Overview
Background
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.
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Research interests
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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.
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Ethics and self-cultivation
Ethical theories centred on notions of self-cultivation and practices of freedom.
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Relational autonomy
Theories of autonomy that emphasise the relational, socially embedded nature of the self.
Works
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Featured
2020
Journal Article
Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present
Gatens, Moira, Steinberg, Justin, Armstrong, Aurelia, James, Susan and Saar, Martin (2020). Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present. Contemporary Political Theory, 20 (1), 200-231. doi: 10.1057/s41296-020-00406-4
Featured
2009
Journal Article
Natural and unnatural communities: Spinoza beyond Hobbes
Armstrong, Aurelia (2009). Natural and unnatural communities: Spinoza beyond Hobbes. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17 (2), 279-305. doi: 10.1080/09608780902761687
Featured
2009
Book Chapter
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.
Featured
2008
Journal Article
Beyond resistance: A response to Zizek's critique of Foucault's subject of freedom
Armstrong, Aurelia (2008). Beyond resistance: A response to Zizek's critique of Foucault's subject of freedom. Parrhesia: A journal of critical philosophy, 2008 (5), 19-31.
2020
Journal Article
Delirium management: anything's possible
Eeles, Eamonn, England, Renee, Teodorczuk, Andrew, Pandy, Shaun, Pinsker, Donna and Armstrong, Aurelia (2020). Delirium management: anything's possible. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39 (1), 89-97. doi: 10.1017/S0714980819000230
2019
Book
Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others
Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green and Andrea Sangiacomo eds. (2019). Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
2018
Journal Article
Understanding our patients better will lead to better recognition of delirium: An opinion piece
Eeles, Eamonn M., England, Renee, Armstrong, Aurelia, Pinsker, Donna, Pandy, Shaun and Teodorczuk, Andrew (2018). Understanding our patients better will lead to better recognition of delirium: An opinion piece. Australasian Journal On Ageing, 37 (4), 241-242. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12585
2018
Book Chapter
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.
2018
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
2013
Journal Article
The passions, power, and practical philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche contra the stoics
Armstrong, Aurelia (2013). The passions, power, and practical philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche contra the stoics. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 44 (1), 6-24. doi: 10.1353/nie.2013.0002
2012
Book Chapter
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.
2011
Journal Article
Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective
Mercon, Juliana and Armstrong, Aurelia (2011). Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45 (2), 251-264. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00797.x
2003
Conference Publication
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.
2003
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.
2003
Other Outputs
Foucault and Feminism
Armstrong, Aurelia (2003). Foucault and Feminism.
2002
Journal Article
Agency reconfigured: Narrative continuities and connective transformations
Armstrong, A. F. (2002). Agency reconfigured: Narrative continuities and connective transformations. Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 3, 42-53.
2002
Journal Article
Introduction: Autobiography and the resistance to genre
Armstrong, A. F. (2002). Introduction: Autobiography and the resistance to genre. UQ Vanguard (2), 2-11.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Human freedom: spinoza, descartes and kant
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Deborah Brown
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Doctor Philosophy
Hume's Scepticism, Ancient Scepticism and the Nature of Sceptical Assent
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Deborah Brown
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Doctor Philosophy
Inconsistent Abortion: A Critical Phenomenology
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marguerite La Caze
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Nothing Matters: Žižek's Dialectical Materialism and the Divine Subject
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Creativity of Virtue: Nietzsche's Ethical and Aesthetic Reflections on the Existential Tension between Singularity and Multiplicity
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marguerite La Caze
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Nietzsche and the Psychic Mechanism of Debt: The Ancestral Fiction That Stalks Us
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Emotion in Agency : The Problematic Influence of the Split Self and a Spinozist Corrective
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Deborah Brown
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The Wounds of Indetermination: Deleuze, Cinema and Ethology.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Spinoza's relational ontology and ethics of desire
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Deborah Brown
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
BEYOND ALETHIA: A CRITIQUE OF HEIDEGGERIAN EINAIOLOGY
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
NIHILISM IN POSTMODERNITY
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Autonomy: Obstacles and Options
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Julian Lamont
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Playing With Your Self: A Philosophical Exploration of Attitudes and Identities in Games
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gilbert Burgh
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
The Marquis de Sade's Philosophical 'System' in its Enlightenment Context
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Heidegger's Philosophy of Disclosedness: a Relational Interpretation of Being and Time
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Michelle Boulous Walker
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Church Personnel Child Abuse in Child Welfare: Foucauldian Insights. The Continuums of Silence, Scandal, Response and Maintenance. Giving Rise to Continuum Theory, Child Welfare Continuum Theory.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Richard Hutch
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Memory: Ethics and Rhythmanalysis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Fred D'Agostino
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
DUTY, BEAUTY, DELIGHT AND HAPPINESS: MOTIVATIONS FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Marguerite La Caze
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- Affect theory
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- Social and Political psychology
- Spinoza
- Theories of hope and agency
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