About
Associate Professor Rick Benitez-
Rick has published articles in The Review of Metaphysics, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Apeiron, Modern Greek Studies, Literature and Aesthetics, and other journals.
About
Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio-
Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio's research and supervision interests include: German idealism (particularly Hegel and Solger), Nietzsche studies, Existentialism and Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature. His current research project is 'The notion of sacrifice in Hegel and Nietzsche'.
About
Professor Moira Gatens-
Professor Moira Gatens' research and supervision interests include: Social and political philosophy, C17th rationalism (especially Spinoza), and feminist philosophy.
About
Professor Stephen Gaukroger-
Professor Stephen Gaukroger's research is centred around a long-term project on the emergence and consolidation of a scientific culture in the West in the early modern era. He is presently working on the persona of the philosopher in the modern era, and on volume 2 of ‘Science and the Shaping of Modernity’: The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility, 1680-1750.
About
Dr Caroline West-
Dr Caroline West’s main areas of teaching and research interest are in metaphysics (especially personal identity); ethics; political philosophy; philosophy and psychology of well-being; applied ethics and political philosophy (including bioethics, corporate social responsibility, free speech, institutional design and wellbeing); and feminist philosophy.
About
Professor Paul Griffiths-
Professor Griffiths is a philosopher of science with a focus on biology and psychology, he was educated at Cambridge and the Australian National University. He taught at Otago University in New Zealand and was later Director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the the University of Sydney, before taking up a Professorship in Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
About
Professor Mark Colyvan-
Professor Mark Colyvan's research and supervision interests include: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Biology (especially Philosophy of Ecology), Decision Theory. His recent publications include: The Indispensability of Mathematics (OUP, 2001) and (with Lev Ginzburg) Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (OUP, 2003).
About
Associate Professor Richard Joyce-
Associate Professor Richard Joyce's research and supervision interests include: Metaethics, moral psychology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and aesthetics. Associate Professor Joyce is author of The Myth of Morality (Cambridge, 2001) and The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006).
About
Professor Duncan Ivison-
Professor Ivison's teaching and research interests include: Contemporary political philosophy and the history of political and moral philosophy, especially in the early modern period. He is particularly interested in theories of justice, freedom, the self and the state, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples and the philosophy of law.
Philosophy
Summary
The department of Philosophy offers Australia’s most comprehensive teaching and research program in Philosophy.
Supervisor(s)
Associate Professor Rick Benitez , Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio, Professor Moira Gatens, Professor Stephen Gaukroger, Dr Caroline West, Professor Paul Griffiths, Professor Mark Colyvan, Associate Professor Richard Joyce, Professor Duncan Ivison
Research Location
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
The department is internationally recognised for research in the history of philosophy, German philosophy, naturalism and contemporary metaphysics, decision theory, philosophy of science (especially causation and time), philosophy of mind and moral, social and political philosophy. Recently, the department's postgraduate program was ranked in the top 40 philosophy graduate programs in the English-speaking world and in the top 2 in Australasia.
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Keywords
social philosophy, ethics, German philosophy, Continental philosophy, contemporary metaphysics, philiosophy of mind, philiosophy of science and technology, philosophy of time, moral philosophy, political philosophy, pragmatism, naturalism, logic, epistemology, metaphysics
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 439