Abstract

The first Hegel Conference in Australia was arranged by the Department of Philosophy, The University of Newcastle and was held from Friday, November 9 to Sunday, November 11, 1984. The conference attracted 49 participants, many from the geographically more distant parts of Australia, and can be considered to have been a considerable success. After a couple of decades dominated by conceptual analysis, physicalism and similar trends characteristic of post-war British philosophy, there is now strong evidence of a growing interest in Hegel and Continental philosophy generally. The conference was organized by Assoc. Prof. William Doniela.