Dr Kim Atkins

BA, PhD (Macquarie)

I have special interest in European philosophy, especially phenomenology and existentialism. I am also a big fan of Aristotle and Kant. In particular I’m interested in issues of self, embodiment, personal identity and moral identity. A focus of my research has been on narrative approaches to selfhood and identity, especially within European philosophy and feminist moral philosophy. I am currently working on issues related to the social formation of personal and moral identity, especially concerning human vulnerability and the role of recognition. I am supervising two Phd projects. The first is a critique of work by German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and the second is developing a phenomenological account of the emotions, using work from French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Publications

Books

Kim Atkins, Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective (New York & London: Routledge, 2008)

Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency (New York & London: (Routledge, 2008)

Kim Atkins (ed.) Self and Subjectivity. A Reader with Commentary (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004)

Journal Articles

“Autonomy and the Subjective Character of Experience” in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, 17:1 2000
This article was cited extensively in the UK High Court case Ms B vs an NHS Hospital Trust 2002 [EWHC 429[ (Fam)

“Personal Identity and the Importance of One's Own Body”, the Journal of International Studies in Philosophy, 8:3, 2000

“Ricoeur's ‘Human Time’ as a Response to the Problem of Closure”, Philosophy Today, Summer, 2000

“Ricoeur on Objectivity: Between Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences” in Philosophy Today, Winter 2002

“Friendship Trust and Forgiveness”, in Philosophia, May 2002

“Paul Ricoeur” in the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2003 http://www.utm.edu:80/research/iep/

“Narrative identity, practical identity and ethical subjectivity”, Continental Philosophy Review, No. 37, 2004

“Re Alex: narrative identity and the case of gender dysphoria” in Griffith Law Review, 14 (1), 2005

“Autonomy and autonomy competencies” Nursing Philosophy, Vol 7 (4), October, 2006

Commissioned book reviews

Review of James O. Grunebaum, Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility (State University of New York Press, 2003). “What Are Friends For?” The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, June 2004.

Review of Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal (eds), Controversies and Subjectivity (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005), in Pragmatics and Cognition 16:1, 2008

Non-refereed book chapters and articles

“The Body and the Person in Organ Transplants”, in The Australian Nurse's Journal, Volume 22:1, July 1992.

“Can We Be Friends With Machines?” in Philosophy and the New Millenium, ed. M. La Caze (Hobart: Pyrrho Press, 2000)

“Pornography: How Does it Harm?” in Vices and Virtues, ed. I. Sawford, (Hobart: Pyrrho Press, 2002)

Other “Matters of Personal Preference” in the Financial Review July 2, 2004.
Awarded 2005 Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize

Teaching 2008

PHIL 210 Contemporary European Philosophy,

PHIL380: Bioethics

NMIH102: Patterns of Knowing in Nursing

Email: katkins@uow.edu.au
Room: 19.2115
Phone: 4221 5676.

Last reviewed: 20 March, 2008