Academic Staff
Academic staff may be contacted by fax on +612 9351 3918.
Guido Bacciagaluppi, Thomas Besch, Rick Benitez, Joseph Berkovitz, Ben Blumson, David Braddon-Mitchell, Paolo Diego Bubbio, Sungho Choi, Creagh Cole, Mark Colyvan, Simon Duffy, Moira Gatens, Stephen Gaukroger, Paul Griffiths, John Grumley, Adrian Heathcote, Jenann Ismael, Duncan Ivison, Richard Joyce, James Justus, Uriah Kriegel, David Macarthur, Michael McDermott, Justine McGill, Kristie Miller, Luca Moretti, Huw Price, Paul Redding, Adina Roskies, Luke Russell, Nicholas J. J. Smith, Katie Steele, Karola Stotz, Anik Waldow, Caroline West
The above list includes staff who both teach and undertake research, and also research fellows. Senior research fellows are available for postgraduate supervision, while postdoctoral fellows may also assist with supervision, where appropriate.
Emeriti, Research Associates, Honorary Visiting Professor
Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi
Senior Research Fellow
Room 405, A18 Brennan MacCallum
+612 93515385
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Physics (esp. Quantum Mechanics), Time, Probability, History of Quantum Mechanics.
Dr Thomas Besch
Room N592, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2216
Teaching and research interests: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Public Reason, Practical Reasoning and Justification, Constructivism, History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Rawls, Hare, Kant.
Associate Professor Rick Benitez
Room N496, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 6658
Teaching and research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Greek Tragedy, Ethics and Aesthetics, Philosophy of Law.
Dr Joseph Berkovitz
Centre for Time Postdoctoral Fellow
+612 9036 6334
Room 405, A18 Brennan McCallum
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Probability and Philosophy of Economics
Dr Ben Blumson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room S403, Main Quadrangle Building
+612 9036 7184
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Aesthetics, especially Pictorial Representation.
Associate Professor David Braddon-Mitchell
Room S501, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2372
Teaching and research interests: Philosophy of mind, metaphysics; also meta-ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology and epistemology. Author, with Frank Jackson, of The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell, 1996.
Dr Paolo Diego Bubbio
University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow
Room 408, Brennan/MacCallum A18
+612 9036 6335
Research and supervision interests: German idealism (particularly Hegel and Solger), Nietzsche studies, Existentialism and Hermeneutics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Literature. His current research project is 'The notion of sacrifice in Hegel and Nietzsche'. He is the author of The Intellectual Sacrifice, Rene Girard and Philosophy of Religion (1999) and The Sacrifice, Reason and its Other (2004), both in Italian.
Dr Sungho Choi
HASS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room S403, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 7184
Research interests: Methodology of Science, Scientific Explanation, Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science, Scientific Revolutions, Induction, Confirmation, Quine-Duhem Thesis, Causation, Dispositions, Powers, Events, Processes, Mereology, Properties, Identity, Possible Worlds, Laws of Nature, Scientific Realism, Strutural Realism, Four-dimensionalism.
Dr Creagh Cole
Anderson Research Fellow
Room N391, Quadrangle Building A14
+61 417 681 834
Professor Mark Colyvan
Professorial Fellow
Room S205, Main Quadrangle
+61 2 9036 6175
Further contact details are available on my homepage
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Biology (especially Philosophy of Ecology), Decision Theory. Recent Publications include: The Indispensability of Mathematics (OUP, 2001) and (with Lev Ginzburg) Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (OUP, 2003).
Dr Simon Duffy
Room S407, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3108
Teaching and research interests: early modern philosophy, European philosophy, and the history and philosophy of science. He is the author of The logic of expression: quality, quantity and intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze (Ashgate, 2006), and editor of Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference (Clinamen, 2006).
Professor Moira Gatens
ARC Professorial Fellow
Room N443, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2468
Research and supervision interests: Social and political philosophy, C17th rationalism (especially Spinoza), and feminist philosophy. Recent publications: Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality (1996); co-editor, Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism (1998), Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship (1998) and editor Feminist Ethics (1998). Her most recent book (co-authored with Genevieve Lloyd) is Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (1999). In 2006 she began a 5-year ARC Professorial Fellowship.
Professor Stephen Gaukroger
ARC Professorial Fellow
Room S248, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2477
Research and supervision interests: 17th and 18th century philosophy and science. He is author of: Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002). His current research projects are "The Emergence of a Scientific Culture in Early-Modern Europe" and "The Persona of the Philosopher". In 2004 he began a 5-year ARC Professorial Fellowship.
Professor Paul Griffiths
Professorial Research Fellow
Room N492, Main Quadrangle
+612 90366265
Research and Supervision interests: Philosophy and history of biology, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science. Author, (with Kim Sterelny) of Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology (Chicago, 1999), and of What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological csategories (Chicago, 1997).
Dr John Grumley
Room S403, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2465
Teaching and research interests: Social and poltical philosophy, German Idealism, Critical theory from Marx to Habermas, Theories of Modernity, philosophy of 'mere life'.
Recent publications include Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for Gyorgy Markus, (edited with Crittenden, P & Johnson, P (London: Ashgate, 2002)) and Agnes Heller: Moralist in the Vortex of History (London: Pluto Press, 2005).
Dr Adrian Heathcote
Room S602, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2559
Teaching and research interests: Main interests at the present are Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Mathematics, the theory of Truth (particularly axiomatic approaches) and Epistemology. In philosophy of physics I'm particularly interested in quantum theory, but also space-time theories as they occur in relativity theory. I also have an interest in Hume's philosophy, in particular its relation to medieval thought. I've published in the journals Philosophy of Science, Nous, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Theoria, Logique et Analyse, Erkenntnis, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and others. For relaxation I write: poetry, plays, and fiction.
See also pages at http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/philosophy/1002/
Dr Jenann Ismael
Queen Elizabeth II ARC Research Fellow
Room S402, Quadrangle Building A14
+612 9036 6591
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Physics, and Philosophy of Science.
Professor Duncan Ivison
Room 608, A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
+612 9351 5658
Teaching and research interests: Contemporary political philosophy and the history of political and moral philosophy, especially in the early modern period. He is particularly interested in theories of justice, freedom, the self and the state, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples and the philosophy of law. He has published in all of these areas. He is the author of The Self at Liberty (Cornell University Press, 1997), Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Rights (Acumen, 2008) and co-editor of Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Associate Professor Richard Joyce
Research Fellow
Research and supervision interests: Metaethics, moral psychology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and aesthetics. Richard is author of The Myth of Morality (Cambridge, 2001) and The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006). He is co-editor (with Simon Kirchin) of the forthcoming volume A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory (Springer).
Dr James Justus
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room 408, A18 Brennan McCallum
+612 90365189
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Science (especially Philosophy of Ecology), Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Decision Making.
Dr Uriah Kriegel
University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow
Room 409, Brennan/MacCallum A18
+612 9036 6336
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Meta-ethics, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science. Recent publications include: "Intentional Inexistence and Phenomenal Intentionality" (Philosophical Perspectives), "Real Narrow Content" (Mind & Language), and "Self-Representationalism and Phenomenology" (Philosophical Studies).
Dr David Macarthur
Room S412, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3193
Teaching and research interests: Epistemology, Pragmatism, Philosophy of Psychology, History of Modern Philosophy, Wittgenstein, and Aesthetics. He is co-editor of the book, Naturalism in Question (Harvard University Press, 2004).
Dr Michael McDermott
Chair of Department
Room S212, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2370
Teaching and research interests: Logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of mind.
Dr Justine McGill
Room S408, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6015
Teaching and research Interests: Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Nietzsche studies, Contemporary French Philosophy. Dr McGill is currently writing a book about personal responsibility, called Broken Promises. This work is funded through the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Thesis to Book project and will be published by PanMacmillan in 2007.
Dr Kristie Miller
ARC Post-doctoral Fellow
Room 411 Mungo McCallum
+612 9356 9663
Research interests: metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of time.
Dr Luca Moretti
Centre of Time Postdoctoral Fellow
Room S403, Quadrangle Building A14
+612 9036 7184
Research and supervision interests: metaphysics and philosophical logic (especially: realism/antirealism debate, theories of truth, semantical and ontological minimalism, ontological commitment).
Professor Huw Price
ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Time.
Room S401, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 4057
Research and supervision interests: include time-asymmetry, the philosophy of quantum mechanics, and pragmatic approaches to philosophy of language and metaphysics. Details and online copies of most of his publications are available via his home page.
Professor Paul Redding
Room S404, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3983
Teaching and research interests: Kant and German idealism, hermeneutics, philosophy of psychology. Paul has published books on Hegel (Hegel's Hermeneutics, Cornell UP, 1996) and the philosophical psychology of German idealism (The Logic of Affect, Cornell UP, 1999). He has just finished a book on the links between German idealism and approaches within contemporary analytic philosophy (Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2007). His present project relates Kant and the post-Kantian idealists to Leibniz's earlier attempt to reconcile early modern science with the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition.
Dr Adina Roskies
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Ethics (especially neuroethics, and metaethics.)
Dr Luke Russell
Room S442, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 3821
Teaching and research interests: Normativity, realism and naturalism in epistemology and ethics. Also, virtue theory, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology.
Dr Nicholas J. J. Smith
Room S416, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 6242
Teaching and research interests: Logic (especially logics of vagueness and theories of truth), metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of time (especially time travel), early analytic philosophy (especially Frege), probability and decision theory.
Dr Katie Steele
Postdoctoral Fellow
Room 408 A18 Brennan McCallum
+612 9036 5189
Research and supervision interests: Philosophy of probability; decision theory; social choice theory; environmental philosophy
Dr Karola Stotz
Australian Research Fellow
Room S405, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2205
Research and supervision interests: History and Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science.
Dr Anik Waldow
DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room S248, Main Quadrangle
+612 9351 2477
Research and supervision interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics.
Dr Caroline West
Room S415, Main Quadrangle
+612 9036 9349
Teaching and research interests: metaphysics (especially identity, persistence and personal identity); moral philosophy (meta-ethics and normative ethics); applied and professional ethics; political philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy and psychology of well-being. She has published in all these areas. Details and online copies of most of her publications are available via her home page