Antony Eagle

Associate Professor Antony Eagle

Associate Prof/Reader

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


My research is mainly in ‘theoretical’ philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology/philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of probability, and philosophy of physics. I teach and supervise in all these areas, and their early modern history (especially Descartes, Cavendish, and Hume); I also regularly teach courses in logic, philosophy of economics, and philosophy of religion.

I am Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2022–2027) .

Before coming to Adelaide in 2013, I taught in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford from 2004–2013, where I was also a fellow of Exeter College. Before that, I completed my PhD at Princeton. My undergraduate studies were at Melbourne.

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My research has been supported by grants from the ARC (AUS), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (DE), the AHRC (UK), and the Whiting Foundation (USA).

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Principal Supervisor An Investigation into Logical Pluralism Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Aaron John Baseley
    2021 Principal Supervisor The Limits of Scientific Knowledge Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Anthony Ian Bishop
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Renewing a Modal Account of Existential Dependence: Upcycling Mackie’s INUS Condition for Causation Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Jessica May Pohlmann
    2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to the Problem of Change Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr James Lambros Vlachoulis
    2019 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Danny George Wardle
    2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Normative Uncertainty and Information Value Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Riley Kent Worland Harris
    2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Brigitte Claire Everett
    2018 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Rebecca Aroha Randell
    2018 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Referential/Attributive Distinction: Its Status and Scope Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Atheer Al-Khalfa
    2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Vindicating Vague Objects Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Michael Lazarou
    2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Realist and Anti-Realist Approaches in Philosophy of Science: Perspective and Representational Pluralism in Scientific Discovery Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Mark Coleman
  • Other Supervision Activities

    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2010 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Restricted Material Composition University of Oxford BPhil Master - Seungil Lee
    2008 - 2012 Co-Supervisor Rationality: An Expansive Bayesian Theory University of Oxford - Doctorate - Katherine Dormandy
    2008 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Laws and Modelling in Economics University of Oxford BPhil Master - Harjit Bhogal
    2007 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Potentiality and Possibility University of Oxford - Doctorate - Barbara Vetter
    2006 - 2009 Principal Supervisor A Probabilistic Analysis of Causation University of Oxford - Doctorate - Luke Fenton-Glynn
    2004 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Causation and Causal Explanation University of Oxford BPhil Master - Luke Fenton-Glynn
    2004 - 2006 Principal Supervisor Dispositions and Laws of Nature University of Oxford BPhil Master - John Poland
  • Position: Associate Prof/Reader
  • Phone: 83134885
  • Email: antony.eagle@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134341
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 7
  • Org Unit: School of Humanities

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