Dr Penny Rush
Lecturer (Online Learning)
B.A (Hons), M.Litt (Distinction), PhD
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Sandy Bay |
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TUU Building |
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+613 6226 2484 |
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+613 6226 2059 |
Penny’s role as Lecturer (Online Learning) is to bring a general academic perspective to research and help facilitate and design online delivery of student learning skills and academic development. In particular, her role is to utilize her own experience as an academic and as a lecturer in both online and face-to-face settings to research and provide advice on the provision of effective academic development for all students, particularly those studying by distance but also more broadly for all students choosing to engage with learning and academic development through flexible modes.
In short, Penny’s key responsibility and interest is to work, as a practicing academic herself, toward ensuring that all students, from beginning to postgraduate level, have the best possible opportunity to achieve academic success in their chosen endeavor.
She has been working at UTAS in the School of Philosophy during the past ten years, teaching and researching. Penny's PhD was in the field of the philosophy of mathematics, and she has worked at La Trobe University and spent some time at St Andrews University, Scotland studying and teaching across the areas of the philosophy of logic, mathematics and language.
Penny has taught a host of different topics including critical thinking; logic; the philosophy of language; the philosophy of science; and a special topic in the philosophy of mathematics. Most recently, she was the coordinator for the advanced honours symposia for Arts Faculty students.
Penny’s research has focused primarily on the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and language and she has long had a particular interest in the nature of independent reality in mathematics, logic and the ordinary, everyday middle-sized world. This has recently extended to an interest in how online interactions with others both inform and are informed by beliefs regarding the nature and extent to which ‘others’ are real and independent of us.
Book
Edited Collection: The Metaphysics of Logic:Logical Realism, Logical Anti-Realism and All Things In Between, Cambridge University Press, UK, forthcoming.
Chapter in Book
‘Logical Realism’, in The Metaphysics of Logic:Logical Realism, Logical Anti-Realism and All Things In Between, Cambridge University Press, UK, forthcoming.
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