Emeritus Professor Jennifer McMahon

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2017 - ongoing	Professor	University of Adelaide
  2014 - 2015	Director of the Faculty of Arts Higher Degree by Research Program	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2010 - 2013	Head of Philosophy Department	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2002 - 2016	Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor	University of Adelaide
  1996 - 2002	Lecturer	University of Canberra
  1992 - 1992	Tutor	Australian National University
  1991 - 1991	Tutor and Research Assistant	University of Melbourne

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2015	Achievement	Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Grant	Adelaide, Monash, Macquarie, Brown, Toronto, Houston	Australia	$251,100.
  1991	Research Award	The Freda Cohen Prize, The University of Melbourne	University of Melbourne	Australia	-
  1982	Scholarship	Italian Government Scholarship	The Institute of Art and Restoration	Italy	-

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1992 - 1996	Australian National University	Australia	PhD
  1989 - 1990	University of Melbourne	Australia	M.Ed (Research)
  1978 - 1978	University of Melbourne	Australia	Dip.Ed.
  1975 - 1977	RMIT University	Australia	B.A. (Fine Arts)

• Research Interests

  Philosophy Philosophy of Mind

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2019	McMahon, J. A. (2019). The ancient quarrel between art and philosophy in contemporary exhibitions of visual art. Curator: The Museum Journal, 62(1), 7-17. DOI Scopus1
  2017	McMahon, J. (2017). From Kantianism to aesthetic hedonism: aesthetic pleasure revised. Australasian Philosophical Review, 1(1), 1-5. DOI
  2016	McMahon, J., Coleman, E., Macarthur, D., Phillips, J., & Sturmer, D. (2016). Between philosophy and art: a collaboration at The Lock-Up, Newcastle. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 5(2), 135-150. DOI
  2015	McMahon, J. A. (2015). Aesthetics is the grammar of desire. Aesthetic Investigations, 1(1), 156-164. DOI
  2014	McMahon, J. (2014). The sense of community in Cavell's conception of aesthetic and moral judgment. Conversations. The Journal of Cavellian Studies, 2, 35-53.
  2012	McMahon, J. (2012). The aesthetics of perception: form as a sign of intention. Essays in Philosophy, 13(2), 402-422. DOI
  2011	McMahon, J. (2011). Critical Aesthetic Realism. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 45(2), 49-69. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
  2011	McMahon, J. (2011). Aesthetic Autonomy and Praxis: art and language in Adorno and Habermas. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19(2), 155-175. DOI Scopus3
  2010	McMahon, J. (2010). The classical trinity and Kant's Aesthetic formalism. Critical Horizons, 11(3), 419-441. DOI Scopus1
  2008	McMahon, J. (2008). The romantic spirit. Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 28(2), 13-15.
  2008	McMahon, J. (2008). Backing Kant, with interest. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 9(1/2), 91-99.
  2006	McMahon, J. (2006). The perceptual constraints on pictorial realism. Contemporary Aesthetics, 4, www1-www6.
  2006	Vickers, D., Lee, M., Dry, M., Hughes, P., & McMahon, J. (2006). The aesthetic appeal of minimal structures: Judging the attractiveness of solutions to traveling salesperson problems. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(1), 32-42. DOI Scopus18 WoS17 Europe PMC8
  2006	McMahon, J. (2006). Symposium on pictorial realism : Introduction. Contemporary Aesthetics, 4, 358-360.
  2003	McMahon, J. (2003). Perceptual constraints and perceptual schemata: The possibility of perceptual style. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 61(3), 259-272. DOI Scopus9 WoS8
  2002	McMahon, J. (2002). An explanation for normal and anomalous drawing ability and some implications for research on perception and imagery. Visual Arts Research, 28(1), 38-52.
  2000	McMahon, J. (2000). Perceptual principles as the basis for genuine judgments of beauty. JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES, 7(8-9), 29-36. WoS2
  1999	McMahon, J. A. (1999). Towards a Unified Theory of Beauty. Literature and Aesthetics, 9(1), 7-27.
  1998	McMahon, J. (1998). The Nature of Pictorial Representation: The Evidence from Cognitive Science. Australian Art Education, 21(2), 27-35.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2018	McMahon, J. A. (Ed.) (2018). Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2018	McMahon, J. A. (Ed.) (2018). Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2014	McMahon, J. (2014). Art and ethics in a material world: Kant's pragmatist legacy. United States: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2007	McMahon, J. (2007). Aesthetics and material beauty - Aesthetics naturalized. UK: Routledge. DOI

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2023	McMahon, J. (2023). Schiller and His Philosophical Context: Pleasure, Form, and Freedom. In A. Falduto, & T. Mehigan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller (first ed., pp. 55-71). London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI
  2022	McMahon, J. (2022). Beauty. In J. Frow (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory (1 ed., pp. 86-101). UK: Oxford University Press.
  2022	McMahon, J. (2022). Liberal Naturalism, Aesthetic Reflection, and the Sublime. In M. De Caro, & D. Macarthur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism (1 ed., pp. 281-298). New York and London: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2022	McMahon, J. (2022). Olafur Eliasson, The weather project. In D. H. Hick (Ed.), Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics (1 ed.). online: Bloomsbury.
  2021	McMahon, J. (2021). “Aesthetic Ideas”: mystery and meaning in the early work of Barrie Kosky. In J. R. Severn, & J. Phillips (Eds.), Barrie Kosky’s Transnational Theatres (Vol. 1, 1st ed., pp. 59-80). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI
  2020	McMahon, J. A. (2020). Beauty. In P. Rabinowitz (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (pp. 20 pages). Online: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2019	McMahon, J. A. (2019). Beauty. In D. Pritchard (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Philosophy (pp. online-20,213 words). New York: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2018	McMahon, J. (2018). Imagination. In J. McMahon (Ed.), Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability (1 ed., pp. 66-87). New York, US: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2018	McMahon, J. A. (2018). Introduction: From pleasures to principles. In J. A. McMahon (Ed.), Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection, and Accountability (1 ed., pp. 1-9). New York: Routledge. DOI
  2017	McMahon, J., & Gilchrist, C. (2017). The Space of Reception: Framing Autonomy and Collaboration. In B. Buckley, & J. Conomos (Eds.), Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics (first ed., pp. 201-212). Oxfordshire, UK: Libri.
  2017	McMahon, J. (2017). On Jane Forsey's Critique of the sublime. In L. Aagaard-Mogensen (Ed.), The possibility of the sublime: aesthetic exchanges (pp. 81-91). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  2017	McMahon, J. (2017). Immediate judgment and non-cognitive ideas: The pervasive and persistent in the misreading of Kant’s Aesthetic formalism. In M. Altman (Ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook (1 ed., pp. 425-446). UK: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI
  2012	McMahon, J. (2012). Beauty. In Duncan Pritchard (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Philosophy (pp. 1-48). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  2007	McMahon, J. (2007). Aesthetic reflection and the very possibility of art. In Ian North (Ed.), Visual Animals - Crossovers, Evolution and New Aesthetics (pp. 73-83). Australia: The Contemporary Art Centre of SA.
  2005	McMahon, J. (2005). Beauty. In B. Gaut, & D. McIver Lopes (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (pp. 307-319). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  2001	McMahon, J. (2001). Beauty. In The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics (1 ed., pp. 227-238). London: Routledge.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2011	McMahon, J. (2011). Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics. In Proceedings of the 8th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies (pp. 54-63). Australia: Flinders University.
  2011	McMahon, J. (2011). Aesthetic autonomy: tracing the Kantian legacy to Olafur Eliasson. In Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics 2011 (pp. 220-234). online: European Society for Aesthetics.
  2007	McMahon, J. (2007). The significance of Plato's notions of beauty and pleasure in the philosophy of Kant. In E. Close, M. Tsianikas, & G. Couvalis (Eds.), Proceedings of Greek Research in Australia (pp. 27-34). Australia: Flinders University.
  2000	McMahon, J. (2000). Perceptual principles, aesthetic from, and notions of unity.. In CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION Vol. 9 (pp. S79-S80). ACADEMIC PRESS INC.

• Original Creative Works

  Year	Citation
  2012	Authors: McMahon J. Title: Deflating metaphors and emerging contexts: Messing with your mind in a material world. Description: Type of work : NONCOMM. Extent: N/A.
  2011	Authors: McMahon J. Title: The shades in Platon's mirror: the ethical, political and aesthetic in the art of Mischa Kuball. Description: N/A. Extent: N/A.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2017	McMahon, J. A. (2017). "On Jane Forsey's Critique of the Sublime", Wassard Elea Rivista IV, no.2, pp.81-91.. Wassard Elea, IT ICCU BVE 0589855.

Between 2002-2010 McMahon contributed lectures to other upper level courses namely: Reality and Knowledge; Foundations of Modern Philosophy; Moral Problems; and held tutorials in first year Logic.

McMahon's Honours Seminars: The Critique of the Power of Judgment; Pragmatism; Pictorial Representation; Moral Pleasure.

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

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2011 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Gestural Abstraction in Australian Art 1947-1963: Repositioning the Work of Albert Tucker	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Carol Ann Gilchrist
  2011 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	The Good, the Right and the Exigencies of Life: John Dewey and the Value of Moral Disagreement	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Karen Bland

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2018 - ongoing	Member	Research Evaluation Committee (REC) for the Humanities and Creative Arts	ARC ERA 2018	Australia
  2014 - ongoing	Advisory Board Member	Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent	University of Kent	United Kingdom

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2014 - ongoing	Member	American Philosophical Association	United States
  2013 - ongoing	Member	JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide	Australia
  2008 - ongoing	Member	Australasian Association of Philosophy	Australia
  1997 - ongoing	Member	American Society for Aesthetics	United States

• Consulting/Advisories

  Date	Institution	Department	Organisation Type	Country
  2022 - 2023	University of Notre Dame Australia	Faculty of Education, Philosophy, and Theology	School or college	Australia
  2015 - 2016	University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia	Contract to convene two day symposium, http://www.thelockup.org.au/whats-on/next-to-nothing-art-as-performance	School or college	Australia
  2010 - 2013	Eynesbury College, Adelaide	Chief Examiner for Logic and Clear Thinking Foundation Studies Program	Business and professional	Australia
  2002 - 2002	David Hooper, Solicitor, Sydney, NSW	Expert Witness, Duty of Care, Secondary Schools	Business and professional	Australia
  2001 - 2002	The Hargreaves Practice, Sydney, NSW	Expert Witness, Duty of Care, Secondary Schools	Business and professional	Australia
  1999 - 2000	National Schools Network, Canberra	Facilitator: Curriculum Peer Review in Secondary Schools	Business and professional	Australia
  1998 - 1998	Catholic Education Office, Canberra	Mediator in Employment Dispute	Business and professional	Australia
  1998 - 1998	NSW Crown Solicitor's Office, Sydney	Expert Witness, Duty of Care, Secondary Schools	Business and professional	Australia

• Offices Held

  Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
  2014 - 2017	Executive Secretary, Australasian Association of Philosophy	Australasian Association of Philosophy	Australia

• Position: Emeritus Professor
• Phone: 83135296
• Email: jenny.mcmahon@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 7
• Org Unit: School of Humanities