Understanding Knowledge
How are our beliefs, values and ideologies generated, expressed, tested, and negotiated? How do we respond to changes in our understanding of ‘knowledge’ across millennia and across continents?
How do we respond to the concept of ‘deep time’ and the ways we engage with ancient, modern and postmodern cultures? How do we locate our social, linguistic, political, and cultural beliefs and navigate our place in the world when that world seems to be in constant flux?
Our researchers illuminate the fundamental nature of human understanding and explore our changing values and beliefs over time, helping us to define how and what we ourselves have come to believe and value.
Our scholars engage philosophical enquiry, historical and contemporary perspectives, interdisciplinary research and a variety of critical tools to study the generation of knowledge, beliefs and values, and to assess the ways we interpret the world and our place in it.
We investigate the ways in which human thought is shaped by language and cultural conventions, explore the intellectual revolutions created by new bodies of evidence, and reveal how the generation of new fields of knowledge and understanding emerge.
Our people
- Dr Mark Post
- Professor Paul Griffiths
- Professor Duncan Ivison
- Dr Roberto Chauca
- Dr Anne Rogerson
- Dr Jess Melvin
- Professor Jay Johnston
- Professor David Braddon-Mitchell
- Dr Samuel Shpall
- Professor Elspeth Probyn
- Professor Kane Race
- Associate Professor Luke Russell
- Associate Professor Thom van Dooren
- Professor Kristie Miller
- Professor James Martin
- Associate Professor Ahmar Mahboob
- Professor Alexandre Lefebvre
- Dr Emily Hulme
- Dr Ryan Cox
- Dr Michael Nielsen
- Dr Eleanor Cowan
- Professor Anik Waldow
- Dr James Findlay
- Dr Christopher Hartney
- Dr Ben Brown
- Dr Robert Cowan
- Professor Annie Clarke
- Professor Nicholas Smith
- Dr Shawna Tang
- Dr Marco Duranti
- Associate Professor Fiona Allon
- Dr Helene Sirantoine
- Professor Kirsten McKenzie
- Professor Monika Bednarek
- Associate Professor Dalia Nassar
- Dr Caroline West
- Dr Tristen Jones
- Professor Peter Anstey
- Professor David Macarthur
- Associate Professor Frances Clarke
- Dr Charlotte Feakins
- Professor Alison Betts
- Dr Gwendolyn Hyslop