I am an Australian philosopher and Reader (Associate Professor) in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry at Swinburne University. My main areas of research are environmental philosophy, history and philosophy of science, mathematics and metaphysics, the history and philosophy of culture, and Chinese philosophy. I am aligned with the tradition of process metaphysics. I have published widely on these topics and am the author of a number of books, including Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis (London: Routledge, 1995), Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability (Sydney: Eco-Logical Press, 1996). and The Phil…
I am an Australian philosopher and Reader (Associate Professor) in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry at Swinburne University. My main areas of research are environmental philosophy, history and philosophy of science, mathematics and metaphysics, the history and philosophy of culture, and Chinese philosophy. I am aligned with the tradition of process metaphysics. I have published widely on these topics and am the author of a number of books, including Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis (London: Routledge, 1995), Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability (Sydney: Eco-Logical Press, 1996). and The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A manifesto for the future (London: Routledge, 2017). I am also the co-editor of two anthologies, Environmental Philosophy (St Lucia: UQP Press, 1983, with Robert Elliot) and For a New Naturalism (N.Y>: Telos Press, 2017, with Wayne Hudson). I founded the Joseph Needham Center of Complex Processes Research and the online journal Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy (first edition, 2005), of which I am an editor-in-chief. My current work is devoted to providing the philosophical foundations for a global ecological civilization.