Click on the links below or scroll through the page for the publications of Professor Jeff Malpas,
School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania.

A. Monographs
B. Edited Volumes
C. Articles in Refereed Journals
D. Articles in Refereed Collections
E. Review Articles
F. Contributions to Conference Proceedings
G. Media (Print, Radio, TV, Online)
H. Encyclopedia Articles
I. Electronic Publications
J. Reports
K. Book Reviews
L. Other Publications (Non-refereed)
M. Electronic copies of selected papers

A. Monographs

Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (Cambridge, Mass.:, MIT Press, forthcoming).

B. Edited Volumes

Historical Understanding and the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Vol. 1, edited by J. E. Malpas (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994).

Action, Reason and Value, Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Vol. 2, edited by. J. E. Malpas (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994).

Death and Philosophy, ed. Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1999).

Heidegger, Modernity and Authenticity – Essays in Honor of Hubert Dreyfus Vol 1, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).

Heidegger, Coping and Cognitive Science – Essays in Honor of Hubert Dreyfus Vol 2, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).

Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer, edited by Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald and Jens Kertscher (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002).

From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, edited by Jeff Malpas (London: Routledge, 2002).

Transcendental Heidegger, edited Steven Galt Crowell and Jeff Malpas(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).

Commemorative Issue on Donald Davidson, edited Maria Baghramian and Jeff Malpas, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 n.3 (2006).

Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation, edited Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007).

The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, edited Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming, 2009).

Dialogues with Davidson: On the Contemporary Significance of his Thought, edited Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming 2009).

C. Articles in Refereed Journals

'The Nature of Interpretative Charity', Dialectica 42 (1988), pp. 17-36.

'Shanks, King-Farlowe and the Refutation of Davidson', Idealistic Studies 18 (1988), pp.20-31.

'The Intertranslatability of Natural Languages', Synthese 78 (1989), pp.233-264.

'Kategoriai and the Unity of Being', Journal of Speculative Philosophy (New Series),4 (1990), p.13-36.

'Transcendental Arguments and Conceptual Schemes: A Reconsideration of Körner’s Uniqueness Argument', Kant-Studien 81 (1990), pp.232-251.

'Holism and Indeterminacy', Dialectica 45 (1991), pp.47-58.

'Analysis and Hermeneutics', Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992), pp.93-123.

'Retrieving Truth', Soundings, 75 (1992), pp.287-306.

'Telling it Like it Was: History and the Ideal Chronicle' (with Michael P. Levine), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (1994), pp.151-172.

'Self-knowledge and Scepticism', Erkenntnis 40 (1994), pp.165-184.

'A Taste of Madeleine: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Place', International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1994), pp.433-451.

'Governance and Failure: On the Limits of Sociology' (with Gary Wickham), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 31 (1995), pp.37-50.

'Speaking the Truth', Economy and Society 25 (1996), pp.156-177; reprinted in Samanvaya: A Bilingual Journal for the Study of World Religions from Varanasi 2 (2001), pp.71-96.

'The Transcendental Circle', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1997), pp.1-20.

'Space and Sociality', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (1997), pp.53-79.

'Governance and the World: from Joe DiMaggio to Michel Foucault' (with Gary Wickham), The UTS Review, 3 (1997), pp.91-108.

'Unity, Locality and Agency: Bilgrami on Belief and Meaning', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58 (1998), pp.1-7.

'Finding Place', Philosophy and Geography 3 (1998), pp.21-44.

'Democracy and Instrumentalism' (with Gary Wickham), Australian Journal of Political Science 33 (1998), pp.345-362.

'The Constitution of the Mind: Kant and Davidson on the Unity of Consciousness', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, (1999), pp.1-30.

'The Fragility of Robust Realism: A Reply to Dreyfus and Spinosa', Inquiry, 42(1999), pp.89-102.

‘Locating Interpretation: The Topography of Understanding in Heidegger and Davidson’, Philosophical Topics 27 (1999), pp.129-148.

‘Between Ourselves: Philosophical Conceptions of Intersubjectivity’, International Journal of Pyschoanalysis 81 (2000), pp.587-592.

‘A Commitment to Community’, in Local Government Management (Official Journal of the National Institute of Municipal Management), 34 (2000/2001), p.21

‘Comparing topographies: across paths/around place’, Philosophy and Geography 4 (2001), pp.233-240.

‘The weave of meaning: holism and contextuality’, Language and Communication 22 (2002), pp.403-19.

‘Biomedical Topoi: the dominance of space, the recalcitrance of place, and the making of persons’, Social Science and Medicine 56 (2003), pp 2343-51.

‘Holism, realism and truth: how to be an anti-relativist and not give up on Heidegger (or Davidson) – a debate with Christopher Norris’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2004).

‘Place and Topography: responding to Cameron and Stefanovic’, Newsletter of the Society for Phenomenology and Architecture, 15 (2004),
pp.8-10.

‘The discomfit of strangeness’, The Philosopher’s Magazine, 27 (2004), pp.34-6.

‘The Duality of Work: Self Consumption and Self Creation’, Philosophy Today, 49 (2005), pp.256-63.

‘Truth in History: Some Conceptions and Misconceptions’, Storia della Storiographia, 48 (2005), pp.100-11.

‘From the Line to the Cube: Terroir at Liverpool Crescent’, Architectural Review Australia, 97 (2006), pp.75-9.

‘Introduction: Senses of Place’, Island, 107 (2007).

‘Disclosing the Depths of Heidegger’s Topology: A Response to Relph”, Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, 18 (2007), pp.9-12.

‘Heidegger in Benjamin’s City’, Journal of Architecture, 12 (2007), pp.489-499.

‘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 10 (2008).

‘Lying, Deceit, and the Commitment to Truth: On Ethics in Contemporary Public Life’, International Journal for Applied Philosophy, 22 (2008), pp.1-12.

‘The Problem of Dependence in Being and Time’, in Natureza Humana 10 (2008), in press.

‘Why an Aristotelian Account of Truth is (More or Less) All we Need’, Peruvian Journal of Epistemology, in English and Spanish, forthcoming (2008).

‘Who legislates the truth? – science, organizational governance, and democratic decision-making’ (with Andrew Brennan), Public Affairs Quarterly, forthcoming (2009).

‘The Nonautonomy of the Virtual’, Convergence, forthcoming (2008); 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

'Who legislates the truth? – science, organizational governance, and democratic decision-making’ (with Andrew Brennan), Public Affairs Quarterly, forthcoming (2009)

D. Articles in Refereed Collections

'Ontological Relativity in Quine and Davidson', in Johannes Brandl and Wolfgang L. Gombocz (eds.), The Mind of Donald Davidson, Grazer Philosophische Studien (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990), pp.157-178.

'The Third Mystery: Philosophy, Wonder and the World', in Ann Sharp and Ron Reed (eds), Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie (Madrid: De La Torre Press, 1995).

'Death and the Unity of a Life', in J. E Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (eds.), Death and Philosophy, (London: Routledge, 1998), pp.120-134.

'Mapping the Structure of Truth', in Jaroslav Peregrin (ed.), The Nature of Truth (If Any), (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), pp.117-128.

'Acting at a Distance And Knowing from Afar: Agency and Knowledge on the World Wide Web', in Ken Goldberg (ed.), The Robot in the Garden (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000), pp.108-125.

'Uncovering the Space of Disclosedness: Heidegger and the Problem of Spatiality in Being and Time', in Jeff Malpas and Mark Wrathall (ed.), Heidegger, Modernity and Authenticity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000), pp.205-228.

‘Governing Theory: Ontology, Methodology and the Critique of Metaphysics’, in Gary Wickham and George Pavlich (eds.), Rethinking Law, Society and Governance: Foucault’s Bequest (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001), pp.125-140.

‘Urbanity, Modernity and the Technological’, in Helmut Bot, Christoph Hubig, Franz Pesch, & Gerhart Schröder (eds.), Stadt und Kommunikation in digitalen Zeitalter (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2000), pp.211-226.

‘Gadamer and Davidson on the Ground of Understanding’, in Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald and Jens Kertscher (eds), Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002), pp.195-216.

‘Das “Recht” auf Forshung und der Schutz menschlicher Probanden: Einige ethische Probleme in den gegenwärtigen Sozialwissenschaft’, in Ulrich Arnswald and Jens Kertscher (eds.), Herausforderungen der Angewandten Ethik (Paderborn: Mentis, 2002), pp.35-46.

‘From the Transcendental to the Topological: Heidegger on Ground, Unity and Limit’, in Jeff Malpas (ed.), From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental (London: Routledge, 2002).

‘Martin Heidegger’, in Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003), pp.143-62.

‘The Space of Agency’, Krister Segerberg and Risiek Sliwinski (eds.), A philosophical smorgasbord: essays on action, truth and other things in honour of Frederick Stoutland, Uppsala Philosophical Studies 52 (Uppsala University: Uppsala, 2003), pp.99-118.

‘Beginning in Wonder’, in Nikolas Kompridis, Philosophical Romanticism (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2004).

‘Sprache ist Gespräch: On Gadamer, Language and Philosophy’, Andrzej Wiercinski (ed.), The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology (forthcoming, 2006).

‘Não renunciar ao mundo: Davidson e os fundamentos da crença’, Davidson e a Filosofia (Davidson and Philosophy) (Rio de Janeiro: DP&A Editora and Arcadia Editora, 2005), pp.51-66.

‘Acção, Intencionalidade e Conteúdo’, in João Sàágua (ed.), A Explicação da Interpretação Humana (Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 2005), pp.345-258.

‘Transcendence to Ereignis: Heidegger on Being and Place’ in Heidegger’s Transcendentalism, edited Steven Galt Crowell and Jeff Malpas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).

‘Philosophizing Place in The Joshua Tree’, in Mark Wrathall (ed.), U2 and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2006), pp.45-59.

‘Building on the Line: Topography in the Practice of Architecture’, Scott Balmforth and Gerard Reinmuth (eds.), Terroir: Cosmopolitan Ground (Sydney: DAB Documents, 2007), pp.58-85.

‘The dignity of human life’, in Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss (eds.), Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp.19-26.

‘Cultural Heritage in the Age of New Media’, in Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan and Janice Affleck (eds.), New Heritage, (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2007), pp.13-26.

‘”The Role of Memory”: Image, Place and Story in the Films of Wim Wenders’, in James Phillips (ed.), Film and Philosophy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming, 2008).

‘Place and human being’, in Frank Vanclay et al (eds.), Senses of Place (Canberra: NMA, forthcoming 2008).

‘Truth, Politics and Democracy: Arendt, Orwell and Camus’, in Danielle Celermajer, Vrasidas Karalis and Andrew Schaap (eds), Hannah Arendt and the Dilemmas of Humanism (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).

‘The Forms of Water’, Fresh and Salt, edited Heather Goodall (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007).

‘Cosmopolitanism, Branding and the Public Realm’, in Donald, Stephanie, Catherine Kevin, and Eleonore Kofman (eds.), Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2008).

‘Philosophy’s Nostalgia’, in Hagi Kenaan (ed.), Philosophy’s Moods (forthcoming, 2009).

‘Kant’s Geography of Reason’ (with Karsten Thiel), in Stuart Elden et al (eds), Kant’s Geography (New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming, 2009).

‘Objectivity and Self-Disclosedness: The Phenomenological Working of Art’, in Joseph Parry (ed.), Art as Phenomenology (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2009).

‘The Problem of Landscape’, in Jeff Malpas (ed.), The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming, 2009).

‘“What is Common to All”: Davidson on Agreement and Understanding’, in Jeff Malpas (ed.), Dialogues with Davidson: On the Contemporary Significance of his Thought (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming, 2009).

E. Review Articles

‘Remembering Place (Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place)’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 10 (2002), pp.92-100.

‘On the map: comments on Stuart Elden’s Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History’, Philosophy and Geography, 6 (2003), 213-8.

F. Contributions to Conference Proceedings

'Truth and Philosophy', Prague International Colloquium on the Nature of Truth, Prague, September 1996.

G. Media (Print, Radio, TV, Online)

Interview and talkback on objects as repositories of memory - Life Matters’, ABC Radio National, 28 January 2005.

Interview on place, solitude and the city – ‘The Comfort Zone’, 18 May 2006, ABC Radio National.

Interview on corruption in Tasmanian politics, ‘Stateline’, ABC TV Tasmania, 23 March 2007

Interview on “Pulp Trust”, ABC TV Stateline Tasmania, broadcast 23/03/2007, http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/tas/content/2006/s1880148.htm

Interview on ethics in government, Radio National Breakfast, ABC Radio National, 31 July 2007

Interview as part of ‘Leigh Hobba - The Space of Presence’, on work of artist Leigh Hobba, ‘Into The Music’, ABC Radio National, 15 September 2007.

Fortnightly, ‘Report from Germany’, ABC Local Radio 7ZR 936 AM, June -October 2004

Regular monthly radio session (often including talkback) with ABC Local Radio 7ZR 936 AM linked to topic for Philosophy Café, 2001-2004, & 2005-2006 as well as occasional commentary on matters of public interest, ongoing.

“You can’t stop process”, ABC Online, invited Op-Ed piece, posted 7/8/07, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/07/1998241.htm

“Changing it all: new leadership’s ethical challenges”, ABC Online, invited Op-Ed piece, posted 10/12/07, http://202.6.74.101/news/stories/2007/12/10/2113965.htm

“Universities have been starved of support” (with Andrew Brennan), On Line Opinion: Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate, invited Op-Ed piece, posted 18/12/07, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6775

“Who is Vaile Serving?” (with Andrew Brennan), ABC Online, invited Op-Ed piece, posted 10/03/08, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/10/2184719.htm

‘Talking ‘bout a Revolution’ (with Andrew Brennan), On-Line ABC, invited Op-Ed piece, 28/3/2008, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/27/2200307.htm

Interview on ‘Ethics at Work’, Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 1/4/2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2008/2201756.htm

Interview on resignation of Tasmanian Deputy Premier Steve Kons, ABC Television News Tasmania, 9/4/2008.

‘Researchers Drowning in Paperwork’ (with Andrew Brennan), The Australian, Higher Education Supplement, 16/4/2008.

‘Borderless Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority” (with Andrew Brennan), The Australian, Higher Education Supplement, 1/7/2008.

H. Encyclopedia Articles

'Davidson, Donald Herbert', in Encyclopedia of Empiricism, ed. Edward Barbanell and Don Garrett (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1997).

'Donagan, Alan', in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998, 2nd edn.).

'Davidson, Donald', in Encyclopedia Americana (New York: Grolier, 2001).

‘Martin Heidegger’, in Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003), pp.143-62.

I. Electronic Publications

'Davidson, Donald', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www\plato.stanford.edu\

‘Gadamer, Hans-Georg’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www\plato.stanford.edu\

‘Breath and Revelation’, Invited essay, Inspirational Landscapes, Australian Heritage Commission

‘The forms of water: In the land and in the soul’, Transforming Cultures eJournal 1 (2006), http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/TfC.

J. Reports

(with Kim Atkins), Review of Tasmanian Police Ethics Training, Tasmania Police Academy, commissioned by Tasmania Police, December 2000

(as part of GE Experts Advisory Group), Report on GE Technology in Tasmania, commissioned by Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, June 2001 (plus separate reports on chrysanthemums, poppies, canola).

K. Book Reviews

'G.N. Schlesinger, The Intelligibility of Nature', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 65 (1987), pp. 344-346.

'R. Harré, Varieties of Realism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66 (1988), pp.253-256.

'Bruce Aune, Metaphysics; The Elements', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67 (1989), pp.100-102.

'Joseph Wayne Smith, Essays on Ultimate Questions', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 67 (1989), pp.361-363.

'Bjørn Ramberg, Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language: An Introduction', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 68 (1990), pp.475-477.

'Ethics and Danger: Essays on Heidegger and Continental Thought', Canadian Philosophical Reviews 14 (1994), pp.85-87.

'Sören Stenlund, Language and Philosophical Problems', Theoria (1995).

'Akeel Bilgrami, Meaning and Belief', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1995), pp.473-475.

'Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt and Alexander Ulfig (eds.), Language, Mind and Epistemology. On Donald Davidson’s Philosophy,' Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1996).

‘Michael Luntley, Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconsidered’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (1997), pp.467-70.

'Robert B. Pippin, Idealism as Modernisn, Hegelian Variations', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, (1998).

'Martin Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, trans. Richard Taft', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77 (1999).

‘J. N. Mohanty, The Self and its Other. Philosophical Essays’, Mind forthcoming

L. Other Publications (Non-refereed)

'Objectivity in the Working of Art', Neil Brown, Penny McKeon, Kim Snepvangers (eds), Fifth Occasional Seminar in Art Education: Reconciling Art and Objectivity in Art Education (School of Art Education College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, 1993), pp.25-34.

‘A Commitment to Community’, in Local Government Management (Official Journal of the National Institute of Municipal Management), 34 (2000/2001), p.21

‘Wunderkammer ‘02’, catalogue essay, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2002.

‘The Strangeness of Death’, The Philosopher, forthcoming 2004.

‘Place and Topography: responding to Cameron and Stefanovic’, Newsletter of the Society for Phenomenology and Architecture, forthcoming 2004.

M. Electronic copies of selected papers

At the Threshold: The Edge of Liminality

For the exhibition ‘Liminality’ curated by Colin Langridge held at the Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, March 2008.

At the Threshold (pdf)
At the Threshold (htm)

Constituting the Mind: Kant, Davidson and the Unity of Consciousness

Constituting the Mind (pdf)
Constituting the Mind (htm)

Cultural Heritage in the Age of the New Media

Cultural Heritage (pdf)
Cultural Heritage (htm)

Truth, Politics and Democracy - Arendt, Orwell and Camus

Truth, Politics and Democracy (pdf)
Truth, Politics and Democracy (html)

Heidegger in Benjamin's City

Heidegger in Benjamin's City (pdf)
Heidegger in Benjamin's City (htm)

Breathing Space: Leigh Hobba and the Uncertainty of Presence

For The Space of Presence, Leigh Hobba Survey Show, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2007.

Breathing Space (pdf)

New Media, Cultural Heritage, and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground

New Media (pdf)
New Media (htm)

Repetitions

For Repetitions, featuring works by Leigh Hobba, Ciara Moore, Daniel von Sturmer, Martin Walsch,
Plimsoll Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania, April 2008

Repetitions (pdf)
Repetitions (htm)

Disclosing the Depths of Heidegger’s Topology: A Response to Relph

A response to Relph (pdf)
A response to Relph (htm)

‘Sprache ist Gespräch’: On Gadamer, Language and Philosophy

Sprache ist Gespräch (pdf)
Sprache ist Gespräch (htm)

The Forms of Water: in the land and in the soul

The forms of water (pdf)

The Problem of Dependence in Being and Time

The problem of dependence (pdf)
The problem of dependence (htm)

The Strangeness of Death

The strangeness of death (pdf)
The strangeness of death (htm)

Davidson's Holism: Epistemology in the Mirror of Meaning (book length)