Lexington Books
Pages: 324
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-2733-9 • Hardback • February 2011 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-6793-9 • eBook • February 2011 • $139.50 • (£108.00)
Graham Oppy is professor of philosophy at Monash University. He is author of Ontological Arguments and Belief in God, Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity, and Arguing about Gods, co-author of Reading Philosophy of Religion, and co-editor of History of Western Philosophy of Religion and Companion to Australian Philosophy.
N. N. Trakakis is lecturer and research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Monash University and at Deakin University. He is author of The God Beyond Belief and The End of Philosophy of Religion, editor of William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion, and co-editor of Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, volumes 1 through 5 of History of Western Philosophy of Religion, and A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand.
Associate Editors: Lynda Burns, Steven Gardner, and Fiona Leigh.
Preface
Chapter 1. Metaphysics in Australasia
Chapter 2. Science, Morality, and the Death of God
Chapter 3. Philistines, Barbarians and the Death of Intellect
Chapter 4. Philosophy in Melbourne
Chapter 5. Missing the Point Many Times Over? Australian Philosophical Atheism
Chapter 6. Philosophy in Sydney
Chapter 7. Australian Women Philosophers
Chapter 8. In the Name of the Father: Understanding Monotheism and Fundamentalism
Chapter 9. The Nature of Love
Chapter 10. Free Will and the Sciences of the Mind
Chapter 11. Feminist Philosophy in Australasia
Chapter 12. Philosophy and Its Masters: The Transformations of Philosophy in Queensland
Chapter 13. Philosophy in South Australia
Chapter 14. Is Religion to be Respected or Only Tolerated?
Chapter 15. Continental Philosophy in Australia
Chapter 16. Getting the Wrong Anderson? A Short and Opinionated History of New Zealand Philosophy
Chapter 17. Nature in the Active Voice
Chapter 18. Why Asian Philosophy?
Chapter 19. Logic in Australasia
Chapter 20. The Analytic/Continental Divide: A Contretemps?
Chapter 21. Philosopher Deans and Philosopher Kings: The Contribution of Philosophers to Senior Management in Australian Universities
Chapter 22. Becoming Slow: Philosophy, Reading and the Essay
This book will interest both those who have been involved in the profession of philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, and those who have an interest in what such philosophers have to say to the general public on topics such as religion, love, and time. Future historians may well find some of the chronicles of individual departments, included here, important documents for any real history of philosophy in this region, in which the contradictions in what is said here will be ironed out. Was Arthur Prior an important New Zealand philosopher? Was Jack Smart Australia's best philosopher? Only time will tell.
— Annette Baier, University of Otago
Among academics, philosophy in Australasia is best known for materialism about the mind, realism about almost everything, and consequentialism in ethics—and for fighting way above its weight. These entertaining, informed, and often delightfully opinionated lectures tell us how this came to be, and why there is so much more to say about philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, much of it of great interest outside academe.
— Frank Jackson, Australian National University/Princeton University