Career Summary
Educational Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Australian National University, 1986
Master of Arts (First Class Honours), Philosophy, University of Auckland, 1982
Bachelor of Arts, History and Philosophy, University of Auckland, 1980
Grants, Prizes and Awards
2008
Humboldt Research Fellow (resumption of Fellowship), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2007
Australian Research Council International Linkage Award (for 2008-09), with Karsten Thiel: “Genealogy and Topology: A Constellational Comparison of Nietzsche and Heidegger”
2006
University of Tasmania, Inaugural Postgraduate Supervision Award, “in recognition of significant and sustained contribution to graduate research education and training at The University of Tasmania”.
2006
Australian Research Council, Australian Professorial Fellowship (for 2007-2012) ‘Ethos and Topos: Towards an Ethics and Politics of Place’.
2005
University of Tasmania, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement (as part of Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethic
2005
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (for 2006-08), with Andrew Brennan: ‘Making Ethics Work: A New Model for Business and Organizational Ethics’
2004
Humboldt Research Fellow (resumption of Fellowship), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2003
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (for 2004-06), with Andrew Benjamin: 'Between the Outback and the Sea: The Place of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Australia'
2002
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (for 2003-04), with Jonathan Holmes, Paul Zika, David Hansen, Maria Kunda (University of Tasmania/Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery): 'The Shifting Locus of Artistic Practice'
2000
Australian Research Council Large Grant (for 2001-03): 'Heidegger's Topology of Being'
1999
Winner (with Gary Wickham), Bill Myers Prize, Best Essay in Political Science 1999, Australasian Journal of Political Science
1997
Humboldt Research Fellowship (for 1998-1999)
1994
Australian Research Council Large Grant (for 1995-96): 'Body and Place'
For information about the Place Research Network go to
http://www.utas.edu.au/placenet/
Research Interests
My current research is focused around a number of projects of which the most important are the following.
1. Making Ethics Work: A New Model for Business and Professional Ethics
(with Andrew Brennan, LaTrobe; funded by ARC Discovery Grant – This project develops a new conceptual framework for understanding ethics in business, management and the professions, one that arises out of and is attentive to actual business, managerial and professional practice. The project draws on (i) existing empirical work in management and social science, and (ii) a philosophical approach that emphasizes the practically embedded character of all agency and understanding.
2. Ethos and Topos: On the Ethics and Politics of Place (funded by ARC Australian Professorial fellowship) – There are good reasons for thinking that our attachment to place is inextricably linked to who and what we are. Yet some theorists argue that such attachment is inevitably linked to violence and exclusion. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach within the framework of philosophical analysis, this project aims to investigate the possibility of a viable ethics and politics of place that is not linked to violence in this way.
3. Triangulating Davidson(funded by ARC Australian Professorial fellowship) – This is the projected third volume in the series that began with Place and Experience, and in which Heidegger’s Topology was the second. It develops an explicitly topographical reading of Davidson (especially focussed on triangulation), while also connecting Davidson with Gadamer and Heidegger.
Other projects currently underway include a volume of essays on cosmopolitanism in contemporary Australia (with Keith Jacobs and also Linn Miller), a volume of collected essays on the interface between analytic and hermeneutic thought, and a volume on human suffering with Norelle Lickiss, as well as various invited essays and conference papers on topics from philosophy and architecture through to ethics in the everyday. Works currently in press include:
• The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, edited Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, in press, 2010).
• Dialogues with Davidson: New Perspectives on his Philosophy edited Jeff Malpas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, in press, 2010).
• Consequences of Hermeneutics , edited Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, in press, 2010).
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