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Staff Members and their Research Interests
The following list is intended as a guide to both the research interests
of individual staff members in the School of Philosophy and as a
guide to some "ready to go" honours projects. Most staff
members, however, are willing to discuss any reasonable honours
project in any area, in which they have some expertise and interest.
Click on their names for further details and contact infomation.
Dr
Anna Alomes
Philosophy of Nonviolence - peace and conflict studies, reconciliation
[especially MK Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Tibetan Government in Exile]
Professional Ethics
Police Ethics
Comparative and Asian Philosophy
Applied Philosophy
Dr
Kim Atkins
Personal Identity
European Philosophy (especially Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur)
Moral Philosophy
Narrative – identity and ethics
Biotechnology and Bioethics
Feminist Theories of Autonomy and Agency
Kant
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics and the Poetics
Dr
James Chase [Away on research leave all of 2007]
Epistemology (what are justified beliefs?)
Philosophical logic (especially truth and paradoxes)
Philosophy of mind (normative concepts – how do we think about
‘oughts’?)
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of language (what is the connection b/n truth and evidence?)
Dr
David Coady
Metaphysics (causation and time)
Epistemology
Social and Political Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Dr
Richard Corry [Away on research leave semester 2 2007]
Philosophy of Physics (causation and the direction of time)
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Biology
Professor
Jeff Malpas [Away on Australian Professorial Fellowship 2007]
German Philosophy (especially Heidegger and Gadamer)
Philosophy of Language (especially Davidson and Quine)
Hermeneutics
Phenomenology and Existentialism (especially Camus)
Pragmatism
History of Philosophy (including ancient)
Philosophy of Place and Space
Dr
Marcelo Stamm
Contemporary European philosophy (especially
German)
History of European philosophy
Kant
Hegel
Wittgenstein
Dr Lucy Tatman [Director of the Gender Studies Program]
Feminist Theory [especially subjectivity and epistemology]
Gender and Religion
Gender and Technology
Feminist Political theory [especially Hannah Arendt]
Dr
Sonam Thakchoe [Away on research leave semester 1 2007]
Comparative Philosophy
Buddhism (especially Tibetan and Zen)
Philosophy of Religion
Asian Philosophy
Applied Philosophy
Dr
Leila Toiviainen
Proxy Decision-Making in Health Care
Ethical Issues in health care, especially end-of-life care
Environmental Ethics
The Relation of Environmentalism and Political Liberalism
Duties to future generations
Philosophy of Nietzsche
Dr Ashley Woodward [2007]
Post-structuralism and Postmodernism [especially Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo]
Phenomenology and Existentialism [especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre]
Nihilism, absurdity, meaning in life
Contemporary Aesthetics
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