
Philip Argenio
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Philip Argenio is a PhD candidate and course tutor in political science. His research and teaching interests are in political theory and intellectual history.
Philip’s thesis explores the moral, political, and economic thought of Bernard Mandeville. He is also interested in Stoicism and Epicureanism, especially their reverberation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Other thinkers of interest include Samuel Pufendorf, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
Philip is a course tutor for POLIS 2106 Justice, Virtue and the Good and POLIS 2107 Passions and Interests: The History of Greed. His tutorials cover numerous thinkers and books across ancient philosophy and the Western intellectual tradition, as well as contemporary debates in political theory.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing PhD Candidate University of Adelaide 2018 - ongoing Rifleman Australian Army Reserve -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2020 - 2020 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Arts (Honours), First Class 2016 - 2018 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) -
Research Interests
Title | Awarded |
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Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend | 2021 |
LF and D Denholm Supplementary Scholarship | 2021 |
Code | Title | Year |
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POLIS 2106 | Justice, Virtue and the Good | Semester 1, 2021 |
POLIS 2107 | Passions and Interests: The History of Greed | Semester 1, 2022 |
Code | Title | Year |
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POLIS 2106 | Justice, Virtue and the Good | Semester 1, 2021 |
POLIS 2107 | Passions and Interests: The History of Greed | Semester 1, 2022 |
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