Researcher

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

History of Philosophy, Hermeneutic and Critical Theory, Social Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy

Biography

Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of philosophy. He has been a DAAD research fellow at the Free University, Berlin and held an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney prior to his employment at UNSW. His research is primarily concerned with German Idealism (with a special interest in Hegel), the Philosophy of History, Modern European Philosophy and Environmental Philosophy.  

 


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Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of philosophy. He has been a DAAD research fellow at the Free University, Berlin and held an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney prior to his employment at UNSW. His research is primarily concerned with German Idealism (with a special interest in Hegel), the Philosophy of History, Modern European Philosophy and Environmental Philosophy.  

 


My Qualifications

BA Hons UNSW

PhD Sydney


My Research Activities

Simon Coordinates the Innerwest Council philosophy talks series. Talks are held monthly at Leichhardt Library.


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

  1. German Idealism (Hegel)
  2. Environmental Philosophy
  3. Modern European Philosophy
  4. Habit
  5. Philosophy of History

 


Currently supervising

Current Doctoral Research Students:

Joshua O'Rourke: Religion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Sharri Lembryk: Anthropomorphic Bias in Animal Ethics: Toward a New Model of Inquiry

 

Doctoral Completions

Scott Mcbride: Empiricism and Apprenticeship: Structure and Method in the works of Deleuze

Lenka Ucnik: Ethics, Politics and the Transformative Possibilities of the Self in Arendt and Foucault

James Banwell: Hegel and Representationalism

Kate Judith: A Material Semiotic Exploration of Interstitiality with Mangroves


My Engagement

National Tertiary Education Union

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP)

Simon convenes the InnerWest Council Philosophy series 

 


My Teaching

ARTS1361 Truth and Human Existence

ARTS2249 Environmental Philosophy

ARTS2244 The Animal: Worker, Wild, Extinct
ARTS2362 Alienation and Social Critique
ARTS33375 Hegel and German Idealism

Supervision areas

  1. German Idealism (Hegel)
  2. Environmental Philosophy
  3. Modern European Philosophy
  4. Habit
  5. Philosophy of History

Current Doctoral Research Students:

Joshua O'Rourke: Religion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

James Banwell: Hegel and Representationalism

Sharri Lembryk: Anthropomorphic Bias in Animal Ethics: Toward a New Model of Inquiry

Kate Judith: Environmental Philosophy

Doctoral Completions

Scott Mcbride: Empiricism and Apprenticeship: Structure and Method in the works of Deleuze

Lenka Ucnik: Ethics, Politics and the Transformative Possibilities of the Self in Arendt and Foucault

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Location

Arts,Design & Architecture
Room 335 Morven Brown Building

Contact

(02) 9065 9747

ORCID as entered in ROS

orcid_icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-7623

UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Telephone +61 2 93851000
Authorised by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
UNSW CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G ABN: 57 195 873 179

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