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Academic Staff
Professor and Head of Department
Prof. D Benatar
BSocSc (Hons), PhD Cape Town
David Benatar has teaching and research interests in moral philosophy and related areas, and has published work on a wide range of topics.
Professor
Prof. Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves
BA (Hons) London, MA PhD Boston
Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves's research interests are political philosophy, normative ethics, social theory, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He has published several articles in books and academic journals and was a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, The Encyclopedia of Ethics and The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia. He is the author of Modernity, Justice and Community (1990) and of The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt (1994). He is the co-editor of Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (1996) and of Public and Private: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (2000). He is the editor of Democracy as Public Deliberation: New Perspectives (2002) and is currently working on a book on democratic deliberation.
Associate Professor
Dr B Weiss
BSc Durham, PGCE University of London, PhD St Andrews
Bernhard Weiss's research interests are: Realism and Anti-realism, Philosophies of Language, Logic and Mathematics, Early Analytical Philosophy. His current projects involve a book on the development of the notion of sense in the writings of Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein, and a paper on the anti-realist conception of truth as knowable. His recent publications include: Michael Dummett (Acumen and Princeton, 2002); 'Knowledge of Meaning' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society vol.CIV 2004; 'The Place of Semantic Theory' (forthcoming) in The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, introduction and edited with Max Kolbel (Routledge 2004); "Molecularity and Revisionism" - a contribution to the volume on Dummett for The Library of Living Philosophers (forthcoming)
Senior Lecturers
Dr E Galgut
BA (Hons) MA Wits, PhD Rutgers, MA (Creative Writing) UCT
Elisa.Galgut@uct.ac.za
Elisa Galgut's main research areas are in aesthetics, the philosophy of literature, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis.
Dr. J Wanderer
BSc (Hons) UCL, MSc PhD LSE
Jeremy Wanderer's main research interests are in issues that lie at the confluence of three areas: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and epistemology. His current research projects include developing a series of papers on the epistemology of testimony, loosely based on his PhD thesis. In addition, he is hard at work exploring issues surrounding the notion of the 'space of reason' as a result of having recently been commissioned to provide a book-length treatment of the subject.
Lecturer
Dr J Ritchie
BA (Hons) Oxon MPhil PhD LSE
Jack Ritchie's main research interests are in the philosophy of science and metaphysical issues connected to science. He has published articles on mental causation, scientific realism and teleosemantics. He is currently writing a book on naturalism. Once that is completed he hopes to write something philosophically interesting about interdisciplinary work in the natural sciences
NRF Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr G Fried
BA (Hons) UCT, MPhil PhD Cambridge
Greg Fried's main research interests are in aesthetics and the philosophy of mathematics. He has broad teaching competence, having taught an introductory philosophy course and courses in the philosophy of psychology and mind, aesthetics, logic and epistemology and classical political philosophy. He has further research interests in some of these areas
Honorary Research Associate
Dr. Augustine Shutte
BA UCT, GOE Cuddesdon Oxford, MA (Cum Laude) Stellenbosch, D.Phil Stellenbosch
Dr Shutte's main areas of interest are philosophy of religion, philosophical anthropology, ethics and contemporary Thomist philosophy.
Publications: articles in International Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, New Blackfriars, Philosophical Papers, Modern Theology, SA
Journal of Philosophy. Books: The Mystery of Humanity; Philosophy for Africa; Ubuntu: An ethic for a new South Africa; The Quest for Humanity in Science and Religion; Deeper Dialogue Between Religions; South Africa's Common Good.
Administrative Staff
Administrative Assistant
Ms C Gilbert
BA(Hons)HDE (UCT)
philosophy@uct.ac.za
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