News and Events

The Department hosts a weekly research seminar series. Seminars are advertised regularly by email on the SydPhil mailing list, which also provides details of many other philosophy-related events in the Sydney region. To sign up to the SydPhil list, visit the Sydphil webpage. (All SydPhil announcements are archived here.)

2008 Series – Which Philosophy of Religion?

The Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar is a series of monthly presentation of research papers by outstanding scholars. As part of the theme 'The Relation of Philosophy to Religion Today' the seminar explores religion in its relation to society, ethics, culture and politics in the contemporary world. The format is a forty-five minutes talk followed by a short response and discussion.

The seminar is held 4:30 – 6:00 on the last Friday of each month (except where noted). The series is open to all: Honours and Postgraduate students in philosophy and outside of philosophy as well as interested postgraduates from the other universities in the Sydney region are welcome to attend. Postgraduate students are encouraged to contribute a response.

Seminars are advertised regularly by email on the SydPhil mailing list. Inquiries should be addressed to Paolo Diego Bubbio in the Department of Philosophy:
, or to Philip Quadrio: .

For information on locations of venues, please see the University's building and campus directory

• Monday 21 April
  A14 Refectory, Main Quadrangle
  Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University)
  Psychoanalysis, Judaic or Christian - which Philosophy of Religion?
• Friday 30 May
  F07 Careslaw Lecture Room 250,
  Paul Redding (University of Sydney)
  What Might We Expect from an Idealist Philosophy of Religion? The Case of Kant and Hegel
• Monday 23 June
  F07 Carslaw Lecture Room 351
  Peter Jonkers (Utrecht University)
  Justifying Sacrifice
• Friday 25 July
  A14 Quadrangle room S421
  Bruce Langtry (University of Melbourne)
  Molinism and the Free Will Defence
• Friday 29 August
  A27 Marjorie Oldfield Lecture Theatre, Edward Ford Building
  Matheson Russell (University of Auckland)
  TBA
• Friday 26 September
  A27 Marjorie Oldfield Lecture Theatre, Edward Ford Building
  TBA
• Friday 31 October
  A14 Refectory, Main Quadrangle
  TBA
• Friday 7 November
  Refectory
  Eric Gans (UCLA)
  TBA
• 28 November
  A14 Refectory, Main Quadrangle
  TBA

The Russellian Society is the student philosophy society of the University of Sydney, and hosts regular philosophy talks and events. For details, see the Russoc home page at http://www.geocities.com/russellian_society.