Welcome to the website of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, an independent teaching and research school dedicated to Continental thought. Please browse the tabs above to find your way around the site. To return to the front page of the site, click the Home tab.
The MSCP is an institution dedicated to scholarly, extensive and engaged readings of key figures and texts in the history of modern European thought and contemporary discourse. Our aim is to bring this work to bear on significant events as they occur in our contemporary context, reflecting on them philosophically. Regular teaching sessions, research activities and conferences are all elements in our attempt to ask questions of our broad socio-cultural context, and our place in it today.
The MSCP is housed in the School of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
Click here for an introduction to the MSCP, its origins and background
The members of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy are people committed to the dissemination of Continental thought, and the promotion of its study, from across Australia and in some cases overseas.
Our Members Page provides a list of MSCP members along with information about their research interests and current projects.
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy has as one of its central focuses the teaching of the many traditions of continental European philosophy, and its roots in the more general history of Western philosophy. The courses that the MSCP runs do not involve any assessment, or any demonstrated prior knowledge in the topic in question. They require only an interest in engaging in a careful and rigorous fashion with the material under discussion.
MSCP teaching sessions are run in the two vacation breaks in the university calendar, in January/February and in June/July. A list of the previous courses run in the MSCP are available here.
The current Evening School 2008 program can be found here
The MSCP website
includes a number of textual resources, including
conference proceedings; the proceedings of the intensive
research days, published online as resources on specific
philosophical points of debate or contemporary
concern; occasional translations.
Collected here under the title of Propositions are also
the texts of a series of debates had in writing by members of the MSCP
on a variety of topics, a collection which will grow over time.
All of the texts
published on these websites remain the sole copyright of their authors. Our online texts are found here
A list of links to external philosophical resources on the Web can be
found here.
This page provides visitors to the MSCP website with links to philosophy texts, online philosophy encycopaedias and other philosophical organisations and institutions operating in Melbourne.
Online philosophy texts are available in the public domain for most publications prior to the 20th Century. For the most part these texts are in the mother tongue of the philosopher in question, as translations have come about later, and those which do exist are usually regarded as outdated. Nevertheless, sites such as wikisource provide texts of the great thinkers in history to assist in an engagement with philosophy today.
We are always keen to add links to this page. Please email admin@mscp.org.au with any suggestions
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
Postal Address
Department of Philosophy
Old Law Quad
University of Melbourne VIC 3010
AUSTRALIA
The MSCP Office (staffed part-time)
Room 146 of the Old Law Quadrangle,
Phone (03) 8344 3889
Fax (03) 8344 4280 (address to the MSCP)
The MSCP is a not-for-profit organisation, and our ABN is 16 828 471 413
To keep up to date with MSCP events, but also other events concerned with Continental philosophy in Melbourne, please subscribe to our mailing list by clicking here. Aside from certain important MSCP announcements or late-breaking news, the mailing list will deliver a digest of current news once a week.
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CURRENT NEWS AND EVENTS IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN MELBOURNE
WINTER SCHOOL 2008
The MSCP is pleased to announce its Winter School 2008 program.
Week 1: June 23 - 27
History of Philosophy III: Aristotle – The Practical Philosophy (Matthew Sharpe)
Interpretations of Nietzsche (Ashley Woodward and others)
Week 2: Jun 30 - Jul 4
History of Philosophy IV: Medieval Philosophy I (Ian Weeks)
Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Mark Hewson)
Week 3: February 18 - 22
An Introduction to Hegel's Logic (Andy Blunden)
Mind and Society: Robert Brandom & the Continental Tradition (Andrew Montin and Gilles Bouche)
Further details about the Winter School including the registration form can be found here.
Analytic vs. Continental? Rapprochement? - A Mini-Conference (July 11 - 13, 2008)
Following the AAP Conference, La Trobe University and the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy will be hosting a mini-conference on the Analytic-Continental divide.
This mini-conference will reflect on the nature of the ‘divide’ between analytic and continental philosophy from a variety of different perspectives, including historical, methodological, and topical. If learning occurs intermediate between knowledge and non-knowledge, let us attempt to leave behind our habitual specialisations and confident assertions of knowledge, and revisit the question of philosophy’s heritage and its future.
Registrations are now open for the conference, and a full program can be found here.
MSCP EVENING SCHOOL 2008 - Global Warming: Ethics, Science Politics
The MSCP is pleased to announce its program for the 2008 Evening School.
Semester 1:
Images of Nature: A Philosophical Introduction to an Environmental Ethics (Lecturer: Cameron Shingleton)
Global Warming: The Science and its Implications (Lecturer: Phillip Sutton, Greenleap Strategic Institute)
Semester 2: (Lecturers to be confirmed)
Global Warming: An Economic Perspective
Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times
Further details about the Evening School can be found here. Registration forms now available.
OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
Parrhesia - A Journal of Critical Philosophy
Parrhesia-A Journal of Critical Philosophy is an open access journal published online at www.parrhesiajournal.org, dedicated to providing a venue for contemporary thought as it unfolds. Issue Four has just been published, including pieces by Alexander García Düttmann, Christian Kerslake, Michael Marder, Alison Ross, an interview with Samuel Weber, and a number of reviews.
