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1990
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March |
The Idea of Intellectual Progress |
Prof Zak van Straaten (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
Literary Aesthetics: The Author in the Text |
Dr Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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June |
The Ethics of the Struggle: Application of the Just War Theory to the Question of Armed Struggle in South Africa |
Dr Augustine Shutte (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
Free Will and Free Action |
Mr Francis Williamson (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
Is life a dream? |
Dr David Brooks (Philosophy, UCT) |
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1991
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April |
Psychology and Philosophy |
Prof. Peter Du Preez (Psychology, UCT) |
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May |
Philosophy and the Environment |
Prof. Roy Siegfried (Zoology, UCT) |
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June |
Philosophy and Medicine |
Prof. Solomon Benatar (Medicine, UCT) |
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July |
Linguistics and Philosophy |
Dr. Nigel Love (Linguistics, UCT) |
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August |
Physics and Philosophy |
Prof. Raoul Viollier (Physics, UCT) |
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September |
Science and Ideology |
Dr. Melvyn Goldberg (Sociology, UCT) |
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October |
Cosmology and Philosophy |
Prof George Ellis (Mathematics, UCT) |
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1992
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March |
Graveyard, Battlefield and Supermarket Politics |
Prof. Andrew Prior (Political Studies, UCT) |
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April |
Constitutional Options for the New South Africa |
Dr. David Brooks (Philosophy, UCT) |
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May |
African Conceptions of Humanity |
Dr. Augustine Shutte (Philosophy, UCT) |
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June |
The Politics of Property |
Mr Graham Williams (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
Politics and Writing |
Prof. Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
Conversations in a Colony |
Dr. Anthony Holliday (Philosophy, University of the Western Cape) |
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October |
Affirmative Action |
Dr. Denise Meyerson (Philosophy, UCT) |
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1993
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April |
The Value of Prayer |
Dr Augustine Shutte (Philosophy, UCT) |
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May |
Aesthetics |
Dr David Novitz (Philosophy, University of Canterbury, NZ) |
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June |
Law and Morality |
Dr Denise Meyerson (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
What is Consciousness? |
Prof. David Armstrong (Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia) |
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September |
Truth in Literature |
Prof. Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
The Ethics of Research: A Case Study |
Prof. Philip Pettit (Australian National University) |
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November |
Dr. Zuzane Parusnikova |
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1994
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March |
The ethics and metaphysics of gender |
Dr Augustine Shutte (Philosophy, UCT) |
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April |
Stanley Fish’s Postmodern Theory of Literary Interpretation |
Prof Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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May |
Ethics in the Physical and Social Environment |
Prof Odera Oruka (Philosophy, University of Nairobi) |
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June |
Ethics, Reproduction and the Law |
Prof Denise Meyerson (Philosophy, UCT) |
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November |
The Unity of Science |
Prof David Brooks (Philosophy, UCT) |
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1995
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August |
The Ethics of Humour |
Dr David Benatar (University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA) |
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October |
The Unity of Self |
Prof David Brooks (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
The Concept of Art |
Prof Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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November |
(i) Is there ever any justification for torture? |
General discussion. No speaker |
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1996
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March |
Human Scale Development theory as applied to South African politics of the past and as a tool utilised by the Truth and Reconciliation commission. |
Mr Wilhelm Verwoerd (Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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April |
On the Foundations of an Ethics of Environmental Concern. |
Dr Johan Hatting (Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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May |
Exploring Film Images Creatively |
Professor Johan Degenaar (Emeritus, Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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June |
Socratic Dialectic and the Athenian City-State |
Dr Andrew Nash (Philosophy, University of the Western Cape) |
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August |
Are there any values that Nietzsche champions? |
Dr Shaun Smith (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
What, if any, inequalities in wealth are justified? |
Prof Denise Meyerson (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
On Miracles: Is there a rational basis for believing in miracles? |
Dr Steve Clarke (Philosophy, UCT) |
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November |
On the development of European Moral Values |
Dr Augustine Shutte (Philosophy, UCT) |
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1997
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April |
Complexity Theory |
Dr Paul Cilliers (Philosophy, Stellenbosch University) |
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May |
Art and the meaning of life: Carl Gustav Jung: Art as Activation of Eternal Symbols |
Prof Johan Degenaar (Emeritus, Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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June |
The Mind. What is it, and how is it viewed? |
Dr Stuart Barnum (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
The Argument from Evil |
Dr David Benatar (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
Truth |
Prof Cheryl Misak (Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada) |
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November |
Recent Debates in Democratic Theory |
Prof Ian Shapiro (Political Studies, Yale University, USA) |
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1998
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March |
Some Reflections on Paradox |
Prof Laurence Goldstein (Philosophy, UCT & University of Hong Kong) |
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April |
Rethinking Communities: Environmental Ethics in an Urbanised World |
Dr Alastair Gunn (Waikato University, New Zealand) |
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May |
The Genius of Isaiah Berlin? |
Mr Peter Collins (Political Studies, UCT) |
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June |
Are our words meaningless? |
Mr Greg Fried (Philosophy, UCT) |
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August |
A Short History of Twentieth Century Literary Theory |
Prof Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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September |
The Concept of Discrimination and the South African Constitution |
Prof Denise Meyerson (Private Law, UCT) |
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October |
Lewis Carroll: The Man, his Logic and Literature |
Ms Jessica Tiffin (English, UCT) & Dr Kenneth Hughes (Mathematics, UCT) |
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November |
Justice and the TRC? |
Mr Wilhelm Verwoerd (Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch) |
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1999
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March |
What Good is Ethics? |
Dr John Williams (Director of Ethics: Canadian Medical Association) |
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April |
Lucky in Love |
Prof Michael Levine (Philosophy, University of Western Australia) |
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May |
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Greatest Mind of the Century? |
Prof Laurence Goldstein (Philosophy, UCT & University of Hong Kong) |
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June |
Philosophical Reflections on Legalising Gambling |
Mr Peter Collins (Management Studies, UCT) |
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August |
Sex and Personal Privacy |
Prof James Rachels (Philosophy, University of Alabama – Birmingham, USA) |
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September |
The Value of Intellectualism |
Mr Jacques Rousseau (Philosophy, UCT) |
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October |
The World and Our Knowledge of it: What they said in the 20th Century |
Prof Paul Taylor (Philosophy, UCT) |
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November |
An Introduction to Business Ethics |
Dr Elaine Sternberg (Leeds University, UK) |