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The Philosophy Programme welcomes new staff

Luca Moretti and Edoardo Zamuner have joined La Trobe and are teaching ‘Astronomy and Philosophy’, ‘Certainty and Subjectivity’ and some honours subjects. It is already clear that they will contribute in many other ways to Philosophy at La Trobe.

Luca Moretti comes from the Sydney University Philosophy Department’s Centre for Time, where he was a postdoctoral fellow working on theory of truth, ontology and other topics in philosophical logic and metaphysics. Luca’s PhD thesis, which he completed at King’s College of the University of London, is titled Putnam’s Internal Realism. However, since completing it in 2003, he has written a variety of papers also in confirmation theory and formal epistemology – principally on the topic of Bayesian coherentism and the transmission of confirmation. He is now planning to write a book titled Minimalism about Truth and Truth-Aptitude. Luca’s areas of specialisation are philosophical logic, metaphysics, formal epistemology, epistemology, and philosophy of science. Luca is also an amateur of contemporary art and cinema. His favourite painter is Robert Rauschenberg, and his favourite film director is Stanley Kubrick.

Edoardo Zamuner comes to La Trobe from University College London where he was a research associate at the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology. Edoardo received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. With David Levy, he edited a scholarly edition of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics (2007) and a volume for Routledge on the enduring application of Wittgenstein’s thought to contemporary analytic philosophy (2008). Edoardo is currently working on perception of other people’s emotions. He spends most of his wake time listening to classical music, and loves going to the beach.

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Brian Ellis Library Revitalised

The Brain Ellis Library – a great resource of philosophy books and journals – has been moved to a new room (311 in Humanities 2), across the corridor from its previous location. Emeritus Professor Brain Ellis opened the library on Wednesday 18 March. He also donated a complete collection of books he has written to the library. The room is now available for all students, staff and honorary associates in Philosophy to meet and discuss their work, to philosophize, or simply to relax between tutorials and lectures.

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