Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Prof. Stan Van Hooft

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Position Professor
Email stan.vanhooft@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 43973
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood (Room D5.19)
Role and profile Stan van Hooft lectures in Philosophy in the School of International and Political Studies. While contributing to a number of units in the philosophy major, Professor van Hooft is also involved in the mentoring of honours and higher degree students.
Teaching responsibilities ASP2/307 Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (a study of Plato and Nietzsche)
ASP2/315 Morals and Modernity,
ASP2/316 Ethics in Global Society
and a new unit on "Love, Sex and Death" to be taught in Trimester 3 from 2011
Research interests Professor van Hooft has written in international journals on moral philosophy, philosophical psychology, bioethics, business ethics, and on the nature of health and disease. His more recent work has been on global ethics, cosmopolitanism, the political philosophy of international relations, and the virtue of hope. Stan draws his philosophical inspiration from such classical philosophers as Plato, Aristotle and Kant, as well as such contemporary thinkers as Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas and Bernard Williams.

He is a co-author of:
Facts and Values: An Introduction to Critical Thinking for Nurses, (Sydney: MacLennan and Petty, 1995)
and the author of:
Caring: An Essay in the Philosophy of Ethics, (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1995)
Life, Death, and Subjectivity: Moral Sources for Bioethics, (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004)
Caring about Health, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
Understanding Virtue Ethics, (Chesham: Acumen Publishers, 2006)
Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (Chesham: Acumen Publishers, 2009.
He has co-edited, along with Dr Wim Vandekerckhove, Questioning Cosmopolitanism (Springer, 2009).
His monograph on "Hope" will appear in 2011.

Professor van Hooft's current research centres on Global Ethics and Political Philosophy, the concept of caring in contemporary moral theory, the role of hope in politics and religion.
Current research projects Professor van Hooft is currently editing (with Dr Nicole Saunders) "The Handbook of Virtue Ethics". He is also researching the role of caring for the self in moral motivation and practical reason.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Professor van Hooft has served on many committees during his time at Deakin, especially during the years of Victoria College.

Professor van Hooft conducts Modern Socratic Dialogues in a variety of settings with professional groups, with the general public and with individuals, as well as with students studying at secondary schools and at Deakin University.

Professor van Hooft has conducted seminars for the Ethical Practice Committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry in Melbourne and for the Forensic Psychiatry group of that organisation.

From 1999 to 2006, Stan was a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Cabrini Hospital in Malvern, Victoria.

Stan has given lectures for the Culture and Ethics subject of the Diploma of Palliative Medicine Course at St Vincent’s Hospital and University of Melbourne, and has lectured at a number of high schools around Melbourne.

Throughout 1998 - 2000, Stan organised a monthly Philosophy Café (with George Vasillacopoulos of La Trobe University) run at Borders Bookshop in Prahran.
From August 1999, he was a member of a working party of the Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools, to develop PD materials and programmes for teachers of the new VCE Philosophy curriculum
Awards Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (Chesham: Acumen Publishers, 2009), was shortlisted in 2010 for the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics.
Qualifications BA (Hons), MA, PhD, University of Melbourne, DipEd (Tertiary method) Hawthorn Institute.
Memberships Professor van Hooft is a member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, The Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools, and the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love (USA)

Professor van Hooft is also a member of the Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, a division of the Special Research Centre for Comparative Social Research (Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education)
He is a consultant editor for the journals: Bioethics, Practical Philosophy, Health, Sophia, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Ethics, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Theory Culture & Society, and Borderlands On-line Journal.

He has been an Academic Referee for the Australian Research Council, the European Science Foundation (for the 2008 round of the EUROCORES Programme for European Collaborative Research Projects), the Research Council of the Catholic University in Leuven, and the Research Council of Ghent University.

He has been a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne on several occasions. He has also been Visiting Fellow, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, International Visiting Fellow, Hastings Center, New York, and Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Utrecht.
Conferences In 2008, Professor van Hooft organised the second biennial conference of the International Global Ethics Association in Melbourne, on the theme, "Questioning Cosmopolitanism".
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22nd April 2013