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The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

Email: Philosophy
Phone: +61 8 8313 1044
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Philosophy Research

The Philosophy Discipline at Adelaide has a vibrant research culture, and contributes to many areas of contemporary philosophy. If you are interested in doing research with us see our postgraduate page. You may also like to explore our staff pages for further details of teaching, research and publications.

Our research interests include:

Aesthetics	Value Theory, Imagination, Pleasure Aesthetic judgment Classical Aesthetics	Jenny McMahon Gamble / McMahon Jenny McMahon
Philosophy of Art		Jenny McMahon
Philosophy of Biology	Philosophy of Microbiology, Explanation in Biology History of Biology, Model Organisms	Pamela Lyon Rachel Ankeny
Cognitive Science	Foundations of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Neurocomputational Models of Cognition Theories of Perception Cognitive Biology	Philip Gerrans O'Brien / Opie Jon Opie Opie / Lyon
Epistemology	Self Knowledge, Memory	Jordi Fernandez
Kant	Aesthetics Epistemology, Moral Theory	McMahon / Gamble Denise Gamble
Philosophy of Language	Semantic Realism, Linguistic Meaning & Understanding	Denise Gamble
Legal Philosphy	Philosophy of Criminal Law, Challenges to Liberal Legal Theory	Denise Gamble
Logic	Paraconsistent Logic, Impossible Pictures Deontic Logic	Chris Mortensen Jennie Louise
Philosophy of Mind	Consciousness, Mental Representation, Self Rationality, Weakness of Will, Self-deception Naturalised Theories of Mind Nature of Mind	O'Brien / Opie Louise / Fernandez Andrew Gleeson Pamela Lyon
Metaphysics	Mental Causation, Program Explanation The Determinable-Determinate Relation Reduction and Emergence	Jordi Fernandez Jordi Fernandez Opie / Fernandez
Moral Philosophy	Metaethics, Normative Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics Consequentialism, Applied Ethics (esp. Medical Ethics) Naturalised Theories of Ethics and Value Bioethics, Personhood, Moral Status of Non-Human Animals Ethical/Policy Issues in Genetics and Reproduction	Cullity / Gleeson Jennie Louise Gerard O'Brien Denise Gamble Rachel Ankeny
Social & Political Philosophy	Liberalism, Paternalism, Game Theory Contemporary Theories of Justice, History of Political Thought	Jennie Louise Philip Gerrans
Philosophy of Science	Philosophy of Physics, Space and Time, Quantum Theory Scientific Knowledge and Method, Theories of Explanation Explanation in the Biological Sciences Models and Case-based Reasoning in Science	Mortensen / Nerlich Jon Opie Pamela Lyon Rachel Ankeny