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Dr Aurelia Armstrong

Lecturer

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
a.armstrong@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52805

Overview

Dr Aurelia Armstrong’s research interests include: history of philosophy; Spinoza; Nietzsche; Foucault; Modern European philosophy; Social and Political philosophy; Ethics; and Gender studies.

Dr Armstrong holds a BA(Hons) from Australian National University, 1992 and PhD, from the University of Sydney, 1998. She is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at UQ.

She teaches in the following courses: PHIL2500 Philosophy and Art; PHIL2300 Phenomenology and Existentialism; PHIL2013 Rise of Modern Philosophy; PHIL3002 Philosophy Today; PHIL3620 Advanced European Philosophy; PHIL3630 Advanced Moral and Political Philosophy.

Dr Armstrong's current research focuses on Spinoza's contribution to the affective turn in ethics and politics.

Research Interests

  • Social and political psychology
    The role of emotions in social and political processes and practices, with a particular emphasis on early modern contributions, especially Spinoza affect theory.
  • Ethics and self-cultivation
    Ethical theories centred on notions of self-cultivation and practices of freedom.
  • Relational autonomy
    Theories of autonomy that emphasise the relational, socially embedded nature of the self.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Affective therapy: Spinoza’s approach to self-cultivation

    Armstrong, Aurelia (2018). Affective therapy: Spinoza’s approach to self-cultivation. Ethics and self-cultivation: historical and contemporary perspectives. (pp. 30-46) edited by Matthew Dennis and Sander Werkhoven. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315102269-3

  • Spinoza's ethics and politics of freedom: active and passive power

    Armstrong, Aurelia (2018). Spinoza's ethics and politics of freedom: active and passive power. Spinoza's authority: resistance and power in ethics. (pp. 33-56) edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

  • Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective

    Mercon, Juliana and Armstrong, Aurelia (2012). Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective. Philosophy for children in transition: Problems and prospects. (pp. 82-96) edited by Nancy Vansieleghem and David Kennedy. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons.

  • Autonomy and the relational individual: Spinoza and feminism

    Armstrong, Aurelia (2009). Autonomy and the relational individual: Spinoza and feminism. Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. (pp. 43-63) edited by Moira Gatens. USA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Foucault and the Question of Autonomy

    Armstrong, Aurelia Frances (2003). Foucault and the Question of Autonomy. Australian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2003, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 20 - 22 November 2003.

  • Who resists power? Foucault and the question of the subject

    Armstrong, A. F. (2003). Who resists power? Foucault and the question of the subject. Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2002, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 December 2002. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Human freedom: spinoza, descartes and kant

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • From Shame to Love

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Hume's Scepticism, Ancient Scepticism and the Nature of Sceptical Assent

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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Social and Political psychology, Theories of hope and agency, Affect theory, Relational Autonomy, Spinoza, Foucault

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