Distinguished Professor
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Geography-Geology |
| Room Reference | 328 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2257 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2989 |
| Jeff.Malpas@utas.edu.au |
Although I am trained as a philosopher, I prefer to be able to wander around other disciplines – including geography. Much of my work also focuses on issues of place and space which means I inevitably tend to trespass on geographic terrain anyway. Most of my books, and many of my essays, explore the nature and significance of place, space and also time, arguing for the intimate belonging together of human beings with the places in which they dwell. I also write and think about many other topics from ethics through to metaphysics. Although I am in the privileged position of having a research-only position, I supervise students in geography, philosophy, architecture, and art, and enjoy lecturing – whether within the university or outside - when the opportunity arises. My work is strongly grounded in post-Kantian thought, especially the hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions, as well as in analytic philosophy of language and mind, and draws on the thinking of a diverse range of thinkers including, most notably, Albert Camus, Donald Davidson, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.
I am currently working on a wide range of topics and projects including: the ethics of place, the failing character of governance, the materiality of memory, the topological character of hermeneutics, the place of art, and the relation between place, boundary, and surface.
Personal webpage: http://jeffmalpas.com/
Monographs and Collections:
Heidegger and the Thinking of Place (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012).
Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006; revised paper edn. 2008); Italian translation in preparation.
Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; paper edn. 2007), Korean translation in preparation.
Perspectives on Human Suffering, edited Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012).
The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, edited Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2011).
Cosmopolitanism and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia, edited Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas (Nedlands, WA: UWA Press, 2011).
Consequences of Hermeneutics, edited Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
Articles:
'Material objects, identity and the home: towards a relational housing research agenda' (with Keith Jacobs), Housing, Theory and Society, in press – pre-release version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2013.767281.
'Is there an ethics of place?', Localities 2 (2012), in press.
'Building Memory', Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts 13 (2012), in press.
'The Demise of Ethics', Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 8 (2012), pp.29-46.
‘Putting Space in Place: Relational Geography and Philosophical Topography’, Planning and Environment D: Space and Society, 30 (2012), pp.226-242.
‘The Place of Topology: Responding to Crowell, Beistegui, and Young’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 1(2011), pp. 295-315.
‘Who legislates the truth? – science, organizational governance, and democratic decision-making’ (with Andrew Brennan), Public Affairs Quarterly, 24 (2010), pp.79-96.
‘Truth, Narrative, and the Materiality of Memory: An Externalist Approach in the Philosophy of History’, Journal of the Philosophy of History 4 (2010), pp.328-353.
‘The Nonautonomy of the Virtual’, Convergence, 15 (2009), pp.135-139; an earlier version of this paper appeared in Ubiquity, 9, Issue 19 (May 13, 2008 - May 19, 2008) http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i19_malpas.html
‘Home and the Place of Memory’ (with Linn Miller), Haccaeity Papers 4 (2009), pp.29-47.
‘Ethics and the Commitment to Truth’, Trópos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica 2 (2009), pp.15-29.
‘New Media, Cultural Heritage, and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground”, International Journal of Heritage Studies 15 (2008), pp.197-209.
‘On Not Giving Up the World – Davidson and the Grounds of Belief’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 16 (2008), pp.201-215; an earlier version of this essay appeared in Portuguese as ‘Não renunciar ao mundo: Davidson e os fundamentos da crença’, in Waldomiro José da Silva (ed.), Davidson e a Filosofia (Rio de Janeiro: DP&A Editora and Arcadia Editora, , 2005), pp.51-66.
‘Heidegger, Geography, and Politics’, Journal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2008) pp.185–213; an earlier version of this essay also appeared in Portuguese in Natureza Humana 11 (2009).