Philosophy Talks is no more than an array of my thinking while studying formally, and later, informally (studying for me doesn’t seem to stop – it expands rather than contracts! ). As anyone who has ever prepared a talk knows – whether for fellow-students, or interested others – we put a lot of heart and soul into it. Indeed, we spend endless time, not just on researching the information, but also on putting it together, and most of all editing it. So, although the list below is unlikely to mean much to anyone else, for me it represented many challenges, and although imperfect, cherished achievements. Coming lately into academia, every moment was precious and worth savouring.

While at UTAS

1995 Long Essay Presentation to fellow-students: Master’s Qualifying Long Essay Presentation Student Seminar.

1998 Post-Graduate Conference: Navigating the Labyrinth – A Critique of Hume’s Bundle Theory of the Self.

1999 AAP Conference Paper: A Critique of the Theory of Quasi-Memory.

2001: AAP Conference Paper: The Limitations of Thought Experiments.

Later

2003 Talk to the Newman Society: Personal Identity – Do We Have it and Does it Matter?

2004 Talk to Senior School Teachers on Philosophy (requested by Tasmanian Qualifications Authority):
Religion & Philosophy Syllabus Senior Secondary Section C: Philosophy

2014 Proposed talk to AAPAE (Australian Association of Professional And Applied Ethics):
Philosophy – a viable alternative to medication for mental health
A colleague invited me to present a paper for this talk. I submitted this one but it was never delivered as it needed more work. I wasn’t able to do this at the time due to other commitments. A colleague commented that much of what I said about Philosophy already applied to counselling techniques. But my aim was to foreground that Philosophy was the original source of those techniques.

2019 Talk to MidCity School for Seniors: Is the World Really as I think it is?

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