Eurekamp Oz! offers a series of day camps held during school holidays. Eurekamp Oz! is a collaboration of the University of Western Australia and PEiPL Ltd., is proudly supported by the City of Subiaco, and is a Children’s University Learning Destination.The activities are adapted from the original Canadian Eurekamp program co-founded in 2009 by our director, Professor …
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Rob Wilson will be giving one final talk in Melbourne before he departs for Perth, this one at Melbourne Free University at 6.30pm on Thursday, 24th October, 2019, at The Alderman (upstairs), 134 Lygon St. East Brunswick. Open and free to the public, with 40 minutes presentation and 40 minutes discussion (though it will actually …
This Saturday the foundation professor for Philosophy at La Trobe, Brian Ellis, is holding a launch for his latest book titled The New Enlightenment; Steven Pinker and Beyond. PEiPL and the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe are offering sponsorship for the launch, which will be from 4-6pm, Saturday 5th October, Mud-Brick Hall …
Life on Earth is in crisis: we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making. In Australia, we’re experiencing the worst drought in living memory; ecosystems untouched by fire for centuries have been devastated by blazes; our coral reef is dying; …
The Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA) received funding from Templeton Religion Trust to grow Philosothons across Australasia; check out this short explanatory video on what a philosothon is: (4.5 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm0kwNVPxWs. And the Philosothon Project has been so successful, it has now expanded into the UK (https://www.ianramseycentre.info/philosothon-expansion-in-the-uk) FAPSA and the Philosothon Project …
Just to let you all know that things are moving forward for A Night of Philosophy and Ideas. We (Lenny, Eliana and Anya) had a meeting on the 15th May with the Education and Public Programs Managers of the Museum to check on the viability of holding the event at the Museum. Below are some …
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This is to reconfirm the next meeting for the Prisons in Philosophy initiative of PEiPL, which will be held 7-9pm, Friday, 3rd May, (with vegetarian dinner provided) in South Melbourne at a private residence. We will be a fairly full house for this meeting, but if there is anyone interested in the initiative who would …
Problems posting this on the PEiPL website earlier – so here it is again at the 11th hour almost…. Note change of time for the April 3rd meeting and new info in red. Dear all, My apologies for taking this long to get back to the forum about this idea/ event. Partly due to others …
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Dear all, My apologies for taking this long to get back to the forum about this idea/ event. Partly due to others being very busy and not answering emails and the usual beginning of the semester madness!! I would like to call a meeting for Wednesday April 3rd, 7–8 pm at Melbourne Uni. I have …
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Talk by Brian Nosek, hosted by History and Philosophy of Science, Uni of Melbourne. Should be pretty interesting. Link Thursday, 04 April 20196:45 pm – 7:45 pm