Associate Professor Simon Lumsden

Associate Professor

BA Hons 91ɫ��Ƭ

PhD Sydney

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)

School of Humanities & Languages

Simon Lumsden is Associate Professor of philosophy. He��has been a DAAD research fellow at the Free University, Berlin and held an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney prior to his employment��at 91ɫ��Ƭ. His��research is primarily concerned with Environmental Philosophy,��German Idealism (with a special interest in Hegel), the Philosophy of History and Modern European Philosophy.

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Phone

(02) 9065 9747

E-mail

s.lumsden@unsw.edu.au

Location

Room 335 Morven Brown Building

Books | 2014

Lumsden S, 2014, Self-Consciousness and the Critique of the Subject: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Poststructuralists, Columbia University Press, New York,
Book Chapters | 2024

Robinson D; Raven M; Lumsden S, 2024, 'Epistemic injustice: intellectual property, biodiversity and traditional knowledge', in Rimmer M; Ncube C; Amani B (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK,

Book Chapters | 2021

Lumsden S, 2021, 'Freedom and Agency', in van den Akker C (ed.), Routledge Companion to Historical Theory., Routledge, London, pp. 380 - 394,

Book Chapters | 2021

Lumsden S, 2021, 'Key Thinkers: G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)', in Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, Bloomsbury,

Book Chapters | 2020

Lumsden S, 2020, 'Freedom and the Logic of History', in The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, Springer Nature, pp. 467 - 484,

Book Chapters | 2020

Lumsden S, 2020, 'Freedom and the Logic of History', in Westphal K; Bykova M (ed.), The Palgrave Hegel Handbook, Palgrave, pp. 467 - 484,

Book Chapters | 2013

Lumsden S, 2013, '"Poststructuralism and the Tradition"', in Porter R; Mackenzie IM; Dillet B (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 23 - 46,

Book Chapters | 2013

Lumsden S, 2013, 'Between Nature and Spirit: Hegel's Account of Habit', in Stern DS (ed.), Essays on Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 121 - 138,

Book Chapters | 2013

Lumsden S, 2013, 'Deleuze and Hegel on the limits of Self-Determined Subjectivity', in Houle K; Vernon J (ed.), Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time, NorthWestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., pp. 133 - 151,
Journal articles | 2026

Lumsden S, 2026, 'Animal Domestication, World History and Multispecies Relations', Theory, Culture & Society,

Journal articles | 2023

Lumsden S, 2023, 'Practice, Ethical Life and Normative Authority: The Problem of Alienation in Steven Vogel’s Environmental Philosophy', Environmental Values, 32, pp. 719 - 738,

Journal articles | 2021

Lumsden S, 2021, 'The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Philosophy of Right', Hegel Bulletin, 42, pp. 96 - 113,

Journal articles | 2021

Lumsden S, 2021, 'The Role of Bildung in Hegel’s Philosophy of History', Intellectual History Review, 31, pp. 445 - 462,

Journal articles | 2020

Lumsden S, 2020, 'Community in Hegel’s Social Philosophy', Hegel Bulletin, 49, pp. 177 - 201,

Journal articles | 2020

Lumsden S, 2020, 'Sustainable Development is a Dead End: the Logic of Modernity and Ecological Crisis', Environmental Values,

Journal articles | 2019

Lumsden S, 2019, 'Hegel’s God, Normativity, and Self-Knowledge', Philosophy Today, 63, pp. 543 - 548,

Journal articles | 2018

Lumsden S, 2018, 'Ecological Crisis and the Problem of How to Inhabit a Norm', Ethics and the Environment, 23, pp. 29 - 48,

Journal articles | 2018

Lumsden S, 2018, 'Hegel and Pathologized Modernity, or the End of Spirit in the Anthropocene', History and Theory, 57, pp. 371 - 389,

Journal articles | 2018

Lumsden S, 2018, 'The Satisfaction of Absolute Spirit', The Owl of Minerva, 49, pp. 83 - 105,

Journal articles | 2017

Lumsden S, 2017, 'Veganism, Normative Change, and Second Nature', Environmental Philosophy, 14, pp. 221 - 238,

Journal articles | 2016

Lumsden S, 2016, '"Second Nature and Historical Change in Hegel’s Philosophy of History"', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 24, pp. 74 - 94,

Journal articles | 2015

Lumsden S, 2015, 'At Home with Hegel and Heidegger', Philosophy Today, 59, pp. 7 - 21,

Journal articles | 2015

Lumsden S, 2015, 'The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism, edited by Felicity Joseph, Jack Reynolds, and Ashley Woodward: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, pp. x + 406, AU$49.99 (paperback).', Australasian Journal of Philosophy,

Journal articles | 2013

Lumsden S, 2013, 'Experience and the Anachronistic Present', Parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy, 17, pp. 29 - 33,

Journal articles | 2013

Lumsden S, 2013, 'Habit and the Limits of the Autonomous Subject', Body and Society, 19, pp. 58 - 82,

Journal articles | 2012

Lumsden S, 2012, 'Habit, Sittlichkeit and Second Nature', Critical Horizons: Journal of Social and Critical Theory, 13, pp. 220 - 243,

Journal articles | 2011

Lumsden S, 2011, 'Hegel, Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Metaphysics', Parrhesia, pp. 89 - 93,

Journal articles | 2009

Lumsden S, 2009, 'Philosophy and the logic of modernity: Hegel`s dissatisfied spirit', Review of Metaphysics, 63, pp. 55 - 89

Journal articles | 2008

Lumsden S, 2008, 'Habit, reason, and the limits of normativity', Sub Stance, 37, pp. 188 - 206,

Journal articles | 2008

Lumsden S, 2008, 'Philosophical romanticism', UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY, 77, pp. 145 - 146,

Journal articles | 2008

Lumsden S, 2008, 'Review: Philosophical romanticism', University of Toronto Quarterly, 77, pp. 145 - 146

Journal articles | 2008

Lumsden S, 2008, 'The rise of the non-metaphysical Hegel', Philosophy Compass, 3, pp. 51 - 65

Journal articles | 2008

Lumsden S, 2008, '`Habit, Reason and the limits or normativity`', SubStance, 37, pp. 118 - 206,

Journal articles | 2007

Lumsden S, 2007, 'Dialectic and Différance: the place of singularity in Hegel and Derrida', Philosophy and Social Criticism, 33, pp. 667 - 690

Journal articles | 2007

Lumsden S, 2007, 'Hegel, Derrida and the Subject', Cosmos and History, 3, pp. 35 - 50

Journal articles | 2005

Lumsden S, 2005, 'Introduction to German philosophy: From Kant to Habermas', International Philosophical Quarterly, 45, pp. 259 - 260

Journal articles | 2005

Lumsden S, 2005, 'Reason and the restlessness of the Speculative: Jean-Luc Nancy`s reading of Hegel', Critical Horizons: Journal of Social and Critical Theory, 6, pp. 205 - 225

Journal articles | 2004

Lumsden S, 2004, 'Fichte`s Striving Subject', Inquiry - an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 47, pp. 123 - 142

Journal articles | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'Problem of Beginning Hegel’s Science of Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit', International Studies in Philosophy, 35, pp. 83 - 103

Journal articles | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'Robert Stern, Hegel and the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’ (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. xviii + 234. 0415217881 (paper). £9.99.', Hegel Bulletin, 24, pp. 101 - 105,

Journal articles | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'Satisfying the Demands of Reason: Hegel's Conceptualization of Experience', Topoi, 22, pp. 41 - 53,

Journal articles | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'Satisfying the Demands of Reason: Hegel’s Conceptualization of Experience', Topoi - an International Review of Philosophy, 21, pp. 41 - 53

Journal articles | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'The problem of beginning Hegel`s phenomenology and science of logic', International Studies in Philosophy, 35, pp. 83 - 103

Journal articles | 2002

Lumsden S, 2002, 'Deleuze, Hegel, and the Transformation of Subjectivity', Philosophical Forum, 33, pp. 143 - 158

Journal articles | 2001

Lumsden S, 2001, 'Beyond an Ontological Foundation for the Philosophy of Right', The Southern Journal of Philosophy, pp. 139 - 146

Journal articles | 2001

Lumsden S, 2001, 'Tragedy and Understanding in Hegel’s Dialectic', Idealistic Studies: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy, 33, pp. 125 - 134

Journal articles | 2000

Lumsden S, 2000, 'A Subject for Hegel's Logic', International Philosophical Quarterly, 40, pp. 85 - 100,

Journal articles | 2000

Lumsden S, 2000, '‘Absolute Difference and Social Ontology: Levinas Face to Face with Buber and Fichte’', Human Studies: a journal for philosophy and the social sciences, 23, pp. 227 - 241

Journal articles | 1998

Lumsden S, 1998, 'Absolute Knowing', The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America, 38, pp. 3 - 32,
Conference Papers | 2003

Lumsden S, 2003, 'The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy', in Realism and Idealism in Fichte`s theory of Subjectivity, Istanbul, Turkey, presented at Realism and Idealism in Fichte`s theory of Subjectivity, Istanbul, Turkey

Media | 2023

Lumsden S, 2023, What job is that: Philosopher,

Media | 2022

Lumsden S, 2022, philosophers zone,

Media | 2018

O'Sullivan S; Lumsden S, 2018, Episode 75: The Habit of being Vegan with Simon Lumsden,

Simon Coordinates the Innerwest Council philosophy talks series. Talks are held monthly at Leichhardt Library.

National Tertiary Education Union

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP)

Simon convenes the InnerWest Council Philosophy series��

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My Research Supervision

Current Doctoral Research Students:

Nevena Krups: Arendt's Theory of Friendship

Sharri Lembryk:��Anthropomorphic Bias in Animal Ethics: Toward a New Model of Inquiry

Elka Sadler: Hegel's Logic

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Doctoral Completions

James Banwell: Hegel and Representationalism

Kate Judith: A Material Semiotic Exploration of Interstitiality with Mangroves

Scott Mcbride:��Empiricism and Apprenticeship: Structure and Method in the works of Deleuze

Lenka Ucnik:��Ethics, Politics and the Transformative Possibilities of the Self in Arendt and Foucault

My Teaching

ARTS1361 Truth and Human Existence

ARTS2249 Environmental Philosophy

ARTS2244 The Animal: Worker, Wild, Extinct

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