Craig Barrie
Doctoral Student
Email: craigebarrie@gmail.com
Thesis Topic:
"Plato on Educating Citizens"
Supervisors:
Dirk Baltzly, Dan Russell, John Bigelow
Qualifications:
- 2004 - M.A. in Philosophy,
by thesis only, University of Melbourne.
Thesis title: "Delineating Finitude: Heidegger on the Essence of Truth'. - 1998 - Postgraduate Diploma in Philosophy, by coursework
and thesis, University of Melbourne.
Thesis title: 'Phenomenology and Scepticism'. - 1995 - B.A. in Philosophy (Major) and Politics (Minor). La Trobe University.
Academic Interests:
Ancient Greek Philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), Phenomenology and Existentialism (especially Heidegger, Husserl, Gadamer and Arendt), Philosophy of Education, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Critical thinking.
Academic Teaching Positions:
2006 - Tutor, 'Plato and Platonism', Monash University (2nd/3rd year subject)
2006 - Co-Lecturer with Andrew Shortridge, 'Interpreting Plato', Monash University (Honours course and postgraduate seminar)
2006 - Lecturer, 'Aristotle and his Contemporaries', Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (MSCP) Summer School
2005 - Lecturer, Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, MSCP Winter School
2005 - Lecturer, 'Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism', MSCP Summer School
2004 - Lecturer, 'Truth in Action: An Introduction to Heidegger's 'On the Essence of Truth'', MSCP Summer School
2003 - Lecturer, 'Heidegger's Denkweg', MSCP, Summer School
2001-02 - Casual Marking, Charles Sturt University, various ethics subjects
2001 - Tutor, University of Melbourne, 'The Nature of Mind' (2nd/3rd year subject)
2001 - Tutor, University of Melbourne, 'Central Problems of Philosophy' (1st year subject)
1999 - Tutor, University of Melbourne, 'Critical Thinking' (1st year subject).
Other Academic Positions:
2007 (Current) - President, Monash Philosophy Postgraduate Association
2005 - Convenor and secretary of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (MSCP)
2002 2005 - Facilities Manager, University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association (UMPA)
2002 2003 - Treasurer, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy (ASCP), includes convening the 2002 ASCP annual conference at the University of Melbourne
2002 2003 - Secretary and treasurer of the University of Melbourne Philosophy Postgraduate Society
2000 2002 - Convener of the 'Blackwood' Philosophy Conference, University of Melbourne
2000 2001 - President, University of Melbourne Philosophy Postgraduate Society.
(Non-refereed) Publications
'Why do Philosophy?', in Philopastry, University of Melbourne Philosophy Department publication, 2002.
'Meditations on a Roman Fountain: the distance between art (mimesis) and truth (idea)', in Proceedings of the 2002 Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference, ASCP, 2002.
Presentations
'Teaching without Knowing? Socratic education in the early dialogues'
Presented at the Monash University postgraduate colloquium, Clayton, Victoria, 2006'Euthyphro's dilemma and the teachability of piety'
Presented at Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra, 2006, Monash University postgraduate colloquium, Clayton, Victoria, 2006 and La Trobe University postgraduate colloquium, 2006'Aristotle: Phenomenologist?'
Presented at University of Melbourne Blackwood Conference, Blackwood, Victoria, 2004'Possibility and Accessibility: the birth of the modal idea of possibility in Aristotle'
Presented at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Seminar Series, October 2003"Euthyphro's Paradox and the Piety of Thinking'
Presented at the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy conference, University of Tasmania, September 2003'It's the Thought that Counts: The Role of the Philosopher in Politics'
Panel discussion with Lenka Ucnik. Presented at University of Melbourne Blackwood Conference, Blackwood, Victoria, Australia, May 2003'Meditations on a Roman Fountain: the distance between art (mimesis) and truth (idea)'
Presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy annual conference, University of Melbourne, September 2002.'The Forgetting of Being as the Forgetting of the Ontological Import of Praxis: a reading of Being and Time section 44'
Presented at the Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy conference, University of New England, Armadale, New South Wales, September 2002"Heidegger/Plato: 'On the Essence of Truth' as Heidegger's cave allegory.'
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Christchurch, New Zealand, July 2002.'Why do Philosophy?'
University of Melbourne Postgraduate Seminar Series, March 2002'Interpreting Plato's Cave allegory'
Panel discussion with Martin Black. Presented at University of Melbourne Blackwood Conference, Blackwood, Victoria, Australia, June 2001'Thought Experiment: Insisting on Existence'
University of Melbourne Postgraduate Seminar Series, April 2000''Why the why?' - the Ruckshlag in the Question of Being'
University of Melbourne Blackwood Conference, Blackwood, Victoria, Australia, June 1999"Heidegger and Plato on seeing the light'
University of Melbourne Postgraduate Seminar Series, September 1998'How does Heidegger speak of Essence?'
University of Melbourne Blackwood Conference, Blackwood, Victoria, Australia, June 1998.