Professor Fred D'Agostino, FAHA

BA (Amherst College); MA (Princeton University); PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Fred D’Agostino is Professor of Humanities at The University of Queensland, where he has been President of the Academic Board, Executive Dean of Arts, Associate Dean of Arts (Academic), and Director of the Contemporary Studies Program. He served two terms on the University Senate. Previously, he worked at the University of New England and the Australian National University. Recent books are Free Public Reason (OUP, 1996), Incommensurability and Commensuration (Ashgate, 2003), and Naturalizing Epistemology (Palgrave, 2010). His current work is on the academic disciplines.

Publications since joining UQ

"Disciplines, the division of epistemic labor, and Agency," In Patrick J. Reider (Ed.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency,  London, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield (2016): pp. 91-108
"Hermeneutics, epistemology, and science," In Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander (Eds), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, London, United Kingdom: Routledge. (2015): pp. 417-428
"How can we collectivise a set of visions about social epistemology?". In James H. Collier (Ed.), The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision, London: Rowman and Littlefield. (2015): pp. 3-10
"Social Science, The Idea of." In James D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd ed. Oxford: Elseiver. (2015): pp. 688-694
Book review: "Science in a democratic society." Analysis, 73 3 (2013): 593-594
"Book review of The Orders of Public Reason." Analytic Philosophy, 54 1 (2013): 129-155
"Verballed? Incommensurability 50 years on." Synthese, 191 3 (2013): 517-538
"Disciplinarity and the growth of knowledge." Social Epistemology, 26 3 (2012) : 331-350
"An analytics of marginality." European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms, 17 6 (2012): 755-768
"Rational agency". In Ian C. Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (Eds), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Sciences, London, United Kingdom: Sage (2011): pp. 182-198
Naturalizing Epistemology: Thomas Kuhn and the 'Essential Tension'. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.; New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan. (2010)
"From the organization to the division of cognitive labor." Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 81 (2009): 101-129
"Naturalizing the essential tension." Synthese, 162 2 (2008): 275-308
"Student learning and university teaching." Higher Education Research and Development, 273 (2008): 297-298
"Review of Baert, P. (2005). Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism." Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 37 4 (2007): 541-
"Two conceptions of reason." Economy and Society, 35 1 (2006): 1-21
"Kuhn's Risk-Spreading Argument and the Organization of Scientific Communities." Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 1 3 (2005): 201-209
"Legitimacy in a Pluralistic Context." In Graham Young and Graham Maddox (Eds), Legitimation and the State 1st ed.Armidale: Kardooair Press (2005): pp. 15-29
"The Sinews of a Free Society: Autonomy, Democracy and Education." In Tim Battin (Ed.), A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox, Frenchs Forest, NSW, Australia: Pearson Education Australia (2005): pp. 99-109
"The legacies of John Rawls." In Thom Brooks and Fabian Freyenhagen (Eds), The legacy of John Rawls, New York, NY, United States: Continuum. (2005): pp. 195-212
"Pluralism and Liberalism." In Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas (Eds), Handbook of Political Theory, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications (2004): pp. 239-249
with Bi, Lijun, "The doctrine of filial piety: A philosophical analysis of the concealment case." Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 31 4 (2004): 451-467
"The Legacies of John Rawls." Journal of Moral Philosophy, 1 3 (2004): 349-365