Projects
Currently...
- Greg Dawes is writing a book on the conflict between science and religion
- James Maclaurin is collaborating with Assoc Prof Peter Whigham and Dr Grant Dick (Dept of Information Science) on a paper criticising Grammatical Evolution, the most common approach to evolutionary computation. He is also working (with Assoc Prof Heather Dyke) on a response to McLeod and Parson's response to "What is Analytic Metaphysics For"?
- After the publication of A New Science of Religion, James and Greg are developing a new project on evolutionary explanations for the persistence of religious conflict.
- Alex Miller is working on three (!) different books about metaethics, logic, language, and mathematics.
- Charles Pigden the Director the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program.
- Zach Weber is the Principal Investigator on a Marden Fund Fast Start Grant, "Models of Paradox in Non-Classical Mereotopology," about understanding logical paradoxes using mathematical models based on paraconsistent logics. He is the Associate Investigator on "Non-Classical Foundations of Analysis," a Marsden Fund project in the Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, with Dr. Maarten McKubre-Jordens.
- The Otago Logic Group meets monthly during semester time.
- The Philosophy Club meets monthly during semester, too.
Performance Based Research Fund rankings
In 2003 the Otago Philosophy Department scored 6.6. This made it the highest
scoring department in any discipline in any university in New
Zealand. In 2007 we increased our score to 7.5, thus retaining our status as New Zealand's number one research department.
Books from
the members of the department
Alexander Miller, Contemporary Metaethics: An introduction (2013)
Alexander Miller, Philosophy of Language (2013)
Greg Dawes and James Maclaurin (eds) A New Science of Religion (2013)
James Maclaurin (ed) Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne 2012
  Charles Pigden (ed), Hume on Motivation and Virtue (2009); Hume on Is and Ought (2010)
 Gregory W. Dawes, Theism and Explanation (2009)
 James Maclaurin,What is Biodiversity? (2008)
 Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy(2007)
 Heather Dyke (ed), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics (2008)
 Colin Cheyne (ed) Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (2006)
 Colin Cheyne (ed),Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy(2004)
 Andrew Moore, Review of the Current Processes for Ethical Review of Health and Disabillity Research in New Zealand (2003)
 Heather Dyke (ed), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (2003)
 Alex Miller and Crispin Wright (eds),Rule Following and Meaning (2002)
 Colin Cheyne,Knowledge, Cause and Abstract Objects(2001)
 Charles Pigden (ed),Russell on Ethics(1999)
 Alan
Musgrave, Essays on Realism and Rationalism (1999); Secular Sermons (2009)
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