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Meet our head of school

Associate Professor Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe

Associate Professor Matt Sharpe is the author of The Other Enlightenment (2023) and Camus, Philosophe (2014, 2015), and coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (2021) and Zizek and Politics (2010). He has taught and supervised philosophy for over two decades, and is the author of numerous articles in the history of ideas, classical receptions, critical and psychoanalytic theory, continental theory, and Stoic thought. These articles have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of History of Philosophy, Telos, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Philosophy & Literature, Review of Politics, Thesis Eleven, Political Theory, Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophical Papers, Sophia, Poetics Today, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Philosophy Today, Critical Horizons, New Formations, The European Legacy, Angelaki, Law & Critique. He has also written extensively for The Conversation, and was awarded the 2022 Australasian Association of Philosophy media award. Associate Professor Sharpe is also actively involved in the modern Stoic community, speaking at Stoicon events, writing for popular magazines, and coorganising the Australian Stoicon-X events.

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Academic staff by location

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Brisbane Campus

 
Name and position Area of expertise

Stewart Braun

Senior Lecturer

  • Virtue theory
  • Distributive and productive justice
  • Philosophy of law

Sameema Zahra

Lecturer

  • Continental philosophy
  • Feminism
  • Philosophy and counselling
  • Philosophical psychology

Melbourne Campus

 
Name and position Area of expertise

Professor Garth Green

Ray L. Hart Professor of the Philosophy of Religion

  • Nicholas of Cusa
  • German phenomenology
  • French phenomenology
  • German idealism

Professor Clayton Littlejohn

Professor

  • Rational belief
  • Internalism-externalism debate
  • Disagreement
  • Legal epistemology
  • Knowledge-first epistemology

Dr Jodie McNeilly

Lecturer

  • Classical phenomenology (Husserl)
  • 20th century German and French phenomenology
  • Phenomenology of religion; French theological turn
  • Epistemology of religious belief
  • Eco-phenomenology and critical ecologies
  • Critical ontologies
  • Philosophies of the body and movement
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy of film; film criticism

Dr Caleb Perl

Senior Lecturer

  • Contextualism about epistemic modals
  • Propositional temporalism and contingentism

Assoc. Prof. Matt Sharpe

National Head of School

  • Philosophy as a way of life
  • Historical conceptions of philosophy
  • Philosophy and professionalisation
  • Sociology of intellectuals
  • Early modern philosophy
  • Ancient philosophy
  • Philosophy and the far right

Dr Margot Strohminger

Senior Lecturer

  • Imagination
  • Thought experiments
  • Counterfactual thinking
  • Truth in fiction
  • Epistemology

Sydney Campuses

 
Name and position Area of expertise

Dr Atheer al-Khalfa

Lecturer

  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of mind

Dr Millicent Churcher

Lecturer

  • Social and political philosophy
  • Sexual ethics
  • History of philosophy

Dr James Dorahy

Lecturer

  • Marx and post-Marxism
  • German critical theory
  • Philosophy of history
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Phenomenology

Dr Leah McGarrity

Lecturer

  • Philosophy of religion
  • Asian philosophy and religion (esp. India and Tibet)
  • Phenomenology and philosophical anthropology
  • Ethics and personhood
  • Theory and method in comparative philosophy and religion

Dr Benjamin Walters

Lecturer

  • Distributive justice
  • Toleration theory
  • Culture war theory

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