Nat Trimarchi

I am an Australian PhD candidate at Swinburne University. My main areas of research are centred around art, normative aesthetics, ethics, phenomenology, philosophical anthropology, Peircian semiotics, complexity science, biosemiotics, and the history and philosophy of culture. I am aligned with the tradition of process metaphysics and have published on these topics, with main influences being F. W. Schelling, C. S. Peirce, Max Scheler, Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others in the Aristotelian tradition of the ‘radical enlightenment’. My doctoral thesis, "The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology)", is about reconnecting art with the normative sciences. In a past life I worked in education, community development, and the arts; as an artist (in music, theatre, and film); as well as a manager, consultant, and public policy maker in the public, community, and private sectors.