Academic Staff
Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +612 9351 3918.
The above list includes staff who both teach and undertake research, and also research fellows. Senior research fellows are available for postgraduate supervision, while postdoctoral fellows may also assist with supervision, where appropriate.
Dr Thomas Besch
Room N592, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2216
Teaching and research interests: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Public Reason, Practical Reasoning and Justification, Constructivism, History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Rawls, Hare, Kant.
Professor Rick Benitez
Room N496, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 6658
Teaching and research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Tragedy, Ethics and Aesthetics, Philosophy of Law.
Professor David Braddon-Mitchell
Room S501, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2372
Teaching and research interests: Philosophy of mind, metaphysics; also meta-ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology and epistemology. Author, with Frank Jackson, of The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell, 1996.
Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio
University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow
Room 408, Brennan/MacCallum A18
+612 9036 6335
Research and supervision interests: German idealism (particularly Hegel and Solger), Nietzsche studies, Existentialism and Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature. His current research project is 'The notion of sacrifice in Hegel and Nietzsche'. He is the author of The Intellectual Sacrifice, Rene Girard and Philosophy of Religion (1999) and The Sacrifice, Reason and its Other (2004), both in Italian.
Professor Mark Colyvan
Professorial Research Fellow
Room N285, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9036 6175
Further contact details are available on my homepage
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Biology (especially Philosophy of Ecology), Decision Theory. Recent Publications include: The Indispensability of Mathematics (OUP, 2001) and (with Lev Ginzburg) Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (OUP, 2003).
Professor Moira Gatens
ARC Professorial Fellow
Room N443, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2468
Research and supervision interests: Social and political philosophy, C17th rationalism (especially Spinoza), and feminist philosophy. Recent publications: Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality (1996); co-editor, Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism (1998), Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship (1998) and editor Feminist Ethics (1998). Her most recent book (co-authored with Genevieve Lloyd) is Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (1999). In 2006 she began a 5-year ARC Professorial Fellowship.
Professor Paul Griffiths
Professorial Research Fellow
Room N492, Main Quadrangle
+612 90366265
Research and Supervision interests: Philosophy and history of biology, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science. Author, (with Kim Sterelny) of Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology (Chicago, 1999), and of What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological csategories (Chicago, 1997).
Associate Professor John Grumley
Room S403, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2465
Teaching and research interests: Social and poltical philosophy, German Idealism, Critical theory from Marx to Habermas, Theories of Modernity, philosophy of 'mere life'.
Recent publications include Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for Gyorgy Markus, (edited with Crittenden, P and Johnson, P (London: Ashgate, 2002)) and Agnes Heller: Moralist in the Vortex of History (London: Pluto Press, 2005).
Dr Adrian Heathcote
Room S602, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2559
Teaching and research interests: Main interests at the present are Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Mathematics, the theory of Truth (particularly axiomatic approaches) and Epistemology. In philosophy of physics I'm particularly interested in quantum theory, but also space-time theories as they occur in relativity theory. I also have an interest in Hume's philosophy, in particular its relation to medieval thought. I've published in the journals Philosophy of Science, Nous, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Theoria, Logique et Analyse, Erkenntnis, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and others. For relaxation I write: poetry, plays, and fiction.
Professor Duncan Ivison
Dean of Arts Office,
Room J2.05, Main Quadrangle A14
+612 9351 2206 (Dean's Personal Assistant)
+61 2 9351 5333 (Fax)
Teaching and research interests: Contemporary political philosophy and the history of political and moral philosophy, especially in the early modern period. He is particularly interested in theories of justice, freedom, the self and the state, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples and the philosophy of law. He has published in all of these areas. He is the author of The Self at Liberty (Cornell University Press, 1997), Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Rights (Acumen, 2008) and co-editor of Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Dr Alex Lefebvre
Room 416, A18 Brennan MacCallum
+612 9351 4945
Teaching and research interests: modern and contemporary political and legal thought, with special interest in problems of judgment and human rights; current research attempts to develop a theory of human rights from the philosophy of Henri Bergson, in dialogue with Pierre Hadot, the later Foucault, Stanley Cavell, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Gilles Deleuze. It is prospectively titled Human Rights as a Way of Life.
Dr David Macarthur
Room S412, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3193
Teaching and research interests: Skepticism, Pragmatism, Metaphysical Quietism, Philosophy of Psychology, History of Modern Philosophy, Wittgenstein, and Aesthetics. He is co-editor of the book, Naturalism in Question (Harvard University Press, 2004).
Dr Michael McDermott
Room S212, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2370
Teaching and research interests: Logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind.
Dr John Maier
Room N494, Quadrangle A14
+612 9114 0633
Research interests: metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action.
Dr Kristie Miller
Senior ARC Australian Research Fellow
Room 411 Mungo McCallum
+612 9036 9663
Research interests: metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of time.
Dr Maureen O'Malley
ARC Future Fellow
Room S402, Quadrangle A14
+61 (0)2 90366591
+612 9036 9663
Research interests: Philosophy of microbiology; Philosophy of systems and synthetic biology; Philosophy of metagenomics; Philosophy of microbial phylogeny; Philosophy of translational and integrative scientific practice
Dr Dalia Nassar
ARC DECRA Fellow
S502, Quadrangle A14 (TBC)
Research Interests: German romantic and idealist philosophy; the history of the idea of nature; environmental philosophy; aesthetics; hermeneutics and theories of interpretation.
Professor Huw Price
ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Time.
Room S401, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4057
Research and supervision interests: include time-asymmetry, the philosophy of quantum mechanics, and pragmatic approaches to philosophy of language and metaphysics. Details and online copies of most of his publications are available via his home page.
Professor Paul Redding
Room S404, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3983
Teaching and research interests: Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of psychology. Paul has published books on Hegel (Hegel's Hermeneutics, Cornell UP, 1996) and the philosophical psychology of German idealism (The Logic of Affect, Cornell UP, 1999). He has just finished a book on the links between German idealism and approaches within contemporary analytic philosophy (Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2007). His present project relates Kant and the post-Kantian idealists to Leibniz's earlier attempt to reconcile early modern science with the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition.
Dr Luke Russell
Room S442, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3821
Teaching and research interests: Normativity, realism and naturalism in epistemology and ethics. Also, virtue theory, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology.
Dr Nicholas J. J. Smith
Room S416, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6242
Teaching and research interests: Logic (especially logics of vagueness and theories of truth), metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of time (especially time travel), early analytic philosophy (especially Frege), probability and decision theory.
Dr Greg Strom
Room N494 Quadrangle A14
+612 9114 0633
Dr Karola Stotz
Australian Research Fellow
Room S405, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2205
Research and supervision interests: History and Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science.
Dr Anik Waldow
Lecturer
Room S404, Quadrangle (Southern Vestibule)
+612 9114 1245
Research and Teaching interests: 17th and 18th century philosophy (especially Hume), scepticism, sympathy and other minds. Author of: David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum Books, 2009)
Dr Caroline West
Room S415, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9349
Teaching and research interests: metaphysics (especially identity, persistence and personal identity); moral philosophy (meta-ethics and normative ethics); applied and professional ethics; political philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy and psychology of well-being. She has published in all these areas. Details and online copies of most of her publications are available via her home page
Dr Hans Westman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room 364, Physics Building A28
+61 2 935 12712
Research interests: Foundations of quantum theory: deBroglie-Bohm theory, epistemic interpretation of the wavefunction, quantum contextuality and non-locality. Foundations of general relativity: observables in general relativity, problem of time, ontology of spacetime.