The research done in the School of Philosophy is organised around five broad areas in which the program has a strong international reputation:

Epistemology & Metaphysics

(including Theories of Knowledge, Properties, Decision Theory, Causation, Philosophy of Probability)

Associated faculty: David Chalmers, Brian Garrett, Alan Hájek, Daniel Korman, Daniel Nolan, Jonathan Schaffer, Nicholas Southwood, Wolfgang Schwartz

Philosophy of Mind

(including Perception, Consciousness, Representation, Cognition and its Evolution)

Associated faculty: John Bengson, David Chalmers, Zoe Drayson, Frank Jackson, John Maier, Angela Mendelovici, Jonathan Schaffer, Susanna Schellenberg, Kim Sterelny, Daniel Stoljar

See the Centre for Consciousness website.

Philosophy of Science

(including Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Economics)

Associated faculty: Geoff Brennan,  Brett Calcott, David Chalmers, Alan Hájek, Daniel Nolan, Kim Sterelny

See the ANU-Sydney Philosophy of Biology Group website.

Moral and Political Philosophy

(including Ethics, Value Theory, Action Theory, Applied Moral and Political Philosophy with emphases on social welfare, international justice, ethics in the professions, environmental philosophy and feminism)

Associated faculty: Christian Barry, Geoffrey Brennan, Bob Goodin, Fiona Jenkins, Seth Lazar, Nicholas Southwood, Jeremy Shearmur

See the Social And Political Theory website.

European Philosophy

(including Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Phenomenology, and contemporary French philosophy)

Associated Faculty:  Fiona Jenkins, Bruin Christensen

See the Herbst Colloquium website.