Freya Mathews

Freya Mathews is an Australian philosopher and author. Her work is mainly concerned with ecological philosophy but also deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics as well as a variety of themes, such as cosmology, place, identity and indigeneity versus modernity. Mathews was Associate Professor in Philosophy at Latrobe University till 2008 and is currently a research fellow and graduate supervisor there.

Books

Her books include:

• The Ecological Self, Routledge, London, 1991. Reissued 1993; paperback 1994
• For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsycism, SUNY Press, Albany, 2003
• Journey to the Source of the Merri, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2003
• Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture, SUNY Press, Albany, 2005

See also

• Deep Ecology
• Panpsychism
• Sigurd Zienau

References

• B. Baxter, Ecologism: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press, 2000), pp 16–33, 58-79.
• E. De Jong, Spinoza and Deep Ecology: Challenging Traditional Approaches to Environmentalism (Ashgate Publishing, 2004), Ch. 3.
• J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (Macleay Press, 2003), ch. 13.

External links

• Freya Mathews' homepage
• Kate Rigby (2006), "Minding (about) Matter: On the Eros and Anguish of Earthly Encounter." A review essay engaging with Freya Mathews' two recent titles: For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism and Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture in Australian Humanities Review, Volume 28.
• Ecological Humanities page Brief biography with bibliography
• Book Review of Reinhabiting Reality Trumpeter, Vol 24, No 3 (2008)