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ProfessorDirk Baltzly

Emeritus Professor

Philosophy

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  • Emeritus Professor
    Philosophy
  • School of Humanities, Philosophy and Gender Studies, 360 Humanities, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Teaching
Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Neoplatonism. Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, just war theory, ethics

Teaching expertise
Like most philosophers, Dirk’s teaching expertise runs wider than his research specialisation. Across his career he has taught units in: critical thinking, metaphysics & epistemology, philosophy of religion, moral theory, military ethics, philosophy of art, and history of philosophy. 

Research Supervision
Dirk has supervised 18 successful MA and PhD theses since 1994. Some examples include

Fiona Leigh (PhD, Monash), Being as Power: a reading of Plato's Sophist (2007). Leigh is now senior lecturer in Philosophy at University College London.
Craig Barrie (PhD, Monash), Plato on Educating Citizens (2014).
Anuradi Jayasinghe (MA, Monash), Art and Education in the Ideal City: the fifth essay of Proclus' In Platonis rem publicam commentarii (2014).


SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Secular Encounter with Holiness: ritual atheism, imaginative engagement in religious practice
    4 Feb 2020
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Cosmic Paradigm for Justice: Philo of Alexandria and Proclus.
    17 Dec 2018
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Moral Responsivity in Corrections Practice: Conceptualising a moral formulation framework using Moral Foundations Theory
    20 Aug 2018
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Change is on the Horizon: Shifting attitudes toward divinisation in Second to Third Century biography and their later reception.
    6 Feb 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Making the Doing of a PhD: Bureaucratic compliance as mystical participation
    1 Nov 2016 - 28 Aug 2024
    John Michael Vella
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Proteus and Poikilia. The Influence of Philostratus the Elder on the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis, with Particular Emphasis on Ekphrastic and Metamorphic Elements
    15 Feb 2016 - 22 Apr 2021
    John Charles Pickstone
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Centaurs, Sophists and Satire: Hybridity in the Works of Lucian of Samosata
    2 Feb 2015 - 17 Aug 2019
    Megan Campbell Abel
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Origin and Role of Pre-socratic Philosophic Text: Aletheia and Askesis
    1 Jul 2014 - 28 Apr 2023
    Jonathan West