Monash Philosophers & Bioethicists
Our mailing address
is: School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Building 11, Monash University
VIC 3800, Australia.
Please see also our staff photos and a listing of our administrative staff.
Continuing Staff
| Dirk Baltzly - Postgrad. and Honours Coordinator - ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, moral philosophy. |
| John Bigelow - Staff Seminar Convener - metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language. |
| Monima Chadha - Undergraduate Coordinator - philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, Indian philosophy. |
| Karen Green - feminism, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of language, history of philosophy. |
| Toby Handfield - metaphysics (especially laws of nature, causation, and dispositional properties), political and legal philosophy. |
| Jakob Hohwy - Research Coordinator - philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of science, philosophy of neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. |
| Lloyd Humberstone - philosophical logic, metaphysics, modal logic and its applications. |
| Justin Oakley - Director, Centre for Human Bioethics - bioethics, ethical theory, moral psychology. |
| Graham Oppy - Head of School - philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, aesthetics, logic, metaphysics. |
| Rob Sparrow - Postgrad. Coursework Coordinator - bioethics, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, media ethics, environmental philosophy. |
Research and Contract Staff
| Linda Barclay - contemporary political philosophy, bioethics. |
| Sam Butchart - philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, epistemology, informal logic. |
| Ros Furney (Flexible Learning Coordinator) - philosophy of mind. |
| Neil McKinnon (ARC post-doc) - mereology/material constitution, philosophy of emotion, philosophy of religion, philosophy of time, vagueness. |
| Aubrey Townsend - philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, history of philosophy. |
| Nick Trakakis - philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics. |
Emeritus
Adjunct Research Associates
| Jacqui Broad - history of women's political thought, women philosophers of the seventeenth century, history of philosophy, feminist theory. |
| Simon Burgess (Central Queensland University) - moral philosophy, political philosophy, meta-ethics, decision theory. |
| Lynda Burns - interests include philosophy of language and feminist theory. |
| Mazviita Chirimuuta - philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, colour, philosophy of science. |
| Norman Ford (Catholic Theological College, Melbourne) |
| Robert Hanna (Colorado, Boulder) - Kant, philosophy of mind, ethics. |
| John Heil (Washington University, St Louis) - metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology. |
| Helga Kuhse - medical end-of-life decisions, resource allocation, new reproductive technologies, nursing ethics. |
| Fiona Leigh (King’s College London) - ancient Greek philosophy, contemporary moral theory, introductory and Aristotelian logic, critical thinking, feminist and queer theory. |
| Neil Levy (CAPPE, University of Melbourne; Oxford Centre for Neuroethics) - free will and moral responsibility, neuroethics, philosophical psychology, moral cognition, practical epistemology. |
Philosophers in other academic units at Monash
| Andrew Benjamin, CLCS (Ancient Greek Philosophy, European Philosophy) |
| Elizabeth Coleman, Communications (Aesthetics, Political Philosophy) |
| Patrick Emerton, Law (Legal Philosophy) |
| Michael Janover, Politics (Ancient Greek Philosophy, European Philosophy) |
| Kevin Korb, Information Technology (AI, Probability, Causation) |
| Constant Mews, History (Medieval Philosophy) |
| Kate Rigby, CLCS (Environmental Philosophy) |
| Alison Ross, CLCS (Aesthetics, European Philosophy) |
| Dale Smith, Law (Legal Philosophy). |
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