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Learn about the centreProfessor Paul Formosa is the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University and co-Director for the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre (previously known as CAVE). Paul has been at Macquarie since 2009, and has been a Macquarie University Research Fellow, an Austral...
Mark Alfano uses tools and methods from philosophy, psychology, and computer science to explore topics in social epistemology, moral psychology, and digital humanities. He studies how people become and remain virtuous, how values become integrated into people's lives, and how these virtues and value...
I came to Macquarie in 2007. Prior to this I taught at University of Glasgow in Scotland. I hold a PhD from Sheffield University in the UK, where I completed a thesis on C.S. Peirce and Indexical Reference.
Prior to coming to Australia, Pierrick was a research associate at the University of Oxford, working in the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. Pierrick completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2015. In 2015-2016, he was an ARC postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at the...
I was educated in Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École Normale Supérieure and Paris IV-Sorbonne), and Germany (Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr Universität Bochum and Freie-Universität in Berlin). I received my PhD from Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1998 and began working in the Philosophy Department at Macquarie in 2...
I am a lecturer and the Director of Education in the Department of Philosophy. I have an interest in philosophical and pedagogical aspects of reasoning, and have published in areas related to the practice of teaching, and my areas of teaching specialisation including epistemology and logic. Curren...
I joined the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in 2021. Previously, I worked in the Department of Philosophy II at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (7/2018-8/2021). Before moving to Bochum, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Justus Liebig University of G...
Narcyz Ghinea is a leading researcher investigating how institutional drivers influence patient access to medications and other health services. His work focuses on overcoming the legal, policy, and political barriers that impede access to health technologies and generate systemic inequities. Areas...
I am a lecturer in the Philosophy department at Macquarie University. My research focuses on philosophy of science, particularly in regards to interdisciplinary topics in the cognitive sciences and how human neurocognitive systems are shaped by cultural practices.
Inês Hipólito (BPhil, MPhil, MSc, DPhil) is a lecturer of Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University. Her research, focusing on E-Cognition and how it can help understand and design augmented forms of cognition (e.g. brain-computer interfaces, neurotechnologies and smart environme...
In 2014 I was awarded my PhD in philosophy by the University of Sydney. In 2015 I began a three year Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF). My position at Macquarie was made ongoing in 2016. I finished my MQRF in 2018, and in 2019 I began another three year research project, supported by a...
Katrina Hutchison is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. Her research focuses on topics in feminist philosophy, bioethics and moral psychology. A significant strand in her research is the investigation of gender bias, including the underrepresentation of women in surgical careers and...
I am a field philosopher who investigates questions in science and medicine.My current research focuses on 3 main areas. First, on animal ethics and epistemology (reconceptualizing how we think about nonhuman animals in research to improve their treatment); second on the ethics of surgical innovati...
My current position is as a Research Fellow within the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, working with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology under Prof. Wendy Rogers. My primary research areas are philosophy of the life sciences (biology, ecology, medicine) and ethics (bio...
I am a medically-trained bioethicist and health social scientist. My approach to research might be referred to as “practical bioethics” in that it is deliberately oriented towards finding pragmatic solutions to morally complex and controversial real-world problems. My work aims to assist decision-ma...
Mianna joined the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie in 2005 as Associate Lecturer in Ethics/Applied Ethics. Prior to her arrival she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, and a Lecturer at La Trobe University. Mianna holds a PhD fr...
Doug McConnell is an ARC DECRA fellow working on his project, "Rewriting Moral Character and Professional Virtue". He completed his PhD at Macquarie University in 2014 and has recently returned to Macquarie after five years working as a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at th...
My research is in interdisciplinary philosophy of mind and cognition. I work closely with cognitive scientists and I have published widely on extended, embodied and distributed cognition, neural plasticity, symbolic cognition – particularly reading and mathematical cognition, the cultural evolution...
Dr. Raphaël Millière is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University. Before joining Macquarie, Dr. Millière was the 2020 Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience in the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. He completed his DPhil (PhD) in philosophy at th...
I work in the field of practical bioethics. My program of research is characterised by identifying practical problems, undertaking conceptual analysis of the underlying philosophical and ethical issues, and developing responses that advance knowledge and contribute to practice. This approach draws u...
My research applies phenomenological and gender-based methods to examine how practices held in common are underpinned by ontological commitments, especially with respect to relationality, embodiment and materialism. My research is primarily at the juncture of ecofeminist philosophy, existential-phen...
Robert Sinnerbrink is Professor of Philosophy and a former ARC Future Fellowship recipient. As an undergraduate he studied medicine, creative writing, film, and philosophy. He received First Class Honours and the University Medal in Philosophy before being awarded his PhD on Hegel, Heidegger, and th...
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. My current research focuses on the computational processes that underlie movement planning and sensorimotor learning. Recent topics of investigation include the influence of sensory uncertainty on motor lear...
My research expertise is in moral psychology, social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy and applied ethics.
Nick moved to Macquarie as a Lecturer in Philosophy in July 1997. He was Director of Macquarie University's Centre for Research in Social Inclusion from 2003 to 2007 and was Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2008 to 2012. External appointments include: international research fellow at Queen'...
I am John Sutton, Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Sydney. See https://johnsutton.net/ for information, publications, links and more.I work in the philosophy of mind, cognition, and action, in cognitive psychology, and in the interdisciplinary cognitive humanities. My main r...