Dr Nathan Lyons
Lecturer in Philosophy
Email: nathan.lyons@nd.edu.au
Phone: 02 8204 4126
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Biography
Before coming to UNDA in 2018, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and Durham University. I received my PhD from Cambridge and my MPhil from the Australian Catholic University, and I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney.
More information: https://nathan-lyons.weebly.com/
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Teaching Areas
- Medieval philosophy
- Thomas Aquinas
- Contemporary philosophy
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Research Expertise and Supervision
- Philosophy of nature
- Philosophy of religion
- Medieval philosophy
- Semiotics
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Books
Signs in the Dust: A Theory of Natural Culture and Cultural Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019
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Book Chapters
- "From teleology to mechanism", in The Cambridge Companion to Religion, Nature and the Environment in the West, ed. Alexander Hampton. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021.
- "Creation and Darwin" in The Oxford Handbook of Creation, ed. Simon Oliver. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021.
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Journal Articles and Proceedings
- "Written in White: A Reading of Kevin Hart’s 'Colloquies'". Literature and Theology 31, no. 2 (2017): 149–163.
- "Theology, Philosophy, and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis”, special issue of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences, 7.2 (2020), edited by Nathan Lyons and Andrew Davison.
Book reviews
- Review of Kevin Hart, "Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry.’” Literature and Theology 33, no. 1 (2019): 113–15.
- Review of Mark Sinclair, "Félix Ravaisson: Selected Essays.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27, no. 1 (2018): 236–37.