Stephen Hetherington

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Emeritus Professor
Stephen Hetherington
FAHA
Born
Stephen Cade Hetherington

1959 (age 64–65)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationMosman Public School
Neutral Bay Primary School
Fort Street High School
Alma mater University of Sydney (1977–1980), B.A. (Honours I), 1981; University of Oxford, New College, B. Phil., 1983; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1986, Ph.D., 1987
SpouseParveen Kaur Seehra (m. 1990)
Family Norman Hetherington (father)
Margaret Hetherington,
née Owrid, née Purnell (mother)
AwardsFellow Australian Academy of the Humanities (2011)
School Analytic philosophy
Institutions West Virginia University
(1987–1990);
University of New South Wales
(1990–2021)
Academic advisorsJoseph Lee Camp, Jr. [1]
LanguageEnglish
Main interests
 epistemology, metaphysics, Gettier problem
Website shetherington9.wixsite.com/my-site-6

Stephen Cade Hetherington FAHA (born 1959) is an Australian analytic philosopher specialising in epistemology and, to a lesser extent, metaphysics. [2] He is an emeritus professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, a prolific author, [2] and served as editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy from December 2013 to March 2022. [3]

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Family

Early life

The son of the Australian artist, caricaturist, cartoonist, and puppeteer, Norman Frederick Hetherington OAM (1921–2010), and Margaret "Peggy" Hetherington (1923–2022), née Owrid, née Purnell, [4] [5] [6] [7] Stephen Cade Hetherington was born at Sydney in 1959[ citation needed ].

He grew up in Mosman, New South Wales, where his father's puppetry collection and workshop were located in the basement beneath the family residence. [8] [9]

Marriage

He married the artist Parveen Kaur Seehra in 1990. [10]

Education

He attended the opportunity classes (years 5 and 6) at Neutral Bay Public School and, then, attended the academically selective Fort Street High School in Sydney (as had his father, Norman). [10]

He received his tertiary education from the University of Sydney, from New College at the University of Oxford, and from the University of Pittsburgh: [2] [10]

Puppeteer

In the four years (1977 to 1980) that he studied at the University of Sydney, Hetherington not only operated marionettes part-time in his father's special, highly successful dental health programme for children ("Smiley's Good Teeth Puppet Theatre"), [13] but also spoke to the children before and after each show. His part in this programme ceased when left Australia, and went to Oxford to continue his studies.

Author

His first four publications were written while he was still a student; the first two (Hetherington, 1983a; 1984a), written as an undergraduate student, were derived from papers written for his Honours-year coursework at the University of Sydney, [10] and the other two (Hetherington, 1984b; 1988) were written as a post-graduate student during his time at the University of Pittsburgh. [10]

He became a well-respected prolific author in a wide range of philosophical domains, especially epistemology:

Stephen Hetherington is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales whose key research interests are in epistemology and metaphysics. With several monographs and edited collections and more than 100 articles, he has earned an international reputation for his revivification of epistemology. He has also produced several lively works introducing students to the history and current frontiers of epistemology, which have been translated into a number of languages and have been used for teaching in widely dispersed countries — the secret of their success lies partly in the way he includes his own original research, in enlivening the exposition of traditional debates.
(The Australian Academy of the Humanities.) [14]

Academic

He commenced his academic career in 1987, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University; [10] and in 1990 he transferred to the philosophy department of the University of New South Wales where he remained until his retirement in late 2020. [10]

Editor-in-chief

From December 2013 until March 2022 he was the editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a prestigious English-language philosophy journal continuously published since 1923. [3]

He is the editor-in-chief of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Epistemology series and, also, the Bloomsbury Publishing Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology series. [2]

Awards

In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). [14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Obituary: Obituary: Joseph Lee Camp Jr., University Times, 7 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Find a Researcher: Emeritus Professor Stephen Hetherington, University of New South Wales.
  3. 1 2 Candlish, 2022; Hetherington, 2022.
  4. ↑ She had married Alfred Donald Owrid (1924-2013), in Sydney, in 1949 (reg.no.21715/1949), and they were divorced on 11 February 1954: Today’s Courts: Divorce: Mr. Justice Brereton: "M. Owrid v. A.D. Owrid", The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, 11 February 1953), p.20.
  5. ↑ Homing in Fishing Smack, The Herald, (Thursday, 8 May 1952), p.5; Fishing Boat for Australia, The Adelaide News, (Tuesday, 13 May 1952), p.5; Berkeley, Elaine, "Girl Sails Home in Fishing Smack", The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, Sunday, 25 May 1952), p.39.
  6. ↑ She graduated from University of Sydney with a Diploma of Social Studies in 1955 (see The University of Sydney Calendar Supplement for the Year 1955-6, Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1956, p.761; see also pp.281, 282, 356).
  7. ↑ Richard Bradshaw (2023), "Remembering Margaret (Peggy) Hetherington (1923-2022)", Unima Australia, ^ February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Some Holiday Treats for the Children", The (Sydney) Sun-Herald, (Sunday, 11 May 1969), p.128.
  9. ↑ Foyle, L., "Creative Mind Thrilled Children", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday, 8 December 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Stephen Hetherington: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, shetherington9.wixsite.com.
  11. ↑ B.Phil. dissertation: Epistemic Foundationalism (Hetherington, 1983b).
  12. ↑ Ph.D. dissertation: Narcissistic Epistemology (Hetherington, 1987).
  13. ↑ See: Woolley, J.M., "Changing Oral Hygiene Attitudes and Habits", International Dental Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, (September 1980), pp. 249–256. PMID   6160112
  14. 1 2 Fellow Profile: Emeritus Professor Stephen Hetherington, Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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