Dr Aurelia Armstrong

Lecturer in Philosophy

+61 7 336 52805

a.armstrong@uq.edu.au

Room E320, Forgan Smith Building (1)

Researcher biography

Dr Aurelia Armstrong's research interests include: history of philosophy; Spinoza; Nietzsche; Foucault; Modern European philosophy; Social and Political philosophy; and Gender studies.

Dr Armstrong holds a BA(Hons) from Australian National University, 1992 and PhD, from the University of Sydney, 1998. She is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at UQ.

She teaches in the following courses: PHIL2500 Philosophy and Art; PHIL2220 Kant and European Philosophy; PHIL2300 Phenomenology and Existentialism; PHIL2310 Continental Philosophy; PHIL2140 Social Ethics.

Dr Armstrong's currently working on a book, provisionally titled 'Power, Freedom and the Subject: Spinoza, Nietzsche, Foucault'.

Publications

Book Chapters (4)

Journal Articles (10)

Conference Papers (2)

Creative Work (1)

Reference Entry (1)

Book Chapters

Armstrong, Aurelia (2018). Affective therapy: Spinoza’s approach to self-cultivation. Ethics and self-cultivation: historical and contemporary perspectives. (pp. 30-46) edited by Matthew Dennis and Sander Werkhoven. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315102269-3

Armstrong, Aurelia (2018). Spinoza's ethics and politics of freedom: active and passive power. Spinoza's authority: resistance and power in ethics. (pp. 33-56) edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

Mercon, Juliana and Armstrong, Aurelia (2012). Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective. Philosophy for children in transition: Problems and prospects. (pp. 82-96) edited by Nancy Vansieleghem and David Kennedy. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons.

Armstrong, Aurelia (2009). Autonomy and the relational individual: Spinoza and feminism. Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. (pp. 43-63) edited by Moira Gatens. USA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Journal Articles

Armstrong, Aurelia (2023). The Poetic Art of Making Philosophy Practical. Australasian Philosophical Review, 7 (1), 85-93. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2024.2364407

Gatens, Moira, Steinberg, Justin, Armstrong, Aurelia, James, Susan and Saar, Martin (2020). Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present. Contemporary Political Theory, 20 (1), 200-231. doi: 10.1057/s41296-020-00406-4

Eeles, Eamonn, England, Renee, Teodorczuk, Andrew, Pandy, Shaun, Pinsker, Donna and Armstrong, Aurelia (2020). Delirium management: anything's possible. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39 (1), 89-97. doi: 10.1017/S0714980819000230

Eeles, Eamonn M., England, Renee, Armstrong, Aurelia, Pinsker, Donna, Pandy, Shaun and Teodorczuk, Andrew (2018). Understanding our patients better will lead to better recognition of delirium: An opinion piece. Australasian Journal On Ageing, 37 (4), 241-242. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12585

Armstrong, Aurelia (2013). The passions, power, and practical philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche contra the stoics. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 44 (1), 6-24. doi: 10.1353/nie.2013.0002

Mercon, Juliana and Armstrong, Aurelia (2011). Transindividuality and philosophical enquiry in schools: A Spinozist perspective. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45 (2), 251-264. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00797.x

Armstrong, Aurelia (2009). Natural and unnatural communities: Spinoza beyond Hobbes. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17 (2), 279-305. doi: 10.1080/09608780902761687

Armstrong, Aurelia (2008). Beyond resistance: A response to Zizek's critique of Foucault's subject of freedom. Parrhesia: A journal of critical philosophy, 2008 (5), 19-31.

Armstrong, A. F. (2002). Agency reconfigured: Narrative continuities and connective transformations. Contretemps: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 3, 42-53.

Armstrong, A. F. (2002). Introduction: Autobiography and the resistance to genre. UQ Vanguard (2), 2-11.

Conference Papers

Armstrong, Aurelia Frances (2003). Foucault and the Question of Autonomy. Australian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2003, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 20 - 22 November 2003.

Armstrong, A. F. (2003). Who resists power? Foucault and the question of the subject. Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2002, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 December 2002. Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.

Creative Work

Clement, Jennifer, Armstrong, Aurelia, Piccinini, Patricia, Sellberg, Karin, O'Connell, Lisa, Stephens, Elizabeth and Gatens, Moira (2018). Patricia Piccinini, Curious Affection: panel discussion and Mary Shelley's legacy public lecture. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: QAGOMA and The University of Queensland.

Reference Entry

Armstrong, Aurelia (2003). Foucault and Feminism.

Areas of research

European Philosophy and Ethics