11 Facts About Jeff Malpas

Jeff Malpas is an Australian philosopher and emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.

Jeff Malpas joined the University of Tasmania in 1999 and, there, was actively engaged for twenty years.

Jeff Malpas founded the University of Tasmania's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, and served as its director for five years.

In 2011, Jeff Malpas was recognised as distinguished professor and continued with a university-wide appointment that spanned a broad range of disciplines, including architecture, geography, and environmental studies, and involved collaborative research projects in those as well as other disciplines, such as archaeology, design, the creative arts, history, sociology, anthropology, and medical humanities.

Jeff Malpas held positions at the University of New England and the University of Auckland, and has been a visiting scholar at universities in the United States, Germany, England, and Sweden.

Jeff Malpas continues to hold positions as Visiting Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne and honorary professor at the University of Queensland.

Jeff Malpas has devoted considerable attention to the idea of the transcendental, particularly as it links with hermeneutic themes, and places special emphasis on notions of ground and limit.

Jeff Malpas's readings represent a distinctive position within the Heidegger literature.

Jeff Malpas has presented invited papers for at least twelve international university audiences.

Jeff Malpas has responded to such charges, contesting the assumptions about both place and belonging on which they rest, as well as their reliance on certain ideological presuppositions rather than genuine engagement with the issues at stake.

Jeff Malpas has authored seventy-six chapters in edited volumes, including:.