Associate Professor Michaelis Michael
BSc Monash, MA PhD Princeton
Michaelis Michael studied zoology and philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne before doing a PhD in philosophy at Princeton University. He works across a broad range of topics in philosophy, from human rights to formal logic. He has recently published on the role of non-cognitive factors in religious conversion, on arguments on the metaphysics of mind, and against the idea we need to adopt deviant logics to deal with inconsistent theories in science.听
A recent focus has been on the way Big Data has changed the way we do science and the possible costs of those changes.听
He has recently published a book on the conceptual and empirical aspects of the theory of natural selection.听
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781498700870/
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Australasian Association of Philosophy
Australasian Association of Logic
Book Review Co-Editor,听Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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My Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
ARTS1361 Knowledge And Reality
ARTS2375 Philosophical Logic
ARTS2385 Philosophy and Evolution
ARTS2374 Philosophy: Ways of Reasoning
ARTS3376 Aristotle Science & Understanding
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I'm interested in supervising Honours theses on a wide range of topics. Contact me if you are interested in exploring topics for honours.
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Graduate Supervision
I am always interested in discussing supervision with prospective students in a broad range of topics in philosophy.听
Present Supervisions
Alessio Tacca (PhD) Contextualisms in Epistemology
Sophie Vivian (PhD) Trust, Experts and Rationality
Simon Convy (PhD) The Meaning of "Is"
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Higher Degree Completions (primary supervisor)
Michael Levot (MA) 听Explanation in Biolinguistics (jointly supervised with Dr. Debra Aarons) (2016)
James Bucknell (PhD) Thesis title:听The Metaphysics of Dispositions (2015)
Max Rabie (PhD) Thesis title:听Can we determine the semantics of descriptions?(2015)
Amitavo Islam (PhD) Thesis title: Tokenese Sententialism: An Essay on Propositional Attitudes and Analyticity (2008)
Martinho Castro (PhD) Thesis title: Some antecedents of Leibniz鈥檚 principles (2008)
Simon Floth (PhD) Thesis title: The other basic aspect of reality (2007)
Witold Wiszniewski (PhD) Thesis title: Time, quasi-temporal change and imaginary numbers (2005)
Toby Meadows (MA) Thesis title: Some Problems for Kantian Aesthetics (2005)
Andrew Westcombe (PhD) Thesis title: Is there a coherent indeterministic metaphysics of free will? (2004)
Graham Purchase (PhD) Thesis title: Peter Kropotkin: Ecologist, Philosopher, Revolutionary (2003)
Adam Dickerson (PhD) Thesis title: Kant on Representation and Objectivity (2001)
Matthew Pearson (MA) Thesis title: Carnap, Metaphysics and Philosophy (2000)