Researcher Profile

Associate Professor Richard Colledge

Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching), Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, School of Philosophy

Areas of expertise: “post-Kantian European philosophy”; “phenomenology”; “Heidegger studies”; “philosophy of religion”; “philosophy of psychoanalysis”.

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full 

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5503-1099

Phone: +61 07 3623 7569

Email: Richard.colledge@acu.edu.au

Location: Brisbane Campus ACU

Assoc. Prof Richard Colledge is Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) in the Faculty of Theology & Philosophy. He is past Head of ACU’s School of Philosophy. He has a varied background, including postgraduate qualifications in education, counselling psychology and theology. He has a Licentiate (M.A.) in Philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) that included a thesis on Søren Kierkegaard's metaphysics of the self, and a PhD on Martin Heidegger's question of being. His current research focuses on phenomenology and hermeneutics, metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, metaphilosophy, and philosophical psychology. His research publications and doctoral supervisions centre on post-Kantian Continental philosophy (especially Heidegger), the philosophy of psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of religion. He is past President of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (2017-19), and he regularly convenes philosophy research events (e.g., our annual Australian phenomenology series) and public-facing events (e.g., our annual Simone Weil Lecture in Human Value).

Academia Profile

Select Publications:

• Colledge, Richard J. 2021. “Thomism and Contemporary Phenomenological Realism: Toward a Renewed Engagement”. Vol. 95(3): 411–432, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2020, “Heidegger on (In)finitude and the Greco-Latin Grammar of Being”. Review of Metaphysics. Vol. 74(2): 289-319.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2018. “Kin and Stranger: Kearney and Desmond on God”. In Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Matthew Clemente (eds), Richard Kearney's Anatheistic Wager: Philosophy, Theology, Poetics, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 125-141. ISBN 978-0-253-03400-7.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2016. “Faith, Philosophy and the Elemental”. In J. Ozolins (ed). Religion and Culture in Dialogue: East and West Perspectives. Springer, 41-56. ISBN13 9783319257228.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2014. “Rethinking Disagreement: Philosophical Incommensurability and Meta-Philosophy”. Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. 18(2): 33-53.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2013. “Secular Spirituality and the Hermeneutics of Ontological Gratitude”. Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics. 52(1): 27-43.
• Colledge, Richard J. 2013. “Gaudium et Spes and the Metaphysics of Christian Soteriology”. In D. Kirchhoffer et al (eds). Being Human: Groundwork for a Theological Anthropology for the 21st Century. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 47-67. ISBN-13: 978-1743240403.