Antipodean Philosopher

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.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Metaphysics in AustralasiaChapter 2. Science, Morality, and the Death of GodChapter 3. Philistines, Barbarians and the Death of IntellectChapter 4. Philosophy in MelbourneChapter 5. Missing the Point Many Times Over? Australian Philosophical AtheismChapter 6. Philosophy in SydneyChapter 7. Australian Women PhilosophersChapter 8. In the Name of the Father: Understanding Monotheism and FundamentalismChapter 9. The Nature of LoveChapter 10. Free Will and the Sciences of the MindChapter 11. Feminist Philosophy in AustralasiaChapter 12. Philosophy and Its Masters: The Transformations of Philosophy in QueenslandChapter 13. Philosophy in South AustraliaChapter 14. Is Religion to be Respected or Only Tolerated?Chapter 15. Continental Philosophy in AustraliaChapter 16. Getting the Wrong Anderson? A Short and Opinionated History of New Zealand PhilosophyChapter 17. Nature in the Active VoiceChapter 18. Why Asian Philosophy?Chapter 19. Logic in AustralasiaChapter 20. The Analytic/Continental Divide: A Contretemps?Chapter 21. Philosopher Deans and Philosopher Kings: The Contribution of Philosophers to Senior Management in Australian UniversitiesChapter 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.