George Couvalis, (BJuris, PhD NSW)

Dr George Couvalis
Senior Lecturer
The Flinders University of South Australia
Sturt Rd., Bedford Park
Adelaide, SA 5042
Australia

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Dr George Couvalis B. Juris. (NSW) Phd. (NSW). Senior Lecturer.

George joined the department in 1989, having previously been a tutor at the University of Adelaide. George’s main field of research has been the philosophy of science. He has published two books in the area, Feyerabend’s Critique of Foundationalism (Avebury, 1989) and The Philosophy of Science, Science and Objectivity (Sage, 1997), as well as several articles. George’s other areas of interest include aesthetics, social philosophy and Greek philosophy. He has published papers in these areas.

George is currently the Director of Studies for Philosophy and his teaching at Flinders for 2006 includes:

PHIL 1030 The Individual and Society (Sem. 1)

PHIL 2024 Evolution, Knowledge and Ethics (Sem. 1)

PHIL 2025 Paradox, Truth and Being (Sem. 2)

Honours Seminar on Gerasimos Santas, Goodness and Justice (Blackwell, 2001)

Publications

Editor

• With Helen Macdonald and Cheryl Simpson, Cultural Heritage: Values and Rights, Flinders Centre of Applied Philosophy, 1998.
• With Cheryl Simpson, Alternative Law Journal, Volume 28, no. 5, October 2003.
• With Cheryl Simpson and Michele Slatter, Alternative Law Journal, Volume 30, no. 5, October 2005.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• 'Should Philosophers become Playwrights?' Inquiry, 29 (1986): 451-7.
• 'Feyerabend's Epistemology and Brecht's Theory of the Drama', Philosophy and Literature, 11 (1987): 117-123.
• 'Feyerabend, Ionesco and the Philosophy of the Drama', Critical Philosophy, 4 (1988); .51-68.
• 'Feyerabend and Laymon on Brownian Motion', Philosophy of Science 55 (1988): 415-21.
• 'Feyerabend, the Ancient Quarrel, and the Problem of Aesthetic Criteria', Philosophical Inquiry, 16 (1994): 1 - 19.
• 'The Art Market', Alternative Law Journal, 20, (1995): 173-5.
• With Helen Macdonald 'Cultural Heritage, Property and the Position of Australian Aboriginals', Law in Context 14 (1996): 141-161.
• ‘Radical Fallibilism vs Conceptual Analysis: The Significance of Feyerabend’s Philosophy of Science’, Metascience 8 (1999): 206-215.
• With Cheryl Simpson: ‘Anzac Heritage or Anzac History: Truth or Fiction?’, Alternative Law Journal, 25 (2000) 165-168.
• ‘Claudius Ptolemy (Klaudios Ptolemaios) and the Sphericity of the Earth’, Greek Research in Australia Elizabeth Close (ed.) 2001: 28-38.
• With Matthew Usher: ‘Plato on False Pains and False Pleasures’, Greek Research in Australia Elizabeth Close et al (eds.) 2003: 1-13
• With Matthew Usher: ‘Plato on False Pains and Modern Cognitive Science’, Philosophical Inquiry, 25 2003: 99-115.
• ‘Is Induction Epistemologically Prior to Deduction?’, Ratio, 17 2004: 28-44.
• With Matthew Usher, ‘Pain and Pleasure in Plato’s Physiology’, Greek Research in Australia, Elizabeth Close et al (eds.) 2005: 39-52.
•  Under Consideration by Refereed Journals:
• ‘Alexandrian Identity and the Coinage Commemorating Nero’s “liberation” of Greece’, Greek Research in Australia.
• With Suzanne Roux, ‘Aristotle and the Eternal Caterpillar’, Greek Research in Australia.

Articles in Non-refereed Journals

• "Philosophical Aspects of the Plate Tectonics Revolution", Bulletin of the Field Geology Club of South Australia, Vol 22, no.5, pp.5-10.

Reviews

• Review of Aesthetics by Anne Sheppard, Australian Art Eduction, vol.12, no. 2 (1988), pp.45-47.
• Review of It's a Sin, by Lawrence Grossberg and others, Australian Art Education, vol.13, no.2 (1989), pp.51-54.
• Catalogue essay for retrosopective exhibition of the work of Anna Platten at the Underdale Art Museum, University of South Australia (1992).
• Review of David Novitz, The Boundaries of Art, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72 (1994) pp. 401-3.
• Review of Howard Sankey, Relativism and Incommensurability, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1998) pp. 336-347.
• Survey review of three books ‘Recent Feyerabendiana’, Metascience, 10, (2001) pp. 39-49.
• Review of Lou Marinoff, Plato not Prozac, SAAPIC newsletter, October 2003, p. 12
• Review of Robert Farrell, Feyerabend and Scientific Values, Isis 96, (2005) pp. 312-313.