Name: LOOKING FORWARD to Philosophy
Start: 2024-05-23T18:30:00+10:00
Location: 193 Boundary Street, West End, West End, QLD, Australia, Queensland 4101

Join philosophers Scott Stephens, Marguerite La Caze and Deborah Brown in conversation with Warren Ward about the future of Philosophy in today's society.
ABOUT THE EVENT
This new conversation series brings together experts in their feild to discuss trends, major innovations and future predictions in a given field. Our first conversation is about the field of philosophy. Three philosophers from universities around Brisbane will discuss their understandings of philosophy today, the trends they have spotted and their predictions for the study of philosophy into the future. What areas of philosophical thought will be important in a changing society?
The group will also recommend books to help you understand their chosen field so you will come away with a reading list for your own personal study.

ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHERS
SCOTT STEPHENS
Scott Stephens is the ABC’s Religion & Ethics online editor and the co-host, with Waleed Aly, of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. He and Waleed Aly are also the authors of Uncivil Wars: How contempt is corroding democracy (Quarterly Essay 87) (2022). He is editor of Justice and Hope: Essays, lectures and other writings by Raimond Gaita (2023), and the co-editor and translator of two volumes of the selected writings of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Interrogating the Real (2005) and The Universal Exception (2006).
MARGUERITE LA CAZE
Professor Marguerite La Caze’s research interests include: European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film.
Professor La Caze holds a BA (UQ); MA (Melbourne); and PhD (UQ), and is an Australian Research Fellow 2003-2007. She held an ARC Discovery Grant 2015-2018 on ‘Ethical Restoration After Oppressive Violence: A Philosophical Account’ and was a visiting Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in 2022.
Her current research projects include:
Film philosophy and everyday resistance
Ontologies of force: Violence, non-violence, and resistance
Conscientious objection in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life
European political cinema
Beauvoir and cinema
Marguerite has successfully supervised 30 PhD and Master’s students on a wide range of topics and is currently supervising students on projects including analogy and philosophical reasoning, authenticity and politics, on the work of Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir on political judgment, on the emotion of shame, on non-violence and resistance in Australian and Indian texts, and critical phenomenology and abortion.
DEBORAH BROWN
Professor Deborah Brown teaches at the University of Qld in the field of Logic and Philosophy of Science. Her books include Descartes and the ontology of everyday life (Oxford University Press) and Descartes and the Passionate Mind (Cambridge University Press).
MC - WARREN WARD
Warren Ward is a psychiatrist who writes about philosophy, culture, travel and the history of ideas.
His first novel-length work, Lovers of Philosophy, explores the love lives of seven continental philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault and Derrida. It was released 21 Jan 2022 by Ockham Publishing.