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Leesa Wisby

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Leesa Wisby

Associate Lecturer in Ethics

Room MS2 243-14 , Medical Sciences Precinct

+61 3 6226 4856 (phone)

Leesa.Wisby@utas.edu.au

Dr Leesa Wisby has a Master of Bioethics from Monash University and a PhD in Philosophy (Humanities) from the University of Tasmania. Fields of interest include moral philosophy, medical ethics, political philosophy and continental philosophy (particularly the work of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt).

Career summary

Qualifications

Degree

Thesis title

University

Country

Date

PhD

Towards a Unified Framework of Power: A Conceptual, Practical and Comparative Analysis of Michel Foucault’s and Hannah Arendt’s Accounts of Power.

University of Tasmania

Australia

August 2016

Grad Cert in Research

 

University of Tasmania

Australia

2016

Master of Bioethics

By Coursework

Monash University

Australia

2005

BA (1st class honours)

Philosophy

University of Tasmania

Australia

2001

BA

Double major in Philosophy, Minor in psychology

University of Tasmania

Australia

1999