Researcher

Associate Professor Simon Lumsden

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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 Environmental Philosophy, German Idealism (with a special interest in Hegel), the Philosophy of History and Modern European 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 Environmental Philosophy, German Idealism (with a special interest in Hegel), the Philosophy of History and Modern European 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


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Areas of supervision

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

 


Currently supervising

Current Doctoral Research Students:

Nevena Krups: Arendt's Theory of Friendship

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

Elka Sadler: Hegel's Logic

 

Doctoral Completions

James Banwell: Hegel and Representationalism

Kate Judith: A Material Semiotic Exploration of Interstitiality with Mangroves

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


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

 

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Location

Room 335 Morven Brown Building

Contact

(02) 9065 9747