Dr Rajat Denzil Acharya

Lecturer in Philosophy
PhD, GCHE, BA Hons I, BAM

Email: rajat.acharya@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Prior to my appointment in the School of Philosophy & Theology at The University of Notre Dame Australia, I occupied several academic positions in different institutes, schools, and departments at Australian Catholic University (2015–2022) and at SAE University College (2008–2014).

  • Teaching Areas

    • History of Western Civilisation
    • History of Philosophy: Ancient; Medieval; Modern; Contemporary
    • History and Philosophy of Art
    • History and Philosophy of Science
    • History and Philosophy of Religion
    • Metaphysics

  • Research expertise and supervision

    • Thomism (Resourcement and Aggiornamento)
    • Philosophical Theology

  • Books

    • Acharya, Rajat Denzil. Aquinas after Kant and Heidegger: Non-Ontotheological Thomism. Forthcoming...
    • Vetö, Miklos. From Budapest to Paris (1936–1957): An Autobiography. Translated by Rajat Denzil Acharya. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2020.

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • Acharya, Rajat Denzil. "A Definition of Religion". Forthcoming...
    • Acharya, Rajat Denzil. "Divine Speech in Human Words: Thomistic Engagements with Scripture, Emmanuel Durand, The Catholic University of America Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-0-8132-3536-3), xvi + 462 pp., hb $65". Reviews in Religion and Theology, 31, no. 4 (2024): 208–211.
    • Acharya, Rajat Denzil. "Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning, John F. X. Knasas, The Catholic University of America Press, 2019 (ISBN 978-0-8132-3185-3), xi + 327 pp., hb $65". Reviews in Religion and Theology, 30, no. 1–2 (2023): 56–58.
    • Durand, Jean-Paul. "The Legitimate and Healthy 'Laïcité' of the State: An Introduction to the Texts from the Commemorative Conference". Translated by Rajat Denzil Acharya. Oikonomïa 18, no. 2 (2019): 2.
    • Colledge, Richard; Acharya, Rajat Denzil (eds). Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 24 (2015): 1–366.

  • Conference papers

    • "Conciliation: Heideggerian Thomism or Thomistic Heideggerianism", Boston College and Australian Catholic University Joint Seminar on New Research in Philosophy and Theology. Rome: Australian Catholic University (2022).
    • "Philosophy, Education, and Integral Human Development: A Commentary on Paul VI's Populorum Progressio", Contemporary Humanism and Integral Human Development Summer School. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2022).
    • "Meillassoux's Speculative Proof". Australian Catholic University Arts and Philosophy Research Seminar. Brisbane: Australian Catholic University (2016).
    • "Meillassoux and the Condition of Correlation", Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference. Sydney: University of New South Wales (2015).
    • "Heideggerian, Nietzschean and Goethean Axioms of the Correlational Formation of Person and World", Australian Catholic University Humanities Research Seminar. Brisbane: Australian Catholic University (2015).
    • "The Nothing Nothings Nothingness: Towards the Comprehension of Nothing for the Apprehension of Nothingness", Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference. Melbourne: Australian Catholic University (2014).
    • "A Pedagogic and Andragogic Principle for the Facilitation of Hybrid Humanities and Media Courses", QANTM College and SAE Institute Joint Seminar. Brisbane: SAE Institute (2011).

  • Professional affiliations

    • 2024 – present Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy
    • 2023 – present Association internationale de philosophie de la religion
    • 2015 – 2017Queensland School of Continental Philosophy
    • 2015 – 2016 The University of Queensland Centre for the Study of Science, Religion and Society