Associate Professor Simon Lumsden
BA Hons UNSW
PhD Sydney
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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- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Simon Coordinates the Innerwest Council philosophy talks series. Talks are held monthly at Leichhardt Library.
National Tertiary Education Union
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP)
Simon convenes the InnerWest Council Philosophy series
My Research Supervision
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 Teaching
ARTS1361 Truth and Human Existence
ARTS2249 Environmental Philosophy
ARTS2244 The Animal: Worker, Wild, Extinct