ACU Researcher

Dr Talia Morag

Senior Lecturer
Western Civilization Program

Areas of expertise: philosophy

Email: talia.morag@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU North Sydney Campus

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Not accredited

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2687-6938

Talia Morag (PhD, University of Sydney) is a senior lecturer of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. She works on ethics and philosophical psychology, especially liberal naturalism, psychoanalysis, emotion, social psychology, moral psychology and the philosophy of TV. She is the author of Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason (Routledge, 2016), and received the Annette Baier Prize (2020) from the Australasian Association of Philosophy for her paper: "Comparison or seeing as? The Holocaust and Factory Farming," in the collection Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Dimond, edited by Gleeson and Taylor.

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Academia

Select publications

Book

• 2016. Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason (London: Routledge). Reviewed in: Parrhesia 28, 2017; Metascience 26 (3), 2017; Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (4), 2018; Philosophy 94 (1), 2018.

Edited collection

• 2023. Sartre and Analytic Philosophy (NY: Routledge).

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2023. "Communication in Silence: Conversations with Neville Symington," Psychoanalysis Downunder 19.
• 2022. "Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Seeing-As: an alternative to "alief" as an explanation of reason-recalcitrant behaviours," Mind & Language 37 (1), 38-55.
• 2017. "Wellbeing, Morality, and the Aim of Psychoanalysis," Parrhesia 28, 76-86.
• 2017. "The Tracking Dogma in the Philosophy of Emotion," Argumenta 2 (2). 343-364.
• 2017. "Persons and their Personas: Living with Yourself," M/C Journal 17 (3).

Book Chapters

• 2023. "Introduction: Analytic vs. Continental from an Imaginative Point of View." In Sartre and Analytic Philosophy.
• 2023. "Bad faith and the Freudian Unconscious." In Sartre and Analytic Philosophy.
• 2022. "Liberal Naturalism and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis." In The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism. M. De Caro & D. Macarthur (eds.) (London: Routledge), 383-410.
• 2019. "Comparison or Seeing-As? The Holocaust and Factory Farming." In Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond. A. Gleeson & C. Taylor (eds.) (London: Routledge), 194-214.
• 2018. "An Imaginative-Associative Account of Affective Empathy." In Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges. In A. Waldow & D. Matravers (eds.) (London, Routledge), 167-184.
• 2017. "The Challenges of the Great War to Freud's Psychoanalysis." In Crisis and Reconfigurations: 100 Years of European Philosophy Since The Great War. M. Sharpe, J. Reynolds & R. Jeffs (eds.) (Springer), 119-139.
• 2017. "Whedon's Demons: The Immorality of Moral Clarity and the Ethics of Moral Complexity." In Philosophical Approaches to Demonology. B. McCraw & R. Art (eds.) (NY: Routledge), 225-241.
• 2012. "Doing without Ontology: A Quinean Pragmatist Approach to Badiou." In Badiou and Philosophy. S. Bowden & S. Duffy (eds.), (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 132-156.

Other

• 2019. "Review of Knowing Emotions: Truthfulness and Recognition in Affective Experience by Rick Anthony Furtak," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/knowing-emotions-truthfulness-and-recognition-in-affective-experience/
• 2018. "Imaginative Associations: the Return of the Repressed?" entry in Amy Kind's blog on the imagination, Junkyard of the Mind. https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog?author=5aac227b1ae6cfd37961cc95
• 2017. "Author's Response: Talia Morag, Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason," response to 3 reviews by Paul Griffiths, Catriona Mackenzie, and Paul Griffiths, Metascience: reviews journal for the history, philosophy, and social studies of science 26 (3)
• 2017. "Living a Lie." In The Americans and Philosophy. K. Guilfoy & R. Art (eds.) (Chicago: Open Court).
• 2014. "Double Agents and Multiple Identities." In Homeland and Philosophy. R. Arp (ed.), (Chicago: Open Court), 13-21.
• 2008. "Badiou within Neo-Pragmatism: Objectivity and Change," Cardozo Law Review 29: 5, 2239-3367.

Projects

1. 2024. International Psychoanalytical Association Research Grant. "A New Epistemology for Psychoanalysis: Reappraising Wittgenstein's Critique of Freud." 5000USD.

Accolades or awards

1. 2020. Annette Baier Prize for best philosophy paper written by a female academic in the Australasian Region; the Australasian Association of Philosophy. https://aap.org.au/Annette-Baier-Prize.

Appointments and affiliations

• 2024 - Senior Lecturer, Australian Catholic University (ACU), North Sydney.
• 2020 - 2024 Lecturer School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong.
• 2017-2019. Alfred-Deakin Postdoctoral Fellow, Deakin University

Grant agency review panels

• ARC Reviewer, 2023.

Public engagement

• 2020. Organizer of a public event, part of the international series led by Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) and Claire MacCumhaill (Durham), "Notes from a Biscuit Tin - a tribute to Mary Midgley." University of Wollongong.
• 2015. On the Organizing committee of a Sydney Ideas public event with indigenous leader Noel Pearson, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear, and indigenous activist and scholar Marcia Langton, University of Sydney.
• 2014-2019. Founding director of Psyche+Society: Main organizer and facilitator of public events featuring conversations in ordinary language about social psychology.