Research

Current postgraduate students

MA students

Joan Clayton
Philosophy of language: the use of Slippery Slope Arguments in Bioethics debates

Andrew McKechnie
A case for unconditional welfare entitlements

Nigel Palmer
Applied Ethics; Business Ethics

Jeremy Reglar
Theories of emotion and cognitive behavioural therapy

Madeleine St Johnston-Romano
Ethics (Classical Greek)

Matthew Usher
Plato's Critique of pleasure

Linda Zaccara
Feminist theory and computer technology

PhD students

Pat Albrecht
Implicit Cognition

Ian Douglas-Irving
Age and Morality

Kym Farrand
Ethics and Epistemology. The justification of moral values in relation of scientific theories.

Paul Rasmussen
Bioethics

Suzi Roux
The history and philosophy of conception in the theory of natural selection

John Tons
Political Moral Philosophy

Randal White
Ethical theory in relation to liberalism and communitarianism

Visiting scholars

Dr Alan Chalmers
Primary Research Interests: Philosophy of Science

Greg O'Hair
Primary Research Interests: Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Mind. Currently working on problems in logic and the nature of computation.

Ken Sievers
Primary Research Interests: History of Philosophy. Currently working on Bradley's philosophy

Dr Patricia O'Grady
Primary Research Interests: include the Pre-Socratics. She is presently researching Hippias of Elis, and women philosophers of ancient times. She is writing an historical novel on Pythagoras, aimed at young readers

Rodney Allen
Primary Research Interests: Metaphysics, Moral and Political Philosophy

Tamara Zutlevics
Primary Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Applied Ethics and the Philosophy of Feminism

Staff

Lynda Burns
George Couvalis
Ian Hunt
Ian Ravenscroft

Publications

Lynda Burns

"Fantasy Memory and Reality" in Feminism and Psychology, 1998 - on Legal and psychoanalytic perspectives on Rape.

"Real Women" in The Australian Rationalist, 2000 - a review of Germaine Greer's 1999 book, The Whole Woman.

Alan Chalmers

"What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Science?", reviews of Alan F. Chalmers What Is This Thing called Science?, 3rd revised edition, Queensland University press, 1999, plus author's reply. Metascience, Volume 9, number 2, 2000, pp. 172-203

What Is This Thing Called Science?, 3rd revised edition, Queensland University Press, Open University Press and Hackett publishing Co, (Boston, Mass.), 1999

Review Symposium, "Making sense of laws of physics" in H. Sankey (ed.), Causation and Laws of Nature, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999, pp. 3-16

"Twenty years On: Adding the Cats Whiskers", 'Science and Education', 8, 1999, pp.327-338

George Couvalis

The Philosophy of Science: Science and Objectivity, Sage Publications, London, 1997

Ian Hunt

Analytical and Dialectal Marxism, Aldershot, Avebury, 1993

"Are Choices always Liberating? - Dilemmas of 'Freeing Up' the Australian Labour Market" in The New Industrial Relations in Australia, (eds) Ian Hunt and Chris Provis, Federation Press, Sydney, 1995

"Risking One's Life: 'Soft Paternalism' and Feinberg's Account of Legal Liberalism' in The Canadian Journal of Law and JurisPrudence, 8 (1995), pp.311-324

Greg O'Hair

"Logical Consequences and Model Theoretic Consequence" in Logique et Analyse, 1995

Ian Ravenscroft

"Neuroscience and the Mind" in Mind and Language, 13 (1998)

"What is it Like to be Someone Else? Simulation and Empathy" in Ratio, 11 (1998)

Recreative Minds: Image and Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology, forthcoming with Oxford University Press - Co-author: Gregory Currie.

"Predictive failure" in Philosophical Papers, forthcoming.

Tamara Zutlevics

'Markets and the needy: Organ sales or aid?', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 18 (3), 2001 (a), pp301-306.

'Libertarianism and personal autonomy', The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol XXXIX, No 3, 2001(b), pp461-71.

'Relational Selves, Personal Autonomy and Oppression', Philosophia, Vol 29, 2001 (c).

'Reconciliation, responsibility, and apology', Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol 16, No 1, 2002 (a), pp 63-75.

'Autonomy as scapegoat in the organ shortage debate', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 11 (1), 2002 (b), pp68-72.

'Towards a theory of oppression', Ratio, Vol XV (1) 2002 (c), pp80-102.

Patricia O'Grady

Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece (102Kb PDF). Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales

Thales of Miletus: The Beginnings of Western Science and Philosophy. Aldershot, UK:; and Burlington, VT. USA: Ashgate, 2002.

"Anaxagoras and Athenian Politics: Towards a Chronology" published in Greek Research in Australia, ed. Elizabeth Close, Michael Tsianikas and George Frazis. Department of Languages - Modern Greek, Flinders University Press, 2001.

"Thales: Some Problems in Early Greek Science." Greek Studies in Australia: Research Perspectives. Flinders University Press, Department of Languages (Modern Greek), 1999.

"Thales of Miletus". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; 2000.