Terry Eagleton: Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Wednesday, April 21
4-5.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus
To wrap up the theism versus atheism discussion (for now), this Wednesday April 21 we’ll discuss Terry Eagleton’s scathing review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. Eagleton’s review was published in the London Review of Books in 2006. You can access the review online at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/terry-eagleton/lunging-flailing-mispunching.
DPS Lectures online
Also, both AC Grayling’s and Tamas Pataki’s lectures are now available on the Deakin Philosophical Society website: http://deakinphilosophicalsociety.com/lectures
Regards,
Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.
Dr Tamas Pataki, Religion & Violence
Thursday, April 15
3-4.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds Campus
The next instalment in the Deakin Philosophical Society’s 2010 presentation series is on this Thursday. Dr Tamas Pataki will explore the link between religion and violence.
Dr Pataki is honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and honorary fellow of Deakin University. He studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne and psychoanalysis at University College, London University. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at RMIT, University of Tasmania and University of Melbourne. He co-edited, with Michael Levine, Racism in Mind (Cornell 2004) and is the author of Against Religion (Scribe, 2007) as well as of several articles and book chapters on the philosophy of mind, and numerous popular pieces and reviews.
The presentation is in room ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus (the same room we used for AC Grayling’s presentation) from 3-4.30pm.
This is a public presentation and anybody is welcome to attend. If you have any questions you can email Dylan Nickelson: mail@deakinphilosophicalsociety.com or dnic@deakin.edu.au.
Against Religion
Wednesday, April 14
4-5.30pm in ib3.307 on the Waurn Ponds campus
In preparation for Dr Pataki’s presentation, this Wednesday the DPS will discuss his Australian Book Review essay ‘Against Religion‘. The essay is online at: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Feb06/Pataki%20essay.htm .
So feel free to join us for the discussion this Wednesday from 4-5.30pm in ib3.307.
Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.
