Supervision expertise in the School of Philosophy and Theology
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Philosophy
A/Prof Angus Brook:
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
MetaphysicsDr Robin Dennis:
The role of reason in Christian tradition, the origins and status of modern understandings of reason
Attempts to ground secular reason in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought
Theories of secularisation, the relationship between Christianity and the dominate forms of secularismSr Dr Mary Julian Ekman:
The moral philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas on virtue and human action, Thomas Aquinas on self-knowledge and self-love, Thomas Aquinas on the passions, Thomas Aquinas on natural law, moral philosophy, transcendental good and evilProf Renee Kohler-Ryan:
Philosophical aesthetics – of art and architecture
History of philosophy (particularly Medieval)
Political Philosophy
Catholic Intellectual Tradition, including literature, ethics, philosophy of cultureProfessor John Lippitt
Kierkegaard
Ethics and Moral Psychology (especially virtues and vices)
Forgiveness
Religion and Modern Thought
Philosophy of Love and Friendship
Philosophy of Education (especially the role of virtues in higher education)
Ethical Issues in PolicingProf Sandra Lynch:
Moral philosophy (ethics)
Applied and Professional Ethics (healthcare ethics, legal ethics, sports ethics)
Values education
The constitution of the self and its emotions
Conceptions of friendship
Critical thinking
"Philosophy in Schools"Dr Nathan Lyons:
Thomist philosophy
Semiotics (esp. medieval semiotics, Peircean biosemiotics)
Philosophy of nature
Philosophy of biology
Continental philosophy of religionDr Annette Pierdziwol:
Moral philosophy (ethics) and moral psychology and their intersection with social and political philosophy: topics including moral cultivation, character, virtue, emotion, motivation, empathy, compassion, altruism, habit and practice
Early modern philosophy: seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century moral philosophy, accounts of the passions, Hume, Bishop Butler, Rosseau
Ethics education: philosophy of moral education and ethics education for the professions
Continental philosophy: responsibility, conscience, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, continental philosophy of religion and philosophical theologyDr Dejan Simkovic:
Early modern epistemology and moral philosophy (e.g., Hobbes, Locke, Cambridge Platonists, naturalists (e.g., Hutcheson, Hume and Smith, Berkeley), rationalists (e.g., Malebranche, Butler, Wollaston, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, Kant), Bentham and Mill, Nietzsche
Early modern philosophy from the 16th to the 19th centuries (empiricists/naturalists and rationalists)
20th century moral philosophy, especially the analytic tradition (e.g., MacIntyre, Hare, Ayer, Stevenson, Foot, Anscombe, etc.)
Metaethics (incl. moral epistemology, moral psychology, arguments related to the Is-Ought problem)
Applied Ethics: theses that cover debates on the moral status of animals and Artificial Intelligence. Aesthetics: early modern theories of art, e.g., Hume, Burke and KantMr Tim Smartt:
Epistemology and ethics
Most areas of contemporary analytic philosophy, including social and political philosophy, decision theory, logic, and the philosophy of languageDr Penny Rush:
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
Formal Logic
Philosophy of Logic
Non-Classical Logic
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Critical Thinking and Numeracy
Philosophy of Mathematics
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Theology
Rev Dr Joseph Azize:
Early (i.e. pre-Nicene) Church history and mysticism (incl. prayer and contemplation)Dr Mariusz Biliniewicz:
Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
Second Vatican Council
Liturgy and sacraments
Post-Vatican II theology
Ecclesiology
Faith and reason
General systematic theologyDr Doru Costache:
Early Christian representations of reality
Traditional interpretations of Genesis 1-3
Experiences of holiness
Dreams and visions
Wellbeing
Science and theology
Transdisciplinarity
General patristics/early Christian studiesSr Dr Moira Debono:
Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Marriage
Liturgy
EcclesiologyMr Peter Holmes:
Scripture
Biblical interpretation
Faith and reason
Pastoral Theology
Masculinity
Computer Gaming and MoralitySr Prof Isabell Naumann:
Ecclesiology
Theological anthropology
Marian studiesProf Susanna Rizzo:
Liberal Arts
History & Philosophy of Religion
Religion and the Construction of Identity
Piety & Gender
History of Philosophy (in particular Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance philosophy)
Political Philosophy
Biblical Studies
Judaism of the Second Temple & Christian Origins
Early ChristianityProf Tracey Rowland:
Theological anthropology
Political theology
20th century European Catholic Theology
Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
“Faith and Culture” or “New Evangelisation” topics
Fundamental theologyDr Matthew Tan:
Theology and popular culture
Theology and social theory
Postmodern theology
Theological anthropology
Virtues and vicesDr Kevin Wagner:
Patristic theology
Early Church history
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Admission to HDR programs
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Research contact
Dr Mariusz Biliniewicz
Associate Dean (Research and Academic Development)
Telephone: +61 (02) 8204-4179
E-mail: mariusz.biliniewicz@nd.edu.au