People

Staff and their research interests

As a guide to students seeking supervision, this is a list of philosophy staff at the ANU with their primary fields of research.

Enquiries about supervision may also be emailed to the Graduate Convenor.

Continuing positions

Christian Barry
Lecturer & Research Fellow
Faculty of Arts / CAPPE
Social and political philosophy

David Chalmers
Professor
Centre for Consciousness, RSSS
Mind, Language, Metaphysics Philosophy

Bruin Christensen
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts
German Philosophy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially Husserl and Heidegger, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of technology and the environment, hermeneutics and the history of modern philosophy

Brian Garrett
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts
Metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, Wittgenstein

Bob Goodin
Professor
Philosophy/SPT, RSSS
Social and political philosophy

Jason Grossman
Lecturer & Research Fellow
Faculty of Arts / CAPPE
Philosophy of statistics, scientific methodology, public health ethics

Alan Hájek
Professor
Philosophy, RSSS
Probability and decision theory, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion

Frank Jackson
Professor
Philosophy, RSSS
Mind, language, metaphysics, meta-ethics

Fiona Jenkins
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts
Nietzsche, contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory

Jeanette Kennett
Associate Professor
CAPPE
Meta-ethics, moral psychology

Richard Lucas
Research Fellow
CAPPE
Computer ethics

Seumas Miller
Professor
CAPPE

Thomas Pogge
Professor
CAPPE
Global justice and welfare ethics

Jonathan Schaffer
Professor
Philosophy, RSSS
Metaphysics, epistemology, language

Susanna Schellenberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Mind

Michael Selgelid
Senior Research Fellow
CAPPE
Bioethics

Jeremy Shearmur
Reader
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, political philosophy, history of political thought

Nicholas Southwood
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Ethics

Kim Sterelny
Professor
Philosophy, RSSS
Philosophy of biology, psychology, mind

Daniel Stoljar
Professor
Philosophy, RSSS
Mind, metaphysics, meta-ethics

Udo Thiel
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts
17th and 18thC philosophy, aesthetics, European philosophy

Jeroen van den Hoven
Professor
CAPPE
Computer ethics

David West
Reader
Faculty of Arts
Political philosophy, Continental philosophy, philosophy of sexuality, Hannah Arendt, Frankfurt School and Habermas

Postdoctoral fellows and other limited-term contracts

Berit Brogaard
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Metaphysics, epistemology, language

Lina Eriksson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Social and political philosophy, philosophy of pathematics

Brett Calcott
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Philosophy of biology

Patrick Greenough
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Epistemology, language

Richard Joyce
Research Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Language, metaphysics, mind, aesthetics

Declan Smithies
Postdoctoral Fellow
Philosophy, RSSS
Mind, epistemology

Daniel Star
Research Fellow
CAPPE
Theoretical and practical ethics

*If you are an ANU philosophy staff member and would like to have your profile and a statement about your research or research experience appear on this website, please contact the Graduate Convenor.