Following is a nearly complete bibliography of works by Jeff Malpas, including journal articles, book chapters, presentations, and interviews (books can be found on a separate page of this website). Each item is listed according to its ultimate publication details (or, in a few instances, noted as unpublished). The manuscripts linked to each entry are, for the most part, pre-publication versions. Their working titles and texts may vary from the subsequent published versions. Accurate citations should therefore be sought from the latter.
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| Type | Year | Title | Publication Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book Preface | 2014 | Preface to Jangso wa Kyonghum (Korean edition of Place and Experience). | Seoul: Eco-Livres Publishing, 2014. |
| Book Foreward | 2016 | Foreward to Strangers at Home: Place, Belonging, and Australian Life Writing, by Jack Bowers. | Cambria Australian Literature Series. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2016. |
| Journal Article | 2015 | "A Western Sense of Place: The Case of George Stevens’s Shane." | Geo-Humanities 1, no. 1 (2015): 36-50. |
| Conference Presentation | 2001 | "Action, Intentionality, and Content." | Paper presented at the Conference on Mind and Action III, Lisbon, Portugal, June, 2001 2001. |
| Journal Article | 1992 | "Analysis and Hermeneutics." | Philosophy and Rhetoric 25, no. 2 (1992): 93-123. |
| Journal Article | 2018 | "Assessing the Significance of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks." | Geographica Helvetica 73, no. 1 (2018): 109-14. |
| Book Part | 2006 | "Beginning in Wonder: Placing the Origin of Thinking." | In Philosophical Romanticism, edited by Nikolas Kompridis, 282-98. London: Routledge, 2006. |
| Unpublished Work | n.d. | "Being, Place, Nature." | |
| Journal Article | 2014 | "Between City and Sea: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies." | Architecture Australia 103, no. 5 (2014). |
| Journal Article | 2000 | "Between Ourselves: Philosophical Conceptions of Intersubjectivity." | International Journal of Pyschoanalysis 81, no. 3 (2000): 587-92. |
| Journal Article | 2003 | "Bio-Medical Topoi: The Dominance of Space, the Recalcitrance of Place, and the Making of Persons." | Social Science and Medicine 56, no. 11 (2003): 2343-51. |
| Book Part | 2003 | "Breath and Revelation." | In Inspirational Landscapes, Volume 2: Perspective Essays. Context: Community, Heritage & Environmental Solutions, 12-15. Melbourne: Australian Heritage Commission, 2003. |
| Journal Article | 2012 | "Building Memory." | Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts 13 (2012): 11-21. |
| Journal Article | 2001 | "Comparing Topographies: Across Paths/Around Place: A Reply to Casey." | Philosophy and Geography 4, no. 2 (2001): 231-38. |
| Journal Article | 1999 | "Constituting the Mind: Kant, Davidson, and the Unity of Consciousness." | International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7, no. 1 (1999): 1-30. |
| Book Part | 2009 | "Cosmopolitanism, Branding, and the Public Realm." | In Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change, edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Catherine Kevin, and Eleonore Kofman, 189-97. London: Routledge, 2009. |
| Book Part | 2008 | "Cultural Heritage in the Age of New Media." | In New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by Yehuda Kalay, Thomas Kvan, and Janice Affleck, 13-26. London: Routledge, 2008. |
| Encyclopedia | 2014 | "Death." | In Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael Gibbons, 820-28. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. |
| Journal Article | 2007 | "Disclosing the Depths of Heidegger’s Topology: A Response to Relph." | Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 18 (2007): 9-12. |
| Journal Article | forthcoming 2018 | "Dying in a Liberal Society." | Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (forthcoming 2018). |
| Journal Article | 2009 | "Ethics and the Commitment to Truth." | Trópos: Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica 2, no. 1 (2009): 15-29. |
| Book Chapter | 2012 | "Existentialism as Literature." | Chap. 14 in The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism, edited by Steven Crowell, 291-321. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Conference Presentation | 2018 |
"Finding Ourselves in the World: Emotion, Orientation, Place."
Emotion is central to the life of the subject, but emotion is no mere modification of subjectivity taken on its own. Rather emotion is an essential part of the structure that opens up the subject to the objective and to the world. In phenomenological terms, emotion is essentially disclosive of the world. Yet in being so, emotion is also tied to the felt bodily locatedness – the ‘being-placed’ – of the subject. Emotion thus belongs not to phenomenology alone, but to the essential topology of the human, and as part of that topology, emotion belongs to the externality of things no less than to the internality of the self. On this basis, we can better understand the relation of emotion to the materiality of human life (the material is always ‘felt’ and the ‘felt’ is always materialised), as well as the character of emotion as itself a mode of orientation – a finding of oneself as in the world in a certain way. Only in this latter fashion, in fact, can one find oneself in the world at all. |
Paper presented at the The Future of Emotions: Conversations Without Borders, The Third International CHE Conference (keynote address), University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 13 July, 2018 2018. |
| Journal Article | 1998 | "Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and Subjectivity." | Philosophy and Geography 3 (1998): 21-44. |
| Journal Article | 2017 | "Five Theses on Place (and Some Associated Remarks): A Reply to Peter Gratton." | Il Cannocchiale: Rivista di studi filosofici 42, no. 1-2 (2017): 69-81. |
| Book Part | 2012 | "Fragility and Responsibility (Fragilidad y Responsabilidad)." | In Vivir Para Pensar, edited by Fina Birulés, Antonio Gómez Ramos, and Concha Roldán, 65-74. Barcelona: Paidos, 2012. |
| Book Part | 2015 |
"From Extremity to Releasement: Place, Authenticity, and the Self."
The investigation of authenticity has been a major theme in the work of Charles Guignon. In his definitive discussion of authenticity, On Being Authentic, Guignon argues against certain narrow forms of authenticity while also arguing for an expanded version of the concept, one that can also encompass the notion, to which authenticity is otherwise often opposed, of releasement. Yet Guignon’s assimilation of authenticity and releasement, as well as his development of a more positive concept of the authentic, seems to depend on underplaying the problematic character of authenticity as this is evident in Lionel Trilling’s original discussion in Sincerity and Authenticity. A key text in Trilling’s discussion is Wordsworth’s poem ‘Michael’, and that poem provides a means both to explore the problematic character of authenticity, notably its tendency towards extremity, and the real contrast between authenticity and releasement. Moreover, through the focus on Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’, the latter concept is also shown to bring with it an emphasis, largely underdeveloped in Guignon’s discussion, on the essential relation of self to place – an emphasis that, when properly developed, actually runs counter to the notion of the authentic. |
In Horizons of Authenticity in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Moral Psychology: Essays in Honor of Charles Guignon, edited by Hans Pedersen and Megan Altman, 45-62. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. |
| Journal Article | 2006 | "From the Line to the Cube: Terroir at Liverpool Crescent." | Architectural Review Australia 97, no. 6 (2006): 76-77. |
| Book Part | 2002 | "Gadamer, Davidson, and the Ground of Understanding." | In Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer, edited by Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald, and Jens Kertscher, 195-216. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. |
| Conference Presentation – Published | 2016 | "’Good Government Starts Today’: On the Death of the Public, the Triumph of Private Interest, and the Loss of the Good." | In Reclaiming the Public: Working Papers in the Human Rights and Public Life Program, No. 3, edited by Anna Yeatman, 1-23. Sydney: University of Western Sydney, 2016. |
| Book Part | 2001 |
"Governing Theory: Ontology, Methodology, and the Critique of Metaphysics."
Questions of methodology have often appeared to supersede questions of ontology within the field of social inquiry. Indeed, an antogonism towards any form of ‘metaphysics’ has tended to lead social theorists towards what are viewed as more methodological than ontological conceptions. But methodology and ontology are really no more than dual reflections of the same structure. And any critique of metaphysics can only be undertaken from some ontological-methodological standpoint. Both Foucault and Heidegger can be viewed as elaborating a certain ‘anti-metaphysical’ position that is neverthless grounded in the elaboration of an ontological-methodological stance. The approach that is entailed by a certain ‘governmental’ approach to social scientific studies can also be viewed as having a similarly anti-metaphysical, and yet constructively ontological-methodological, character. As well as providing an account of the nature of such a ‘governmental’ approach, this paper will explore a number of issues that arise in connection with that approach including the contrast between ‘descriptive’ and ‘causal-explanatory’ approaches in social theory, historicization as a research technique, and the possibility of a progressive or ameliorative politics. |
In Rethinking Law, Society, and Governance: Foucault’s Bequest, edited by Gary Wickham and George Pavlich. Oñati International Series in Law and Society, 125-40. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001. |
| Journal Article | 2007 | "Heidegger in Benjamin’s City." | The Journal of Architecture 12, no. 5 (2007): 489-97. |
| Book Part | 2014 | "Heidegger, Aalto, and the Limits of Design." | In Suchen Entwerfen Stiften: Randgänge Zum Entwurfsdenken Martin Heideggers, edited by David Espinet and Toni Hildebrandt, 191-214. Paderborn, DE: Wilhelm Fink, 2014. |
| Conference Presentation – Published | 2012 | "Heidegger, Place, and Contemporary Philosophy." | In Preserving the Humboldt Tradition of Scholarship in Australasia: 14th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, edited by Trevor R. Finlayson, 35-42. Melbourne, AUS: AAvHF, 2012. |
| Book Part | 2012 | "Heidegger, Space, and World." | In Heidegger and Cognitive Science, edited by Julian Kiverstein and Michael Wheeler, 309-42. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012. |
| Book Part | 1999 | "Heidegger: Earth and Sky, Gods and Mortals." | In Freedom and Death, edited by Marguerite La Caze, 65-82. Hobart: Pyrrho Press, 1999. |
| Book Introduction | 2015 | "Hermeneutics and Philosophy." | Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, 1-9. London: Routledge, 2015. |
| Journal Article | 1991 | "Holism and Indeterminacy." | Dialectica 45, no. 1 (1991): 47-58. |
| Journal Article | 2004 | "Holism, Realism, and Truth: How to Be an Anti-Relativist and Not Give Up on Heidegger (or Davidson)—a Debate with Christopher Norris." | International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12, no. 3 (2004): 339-56. |
| Journal Article | 2014 | "Human Being as Placed Being." | Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 25, no. 3 (2014): 11-12. |
| Book Part | 2007 | "Human Dignity and Human Being." | In Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation, edited by Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss, 19-26. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. |
| Unpublished Work | 2012 | "In Memory of Fred, at Christmas." | 2012. |
| Book Part | 2018 | "In the Brightness of Place: Out of History to Topology." | In Jenseits Von Polemik Und Apologie: Die „Schwarzen Hefte“ in Der Diskussion, edited by Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski. Heidegger-Jarbuch 12. Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2018. |
| Unpublished Work | 2011 | "In the Place of the Past: John Cale’s Dark Days – Dyddiau Du." | 2011. |
| Journal Article | 2006 |
"In the Vicinity of the Human."
Beginning with the situated character of the question concerning the human, this paper argues that the problem of the human is itself inextricably bound to the problem of situation or place. Consequently, any genuine philosophical anthropology must take the form of a philosophical topology. This line of argument is developed through the work Abraham Heschel, Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber, and also Helmut Plessner. |
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 25, no. 3 (2006): 423-36. |
| Journal Article | 2012 |
"Is There an Ethics of Place?".
Although place is an increasingly important notion in much contemporary theorizing across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, there is also a persistent tendency to think place in ways that see it as inevitably given over to a problematic ethics and a regressive politics. Such a way of thinking place nevertheless misconstrues the nature and the necessity of place, as well as the nature of the ethical and the political. This essay suggests some reasons why this may be so, and briefly sketches the direction in which a genuine ethics of place may be found. |
Localities 2, no. 7 (2012): 7-31. |
| Electronic Article | 2010 | "Jeff Malpas Interviewed by Laureano Ralón." | Figure/Ground (2010). http://figureground.org/. |
| Journal Article | 1990 | "Kategoriai and the Unity of Being." | Journal of Speculative Philosophy 4, no. 1 (1990): 13-36. |
| Electronic Article | 2013 | "Landscaping Heidegger: Jeff Malpas Interviewed by Richard Marshall." | 3:AM Magazine—The End Times (2013). Published electronically 26 February, 2013. https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/landscaping-heidegger-davidson-gadamer/2/. |
| Journal Article | 2015 | "Making Sense of Ethics in the Everyday." | Phainomena: Journal of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 24, no. 92/93 (2015): 45-56. |
| Book Part | 2003 | "Martin Heidegger." | In The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, edited by Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman, 143-62. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. |
| Journal Article | 2008 | "New Media, Cultural Heritage, and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground." | International Journal of Heritage Studies 14, no. 3 (2008): 197-209. |
| Book Part | 2014 | "On Hans-Helmuth Gander’s Sixtieth Birthday." | In Geburtstagsschrift für Hans-Helmuth Gander, edited by Martin Baesler, Thiemo Breyer, Fausto Fraisopi, Andreas Friedrich, Regula Giuliani, Christopher Gutland, Philippe Merz, et al. Archiviana für Hans-Helmuth Gander: Collected Works, 131-33. Freiburg: Archiv Verlag, 2014. |
| Journal Article | 2008 |
"On Not Giving Up the World: Davidson and the Grounds of Belief."
What is the relation between our beliefs, or thoughts in general, and the perceptual experience of the world that gives rise to those beliefs? Donald Davidson is usually taken to have a well-known answer to this question that runs as follows: while our beliefs are, at least in part, caused by our experience, such experience does not thereby count as providing a rational ground for those beliefs; our beliefs are thus evidentially grounded in other beliefs, but not in the experience that gives rise to them. John McDowell, among others, has challenged this Davidsonian picture on the grounds that it actually severs the connection between beliefs and their proper evidential grounds. Against such a view, this paper argues the Davidsonian position grounds belief in the specificity of our own locatedness in the world, and in the more general and prior embeddedness of belief in the world that is a part of the very concept of belief. |
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16, no. 2 (2008): 201-15. |
| Book Part | 2005 |
"On Not Giving Up the World: Davidson and the Grounds of Belief (Não Renunciar ao Mundo: Davidson e os Fundamentos da Crença)."
What is the relation between our beliefs, or thoughts in general, and the perceptual experience of the world that gives rise to those beliefs? Donald Davidson is usually taken to have a well-known answer to this question that runs as follows: while our beliefs are, at least in part, caused by our experience, such experience does not thereby count as providing a rational ground for those beliefs; our beliefs are thus evidentially grounded in other beliefs, but not in the experience that gives rise to them. John McDowell, among others, has challenged this Davidsonian picture on the grounds that it actually severs the connection between beliefs and their proper evidential grounds. Against such a view, this paper argues the Davidsonian position grounds belief in the specificity of our own locatedness in the world, and in the more general and prior embeddedness of belief in the world that is a part of the very concept of belief. |
Translated by C. Bacelar. In Significado, Verdade, Interpretação: Davidson e a Filosofia, edited by Plinio Junqueira Smith and Waldomiro J. Silva Filho, 51-65. São Paulo: Edições Loyola, 2005. |
| Journal Article | 2003 | "On the Map: Comments on Stuart Elden’s Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Project of a Spatial History." | Philosophy and Geography 6, no. 2 (2003): 213-18. |
| Journal Article | 2009 |
"On the Non-Autonomy of the Virtual."
Much contemporary talk of virtual ‘worlds’ proceeds as if the virtual could somehow be considered as in competition with or as an alternative to the world of the ‘nonvirtual’ or the ‘everyday’. This paper argues that such a contrast is fundamentally mistaken, and that the virtual is not autonomous with respect to the everyday, but is rather embedded within it, and an extension of it. |
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 15, no. 2 (2009): 135-39. |
| Book Part | 2015 | "On the Philosophical Reading of Heidegger: Situating the Black Notebooks." | In Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941, edited by Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas, 3-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. |
| Book Part | forthcoming 2018 |
"On Thinking in a Thoughtless Time."
As it is a form of thinking, and an especially significant form at that, the question of the contemporary value and significance of philosophy cannot be asked apart form the question of the value and significance of thinking itself. Yet as Martin Heidegger argues, ours seems to be a time in which we are “in flight from thinking” – a time in which, if thinking is seen as valuable and relevant at all, it is only to the extent to which is serves an instrumental purpose – usually a purpose construed in monetary or commercial terms. Such monetized instrumentalism is deeply problematic, not only because of the way it corrodes any real sense of value or undermines even the idea of the instrumental as such, but because of the way it brings with it a loss of any real sense of limit or bound. It is just such a sense of limit or bound that is central to thinking, and so the contemporary “flight from thinking” can also be understood as a flight from limit or bound. Moreover as thinking finds its own bound, as well as its ground, in truth, so the flight from thinking is also a flight from truth, and a flight, too, from our own humanity. |
In Why Philosophy?, edited by P. Diego Bubbio and Jeff Malpas. Aurora, CO: Davis Group Publishing, forthcoming 2018. |
| Conference Presentation | 2018 | "Opening Remarks." | Paper presented at the Launch of the ‘Blue Room’ Exhibition by Suze van der Beek, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah (Hobart), Tasmania, 2018. |
| Book Part | 2006 | "Philosophizing Place in The Joshua Tree." | In U2 and Philosophy: How to Decipher an Atomic Band, edited by Mark Wrathall. Popular Culture and Philosophy, 43-54. Chicago: Open Court, 2006. |
| Book Chapter | 2016 | "Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of Understanding." | Chap. 7 in Inheriting Gadamer: New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics, edited by Georgia Warnke, 143-60. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. |
| Book Part | 2008 | "Place and Human Being." | In Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place through Different Senses and Lenses, edited by Frank Vanclay, Matthew Higgins, and Adam Blackshaw, 325-31. Canberra, AUS: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008. |
| Journal Article | 2009 | "Place and Human Being." | Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 20, no. 3 (2009): 19-23. |
| Book Part | 2018 |
"Place and Placedness."
This paper explores the difference between the notions of place and placedness. This difference relates to an important point of differentiation between genuinely a topographical approach and those other approaches that tend to dominate in the existing literature, including approaches associated with ‘situated cognition’. If place is taken as the primary concept, as I argue it should be taken, then that means that being-placed, as it might be viewed as determinative of experience and cognition, has first to be understood in relation to place. |
In Situatedness and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatio-Temporal Contingency of Human Life, edited by Thomas Hünefeldt and Annika Schlitte. Contributions to Phenomenology, 27-39. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. |
| Book Chapter | 2015 | "Place and Singularity." | Chap. 6 in The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, edited by Jeff Malpas, 65-92. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. |
| Book Part | 2015 | "Place and Situation." | In The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, 354-66. London: Routledge, 2015. |
| Journal Article | 2004 | "Place and Topography: Responding to Cameron and Stefanovic." | Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 15, no. 3 (2004): 8-10. |
| Unpublished Work | 2018 | "Place, Space, and the Parametric." | 2018. |
| Conference Presentation | 2017 | "Place, Truth, and Commitment." | Paper presented at the Seminar on Understanding and Designing Place, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, 2017. |
| Journal Article | 2017 |
"Placing Understanding/Understanding Place."
This paper sets out an account of hermeneutics as essentially ‘topological’ in character (where ‘topology’ is understood as designating the philosophical inquiry into place) at the same time as it also argues that hermeneutics has a key role to play in making clear the nature of the topological. At the centre of the argument is the idea that place and understanding are intimately connected, that this is what determines the interconnection between topology and hermeneutics, and that this also implies an intimate belonging-together of place and thinking, of place and experience, of place and the very possibility of appearance, of presence, of being. Although the early years of this century saw the loss of two of the most distinguished and influential figures in the history of hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur (in 2003 and 2005 respectively), the years since have also seen an upsurge in critical engagement with hermeneutics (it might be argued that the one is, to some extent, a consequence of the other). There are thus an increasing number of volumes dedicated, not only to aspects of the history of hermeneutics and key figures in that history, but also to re-thinking the nature of hermeneutics and its relation to other areas of philosophy. Most notably perhaps, Günter Figal’s Objectivity attempts a major critical engagement with the hermeneutical tradition in order to rethink what hermeneutics might be, while Rudolf Makkreel’s more recent Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics also takes up hermeneutics within a broad frame, arguing for a re-positioning. |
Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions 56, no. 3 (2017): 379-91. |
| Unpublished Work | 2012 | "Presence and Human Presence." | 2012. |
| Journal Article | 2012 | "Putting Space in Place: Philosophical Topography and Relational Geography." | Planning and Environment D: Society and Space 30, no. 2 (2012): 226-42. |
| Book Part | 2013 | "Remembering Donald." | In Donald Davidson: Life and Words, edited by Maria Baghramian. International Journal of Philosophical Studies series, 49-51. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. |
| Journal Article | 2002 | "Remembering Place." | Review of The Fate of Place, by Edward S. Casey. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 10, no. 1 (2002): 92-99. |
| Book Part | 2016 | "Re-Orienting Thinking: Philosophy in the Midst of the World." | In Commonplace Commitments: Thinking Through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell, edited by Peter S. Fosl, Michael McGandy, and Mark Moorman, 169-86. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2016. |
| Book Part | 2008 | "Repetitions." | In Repetitions: Leigh Hobba, Ciara Moore, Martin Walsh, Daniel Von Sturmer. Catalogue of an Exhibit at Plimsoll Gallery, School of Art, University of Tasmania. Hobart: University of Tasmania, 2008. |
| Journal Article | 2014 | "Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger and the Question of Place." | Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 25, no. 1 (2014): 15-23. |
| Journal Article | 2013 | "Room 11 Architects: A Heightened Responsiveness to Place Is the Hallmark of This Tasmanian-Born Practice." | Architecture Australia 102, no. 3 (2013): 108. |
| Unpublished Work | n.d. | "Scoring Ken Friedman." | |
| Journal Article | 2015 |
"Self, Other, Thing: Triangulation and Topography in Post-Kantian Philosophy."
Topography or topology is a mode of philosophical thinking that combines elements of transcendental and hermeneutic approaches. It is anti-reductionist and relationalist in its ontology, and draws heavily, if sometimes indirectly, on ideas of situation, locality, and place. Such a topography or topology is present in Heidegger and, though less explicitly, in Hegel. It is also evident in many other recent and contemporary post- Kantian thinkers in addition to Kant himself. A key idea within such a topography or topology is that of triangulation – an idea that appears explicitly in the work of Donald Davidson. Triangulation captures the idea of the topographical domain as constituted through the mutual relatedness of the elements within it, and as only to be understood through the mapping out of such relatedness – in the case of the topographical domain that is the world, through the relatedness of self, other, and thing. |
Philosophy Today 59, no. 1 (2015): 103-26. |
| Journal Article | 1994 |
"Self-Knowledge and Scepticism."
Donald Davidson has argued that ‘most of our beliefs must be true’ and that global scepticism is therefore false. Davidson’s arguments to this conclusion often seem to depend on externalist considerations. Davidson’s position has been criticised, however, on the grounds that he does not defeat the sceptic, but rather already assumes the falsity of scepticism through his appeal to externalism. Indeed, it has been claimed that far from defeating tile sceptic Davidson introduces an even more extreme version of scepticism according to which we cannot even know the contents of our own minds. This paper argues that these criticisms are mistaken and that Davidson does indeed have grounds to argue that scepticism is false. The externalism that figures in Davidson’s antisceptical arguments is shown to be merely an element in Davidson’s overall holism according to which the very possibility of having beliefs that could be true or false depends on most of those beliefs being true and their contents known. |
Erkenntnis 40, no. 2 (1994): 165-84. |
| Conference Presentation | 2018 | "Spatialising Design: Architecture in the Age of Technological Capitalism – Power, Verticality, and the Street." | Paper presented at the The Second International Symposium, "On Power in Architecture: The Phenomenological Perspective," organised by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018. |
| Generic | 1999 | "Speech to Graduating Students." | University of Tasmania, 1999. |
| Book Part | 2005 | "’Sprache Ist Gespräch’: On Gadamer, Language and Philosophy." | In Between Description and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Turn in Philosophy, edited by Andrzej Wiercinski, 408-20. Toronto: The Hermeneutic Press, 2005. |
| Book Part | 2012 | "Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics." | In Perspectives on Human Suffering, edited by Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss, 9-21. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012. |
| Book Part | 2018 | "’Taking Everything in Hand’: Managerialism and Technology." | In The Triumph of Managerialism? New Technologies of Government and Their Implications for Value, edited by Anna Yeatman and Bogdan Costea. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. |
| Book Part | 2016 | "The Beckoning of Language: Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Transformation of Thinking." | In Hermeneutic Heidegger, edited by Michael Bowler and Ingo Farin, 203-21. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. |
| Conference Presentation | 2010 | "The Complexities of Place." | Paper presented at the Department of Geography, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2010. |
| Book Part | 2012 | "The Demise of Ethics." | In Applied Ethics: Remembering Patrick Primeaux, edited by Michael Schwartz and Howard Harris. Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 29-45. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2012. |
| Journal Article | 2004 | "The Discomfort of Strangeness: Jeff Malpas on the Difference of Death." | The Philosopher’s Magazine 27 (2004): 34-36. |
| Journal Article | 2005 | "The Dualities of Work: Self Consumption and Self Creation." | Philosophy Today 49, no. 3 (2005): 256-63. |
| Book Part | 2009 | "The Forms of Water: In the Land and in the Soul." | In Water, Sovereignty, and Borders in Asia and Oceania, edited by Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, 14-19. London: Routledge, 2009. |
| Conference Presentation | 2006 | "The Fourfold and the Framework: Heidegger’s Topological Critique of Technology." | Paper presented at the Department of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2006. |
| Journal Article | 1999 |
"The Fragility of Robust Realism: A Reply to Dreyfus and Spinosa."
Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa’ s argument for `robust’ realism centres on the possibility of our having access to things as they are in themselves and so as having access to things in a way that is not dependent on our `quotidian concerns or sensory capacities’ . Dreyfus and Spinosa claim that our everyday access to things is incapable of providing access of this kind, since our everyday access is holistically enmeshed with our everyday attitudes and concerns. The argument that Dreyfus and Spinosa provide in support of this conclusion seems, however, to depend on illegitimately combining what are really two separate issues: that concerning the independence of the things themselves with the independence of our means of access to those things. Contrary to Dreyfus and Spinosa, the fact that our everyday access to things is necessarily dependent on our everyday attitudes and concerns does not mean that we therefore have access to things only as they `appear’ rather than as they are `in themselves’. |
Inquiry 42, no. 1 (1999): 89-102. |
| Book Part | forthcoming 2019 | "’The House of Being’: Poetry, Language, Place." | In Heidegger’s Later Thought, edited by Günter Figal, Diego D’Angelo, Tobias Keliing, and Guang Yang. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2019. |
| Book Introduction | 2015 | "The Intelligence of Place." | Introduction to The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, edited by Jeff Malpas, 1-10. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. |
| Book Chapter | 2018 |
"The Interiority of Landscape: Gate, Journey, Horizon."
Landscape has its own interiority. It is an interiority constituted by the same interiority that belongs to any and every place: through entry, movement, and boundary; through gate, journey and horizon. This essay explores the nature of the interiority at issue here, with specific reference to landscape and landscape forms, but also with an eye to the larger structure of place which it exemplifies. Drawing on the work of Colin McCahon, as well as the ideas of Georg Simmel and Martin Heidegger, the aim will be to sketch the inextricability of the three elements at issue, and so to demonstrate the character of landscape as residing, not in some uninterrupted stretch of countryside nor in what may appear merely as the scenic backdrop to human activity, but in the intertwining of horizon, journey and gate, and so in landscape as one form of the opening and emergence of place. |
Chap. 14 in Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity, edited by Penny Sparke, Pat Brown, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Gini Lee, and Mark Taylor, 149-58. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. |
| Book Chapter | 2014 | "The Multivocity of Human Rights Discourse." | Chap. 3 in The Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights, edited by Peg Birmingham and Anna Yeatman, 37-52. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. |
| Book Part | 2018 | "The Necessity of Judgement." | In On Human Judgement, edited by Randall Lindstrom and Amanda Wojtowicz, 45-47. Hobart, AUS: University of Tasmania, School of Humanities, 2018. |
| Book Chapter | 2010 | "The Origin of Understanding: Event, Place, Truth." | Chap. 16 in Consquences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer’s Truth and Method, edited by Jeff Malpas and Santiago Zabala, 261-80. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010. |
| Book Chapter | 2012 | "The Place of Mobility: Technology, Connectivity, and Individualization." | Chap. 2 in Mobile Technology and Place, edited by Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin, 26-38. New York: Routledge, 2012. |
| Book Foreward | forthcoming 2019 | "The Place of Phenomenology and the Phenomenlogy of Place." | Foreward to The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, edited by Erik Champion. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series, vii-xii. New York and London: Routledge, forthcoming 2019. |
| Journal Article | 2011 | "The Place of Topology: Responding to Crowell, Beistegui, and Young." | International Journal of Philosophical Studies 19, no. 2 (2011): 295-315. |
| Book Part | 2013 | "The Remembrance of Place." | In Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination, edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes. Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy, 63-72. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. |
| Book Part | 2003 | "The Space of Agency." | In A Philosophical Smorgasbord: Essays on Action, Truth, and Other Things in Honour of Frederick Stoutland, edited by Krister Segerberg and Risiek Śliwiński. Uppsala Philosophical Studies, 99-117. Uppsala, SE: Uppsala University Press, 2003. |
| Book Part | 2015 | "The Threshold of the World." | In Funktionen Des Lebendigen, edited by Timo Breyer and Oliver Müller, 161-68. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. |
| Journal Article | 1997 | "The Transcendental Circle." | Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75, no. 1 (1997): 1-20. |
| Book Part | 2016 | "The Turn to Place and the Retrieval of the Human: Heidegger’s Critique of Humanism (Die Wende Zum Ort Und Die Wiedergewinning Des Menschen: Heideggers Kritik Des ›Humanismus‹)." | In Heideggers Weg in Die Moderne: Eine Verotung Der »Schwarzen Hefte«, edited by Hans-Helmuth Gander and Magnus Streit, 115-34. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2016. |
| Book Part | 2014 | "The Twofold Character of Truth: Heidegger, Davidson, Tugendhat." | In The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology, edited by Babette Babich and Dimitri Ginev. Contributions to Phenomenology, 243-66. Cham, CH: Springer, 2014. |
| Journal Article | 2011 | "The Twofold Character of Truth: Heidegger, Davidson, Tugendhat." | Divinatio: Studia Culturologica 34 (2011): 141-70. |
| Journal Article | 2002 |
"The Weave of Meaning: Holism and Contextuality."
Context and meaning are notions inseparably tied together. Yet although appeal to context would seem inevitable in any discussion of meaning and understanding, the notion seems to be resistant to any attempt to render it in precise and non-question-begging terms. Context may be ubiquitous, but it is also opaque. This paper explores the notion of context in general, arguing that an understanding of context is essential for any attempt to elucidate the structure and possibility of meaning. Moreover, while the contextual character of meaning is seen to imply a form of holism about meaning, it also requires that any such holism be understood in a way that is realised only in relation to particular settings or ‘locales’. In this respect, contextuality not only gives rise to holism, but also constrains it, thereby pre-empting certain objections that are sometimes advanced against holistic approaches to meaning. |
Language and Communication 22, no. 4 (2002): 403-19. |
| Journal Article | 2017 | "Thinking Topographically: Place, Space, and Geography." | Il Cannocchiale: Rivista di studi filosofici 42, no. 1-2 (2017): 25-53. |
| Book Part | 2015 |
"Timing Space—Spacing Time: On Transcendence, Performance, and Place."
Can we think temporality without also thinking the spatial? Might not the thinking of temporality always implicate the thinking of the spatial along with it? What is at issue here is not merely a question concerning the nature of the temporal alone, but of the unity of time with space, and so also of the character of event, action, and performance, and of these as spacings no less than timings. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s notion of ‘timespace’, as well as Robert Morris’ engagement with the thought of Donald Davidson, this essay argues that not only are time and space intimately and irrevocably bound together, but that understanding the unity of time with space is to understand the unity of place. Moreover, it is only in and through that unity, which also always a working out of plurality, that there is any possibility of transcendence. |
In Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens, edited by Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly, and Maeva Veerapen. Performance Philosophy, 25-36. London: Palgrave-Macmillan UK, 2015. |
| Journal Article | forthcoming 2019 |
"Topologies of History."
History, it is routinely assumed, belongs primarily to time and the temporal. Yet alt-hough routine, the assumption is nevertheless mistaken. It is place or topos, which encompasses both time and space (and that is intimately tied to the notion of bound or limit), that is primary here, and so history has to be understood as determined topo-logically, and not merely temporally. The exploration and elaboration of this claim involves rethinking the ideas of time, space, and place as well as of language and narrative. History appears in its adventual character, but its adventuality is itself seen as a happening of place. |
History and Theory (forthcoming 2019). |
| Book Part | 2018 | "Towards a ‘Natural History’ of the Tasmanian Landscape: The Photography of Ilona Schneider." | In Landmarks / Ilona Schneider. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, 5-13. Launceston, TAS: Bambra Press, 2018. |
| Book Chapter | 2011 |
"Triangulation and Philosophy: A Davidsonian Landscape."
Davidsonian triangulation is often treated as if it were an idiosyncratic element in Davidson’s thought, and yet the idea actually connects up with a much larger philosophical tradition. This essay explores some of these broader connections, conceptual as well as historical, aiming to locate triangulation within a broader landscape than is usually the case. The aim is thus to ‘triangulate’ triangulation, and to provide a brief sketch of the territory within which Davidson can be located – a territory that I have elsewhere characterised in terms of the idea of ‘philosophical topography’. Undertaking such a task is valuable not only because of the light it may shed on the Davidsonian position as such, but also because of the way in which it opens up a different mode of philosophical proceeding than is common with the analytic tradition that dominates so much of contemporary Anglo-American thought. |
Chap. 11 in Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of View, edited by Maria Cristina Amoretti and Gerhard Preyer, 257-80. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2011. |
| Book Part | 2012 | "Truth in Architecture." | In The Significance of Philosophy in Architectural Education, edited by V. Petridou, E. Constantopoulos, and P. Pagalos. Athens: Michelis Foundation, 2012. |
| Journal Article | 2005 | "Truth in History: Some Conceptions and Misconceptions." | Storia della Storiographia 48 (2005): 100-11. |
| Journal Article | 2008 |
"Truth, Lies and Deceit: On Ethics in Contemporary Public Life."
On the one hand, most of us would take honesty to be a key ethical virtue. Corporations and other organizations often include it in their codes of ethics, we legislate against various forms of dishonesty, we tend to be ashamed (or at least defensive) when we are caught not telling the truth, and honesty is often regarded as a key element in relationships. Yet on the other hand, dishonesty, that is, lying and deceit, seems to be commonplace in contemporary public life even amongst those leading figures in our society whom we might otherwise take to be the exemplars of public virtue. So is the emphasis on truth and honesty just a sham? Does the fact of our actual practice mean that truth and honesty matter only rhetorically, and, if so, does that mean that whatever it is we mean by ‘ethics’, truth and honesty are not a part of it? What I will suggest is that truth is indeed central to ethical practice, and not only to ethical practice, but also to a properly democratic politics, and that the apparent breakdown in the commitment to truth in public life is indicative of a deeper ethical, as well as political, breakdown. |
International Journal for Applied Philosophy 22, no. 1 (2008): 1-12. |
| Journal Article | 2010 | "Truth, Narrative, and the Materiality of Memory: An Externalist Approach in the Philosophy of History." | Journal of the Philosophy of History 4, no. 3-4 (2010): 328-53. |
| Conference Presentation | 1992 | "Tunnels under the Sea: Reflections on Philosophical Difference." | Paper presented at the Continental Philosophy Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, 1992. |
| Book Part | 2000 | "Uncovering the Space of Disclosedness: Heidegger, Technology and the Problem of Spatiality in Being and Time." | In Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, edited by Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas, 205-28. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. |
| Journal Article | 1998 | "Unity, Locality, and Agency: Bilgrami on Belief and Meaning." | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58, no. 3 (1998): 627-33. |
| Book Part | 2013 | "Views from a Plane: Surface, Place, and Image." | In Earthscape, edited by Chan-fai Cheung, 1-4. Hong Kong: Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, 2013. |
| Journal Article | 2014 | "Watching 9/11: In the Time of the Event." | Philosophy Today 58, no. 2 (2014): 125-39. |
| Book Chapter | 2015 | "’We Hyperboreans’: Towards a Nietzschean Topography." | Chap. 9 in Individual and Community in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, edited by Julian Young, 195-213. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| Journal Article | 2017 | "What Is Architecture For?". | Ethics in Architecture: Festschrift for Karsten Harries, International Journal of Architectural Theory 22, no. 36 (2017): 119-26. |
| Book Chapter | 2011 | "What Is Common to All: Davidson on Agreement and Understanding." | Chap. 14 in Dialogues with Davidson: Acting, Interpreting, Understanding, edited by Jeff Malpas, 259-80. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. |
| Journal Article | forthcoming 2018 |
"’Where Are We When We Think?’ Hannah Arendt and the Place of Thinking."
“Where are we when we think?”, asks Hannah Arendt, and her answer, apparently, is “nowhere”. Indeed, she seems to suggest that the very way in which this question is framed is itself misguided or mistaken, and so seems to go on to replace the question about the place of thinking with an inquiry into the time of thinking. But Arendt’s own investigation of the temporality at issue here nevertheless arrives at a mode of temporality that itself appears as a form of place or topos. Beginning with some of the problems Arendt’s account seems initially to present, but moving on to an examination of the underlying direction in which that account moves, the discussion will thus explore the underlying topology that, in spite of appearances to the contrary, is at work in Arendt’s account of thinking. |
Philosophy Today (forthcoming 2018). |
| Unpublished Work | n.d. | "’Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls’: Place, Word, and World in the Work of Kenneth White." | |
| Journal Article | 2016 |
"Why an Aristotelian Account of Truth Is (More or Less) All We Need."
This paper advances an account of truth that has as its starting point Aristotle’s comments about truth at Metaphysics 1011b1. It argues that there are two key ideas in the Aristotelian account: that truth belongs to ‘sayings that’; and that truth involves both what is said and what is. Beginning with the second of these apparent truisms, the paper argues for the crucial role of the distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is’ in the understanding of truth, on the grounds that it is essential to the distinction between truth and falsity and, indeed, to the very possibility of any critical assessment of statements. However, this distinction cannot be used to ground any account of truth in terms that refer to anything other than truth – there is thus no relation that underlies truth even though truth may be construed (in a certain limited sense) relationally. Returning to the first point, it is argued that while truth should indeed be understood as belonging to statements, it should not be construed as attaching to ‘propositions’, but to uttered sentences. The account of truth advanced is minimalist, and yet not deflationist; objectivist, and yet not independent of actual linguistic practice. |
Philosophical Topics 44, no. 1 (2016): 27-38. |
| Book Part | 2008 | "Wim Wenders: The Role of Memory." | In Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema, edited by James Phillips, 146-59. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. |
| Book Part | 2018 |
"Wisdom’s Limit: Truth, Failure, and the Contemporary University."
An ancient tradition has it that wisdom is founded, not in the accumulation of what is known, but rather in awareness of ignorance, of what is not known, of the proper limits to knowledge. Such a conception of wisdom sets wisdom in sharp contrast to the contemporary obsession with information and ‘evidence’ as the supposed basis for judgment and decision, and on discrete ‘competencies’ as the basis for educational attainment. In this paper I shall explore the connection between wisdom and limit, and just what this connection might imply, not only for the character of university teaching and research, but also for the manner in which universities structure and administer themselves. A broader set of social and political implications will also be touched upon. |
In Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education, edited by Michael A. Peters, Sharon Rider, Mats Hyvönen, and Tina Besley, 59-74. Singapore: Springer, 2018. |
| Journal Article | 2014 |
"With a Philosopher’s Eye: A ‘Naïve’ View on Animation."
Animation has never been a subject that has attracted much interest from philosophers, except perhaps from a very few interested in the philosophy of film or perhaps in visual aesthetics. Aspects of philosophical thinking may well be relevant to animation, however, and animators and theorists of animation have certainly shown an interest in philosophy: most often in time, movement, and process. But it is one thing to draw on philosophy in working within a field, and another thing to try to think philosophically about that field. In this admittedly naive view of animation – naive because it comes from philosophy to animation rather than the other way around – animation is explored from an explicitly philosophical perspective, with a particular focus on animation as a ‘making move’. |
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (2014): 65-79. |