.307 on Deakin’s Waurn Ponds campus
This Wednesday the Deakin Philosophical Society will meet to discuss ethics after Darwin. The discussion will focus on an excellent introduction to the topic by Tim Lewens: Lewens 2007, ‘Ethics’, in Darwin, Routledge, New York.
For those of you who won’t have time to read the chapter, I recommend sections 3, 4 & 5.
Kind regards,
Dylan Nickelson,
Treasurer, Deakin Philosophical Society.
DPS Meeting
Discussion of Noam Chomsky’s article ‘American decline: causes and consequences’
Wednesday 2 November from 5-6.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn ponds campus
As most of you will know, this Friday 4 November Deakin university is hosting a free public lecture, ‘Changing contours of global order’, by Noam Chomsky. That is why tonight, 2 November from 5-6.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus, the Deakin Philosophical Society will discuss a recent article by Professor Chomsky on the topic of American decline. The article is available at http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/american-decline-causes-and-consequences.
Links to more of Professor Chomsky’s work relevant to his presentation can be found on the event’s Facebook page.
We’ll also discuss transport arrangements to Friday’s presentation, for those people who are attending. A few of us catching the train up together.
In other news…
Last week the DPS hosted its AGM. Jason Bishop waged a successful coup, backed by Erin Kennis. Here’s the fallout:
- 2012 President: Jason Bishop
- 2012 Secretary: Erin Kennis
- 2102 Treasurer: Dylan Nickelson
I’d like to thank the outgoing, 2011 committee for their service and to congratulate the incoming, 2012 committee.
Kind regards,
and sorry for the late notice,
Dylan Nickelson,
Treasurer, Deakin Philosophical Society.
