Radical Philosophy

Women of Eureka - Dr Dorothy Wickham discusses how these women are important because there is the emergence of a strand of feminist conciousness at this point in Australia long before elsewhere.

Iris Marion Young - Prof Désirée Lim discusses Young 's essay house and home ; feminist variations on a theme and describes Young's five faces of oppression.

Diotima - Dr. Zoi Aliozi discusses Diotima's connection to Plato, the ladder of love and what Diotima said about beauty.

Mary Midgley - Dr Ellie Robson discusses Midgley's thoughts on moral isolationism and Midgley's last book 'What is Philosophy for?'

Mary Midgley - Dr Ellie Robson discusses why Mary Midgley said philosophy is like plumbing and Midgley's views on evil.

 Philosophy of Horror - Dr Catherine Lester discusses the intersections between children's culture and the horror genre, if there are benefits to children watching horror films and how horror films evolved to cater for children.

Part 2 A Feminist Utopia - Chris Sitka discusses the second wave of feminism and the core values of a feminist utopia such as the absence of violence.

A Feminist Utopia - Chris Sitka discusses the publications, Single-Sex, Secular Intentional Communities and  Partial Visions: Feminism, Utopianism in the 1970s and The Book of the City of Ladies.

 Part 3 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca explain about their work on risk, and specifically on cumulative risk assessment.

Part 2 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca discuss a dispositional account of causation and  the implications for the sciences which concept of causation one accepts.

Part 2 Lesbian Archives - Jean Taylor discusses the problems and ethics with archiving also the risk of not archiving.

 Causation - Dr Rani Lill Anjum & Dr Elena Rocca discuss philosophical bias in science and the new Philosophy of Science book.

Lesbian Archives - Jean Taylor discusses the importance of lesbian archives, lesbian culture and herstory.

Part 2 Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka discusses the controversy about domestic animals and also interactions with local community.

Women's Land Australia - Chris Sitka describes the political conception, daily life and historical legacy of  a women only communal land established 50 years ago during the heydays of the Women's Liberation Movement. 

Wonderfeel - Kathryn Williams discusses Wonderfeel, founded by Peter Siahna Wadham, including the differences in welcoming our full range of feeling and the deep richness this choice generally brings to our lives.

Brainwashing - Dr Alexandra Stein discusses if there are warning signs when someone is being brainwashed and if brainwashing just affects a certain personality type. 

Artificial Intelligence - Dr Paula Boddington discusses if there are cases where the code of ethics can make things worse and what the future holds for artificial intelligence and humans.

Artificial intelligence - Dr Paula Boddington discusses some of the ethical questions connected with artificial intelligence and how we gain moral knowledge.

Sappho - Professor Diane Rayor discusses Sappho's poetic output, who her poetry was written for and Sappho's philosophy on life.

Prof. Kate Rigby discusses Dr Val Plumwood, an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism, her life and how she survived an attack by a saltwater crocodile.

Jeannine Deckers, The Singing Nun - D.A. Chadwick discusses her book, The Singing Nun Story: The Life and Death of Soeur Sourire, and her important legacy.

Cognition - Dr Inês Hipólito discusses how cognitive development affects learning, why it is important to study cognition and the connection between memory and cognition.

  Influential feminist activists from Japan's contemporary feminist movement - Dr Caroline Norma discusses Japan's contemporary feminist movement and the issues it faces, including, primarily, sexual violence and harassment of women and girls.

Shame - Madeleine Shield discusses if there is a connection between shame and self-respect, whether it is possible to force someone to feel shame and if it's possible to overcome the emotion of Shame.

Vulnerability - Professor Marina McCoy discusses why it important to accept our vulnerability and what is the best way to respond to vulnerability also how vulnerability is central to the human experience.

Knowledge and Belief - Prof. Maria Rosa Antognazza discusses whether most people's belief system is based on knowledge and how knowledge and belief assist people in their everyday life.

Art - Dr Vanessa Brassey discusses the connection between philosophy and art, also why the philosophical prospective of art is important and if art could be a form of philosophy.

Dr Jane Johnson - Animals in Research

Hélène Metzger - Prof Cristina Chimisso discusses Hélène Metzger's early life, her thesis on the emergence of the science of crystals and why she is not as well-known as she should be.

Judgment - Dr Giulia Felappi discusses her paper on “On the Nature of Judgment” and if there are reasons to take the multiple relation theory as doomed.

Animal Welfare / Rights - Dr Elisa Galgut discusses some of the cultural practices that harm animals, the difference between racism and speciesism and how cannibalism is conected with eating animals.

 Constructing Death as a Form of Failure - Prof Beverley Clack discusses how neoliberal success is defined, what is it that makes it difficult to know quite what to do with death and death and loss.

Sound and Climate  - Kyla Brettle discusses the difference between personal and collective climate action and why listening to nature has such a caring effect on people.

Grief - Dr Becky Millar discusses how horror films are especially suited to portray and communicate the phenomenology of grief, the nature and role of grief and if grief is just a necessary evil in life.

Matriarchy - Jenny Cameron discusses what initially got her interested in matrifocal communities and if it possible for our society to make the necessary shifts to adopt these lessons and ensure we survive the challenges being presented to us in our modern day.

The Experience of Illness Part 2 - Professor Havi Carel discusses the aim of the Phenomenology of Illness, if illness is being-towards-death and if there epistemic injustice in healthcare.

The Experience of Illness - Professor Havi Carel discusses how a person changes when they become ill, if there is well being within illness and if people seem to be less accepting if an illness is not visible.

Lesbian Separatism Part 2 - Amber-Lia Van Aurich discusses the limitations, ethics and theoretical framework as well as the research design used for her study, and also the positives of lesbian separatism.

Lesbian Separatism - Amber-Lia Van Aurich discusses lesbian identiy, how separation begin and some examples of lesbian separatism during the late twentieth century.

Women's Writing During Lockdown - Prof Sarah Pedersen discusses the AHRC project investigating women's writing during lockdown, what Mumsnet is and the benefits from documenting occurrences during lockdown. 

The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies -Dr. Julia Hermann discusses the ethical issues of how an artificial womb could be used in the future, If an artificial womb would change the concept of personhood and how it would effect the debate about abortion and reproductive rights.

Human Extinction - Asst. Prof. Elizabeth Finneron-Burns discusses methods of population control, if these methods can be morally justified and reasons why we might consider human extinction to be wrong.

Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman provides a absorbing social history of women's health at The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne, what the nurse patient relationship was like and if things have changed

Sex and Suffering - Prof Janet McCalman provides a absorbing social history of women's health at The Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne from 1856-1996.

Respect - Dr Kristi Giselsson discusses the current questioning of the concept of universalism, marginalisation and oppression and the argument for the inclusion of non-human animals.

 Women's Food Matters - Dr Vicki A Swinbank discusses the significance of the book title, why there was a need for this book and how feminists have often seen the kitchen as a site of women's oppression.

Anne Lister & Ann Walker - Lynn Pharaoh discusses Anne Lister's lesbian relationship with Ann Walker, the many obstacles they had to overcome and their legacy for lesbians globally.

Part 2 Empathy - Meline Papazian discusses the connection between empathy and morality, moral judgements and the value of empathy.

Empathy - Meline Papazian discusses the essential features of empathy, the history of the word empathy and emotional sharing..

Philosophy for Children  - Dr Laura D'Olimpio discusses what parents can do to introduce their children to philosophy at an early age, the benefits of asking children philosophical questions and if philosophy prepares children for life.