(1) Training
Certificate of university teaching methods and evaluation from Centre for Higher Education, University of Melbourne, 1970.
(2) Areas of Teaching Experience
(Note: Only those areas for which I have had major teaching responsibility are listed.)
* Philosophical logic (truth, reference, universals, ontological commitment, intentionality, existence, descriptions) (Universities of Melbourne and Wollongong).
* Philosophical psychology (imagination, will, mind-brain) (Universities of Melbourne and Wollongong).
* Kant’s Critical Philosophy (University of Wollongong).
Wittgenstein and philosophy of language generally (Universities of Melbourne and Wollongong).
Philosophy of Education (Undergraduate and graduate) (University of Wollongong).
Formal Logic (propositional and predicate calculi, set theory, elementary meta-theory) (Universities of Oxford, Melbourne, Wollongong, Sydney).
Pragmatism and positivism (University of Melbourne).
Recent analytical Philosophy (Universities of Melbourne, Wollongong, and Sydney.)
History of Philosophy (esp Plato, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) (Universities of Melbourne and Wollongong).
Introductory history of ideas (University of Wollongong).
Contemporary political philosophy (Universities of Melbourne, Wollongong and Sydney).
* Analytical jurisprudence (Natural law theories, positivism, ‘realism’) Universities of Melbourne, Wollongong and Sydney).
* Hart, Dworkin, legal reasoning, law and morals (Universities of Wollongong and Sydney).
* Philosophy and sociology of law, including law reform and public policy (University of Sydney).
* Human rights (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Paine, nineteenth century criticisms of natural rights theories, philosophical presuppositions of contemporary (Australian) anti-discrimination legislation) (Universities of Wollongong and Sydney).
* Aesthetics (esp Plato, Kant, Croce) (University of Wollongong)
General political philosophy (Universities of Wollongong and Sydney)
Philosophy of religion (University of Wollongong)
* Philosophical realism and art in German cinema
(* Areas in which I have also supervised and/or examined higher degree research students.)
(1) Higher Degrees
Sometime External examiner for Masters and/or Doctoral theses from the following universities:
Australian National University (Research School and Faculties)
University of Western Australia
University of Adelaide
University of Melbourne
Monash University
LaTrobe University
Macquarie University
University of Sydney (LLM, SJD, and PhD)
University of Western Sydney
National University of Singapore
(2) Bachelor Degrees (including Honours)
Sometime examiner and/or assessor in undergraduate courses in the following Australian universities:
University of Melbourne (Philosophy)
University of Wollongong (Philosophy and General Studies)
University of Sydney (Jurisprudence)
