The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

The MSCP is an independent teaching and research organisation. Our courses and events have no entry requirements or assessment. We began in 2002.

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Summer 2025

Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Taking on Another’s World: Encountering Others and Aesthetic Artefacts in Merleau-Ponty

George Wood, Kelly Herbison
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 5:00-7:00pm 6 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Introduction to the work of Jean Hyppolite

Alice Nilsson
Online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 7:30-9:30pm 6 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Wittgenstein, Language, Madness: Reading Philosophical Investigations §§1-242

RG Smith
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Tue 5:00-7:00pm 7 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

The Metaphysical System in Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Nancy

Terrence Thomson
Online via Zoom
Starts: Tue 7:30-9:30pm 7 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Introduction to the thought of Jacques Derrida

Jon Roffe
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Wed 5:30-7:30pm 8 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Corridor of Mirrors: Perceiving algorithmic behaviour patterns through Rene Girard’s mimetic theory

Kalenga Leon Kalumba
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Thu 5:00-7:00pm 9 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Putting the Psycho Back in Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Lou Salomé and Sabina Spielrein

Vincent Lê
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Thu 7:30-9:30pm 9 Jan

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Introduction to a Philosophy of Opacity (or, Transparency and its Discontents)

Pat LeGates
Online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 10:30-12:30pm 10 Feb

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Carl Schmitt on the Question of Sovereignty and the Political

Dimitri Vouros
Online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 1:30-3:30pm 10 Feb

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Summer Course - Recently Concluded

Minimal Communism: Love and Politics in Alain Badiou

A.J. Bartlett
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 4:00-6:00pm 10 Feb

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Autumn 2025

Semester 1 Course - Upcoming

Outline of a Heterodox Philosophy of Economics

Jon Roffe
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Mon 6:30-8:30pm 10 Mar

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Semester 1 Course - Upcoming

The Philosophy of Corruption and the Corruption of Philosophy

Jon Rubin
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Tue 6:30-8:30pm 11 Mar

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Semester 1 Course - Upcoming

The Future in the Making: From Byung-Chul Han, Mark Fisher and Bifo to Deepfakes, SpaceX and Beyond

Vincent Lê
Nicholas Building and online via Zoom
Starts: Thu 6:30-8:30pm 13 Mar

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1-Day Conference

The Young Marx Enigma

Balam Balam Place, Brunswick
Thursday 24th April 2025

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NEW STUDENTS

The MSCP teaches tertiary-level courses - imagine an honours level or early grad-level seminar. If you would like to know more about us please check our FAQ page or browse some of our past courses.

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Freedom to Teach

A key feature of the MSCP's approach is to allow and encourage teachers to propose courses in alignment with their current research.

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THE NICHOLAS BUILDING

Our current teaching space is on the ninth floor of the Nicholas Building in the heart of the Melbourne CBD. On the corner of Swanston and Flinders Lane.

ACCESS PAST COURSES

For more than 20 years the MSCP has been running philosophy schools in Melbourne, Australia. Many past courses are available for purchase as either class audio or video recordings.

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Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is an independent teaching and research organisation.  The MSCP teaches short courses during the summer and winter university holiday periods and evening courses during semester.  We also run single day research workshops in autumn and spring, organise reading groups and work to encourage and support philosophical thinking in the community.  Everyone is welcome to attend our courses, and our teachers are free to teach on whatever subject they wish.  The MSCP is an incorporated not-for-profit association.

 

The MSCP acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land — the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation — and pay respect to elders past and present.