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This is a sample list of papers presented to the Society.

Title of Past Paper

Speaker

Rousseau and the Invention of the Modern Child

Dr.Frank Flanagan

The Problem of Children’s Rights

Knowledge and Natural Belief in David Hume

Louis Borallo MA

Some aspects of Medical Ethics

Martin Duffy MBA

Feurbach on Religion

Dr.Stephen Thornton

Knowledge and Belief

Berkeley’s Theory of Reality

Science and History-the heritage of Popper

Plato’s Forms and the vision of the Good

David Blake MA

The Five Ways-Aquinas-Proofs of God’s existence

Background to Sartre’s ‘Nausea’

The Pyramids and Science

Aristotle on Knowledge and Reality

Aristotle and Science

Martin McDonnell CPA

Dip Phil

Emperor Marcus Aurelius- the Meditations

Gilson’s ‘God and Greek Philosophy’

Gilson’s ‘God and Modern Philosophy’

MacIntyre’s ‘After Virtue- Astudy in Moral Theory’

Determinism

Dr.George McClelland

The Hither and Thither of Modern Physics

Intelligent Machines - today's fiction tomorrow's fact

PJ Hogan MA

Does God Exist?

Con Clery Dip. Phil

A re-enactment of the Frederick Coplestion Bertrand Russell Debate on BBC Radio in 1948

David Blake/Peter O'Hara

Psychosynthesis

Dr. Jo O'Donovan

Reflections on the Philosophy of Buddhism

The History of Mathematics

Patrick Kenny MA

The Letters of Lucretius

Sean de Bhulbh BA Dip LIS

Cicero and Philosophy

The Rights of Man and Natural Law

Morals and Ethics cannot be derived from Fact

Animal Rights and Philosophy to-day

F Bouchier-Hayes MA

Augustine's critique of Humanity and its Contemporary Philosophical Significance

Dr.Jones Irwin
DEFENDERS OF REASON IN ISLAM – THE CASE OF AVERROES (1126-1198 AD)  

The Profile of the Goddess in Gaelic Tradition

Dom Sean O'Duinn OSB

Descarte's Definition of Matter

John Eustace MA

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Noel Flannery M Econ Sc

Can there be Virtue in Politics?

Professor David Coombes

Philosophy for Children

Kieran Crowe M Ed

Darwinism Evolving

Dr.John Breen

Attempts to understand Wittgenstein's Picture

Dr.Kieran Cashell

Theory of the Logical Proposition

An Introduction to Nietzsche

Tom Meany B Eng M Sc

Bertrand Russell on Non-Demonstrative Inference

Tony Hall BA

The Great Betrayal - How the Enlightenment failed to deal with the Problem of International Politics

Dr.Luke Ashworth

Spinoza and Contemporary Thought

Dara Waldron MA

Education - Ancient and Modern

Dr.Tony Lyons

From Teleology to Taste: Kant on Beauty, Purpose and Reason.

Dr.Louise Campbell

The Nascence of Kant's Aesthetic: New Sense or Nuisance?

Dr. Nora Donnelly

Reason and Feeling in Morality

Tom Corbett Dip.Phil

20th Century Thought and Contemporary Medicine

Dr. Edward O'Callaghan

Is a Cosmological Argument for God's Existence Possible?

Dr.Thomas AF Kelly

Why we should all be Platonists

Prof. Tim Robinson

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