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S. SEMMENS C. TAYLOR
Senior Research Fellow:
C.J.G. SAMPFORD Visiting Fellows:
C. LOWY S. MILLER Research Fellows:
A. CREHAN
A. PALMER
Research Assistants:W. BARRETT D. BORRELL M. RICKARD
M. THORPE-TAYLOR PHILOSOPHY
LIST OF RESEARCH STAFF Professor:
C.A.J. COADY Reader:
G.D. MARSHALL Senior Lecturers:
B.N. LANGTRY L.J. O'NEILL B.F. SCARLETT B.M. TAYLOR Lecturers:
A. ALEXANDRA L. BURNS C. CORDNER J. FITZPATRICK A. HAZEN
K. LYCOS W.K. PRESA M.E. TAPPER W. UREN
Senior Associates:
M.A. McCLOSKEY J.T.J. SRZEDNICKI Visiting Scholar:
R. FULLINWIDER Visiting Fellow:
G. LLOYD
PHILOSOPHY
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
AESTHETICS
Grace as an ethical and aesthetic idea - C.D.Cordner Aesthetic objects - J.Fitzpatrick
Aesthetic judgment - M.A.McCloskey
Philosophical and aesthetic orientations on texture - M.A.McCloskey Collingwood's goal - W.K.Presa
Artists' rights - W.K.Presa
Ethics vs Aesthetics - J.T.J.Srzednicki The dimensions of a work of art - M.E.Tapper
DECISION AND PREFERENCE THEORY Decision theory - L.J.O'Neill
EPISTEMOLOGY Epistemic obligation - A.Alexandra
The epistemology of testimony - C.A.J.Coady
Applications of inductive logic to the philosophy of religion - B.N.Langtry The justification of basic beliefs - B.N.Langtry Sensation and perceptual belief in Plato - K.Lycos
Holistic theories of knowledge - L.J.O'Neill Legal reasoning- L.J.O'Neill
Ethics of belief - B.F.Scarlett
The logic of philosophical analysis - J.T.J.Srzednicki
The basis of the possibility of knowledge - J.T.J.Srzednicki
FORMAL LOGIC AND FORMALISATION OF LANGUAGE Predicativity - A.Hazen
Significance Logic - L.Goddard Relevance Logic - L.Goddard
KANT
Conceptual analysis of Kant's First Critique - J.T.J.Srzednicki
METAPHYSICS The categories of perception - L.Goddard Causation - L.Goddard
Ontology and intensional logics - A.Hazen Structuralism - A.Hazen
FACULTY OF ARTS
The best of all possible worlds - B.N.Langtry Matter and form in early Greek thought - K.Lycos Plato's later dialogues - M.A.McCloskey
Causation - L.J.O'Neill
MORAL PHILOSOPHY The ontology of goods - A.Alexandra
The morality of extrication - C.A.J.Coady Morality and politics - C.A.J.Coady
Aristotelian ethics - C.D.Cordner Objectivity in ethics - C.D.Cordner
Olympiodorus on Pleasure and the Good - K.Lycos Morality of self-defence - S.R.Miller
The moral relevance of potential - B.F.Scarlett
Objectivity and subjectivity perceptions in morals - J.T.J.Srzednicki The morality of pornography - M.E.Tapper
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sensibility and the emotions - C.D.Marshall Conscience - W.K.Presa
The moral component of a concept of a person - B.F.Scarlett
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES
Child abuse and state intervention in the family - C.A.J.Coady Compensatory justice - C.A.J.Coady
Democracy and the environment - C.A.J.Coady Law, ethics and business - C.A.J.Coady
Political violence and the state - C.A.J.Coady Status of ethical codes - C.A.J.Coady
Compensatory justice - A.Crehan
Retrospectivity and the rule of the law - C.J.G.Sampford Australian constitutional law - C.J.G. Sampford
Coups d'etat - C.J.G.Sampford
Law, ethics and business - C.Sampford and D.Wood
PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM Equality between the sexes - L.Burns
Oppression and discrimination - L.Burns The concept of oppression - M.E.Tapper
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Precision and vagueness in natural languages - L.Burns
PHILOSOPHY
Theories of speaker meaning - C.A.J.Coady Relevance - L.Goddard
Deconstruction and supplementarity in J.Derrida - K.Lycos
Language and representation in 17th and 18thC thought - K.Lycos Convention and speaker meaning - S.R.Miller
Paradigmatically transparent expressions - J.T.J.Srzednicki Theories of interpretation - M.E.Tapper
The semantics of natural language - B.M.Taylor
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND Naturalised theories of content - J.Fitzpatrick Theories of propositional attitudes - J.Fitzpatrick 'Soul' in Plato and Aristotle - K.Lycos
Hot Rationality - G.D.Marshall
Psychoanalytic interpretation - G.D.Marshall Emotion - W.K.Presa
Imagination - W.K.Presa
Seeing and experience - B.F.Scarlett Epiphenomenalism - B.F.Scarlett
Personal identity in medieval and contemporary philosophy - B.F.Scarlett
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION The problem of evil - B.N.Langtry
Unargued belief in God - B.N.Langtry Mysticism - W.K.Presa
PROBABILITY THEORY Probability and inductive reasoning - L.J.O'Neill
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Militarism - A.Alexandra
The political philosophies of Hobbes and Rousseau - A.Alexandra Public Goods - A.Alexandra
The justification of violence - C.A.J.Coady
The political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes C.A.J.Coady The political philosophy of Aristotle - C.A.J.Coady Mercenary morality - C.A.J.Coady
Capital punishment - B.N.Langtry
Plato, Aristotle and communitarianism - K.Lycos Social action - S.R.Miller
Aquinas and just war theory - B.F.Scarlett The logic of democracy - J.T.J.Srzednicki
The nature of normative objectivity - J.T.J.Srzednicki
FACULTY OF ARTS
Ethical problems with the allocations of scarce medical resources - W. Uren
Death and Dying - W.Uren
PUBLISHED WORK Books
BURNS,
L. -
Vagueness, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, 202 pp (1991)GODDARD,
L. -
Philosophical Problems, 2nd. ed., revised. Notre Dame Univ. Press, Notre Dame: 90 pp (1991)SRZEDNICKI, J.T.J. and others, (eds) - Collected Works of Stanislaw Lesníewski two volumes in Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 795 (1991)
SRZEDNICKI, J.T.J. (general ed.) - Volumes in Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht:
Vol 30 - Z. Augustynek - Time, Past, Present, Future: 131 pp (1991) Vol 35 - R.L. Epstein - The Semantic Foundations of Logic vol. 1:
386 pp (1990)
Vol 40 - J. Wolenski (ed) - Kotarbinski - Logic Semantics Ontology:
231 pp (1990)
Vol 41 - P. Geach Logic and Ethics: 220 pp (1990)
Vol 42 - U. Wybraniec-Skardowska - Theory of Language Syntax: 247 pp (1991)
Vol 43 - J. Bransen - The Antinomy of Thought: 197 pp (1991)
Chapters of Books
COADY, C.A.J. - Politics and the Problem of Dirty Hands, in
A Companion to Ethics, ed. P.Singer, Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 373-383 (1991)
CORDNER, C.D. - F.R.Leavis and the Moral in Literature, in On Literary Theory and Philosophy: A Cross Disciplinary Encounter; eds. R.Freadman
and L.Reinhardt, Macmillan, London: 60 - 81 (1991)
FITZPATRICK, J. with BRADDON-MITCHELL, D. - Explanation and the Language of Thought, in Epistemology and Cognition; ed. J.H.Fetzer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 35 - 61 (1991)
MILLER, S.R. and FREADMAN, R. - Deconstruction and Critical Practice, in Literary Theory and Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Encounter, ed. L.Reinhardt and R.Freadman, Macmillan, London: 45-80 (1991) SRZEDNICKI, J.T.J. - On Subjective Appreciation of Objective Moral Points, in Logic and Ethics: ed. P.Geach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: pp 255 - 274 (1991)
PHILOSOPHY
Articles
BARKER, S. - "Even", "Still" and Counterfactuals', Linguistics and Philosophy, 14 : pp 1-38 (1991)
CORDNER, C.D. - Review article of Values and Valuing by Graham
Nerlich, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1989), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69: pp 357-360 (1991)
HAZEN, A.P. - "Actuality and Quantification", in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38: pp 498-508 (1990)
HAZEN, A.P. - Review article of Truth by Paul Horwich, Basil Blackwell (1990), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69: pp 227-228 (1991)
LANGTRY, B.N. - "God, Evil and Probability", in Sophia 28 : pp 32-40 (1989)
LANGTRY, B.N. - "Hume, Possibility, Lotteries and Miracles", in Hume Studies 16: pp 67-74 (1990)
McCLOSKEY, M.A. - Review article of The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art by Paul Crowther, Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1989 in
Philosophy 65: pp 380-382 (1990)
MARSHALL, G.D. Review article of Philosophical Perspectives 3:
Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory ed. by James E.Tomberlin, Ridgeview Publishing Company (1989), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69: pp 120-122 (1991)
MILLER, S.R. - "Davidson's Paratactic Analysis of Linguistic Mood", in Journal of Pragmatics, 16: pp 1-12 (1991)
MILLER, S.R. - "On the Morality of Waging War Against the State", in South African Journal of Philosophy, 10: pp 1-11 (1991)
MILLER, S.R. - "Salience, Co-ordination and Rationality", in Southern Journal of Philosophy 29: pp 359-370 (1991)
MILLER, S.R. - "Marxist Literary Aesthetics", in Philosophy and Social Criticism 16: pp 1-28 (1991)
SRZEDNICKI, J.T.J. - "Some Philosophical Remarks on Aesthetics" in Annual "Niedzica Seminars", Polish Association of Art Historians, Krakow: pp 93-97 (1991)
Reports
ALEXANDRA, A. - "Militarism", Department of Philosophy Preprint Series 5/91 Univ. of Melb: 23 pp (1991)
ALEXANDRA, A. - "Introduction to Philosophy" Deakin University,. Deakin: 12 pp (1991)
COADY, C.A.J. - "The Lie Direct", Eureka Street, Vol.1, pp 4-5 (1991) CORDNER, C.D. - "Review article of Good and Evil: An Absolute
Conception by Rai Gaita, MacMillan, London (1991)", in Quadrant 35:
pp 79 - 82 (1991)
CORDNER, C.D. "Review article of Pagan Virtue by John Casey, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1990)" in Quadrant 35: pp 105 - 107 (1991) GODDARD, L. with SYLVAN, R. & DA COSTA, N. - "Reason, Cause and
Relevant Containment with an Application to Frame Problems", in Research Series in Logic and Metaphysics, R.S.S.S., A.N.U.: 81 pp (1989)
FACULTY OF ARTS
LANGTRY, B.N. - "The Forrest-Armstrong Argument Against Lewis on Possible Worlds", Department of Philosophy Preprint Series 1/91 Univ.
of Melb: 8 pp (1991)
MULHERIN, C. - "Economic Rationalisation and Ethical Reality: A Moral Approach to Allocating Resources in Medicine?" in Bioethics and the Wider Community, Conference Proceedings of the Australian Bioethics Association First Annual Conference, Melbourne: April 5 - 7
pp 199 - 212 (1991)
O'NEILL, L.J. - "Charles Peirce and the Nature of Evidence", in Department of Philosophy Preprint Series 2/91 Univ. of Melb: 15 pp (1991)
O'NEILL, L.J. - "Tests and Arguments", Department of Philosophy Preprint Series 3/91 Univ. of Melb: 11 pp (1991)
THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Master of Arts TAYLOR, C.D. - Issues in Aristotle's ethics
THESES IN PROGRESS
Doctor of Philosophy ALEXANDRA, A. - Public goods
BARKER, S.J. - A theory of conditionals
BEATTIE, J.P.W. - Eliminative materialism, folk psychology and cognitive science
BLANKLEY, J.A. - The neoplatonism of Plotinus CHAZEN, P. - The self in moral theory
CREHAN, A. - Compensatory justice and land claims by Australian Aboriginals
COX, D.F. - Realism and scepticism
EDWARDS, P. - The state and other forms of social organisation GARDNER, C. - A Philosophy of drawing
LONG, B.P. - Persons and human beings MILLS, A. - Violence of language MRKSA, K. - God and freedom PATAKI, T. - Wish fulfilment
PRICE, K. The nature and causation of action
REN KERUO - A semantic study of the philosophical definitions in Mo Sian
SCHNABEL, E. - First person authority
WALSH, A.J. - A neo-Aristotelian theory of social justice
PHILOSOPHY
Master of Arts