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Biography
Robert Sinnerbrink is Associate Professor of Philosophy and an ARC Future Fellowship recipient. As an undergraduate he studied medicine, creative writing, film, and philosophy. He received First Class Honours and the University Medal in Philosophy before being awarded his PhD on Hegel, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Modernity at the University of Sydney in 2002 (http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5710). As a postgraduate he spent six months studying at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. After returning to Australia, he taught philosophy at a number of institutions including the University of Sydney, UTS, UNSW, The College of Fine Arts, and Macquarie University, before joining the Macquarie Department of Philosophy in July 2002.
Robert's research areas of interest include aesthetics, philosophy of film, phenomenology, critical theory, Heidegger, and social philosophy. His is completing an ARC Future Fellowship project (FT130100334), entitled 'Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film' (2014-2017), which included a research collaboration with the University of Glasgow.
Robert is a former Chair of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) and former member of the ASCP's executive committee. He has been a member of the Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics, the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, and a former co-convenor of the Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy. He is currently on the editorial boards of the journals Film-Philosophy, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, and Transformations, the editorial advisory board of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Film and Philosophy, and the general editorial board of the journal Derrida Today (Edinburgh University Press).
His current research explores the intersection between philosophy and cinema with a focus on the idea of cinematic ethics: the philosophical potential of cinema as a medium of ethical experience.
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Projects
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Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C., Rogers, W., Meyerson, D., Kennett, J., Menary, R., Barrow, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Faulkner, J., Formosa, P., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Levy, N., Lipworth, W., Lotz, M., Pugliese, J., Ross, R., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Sorial, S., Sutton, J., Voyce, M., Gleeson, K. & MacDermott, T.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C., Kennett, J., Rogers, W., Menary, R., Meyerson, D., Atkin, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Formosa, P., Heersmink, R., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Klein, C., Levy, N., Lotz, M., MacDermott, T., Olson, M., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Stotz, K., Sutton, J. & White, K.
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film
Sinnerbrink, R., MQRES, M. & MQRES 2, M. 2.
24/02/14 → …
Project: Research
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Taste and community: the cultural origins of personal experience
Sinnerbrink, R., McMahon, J., Guyer, P., von Sturmer, D., Matthen, M., Freeland, C., Healy, C. & Cordeiro, S.
1/01/15 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Existentialist politics and aesthetics as resistance: Sartre on colonialism and neocolonialism
Baker, M. & Sinnerbrink, R.
1/07/14 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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A philosophy of cultural modernity: Márkus's contribution to the philosophy of culture
Sinnerbrink, R., 1 Oct 2020, In: Thesis Eleven. 160, 1, p. 73-83 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Between skepticism and moral perfectionism: on Cavell's melodrama of the unknown woman
Sinnerbrink, R., 2020, The thought of Stanley Cavell and cinema: turning anew to the ontology of film a half-century after the world viewed. LaRocca, D. (ed.). New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 129-151 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Difficult intersubjectivity: interdependence and cinematic ethics
Sinnerbrink, R., 2 May 2020, (Accepted/In press) Philosophy, film, and the dark side of interdependence. Beever, J. (ed.). Rowman & LittlefieldResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction
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Imagining cinema: 'cinempathy' and the embodied imagination
Sinnerbrink, R., Nov 2020, In: Paragraph. 43, 3, p. 281-297 17 p., 17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Truths in documentary
Sinnerbrink, R., 2020, In: European Legacy. 25, 7-8, p. 852-858 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Activities
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Naturalising Aesthetics
Karen Pearlman (Organiser) & Robert Sinnerbrink (Organiser)
6 Mar 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop or event series
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Interdisciplinary Discussion Panel: Defining Ethnographic Film
Max Harwood (Speaker), Robert Sinnerbrink (Invited speaker), Karen Pearlman (Invited speaker) & Chris Houston (Speaker)
9 Oct 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Film-philosophy (Journal)
Robert Sinnerbrink (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work