Dr Tyrell Haberkorn, Dr Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Dr Patrick Jory and Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri
Three of the pillars of Thai society are in the spotlight in this new vodcast series titled ชาติ ศาสนา พระมหากษัตริย์: Nation, Religion, King. This is episode…
Dr Anders Engvall, Daungyewa Utarasint, Saran Santisart & Professor Des Ball
Three of the pillars of Thai…
Dr David W Runciman
, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
The historical record of democracies in dealing with crises and other threats is good: democracies win wars, avoid famines, recover from economic disasters and adapt to meet new challenges. This should…
Professor Kit Fine
, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
In this lecture, Professor Kit Fine will explore the notion of truth-makers. What are truth-makers? He will argue that truth-makers are helpful for understanding how things are true but not for understanding…
Professor Penelope Mathew
, Freilich Foundation Professor
Australia's handling of the asylum-seekers on board the Oceanic Viking and recent 'freeze' on Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications has sparked vigorous and ongoing debate. In her inaugural lecture…
Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
Adam Smith offers a wonderfully lucid argument for thinking that people can legitimately be praised or blamed only on the basis of the agent's "intention or affection of the heart" and not on the actual…
Professor Amin Saikal, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
The Islamic government of oil-rich Iran is faced with its worst legitimacy crisis since the Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah's pro-Western monarchy and replaced it with an Islamic regime thirty…
Virginia Haussegger, Julie Posetti and Dr Shakira Hussein
A public debate hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times.
Muslim women's dress codes have come into the political spotlight in both Muslim-majority…
Professor Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, Department of Philosophy, New York University
There are good reasons for thinking that the physical basis of cognition can be reasonably taken to extend outside the brain to the body and the world. But not so for consciousness. This…
His Royal Highness Prince Turki AlFaisal, Chairman of the Board, The King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies Riyadh
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal is Chairman of the Board of the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is one of Saudi Arabia's leading intellectuals, with a very rich record…
Professor Steven T. Katz, Director Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University and Alvin & Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish & Holocaust Studies
This lecture covered the essential features of medieval Christian antisemitism and the very different features of modern racial antisemitism, culminating in Nazi antisemitism. It concluded with…
Professor Michael Coper
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan…
Venerable Alex Bruce, Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black, Most Reverend Bishop Christopher Prowse, Professor Abdullah Saeed
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan…
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Guest Speakers
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and representatives of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths met in a symposium exploring the role of religion in war and conflict. Rabbi Jonathan…
Michel Onfray
If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, French philosopher Michel Onfray starts from the premise that not only is God still very much alive but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose…
Professor Peter Glasner
Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned, there has been much debate in the media and public spheres about the ethics and morality of genetic…
Professor Quentin Skinner, University of Cambridge
What is freedom? The philosopher Thomas Hobbes attempted to pin the concept down in his seminal work Leviathan, defining freedom as the absence of opposition, particularly…
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