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Philosophers at 糖心原创 are a diverse and research-engaged community.
We span a number of organisational units within the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy and the faculty of Education and Arts:
Our research and teaching expertise covers a wide range of contemporary philosophical areas, specialisations and methodologies, as indicated by the links below.
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Philosophy of language |
Theories of meaning and translation; philosophy and translation | |
| Indicative conditionals; attitude verbs; not-at-issue commitments; moral semantics | ||
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Philosophy of mind |
Philosophy of mind; philosophical psychology; psychoanalysis | |
| Imagination | ||
| Philosophy of science | ||
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Epistemology |
Epistemology of religious beliefs; metaphysical idealism | |
| Contextualism about epistemic modals; propositional temporalism and contingentism | ||
| Imagination; thought experiments; counterfactual thinking; truth in fiction; epistemology | ||
| Rational belief; internalism-externalism debate; disagreement; legal epistemology; knowledge-first epistemology | ||
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Metaphilosophy |
The value and future of philosophy; analytic vs continental philosophy; philosophy and the university; intuitions in philosophy | |
| Philosophy as a way of life; historical conceptions of philosophy; philosophy and professionalisation; sociology of intellectuals |
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Phenomenology and hermeneutics |
Professor Claude Romano | German and French phenomenology |
| Heidegger; Gadamer; Levinas; JL Nancy; Kant; Kierkegaard | ||
| Professor Robyn Horner | Marion; Lacoste; Derrida; Levinas; Lyotard | |
| Nietzsche; Kierkegaard; religious existentialism, Camus; Sartre; De Beauvoir; Cioran | ||
| Deleuze, Rancière, Derrida | ||
| Lexi Eikelboom | Merleau-Ponty; Agamben | |
| German and French phenomenology | ||
| German and French phenomenology | ||
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Philosophy of psychoanalysis |
Freud; Lacan; Klein; Zizek | |
| Freud | ||
| Freud; Rank; existential psychotherapies | ||
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Critical theory |
The Frankfurt School (1st, 2nd, 3rd generations); The Budapest School; Marxism and post-Marxist political philosophy; Zygmunt Bauman; Charles Taylor | |
| Max Horkheimer; Herbert Marcuse; Franz Neumann; Gyorgy Lukacs; Ernst Bloch | ||
| Benjamin, Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer, Honneth | ||
| From Hegel to Derrida | ||
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Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |
Plato; Epictetus | |
| Professor Claude Romano | Greek philosophy | |
| Plato; Aristotle, Stoicism; ancient philosophical institutions and practices; classical receptions | ||
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Medieval and renaissance philosophy |
Benjamin DeSpain | Aquinas; Thomism |
| Nicholas of Cusa | ||
| Professor Claude Romano | Renaissance philosophy | |
| Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, experimental philosophy (Locke), Neostoicism, the enlightenment philosophies | ||
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Early modern philosophy |
Adam Smith; moral sentiments; sympathy, empathy and emotion | |
| Professor Claude Romano | Philosophical romanticism | |
| 20th Century philosophy | Professor Claude Romano | Phenomenology and the Analytic tradition (from early Wittgenstein onward) |
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Continental philosophy of religion |
Professor Claude Romano | Augustine |
| Professor Robyn Horner | Marion; Derrida; Theological methodology; gift; revelation | |
| Debates in Postmodern Theology, Derrida, Nancy, Enthusiasm | ||
| Medieval apophatic theology; models of Divinity; panentheism | ||
| Analytic philosophy of religion | Epistemology of religious beliefs; metaphysics of idealism | |
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Problem of evil |
Theodicy and anti-theodicy; evidential argument from evil | |
| Theodicy; Divine absence | ||
| Religious language | Aquinas; Wittgenstein; Ian Ramsay |
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Applied ethics |
Healthcare ethics | |
| Global health ethics, healthcare ethics, research ethics (focus on equity and social justice); environmental justice, and/or ecological justice | ||
| Dr Marija Kirjanenko | Bioethics | |
| Dr Steve Matthews | Healthcare ethics | |
| Healthcare ethics, philosophy of wellbeing | ||
| Associate Professor Bernadette Tobin | Healthcare ethics | |
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Meta ethics |
Semantics and pragmatics of moral discourse; moral error theory; moral naturalism | |
| Practical and theoretical reason | ||
| Practical and theoretical reason | ||
| Moral psychology | Associate Professor Steve Matthews | Addiction; agency; responsibility; social self |
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Normative ethics |
Consequentialism | |
| Virtue theory | ||
| Sentimentalism in Smith and Hume | ||
| Plato; Stoicism; Kant; Sidgwick; Aristotle | ||
| Philosophy as a way of life, stoic ethics, history of Western ethical philosophies | ||
| Deontology and uncertainty; intuitionism | ||
| Philosophy of art aesthetics | Deleuze, Rancière, philosophy of cinema | |
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Social and political philosophy |
Distributive and productive justice | |
| Philosophy of institutions, epistemic justice | ||
| Marxism and post-Marxism | ||
| Political liberalism | ||
| Democratic theory; resistance; political violence | ||
| Camus; psychoanalytic political theory; Leo Strauss; far right/fascism/neofascism; politics of intellectuals | ||
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Other areas of expertise |
Affect; embodiment; power; institutions; gender; sex | |
| Philosophy of law | ||
| Philosophy as literature; literature as philosophy, Dostoevsky; Kafka; poetry and philosophy | ||
| Professor Claude Romano | William Faulkner | |
| Shakespeare |
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