Academic Staff
Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +61 2 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.
Professor Peter Anstey
ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Philosophy
Room S248, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9351 2477
Research and supervision interests: early modern philosophy; philosophy of science; ancient philosophy; metaphysics. Publications include The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (Routledge, 2000) and John Locke and Natural Philosophy (OUP, 2011).
Samuel Baron
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room N494, Quadrangle Building A14
+61 2 9114 0633/ 9114 0634
Teaching and supervision interests: metaphysics (specifically: temporal ontology, grounding, and truthmaking),philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science.
Professor Rick Benitez
Room N496, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 6658
Teaching and research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Tragedy, Ethics and Aesthetics, Philosophy of Law.
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 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.
Professor Mark Colyvan
ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Philosophy
Room N285, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9036 6175
Further contact details are available on my homepage
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Ecology, Decision Theory. Publications include: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (CUP, 2012), The Indispensability of Mathematics (OUP, 2001) and (with Lev Ginzburg) Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (OUP, 2004).
Dr Tom Dougherty
Lecturer in Ethics
Room S403, Quadrangle A14
+61 2 9036 6015
Research and supervision interests: Moral and Political Philosophy, including obligations to help people in need, the ethics of consent and the ethical dimensions to tense and time.
Dr Matt Farr
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room N494
Quadrangle, A14
+61 2 9114 0633
Research interests: philosophy of time, philosophy of physics, metaphysics (esp. naturalised metaphysics), philosophy of science.
Professor Moira Gatens
Room S443, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2468
Research and supervision interests: Social and political philosophy, C17th rationalism (especially Spinoza), philosophy and literature, and feminist philosophy. Recent publications: Spinoza Lectures: Spinoza’s Hard Path to Freedom (2011), Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza, (ed.) (2009), Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (1999), (co-authored with Genevieve Lloyd), 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).
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).
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: Teaching and research interests: Political philosophy, Human rights, Jurisprudence, Modern and contemporary French thought.
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 John Maier
Room N494, Quadrangle A14
+612 9114 0633
Research interests: metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action.
Dr John Matthewson
Research interests: Philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of medicine, Applied ethics.
Dr Kristie Miller
Senior ARC Australian Research Fellow
Room 816 Brennan MacCallum Building A18
+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 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.
Associate Professor 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
Senior 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.