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Research
Projects
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.
Research projects ongoing in the department
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Peter Anstey is currrently working with Alberto Vanzo, Richard Serjeantson, Juan Manuel Gomez, and Kirsten Walsh on a Marsden-funded project (2009–2011) entitled 'Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism'.
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Colin Cheyne is exploring the nature of our thinking about abstract objects.
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Andrew Moore is currently working on projects in ethical theory.
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James Maclaurin is currently editing a book entitled A New Science of Religion with Greg Dawes. This is part of a project looking at ways of unifying recent advances in the scientific study of religion. He is also working with Heather Dyke on philosophical methodology. Click here for more information.
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Alan Musgrave is writing a book on Scientific Realism and Platonism
which asks: must a scientific realist also be a platonic realist? In 2009 his collection of talks entitled Secular Sermons was published by Otago University Press.
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Charles Pigden, having recently published Hume
Motivation and Virtue, is editing Hume, Is and Ought based on (but not limited to) papers
read at Otago’s 2003
conference, "Hume, Motivation, 'Is' and 'Ought'". Click here for more information.
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Josh Parsons is currently working on a variety of papers in analytic metaphysics, including a paper on the concept of location in space-time theories, and a paper in some neglected options in the semantics of tense. A complete list can be found here.
Philosophy Staff Active in two Research Clusters
Analytic Philosophy
Early Modern Thought
Recent Books from
the members of the department
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);
Peter Anstey (ed), John Locke: Critical Assessments, 4 vols (2006);
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);
Peter Anstey (ed), The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Philosophy (2005);
Colin Cheyne (ed), Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy (2004);
Peter Anstey (ed), The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives (2003);
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);
Colin Cheyne, Knowledge, Cause and Abstract Objects (2001);
Peter Anstey, The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (2000);
Charles Pigden (ed), Russell on Ethics (1999);
Alan
Musgrave, Essays on Realism and Rationalism (1999); Secular Sermons (2009)
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