Rate My Professor David Macarthur

Macarthur joined the University of Sydney Department of Philosophy in 2003, advancing to Professor. He previously held a position at Tufts University and a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie University. Key publications feature edited volumes such as Naturalism in Question (Harvard University Press, 2004, with Mario De Caro), Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia University Press, 2010, with Mario De Caro), Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey (Harvard University Press, 2017), Living Skepticism: Essays in Epistemology and Beyond (Brill, 2022, with Stephen Hetherington), and The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism (Routledge, 2022, with Mario De Caro). Selected articles include 'Pragmatism, Metaphysical Quietism and the Problem of Normativity' (Philosophical Topics, 2008), 'Metaphysical Quietism and Everyday Life' (Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, 2016), and 'Wittgenstein on Art' (Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism, 2017). Honors include the Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship at Durham University (2015-2016), International Research Collaboration Award (2012-2013), and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences teaching awards. He teaches courses like Contemporary Pragmatism, covering realism, empiricism, naturalism, scientism, and the fact/value distinction, and engages in public philosophy via podcasts.