Rate My Professor Cliff Hooker

Emeritus Professor Cliff Hooker, FAHA, PhD (Physics, York University, Canada), PhD (Philosophy, University of Sydney), BSc (Honours, University of Sydney), BA (Honours, University of Sydney), is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. As Director of the Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group, his research encompasses foundations of self-organisation, bio-cognitive organisation in organismic and scientific evolution-development, sustainable development, foundations of physics, general systems metaphysics, reduction and emergence in non-linear dynamical systems, philosophy of complex systems, organisation of bio-cognitive agents, bio-cognitive organisation and scientific learning, and complex adaptive system models grounded in non-linear dynamical system theory. He has directed Assessing sustainability dimensions and impacts for the Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development, re-focusing sustainable development on resiliency, and supervised Sustainability Options for Australia's Future for the Joint Academies' Committee on Sustainability of the Australian National Academies Forum.