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Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
SCMP News: May 2007
- Launch of Interrogating the War on Terror: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007), editor Deborah Staines - Philosophy seminar - Tuesday May 8
- Media Department Lunchtime Seminar Tuesday 8th 1pm
Philosophy seminar - Tuesday May 8
The next Macquarie University Philosophy seminar will be held on Tuesday May 8, 11am-1pm, in Room 107, W6A.
DR OFER GAL (History and Philosophy of Science Unit, University of Sydney) will present a paper entitled "The Real Issue".
Abstract:
The realism debate seems to have resurfaced, and with it the confusion about
what is exactly at stake. I will demonstrate that the two main arguments in
the service of the debates traditional protagonistsInference to the Best
Explanation for realism and Pessimistic Meta-Induction for anti realismdo
not represent competing epistemological stands but metaphysical mirror
images. In contrast, I will point at moments in the history of science
where the distinction between realist and anti-realist approaches was clear,
and the choice between them crucial. I will then present the one coherent
realist position currently availableconstructivismand demonstrate that it
leads to a most intriguing aporia.
Media Department Lunchtime Seminar Tuesday 8th 1pm
Tuesday 8 May 1 pm W6A 808
The Strange History of Charisma
Presented by Associate Professor John Potts, Media Department
The term Charisma first found expression in the early Christian context of the first century; it was suppressed as a religious concept by the Church by the third century; it lay dormant for many centuries; it was re-invented in Weber's sociology in the twentieth century; it is widely used in contemporary western culture, in media, academic scholarship, and popular discourse. This seminar explores the shifting cultural role of charisma over two millennia.
Light lunch will be provided.
Launch of Interrogating the War on Terror: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007), editor Deborah Staines
You are invited to the launch of Interrogating the War on Terror: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007), editor Deborah Staines.
Co-Op Bookshop, Macquarie University
28 May
5.30pm for 6.00pm
Contributors include:
Peter Caws, George Washington University
Ben Saul, University of Sydney
Joan Kirkby, Macquarie University
George Gittoes, Sydney/Baghdad
Nina Philadelphoff-Puren, Monash University
Saul Newman, Goldsmiths College
Kimberley Brownleee, Manchester University
Deborah Staines, Macquarie University
Interrogating the War on Terror: Interdisciplinary Perspectives will be launched by Prof. Mitchell Dean, the Dean of SCMP