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Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

Sentiments and Spectators: Adam Smith’s Moral Psychology (August 11 2009)

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

Iran: An Islamic Government in Crisis (July 22 2009)

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…

Woman Wearing Burka

Should We Ban the Burka? (July 15 2009)

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

Why Consciousness does not Extend Outside the Brain (June 30 2009)

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

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Today (June 04 2009)

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

Antisemitism: medieval and modern (March 12 2009)

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…

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Interfaith Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Welcome (June 12 2007)

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…

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Interfaith Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Guest Speakers (June 12 2007)

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

Interfaith Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: His Holiness, Moderated Dialogue & Concluding Remarks (June 12 2007)

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

The Atheology (May 30 2007)

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

Cowboy Cloners: The Ethics & Morality of Scientific Communities (September 20 2006)

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

Hobbes’s Leviathan as a Critique of Republican Theories of Liberty (July 11 2006)

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…