Stan van Hooft is an Associate Professor of Philosophy on the Burwood campus of Deakin University with over twenty-five years of teaching experience. He participated in his first Socratic Dialogue in Holland in 1991 and has attended several training seminars in Holland since. He has facilitated numerous Modern Socratic Dialogues in Melbourne with tertiary and secondary students, professional groups, and with groups drawn from the general public. He is a member of the British Society for Consultant Philosophers, the Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools, the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, the Australian Bioethics Association, the Corporate Citizenship Research Unit at Deakin University, as well as other professional philosophical societies. He is the author of Caring: An Essay in the Philosophy of Ethics, (Niwot, University Press of Colorado, 1995) and numerous journal articles on moral philosophy, business and nursing ethics, and philosophical psychology. He is also a co-author of Facts and Values: An Introduction to Critical Thinking for Nurses, (Sydney, MacLennan and Petty, 1995). His Life, Death and Subjectivity: Moral Sources for Bioethics was published by Rodopi (Amsterdam) in 2004 and in 2006 he published Caring About Health (Ashgate) and Understanding Virtue Ethics (Acument).

 

Peter Rzechorzek, Bsurv DipEd MEd MA has lectured in Philosophy and in Education at Deakin University and at RMIT University for the best part of 20 years.  He has given workshops in philosophy and philosophical dialogue to a range of schools including Geelong Grammar, Xavier and Carey Grammar. Peter has consulted to the corporate sector on Negotiation theory and game design; his clients included NAB, VicRoads, BHP and the SECV. He has conducted philosophy workshops in the Secondary Education sector including Geelong Grammar, Scotch College, St Kevins College, Xavier, Wesley College, De La Salle, Carey Baptist and MLC and a number of public Secondary Colleges. He presently facilitates an historical simulation via the Internet that has been running for seven years and in which there are over 100 international participants.

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