Born in the thriving bush metropolis of Broken Hill in western New South Wales, and having thwarted all attempts at education there and on the sandy beaches of Perth, I was in exile in North America for about 30 years, creeping slowly but surely west-northwest during that time, my own version of continental drift. I taught at the University of Alberta from 2000 until 2017, founded Philosophy for Children Alberta in 2008 there, finishing my role as its director in 2015, and led a large-scale, CURA-funded research project, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada (2010-2015), directing about 80 researchers, students, and community members…
Born in the thriving bush metropolis of Broken Hill in western New South Wales, and having thwarted all attempts at education there and on the sandy beaches of Perth, I was in exile in North America for about 30 years, creeping slowly but surely west-northwest during that time, my own version of continental drift. I taught at the University of Alberta from 2000 until 2017, founded Philosophy for Children Alberta in 2008 there, finishing my role as its director in 2015, and led a large-scale, CURA-funded research project, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada (2010-2015), directing about 80 researchers, students, and community members and building a sizeable set of instructional and public educational resources at www.eugenicsarchive.ca . From 2017-2019 I was professor of philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne and am currently professor of philosophy at the University of Western Australia. My personal website www.robwilsonphilosophy.wordpress.com and that for the Keeping Kinship in Mind project (https://keepingkinshipinmind.weebly.com/) have more stuff. My recent (Feb 2025) conversation with Diogo Cohea @ Rational Grounds https://www.diogocohea.com/p/the-dark-history-of-eugenics-ai-singularity covers a lot of my interests; you can listen to it / watch it via Spotify and other platforms for free.
