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Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her work sits at the intersection of the history of German philosophy and environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and ethics. Her most recent monograph, Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford University Press, 2022) investigates the understudied tradition of romantic empiricism, highlights its significance for the development of ecology, and argues for its contemporary relevance in addressing environmental questions and concerns. By showing how the romantic empiricists deepened their understanding of nature through artistic skills and tools, Nassar also demonstrates the significance of art for knowledge, and highlights the ways in which epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics are fundamentally interdependent. Nassar has a strong interest in the contributions of women philosophers, and in the ways in which philosophical canon formation has sidelined them. She has co-edited, with Kristin Gjesdal, two volumes on women philosophers, including an anthology of primary works titled Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition. Nassar is a co-investigator on the SSHRC (Canada) grant, Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy.
Associate Professor Dalia Nassar.
Philosophy, School of Humanities (SOH)
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