Jeff Malpas

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania, Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University, and Adjunct Professor in Architecture at RMIT University.

He is the author or editor of more than 20 books with some of the world’s leading academic presses, and has published over 120 scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography.

His work is draws on the thinking of a diverse range of thinkers including, most notably, Albert Camus, Donald Davidson, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Much of his work is focussed on the idea of place and on the character of human being as standing in an essential relation to place leading to the characterisation of his work as a mode of 'philosophical topography'