Staff interests

The following staff offer graduate supervision


Dr Anna Alomes (PhD Tasmania)
A.Alomes@utas.edu.au, +61 03 6226 2258
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 James Chase (PhD ANU)
James.Chase@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6324 3439
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 (PhD City Uni of New York) [Away on research leave semester II 2008]
David.Coady@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 2272
Applied philosophy
Professional ethics (police ethics, sport ethics)
Metaphysics (causation and time)
Epistemology (conspiracy theories, rumours and propaganda)
Social and Political Philosophy

Dr Richard Corry (PhD Indiana)
Richard.Corry@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 7525
Philosophy of Physics (causation and the direction of time)
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Biology

Ingo Farin (PhD Indiana)
Ingo.Farin@utas.edu.au,      +61 3 6226 7508
Martin Heidegger
History of Philosophy, especially ancient Greek philosophy, Kant and German Idealism (Hegel), 19th and 20th century German philosophy
Phenomenology, especially Husserl, Patochka, Levinas
Hermeneutics, especially Dilthey, Gadamer, Ricoeur
Existentialism, especially Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Buber, Rosenzweig, Jaspers, Sartre.
Frankfurt School & Neo-Marxism.

Professor Jeff Malpas (PhD ANU)
Jeff.Malpas@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 2257
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 (B.Phil, Oxon, D.Phil.Habil., Munich).
Marcelo.Stamm@utas.edu.au +61 3 6226 2368
Contemporary European philosophy (especially German)
History of European philosophy
Kant
Hegel
Wittgenstein

Dr Lucy Tatman (PhD) [Director of the Gender Studies Program]
Lucy.Tatman@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 2741
Feminist theories, specifically feminist epistemologies, theories of subjectivity, and ethics;
Hannah Arendt; Religion as a social force, in particular the influence upon the epistemic,
moral and political agency (of different subjects) of generally 'unnoticed' religious elements within the cultural imaginary.

Dr Sonam Thakchoe (PhD Tasmania)
sonam.thakchoe@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 1776
Comparative Philosophy
Buddhism (especially Tibetan and Zen)
Philosophy of Religion
Asian Philosophy
Applied Philosophy

Dr Leila Toiviainen (PhD Tasmania)
Leila.Toiviainen@utas.edu.au, +61 3 6226 2254
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

Graham Wood (PhD Tasmania)
Graham.Wood@utas.edu.au +61 3 6324 3920
Philosophy of Science (particularly the 'fine-tuning' of the universe)
Metaethics (particularly understanding belief in intrinsic value)

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