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Professor Raimond Gaita Ph.D. (Leeds), M.A. (Melb), B.A. (Hons. Melb.) Fellow of the Australian Aacdemy of the Humanities

Contact details

Email: raimond.gaita@acu.edu.au

Phone: +61 3 9953 3159

Fax: +61 3 9953 3325

Location: 45, Level 4, 250 Victoria Parade, Melbourne Campus (St Patrick's)

Foundation Professor of Philosophy

Raimond Gaita was educated in Victoria, Australia where he received a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Melbourne. Under the supervision of R.F. Holland, he wrote a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. He is currently Foundation Professor of Philosophy at ACU and Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London. Each year he is in England from October until the beginning of the academic year at ACU.

Gaita's main research interests and publications have been in ethics. He has also worked and written on scepticism (moral, of other minds and of the external world), on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology, on aspects of political philosophy (collective responsibility, the role of moral considerations in politics, genocide and the alleged uniqueness of the Holocaust), on education (the nature of teaching as a vocation, the role of love in learning and the plight of the universities) and on Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and language.

Because he believes that it is generally a good thing for philosophers to address an educated and hard-thinking lay audience as well as their colleagues, Gaita has written extensively for non-academic publications. He has also written a prize-winning memoir about his father, Romulus, My Father, which has been made into a feature film of the same name.

Fields of expertise/areas of interest

Ethics, scepticism, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, aspects of political philosophy, collective responsibility, genocide, education and Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and language.