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Philip Patterson
Philip Patterson, ‘Virtue and the Three Monkey Defence: Regulating Ethical Conduct in the Australian Public Service’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) The thesis is an investigation of the efficacy of the ‘values-based’ ethics regulation system … operated by the Australian Public Service (‘APS’). Normative propositions which identify virtue, human character, or dispositions to behave, as determinatively […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/philip-patterson
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Fergus Dale Prien
Fergus Dale Prien, ‘A Reliabilist Strategy for Solving the Problem of Induction’ (MA in Philosophy, 2020) In this thesis I develop a two-stage strategy in which a simple reliabilist theory of knowledge and justification can be employed so as to solve David Hume’s famous ‘problem of induction’. In so doing, the key arguments I make include: (i) […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/fergus-dale-prien
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Belle Shapardon
Belle Shapardon, ‘The Sioni Cultural Complex: Cultural Complexity and Interaction during the Transcaucasian Chalcolithic’ (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2020) In the past, the Chalcolithic period (c5000–3500 BCE) in the Transcaucasus represented a poorly defined ‘interlude’ between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. An understanding of this period was hindered by a lack […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/02/belle-shapardon
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Evan Tindal
Evan Tindal, ‘Evaluating the Photooxidative Ageing Properties of 3D Printed Plastics: Strategies for Their Use and Conservation in Cultural Heritage Contexts’ (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2020) 3D printing is a fairly ubiquitous term today, due in part to the dissemination of the manufacturing technique to a wide variety of applications. While initially developed as […] -
John Whitehouse
John Whitehouse, ‘History Teaching as Conversation’ (PhD in History, 2020). The ability to engage in historical reasoning is fundamental to an education in history. What are the implications for educators? This thesis uses Greek and Roman historiography to discuss the learning and teaching of history. It offers a synthesis of two leading approaches to historical […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/06/01/john-whitehouse
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Chinese-Australian Perspectives on the Pandemic: A Personal Reflection
History PhD candidate Luke Yin was on a research trip to China when the news of the COVID-19 outbreak was first made public. Returning to Melbourne in February 2020, he has been in a position to witness the pandemic from both Chinese and Australian perspectives. In this piece, he shares his reflections on how these […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/29/chinese-australian-perspectives-on-the-pandemic
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Graham Berry, Democratic Adventurer: An Interview with Professor Sean Scalmer
Sean Scalmer, Professor of History in SHAPS, has just published a new book on the nineteenth-century Australian political figure, Premier of Victoria, Graham Berry. Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics tells the story of Berry’s ‘remarkable rise from linen-draper and grocer to adored popular leader’, and his role in shaping Australian […] -
Lian Zhou
Lian Zhou, ‘De Se Communication: Language, Thought and Co-aboutness’ (PhD in Philosophy, 2020) This dissertation is about the co-aboutness problem of de se communication. An essential requirement of successful communication is that participants of communication must talk about the same subject matter. I call this requirement the co-aboutness condition of communication. According to the traditional […] -
The Greco-Roman and Chinese Ancient Worlds in Comparative Perspective
In late 2019 Associate Professor Hyun Jin Kim received the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia, when he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. To mark this occasion, PhD candidate Larissa Tittl interviewed Hyun Jin about his career as a scholar of ancient Greece, Rome and China. First, […] -
Will COVID-19 End Globalisation?
A spectre is haunting the world but it isn’t COVID-19, it’s the idea that the pandemic could lead to the end of globalisation. In an article originally published on the ES Global website as El coronavirus pondrá fin a la globalización?, Dr Ángel Alcalde, from SHAPS and Dr Jose M. Escribano, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, explore […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2020/05/16/will-covid-19-end-globalisation
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