Global Utilities

Philosophy Program

Research

Staff Research Interests:

Contemporary European Philosophy

  • Feminism and epistemology - Philipa Rothfield
  • Heidegger's thought - George Vassilacopoulos
  • Merleau-Ponty - Philipa Rothfield
  • Philosophy of the body - Philipa Rothfield, Jack Reynolds
  • Postmodernism - Philipa Rothfield
  • Hegel - George Vassilacopoulos
  • Post-structuralism (esp. Derrida & Deleuze) - Jack Reynolds
  • Existentialism & Phenomenology (esp. Sartre, Heidegger & Merleau-Ponty - Jack Reynolds
  • Philosophy of Otherness/Alterity/Intersubjectivity - Jack Reynolds

Epistemology

  • Feminist epistemology - Freya Mathews

Environmental Philosophy

  • Environmental metaphysics & epistemology
    Freya Mathews
  • Environmental ethics - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo, Janna Thompson

Feminism

  • Corporeal feminism - Philipa Rothfield
  • French feminism - Philipa Rothfield
  • Feminist epistemology - Janna Thompson
  • Feminist social theory - Janna Thompson, Toula Nicolacopoulos
  • Feminist epistemology and ecofeminism - Freya Mathews

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Philosophy & History of Science

  • Comparative history of science & medicine - Andrew Brennan
  • Post-Popperian philosophy of science - John Fox
  • Strong research programmes & the sociology of science - John Fox

Logic and Philosophical Logic

  • Entailment & conditionals - Andrew Brennan
  • Relevant logic proof theory & semantics - Ross Brady
  • Set-theoretic and semantic paradoxes - Ross Brady, John Fox
  • Substitutional semantics - John Fox
  • Classicality, negation & entailment - Ross Brady

Metaphysics

  • Identity & personal identity - Andrew Brennan
  • Nominalism - John Fox
  • Theories of truth - John Fox

Moral Philosophy (Ethics, Applied Ethics & Metaethics)

  • Environmental Ethics - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo, Janna Thompson
  • Ethics - Norva Y.S. Lo
  • Meta-ethics (e.g. theories of value, anti-rationalism, humanism, empirical ethics, moral epistemology, subjectivity & objectivity) - Norva Y.S. Lo
  • Communitarianism - Toula Nicolacopoulos
  • David Hume's moral philosophy - Norva Y.S. Lo

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Moral Psychology

  • Moral motivation, reason and emotion - Norva Y.S. Lo

Philosophy of Mathematics

  • Foundations of mathematics - John Fox

Philosophy of Psychology

  • Psychotherapy
  • Evidence for psychoanalytic theory - John Fox
  • Freud and feminism - John Fox
  • Moral Psychology
  • Moral motivation, reason & emotion - Norva Y.S. Lo

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

  • Philosophy of social sciences - Janna Thompson
  • Philosophy & environmental policy - Andrew Brennan
  • Worldviews, attitudes & social policy - Andrew Brennan, Norva Y.S. Lo

Political Philosophy

  • Justice & communities
  • Communitarianism - Toula Nicolacopoulos
  • War & Peace - John Fox
  • Criteria for just wars; war & respect for human rights - Janna Thompson, John Fox
  • Pacifism; nuclear deterrence - John Fox
  • Philosophy of international relations - Janna Thompson
  • Time & Politics (evaluating the strengths & weaknesses of analytic & continental political philosophies & their differing temporal assumptions) - Jack Reynolds
  • Violence & Dirty Hands - Jack Reynolds


Comparing 'Analytic' & 'Continental' Methods

(esp. reflective equilibrium, thought experiments, condeptual & linguistic analysis, prpbability & decision theory, transcendental arguments, phenomenological, hermeneutical, genealogical & deconstructive methods) - Jack Reynolds


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Last Updated: 15 August, 2007