Fields of Research

Metaphysics
Phenomenology
Philosophy
Hermeneutics
History of philosophy
History and philosophy of specific fields
History and philosophy of education
Aesthetics
Ethical use of new technology
Epistemology

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
Communication across languages and culture
Understanding past societies
Religion and society

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A response to Sheehan's attempted paradigm shift in Heidegger studies; Parrhesia
Count Paul Yorck von Wartenburg
Das Wesen der Stimmungen
Death and Responsibility: Socrates and Heidegger; Judgement, Responsibility and the Life-World: The Phenomenological Critique of Formalism
Early Heidegger's Concept of History in Light of the Neo-Kantians; Journal of the Philosophy of History
Edmund Husserl: The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, from the lectures, winter semester, 1910-1911; Springer
Heidegger and Hegel: The Time of Life & The Time of Life-Philosophy; Parrhesia
Heidegger's Critique of Value Philosophy; The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
Heidegger's Early Philosophy; The Philosopher
Heidegger's early Philosophy between World-View and Science; Southwest Philosophy Review
Heidegger's struggle with history; Investigaciones Fenomenologicas
Heidegger's Topology
Heidegger; transformation of hermeneutics; The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics
Heidegger’s notebooks reveal an early blindness to the Nazis' reality
Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science; Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality
Heidegger’s Style: On Philosophical Anthropology and Aesthetics
Hermeneutical Heidegger; Northwestern University Press
Introduction; Hermeneutical Heidegger
Introduction: The Reading of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks; Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931–1941
John F. Wippel (ed.) The Ultimate Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever?
MOOCs and The Future of Higher Education; International Technology, Education and Development Conference
New Technologies & The Classical Canon; International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation
Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist
On overestimating philosophy: Lessons from Heidegger’s Black Notebooks; Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Philosophical reflections on Nostalgia and Solastalgia
Place and world: on Jeff Malpas’ second edition of Place and Experience; International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Rafael Winkler, Philosophy of Finitude: Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche
Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931-1941; MIT Press
Reply to Prof Sheehan; Parrhesia
Steven Crowell and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Transcendental Heidegger
The Black Notebooks in Their Historical and Political Context; Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931–1941
The Concept of Life in Heidegger's Early lecture Courses; Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Facticity: The Fundamental Concepts
The Different Notions of History in Heidegger's Work; Hermeneutical Heidegger
The Role of Martin Heidegger’s Notebooks within the Context of his Oeuvre; Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931–1941
The World At a Glance
Three levels of historical analysis in early Heidegger; The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy XII
Towards a Critique of the Higher Education Industry; 5th International Conference on Education and new Learning Technologies
Translation of The Concept of Time the First Draft of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger; Continuum
Trawny’s essay “Heidegger and the Shoah; Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931–1941
Zurueckweisung der ungerechtfertigten und verfaelschenden Kritik an Heidegger; Heidegger Jahrbuch

Research Projects

Towards an Understanding of Historicity in Heidegger (An Investigation of 'Der Begriff der Zeit'); University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Research Candidate Supervision

Disintegration- place in memory, memory in place.
Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty- Ethics
Foucault's Ethic of Power- Subjects, Politics and the Critical Attitude
Heidegger's Language
Kant, Schopenhauer and Ethics
Language, Thought and Intersubjectivity
Phronesis, Duty and Hermeneutics- The Moral Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Place, Race and Belonging- An investigation into 'multicultural' identity in Tasmania.
The Environment of Learning
The Littoral- Applying a Philosophy of Place
The Structure of the Ethical Subject and the Community of Difference within the Gospel of Matthew and the Writings of Paul the Apostle
Topology of Language in Heidegger's Critique of Philosophy