Professor Fred D'Agostino, FAHA    Associate Dean, Teaching & Learning

	Biography

political philosophy, methodology of science

Fred D'Agostino was educated at Amherst College (BA 1968), Princeton University (MA, 1973), and the London School of Economics (PhD, 1978). He was Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian National University from 1978 to 1984, and worked at the University of New England from 1984 to 2004, where he was Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Dean of Arts, Head of the School of Social Science, and Member of the University Council. He is now Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Arts and Director of Arts Ipswich. He has edited the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, is currently editing Politics, Philosophy and Economics and has published three books--Chomsky's System of Ideas (Clarendon Press, 1986), Free Public Reason (OUP, 1996), and Incommensurability and Commensuration (Ashgate, 2003). He holds an ARC Discovery Grant for work in social epistemology, a Carrick Institute grant for educational leadership development, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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