Radical Philosophy

Prof Nancy Segal discusses the power of nature and nurture, ethical issues behind the separation of twins and what twins tell us about human behaviour.

Dr Wendy Suiter describes her music and discusses how Fuzzy Logic is based on the principle of subjectivity.

Fuzzy Logic - Dr Wendy Suiter discusses fuzzy logic principals in relation to music composition, music analysis and music scores.

Woretemoeteryenner and Dolly Dalrymple - Professor Maggie Walter discusses the extraordinary lives of Woretemoeteryenner and Dolly Dalrymple who were Aboriginal warriors in the history wars of Tasmania.

Women of Eureka - Dr Dorothy Wickham discusses how these women are important because there is the emergence of a strand of feminist conciousness at this point in Australia long before elsewhere.

Iris Marion Young - Prof Désirée Lim discusses Young 's essay house and home ; feminist variations on a theme and describes Young's five faces of oppression.

Diotima - Dr. Zoi Aliozi discusses Diotima’s connection to Plato, the ladder of love and what Diotima said about beauty.

Mary Midgley - Dr Ellie Robson discusses Midgley's thoughts on moral isolationism and Midgley's last book 'What is Philosophy for?'

Mary Midgley - Dr Ellie Robson discusses why Mary Midgley said philosophy is like plumbing and Midgley's views on evil.

 Philosophy of Horror - Dr Catherine Lester discusses the intersections between children’s culture and the horror genre, if there are benefits to children watching horror films and how horror films evolved to cater for children.

Part 2 A Feminist Utopia - Chris Sitka discusses the second wave of feminism and the core values of a feminist utopia such as the absence of violence.

A Feminist Utopia - Chris Sitka discusses the publications, Single-Sex, Secular Intentional Communities and  Partial Visions: Feminism, Utopianism in the 1970s and The Book of the City of Ladies.

 Part 3 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca explain about their work on risk, and specifically on cumulative risk assessment.

Part 2 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca discuss a dispositional account of causation and  the implications for the sciences which concept of causation one accepts.

 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca discuss philosophical bias in science and the new Philosophy of Science book.

Part 2 Lesbian Archives - Jean Taylor discusses the problems and ethics with archiving also the risk of not archiving.

Lesbian Archives - Jean Taylor discusses the importance of lesbian archives, lesbian culture and herstory.

Part 2 Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka discusses the controversy about domestic animals and also interactions with the local community.

Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka describes the political conception, daily life and historical legacy of  a women only communal land established 50 years ago during the heydays of the Women's Liberation Movement. 

Wonderfeel - Kathryn Williams discusses Wonderfeel, founded by Peter Siahna Wadham, including the differences in welcoming our full range of feeling and the deep richness this choice generally brings to our lives.