Dr Toby Handfield
Ph.D. (Monash, 2003)
Email: Toby.Handfield@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 9905 3202
Room: W914
Career Highlights
- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Early Career Research (2011)
- Visiting Scholar, MIT (Fall 2009)
- Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2008)
- ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Chance and Necessity in the Physical Sciences" 2006–2009
- CEU Summer School in Philosophy of Physics (2006)
- British Academy Visiting Fellowship, at University of Bristol (Autumn 2005)
Research Interests
I have a wide range of research interests, from philosophy of physics to moral theory and political philosophy.
Ares of current interest:
- The metaphysics of causation, laws, dispositional properties, and objective chance.
- Rational agency and decision theory
- Incommensurate value in ethics and economics
- Population ethics
Publications and works in progress are available on my personal webpage.
Teaching Activities
My principal teaching activities are ATS1371 (Life, Death, and Morality) and ATS2869/3869 (Political Philosophy). I also teach honours seminars in moral theory and metaphysics.
With my colleague Sam Butchart, I have been trying out the Peer Instruction method of lecturing for the last few years. We have put together some helpful resources for those who are interested in the method here.