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Dr Lynda Burns
Lecturer in Philosophy
The Flinders University of South Australia
Sturt Rd., Bedford Park
Adelaide, SA 5042
Australia
Ph: (08)8 201 3962
Fax: (08)8 201 2784
Email: Lynda.Burns@flinders.edu.au
Lynda Burns won a scholarship to do a postgraduate degree at Oxford University after completing her undergraduate and Honours degree at Melbourne University. Her B.Phil. tutor at Oxford was J.L. Mackie who supervised her thesis on Counterfactual Conditionals. In 1986 she was employed as the Ashworth lecturer in Social Theory at Melbourne University where she taught for some years and completed her Ph.D. thesis on the topic of vagueness and precision in Natural Languages. She has since published a book on the Philosophy of Language and is at present completing a second book on Social Power. She has recently edited a collection on Feminist Theory to be published by Rudopi next year. She has published papers in Synthese, The Southern Journal of Philosophy and in Feminism and Psychology and has a paper collected in The Philosopher's Annual, a collection of the ten best papers published in philosophy each year .
Lynda has been involved in the Philosophy for Schools program in South Australia since 1994. She initiated moves to introduce Philosophy as a subject in the SACE curriculum and currently serves on the SSABSA committee which designed the syllabus for year 11 and 12. She is working on introduction of the Graduate Certificate in Education (Teaching Philosophy), a professional development qualification for primary and secondary school teachers. |
