News Archive

2012

Gavin David Young Lectures

This year Professor Frank Jackson (Princeton/ANU) presented the Gavid David Young Lectures in Philosophy. Further details, including the full timetable of talks, are available here.

President of the AAP

Professor Garrett Cullity has been elected President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy for 2012/13.  This is an important and prestigious leadership role within Australasian philosophy.  That Garrett has been elected to the position is recognition of his high standing within the profession nationally and internationally.

2011

Assoc. Professor Philip Gerrans has been awarded a prestigious ARC Future Fellowship. Philip's project, The emotional construction of self representation, develops and defends the novel idea that self representation is an artefact of emotional processing. The account will involve case studies of psychiatric disorder characterised by developmental or acquired problems of self representation such as depersonalisation disorder and personality disorders.

2010

Philosophy is hosting a symposium at the 2010 conference of the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand (December 1-4, Adelaide).  Our symposium, Art History & Philosophy, is on Friday December 3rd. We have been inspired by the round tables organised by James Elkins in Cork, Ireland and Chicago which aimed to create a dialogue between art historians and philosophers. 

Speakers include: John McDonald (Art Critic, Sydney Morning Herald), Craig Taylor (Flinders, Philosophy), Christopher Allen (Art Critic, The Australian), John Armstrong (Melbourne, Philosophy), Jolanta Nowak (Melbourne, Art History) and Jenny McMahon (Adelaide, Philosophy).

For conference details see http://www.aaanz.info./

2009

Garrett Cullity has been appointed to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Jennie Louise has been awarded a University of Adelaide Excellence in Education Award. Jennie is being recognized for her work in developing and teaching in the discipline's logic program. 

Jenny McMahon’s bookAesthetics and Material Beauty, has been released in paperback by Routledge. “The Philosopher’s Zone” on ABC Radio National has an online interview with Jenny.

2008

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow Pamela Lyon raised eyebrows when she started researching bacterial behaviour for clues to understanding cognition. That work is featured in a segment of "All in the Mind" (ABC/Radio National), in which Pamela is interviewed together with microbiologists from the University of Chicago and Princeton. 

The podcast and transcript of that program are available at the "All in the Mind" website.

Eureka Prize in Ethics

Professor Garrett Cullity is this year's winner of the Eureka Prize for Ethics, announced last night by the Australian Museum. Professor Cullity won the prize for his book The Moral Demands of Affluence, in which he argues that a life well-lived should be the goal of every human, rich or poor. Professor Cullity says that it is not morally wrong to live a life of rich personal fulfilment. He is donating his $10,000 Eureka Prize to aid agencies.

"Life Matters" on ABC Radio National  has an online interview with Professor Cullity.

2006

Nicole Krzys, who recently completed an Honours Degree with the Discipline of Philosophy, is the University of Adelaide's 100th Rhodes Scholar. Nicole did her Honours, specialising in cognitive science, while also studying for a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at the University. Congratulations to Nicole on this wonderful achievement!