Telos Australia presents
Reconceiving Naturalism:
The Speculative Challenge
April 26–27, 2014
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
Conference Schedule
Click here to view the conference program (PDF).
Saturday, April 26
Introduction: Telos Australia
10:00 am
David Pan, Executive Director, Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
First Session: The Case For A Wider Naturalism
10:15 am
A Manifesto for Speculative Naturalism
Arran Gare, Swinburne University
Analytical Philosophy and a Wider Naturalism
David Macarthur, Sydney University
Differential Naturalisms
Wayne Hudson, University of Tasmania and Charles Sturt University
Morning Tea
11:30 am
The Crosscurrents Book Series with Edinburgh University Press
Edited by Christopher Watkin
11:45 am
Meillassoux, Naturally
Christopher Watkin, Monash University
Naturalism and the Unconscious
Henry Krips, Claremont Graduate University
A Critique of Deacon's Incomplete Nature
Michael Dix, Swinburne University
Naturalism and Detachment
Lenny Moss, Rice University
Lunch
1:00 pm
Second Session: Beyond Whitehead and Stengers
2:00 pm
After Whitehead
Peter Douglas, Monash University
Nietzsche and Naturalism
John Mandalios, Griffith University
Popper's Naturalism
Alex Naraniecki, Griffith University
Third Session: Naturalism and Imagination
3:00 pm
Against Cartesianism
Freya Matthews, La Trobe University
Deleuze and Subject Naturalism
Simon Duffy, Yale University in Singapore
Naturalism and Politics
John Milbank, Nottingham University, and Adrian Pabst, University of Kent
Plasticity and Imagination
Gregory Melleuish, University of Woollongong, and Susanna Rizzo, Campion College
Sunday, April 27
Fourth Session: Naturalism Contested?
10:00 am
Spiritual Naturalism: The Case of Clara
Francis Daly, University of Tasmania
Maximus the Confessor and Naturalism
Cullan Joyce, Catholic Theological College
Castoriadis and Deacon
Jeff Klooger, Swinburne University
Terence Deacon and Hermeneutics
David Pan, University of California, Irvine
Ricouer and Naturalism
Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield, Monash University
Merleau-Ponty, Biosemiotics and Naturalism
Maurita Harney, Melbourne University
Lunch
12:30 pm
Fifth Session: Outcomes
2:00 pm
Planning of publication outcomes, e.g., two books; articles in Telos, Cosmos, and History; proposals for the Crosscurrents series.