Research interests
Phenomenology
Contemporary European Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Temporal experience
Embodied Cognition
Psychopathology
Teaching interests
Philosophy and the History of Ideas
Phenomenology
Units taught
ASP 215 Happiness and the Good Life
ASP 214 Justice and Equality
ASP 326 Language and Reality
ASP 211 Freedom and Power: Existentialism and Beyond
ASP 129 Love, Sex, and Death
Conferences
Director of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, 2023 (with Dr Helen Ngo)
Research groups
Philosophy and the History of Ideas research group
Culture, Environment, Science research stream, Alfred Deakin Institute
Science and Society Network
Awards
LTU VC Research Award (2011)
LTU Early Career Research Award (2009)
Publications
No publications found
Funded Projects at Deakin
Industry and Other Funding
Warrnambool Art Gallery PhD research projects: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, History, Health, Cultural Heritage, Storytelling and Language
Prof Jack Reynolds
Lyndoch Living
- 2021: $20,000
- 2020: $10,000
Supervisions
Danica Janse Van Vuuren
Thesis entitled: A Phenomenology of Feelings of Worthlessness and Suicidality in Some Cases of Depression
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Michael Mitchell
Thesis entitled: A Conditional Defence of Dual-Method Theories of Self-Knowledge
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Thesis entitled: Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Process Phenomenology
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Daniel Timothy Connell
Thesis entitled: Defending Nietzsche from Heidegger's Nietzsche An analysis and critique of Heidegger's understanding of Nietzsche's ontology and epistemology
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Kane Pierce Simpson
Thesis entitled: Personhood, Animality, and Phenomenological Being
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
John James Parry
Thesis entitled: The Object of Life
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Max Lowdin
Thesis entitled: Sign and Idea: Spinoza and Deleuze
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Brian Macallan
Thesis entitled: Freedom as a Centralizing Motif in the work of Henri Bergson
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Casey Leigh Scott
Thesis entitled: A Mentalistic Account of Teleology in Biology
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences