Denis Robinson is an Australian citizen who is a permanent resident of New Zealand, living in Auckland. He loves, and is disturbed by, both countries, in different ways. After multiple childhood moves around Australia's rural South East, he spent his teens and some ensuing decades in Melbourne, which he regards as his "home" city. He began studying science at the University of Melbourne, but switched to philosophy, which he studied at Melbourne, Oxford, and Monash Universities. After junior appointments at the University of Melbourne, he taught for over three decades at the University of Auckland. His research interests spread from the metaphysics of matter and identity, to personal identity, philosophy of mind, and some brief excursions into the borderlands of meta-ethics. Now in retirement, his chief creative outlet is photography. For non-academic purposes he often uses the short name "Den Rob", specially on Facebook, and on Flickr, where some of his photographs can be seen.
by Denis Robinson Some philosophers I know seem to be engaging in a “this is what I work on in no long words” meme game. I’m retired and I don’t think I could have done it anyway. But in 2005 there was a wee game of that ilk, in which the aim was just to…