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Dr Anne Newstead

BA(Yale), BPhil(Philosophy)(Oxf), DPhil(Philosophy)(Oxf)

Research Associate

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Phone: +62 2 9351  4107

Fax: +61 2 9351 5027

Building.Room: A35.246

Research interests

Educational history, sociology and philosophy

  • Philosophy of education

Learning sciences; psychology of education

  • Learning technologies and new media

Research on teaching and learning

  • Mathematics and science

Keywords

epistemology, visualization, learning in virtual environments, philosophy of mathematics, agents' knowledge, learning with agent based models, scientific inquiry and collaboration, philosophy in schools


Professional biography

Research Associate (0.5FTE), ARC Discovery Project, "Learning Science Inquiry in Virtual Worlds", CoCo Research Centre, University of Sydney, 2011-

Research Officer, Centre for Cultural Research, ARC Linkage Project, "Hot Science Global Citizens", University of Western Sydney, 2010-2011

Research Associate (0.35FTE), ARC Discovery Project, "Mathematics, the Science of Structure", School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New South Wales, 2007-2010.

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2006

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of New South Wales, 2004, 2005, 2009

Tutor in Philosophy, Macquarie University, 2003, 2004

Non-stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy (while DPhil student), St. Anne's College, Oxford 2001

Tutor in Philosophy, several Oxford colleges, 1998-2001 (New College, St. Benet's Hall, St. Peter's College)

Program Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Centre for Talented Youth (for gifted students), The Johns Hopkins University, USA (summer positions)


Awards

  • Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, 2005, 2010

  • University Fellowship, University of Notre Dame USA

  • International Scholar Fellowship, University of Toronto (declined)

  • Distinction in Philosophy, Yale University

    Cum laude, Yale University

    Nominee, Best Senior Essay in the Humanities, Yale College

  • Award for Archival Research in Germany, Wolfson College, Oxford 


Professional and community roles

  • Anne has served as a referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, Polish Journal of Philosophy, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.

  • Anne is a volunteer teacher trainer for Primary Ethics, an organization that offers ethics classes to students in NSW public primary schools (http://www.primaryethics.com.au/index.html.)


Current projects

  • Making Mathematics Visible--a historical and philosophical study of the controversy over reliance on visualization in generating mathematical knowledge in development with Professor James Franklin, School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW
  • ARC Discovery Project: "Multi-user Virtual Environments Research into the learning & transfer of scientific knowledge & inquiry skills" (CIs Professor Michael Jacobson, A/Prof. Charlotte Taylor, Professor Deborah Richards)

Selected publications

Book chapters

  • Newstead, A. and Franklin, J . (2012). Indispensability of Mathematics without Platonism. In A. Bird, B. Ellis and H. Sankey (Eds.), Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics) (pp. 81–98), New York: Routledge.
  • Newstead, A. (2006). Knowledge by Intention? On the Possibility of Agents' Knowledge. In Hetherington, S. (Ed.), Aspects of Knowing: Perspectives in Cognitive Science Series (pp. 183–202), Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Newstead, A. (2001). Aristotle and Modern Mathematical Theories of the Continuum. In Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, David Johnson, and Jagdish Hattiangadi (Eds.), Aristotle and Contemporary Science (Vol. II, pp. 113–129), New York: Peter Lang.

Journal articles

  • Newstead, A. (2009). Interpreting Anscombe's 'Intention' 32ff. (On agents' practical knowledge of intentions, actions, and deliberative reasons). Journal of Philosophical Research, 34, 157–176.
  • Newstead, A. (2009). Cantor on Infinity in Nature, Number, and the Divine Mind . American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly , 83(4), 533–553.
  • Newstead, A. (2008). Metaphysics and Mathematics Intertwined. Review of Contemporary Philosophy, 7, 35–55.
  • Newstead, A. and Franklin, J. (2008). On the Reality of the Continuum. Philosophy, 83(323), 117–128.
  • Newstead, A. (2007). A Review of Graham Oppy's 'Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy , 85(4), 679–682.
  • Newstead, A. (2006). Evans's Anti-Cartesian Argument. Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy, XIX(2), 214–228.

Conference papers

  • Richards, D., Jacobson, M. J., Porte, J., Taylor, C.E., Taylor, M., Newstead, A., & Hanna, N. . (2012). Evaluating the models, reasoning, and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey system. In Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012). Valencia, Spain, 2012.
  • Taylor, C.E., Jacobson, M.J., Newstead, A., Richards, D., and Taylor, M. (2011). Teaching ecology and science inquiry in virtual worlds . In Ecological Society of Australia Conference.
  • Gregory,B., Masters, Y., Bogdanovych, A., Jegasthan, J., Linegan, D.....Jacobson,M.J.,& Newstead, A. et.al. (2011). How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?. In Changing Demands, Changing Directions: Ascilite 2011. Hobart, Tasmania, 4-7 December 2011.
  • Jacobson, M. J., Richards, D., Kapur, M., Taylor, C., Hu, T., Wong, W.-Y., & Newstead, A. (2011). Collaborative virtual worlds and productive failure: Design research with multi-disciplinary pedagogical, technical and graphics, and learning research teams. In CSCL 2011 Proceedings (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) (pp. 1126–1129). Hong Kong, 5-8 July 2011.
  • Newstead, A. and Franklin, J . (2010). The Role of Visual Intuition in Mathematical Understanding. In Australasian Association of Philosophy: Special Stream on Diagrams in Logic and Mathematics. Palmerston North, New Zealand, 7-10 December 2009.
  • Newstead, A. and Franklin, J. (2010). The Epistemology of Geometry I: the Problem of Exactness. In J. Sutton, P.Menzies, L. Schier, W. Christensen ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 254–260). Sydney, September 2009.
  • Newstead, A. (2010). Mathematical Knowledge, Practical Knowledge. In Australasian Association of Philosophy. Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
  • Newstead, A. (2010). Georg Cantor (1845-1918) and the Controversy over Spinozist Pantheism. In CIS Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Culture, and Religion: Creation, Nature, and the Built Environment. Sydney, Australia, 1-2 October, 2010.
  • Newstead, A. and Franklin, J. (2009). On What Exists Mathematically. In The Metaphysics of Science. Melbourne, Australia, July 2-5, 2009.
  • Newstead, A. (2007). Idealism and Infinity: Epistemic Limitations in Our Knowledge of Infinite Mathematical Objects. In Australasian Association of Philosophy. Armidale, NSW, Australia, July 2007.
  • Newstead, A . (2005). Understanding Agents' Knowledge. In Australasian Association of Philosophy. Sydney, Australia, July 2005.
  • Newstead, A. (2003). Are Sortals Necessary for Demonstrative Reference to Objects?. In Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS/ASCS). Sydney, Australia, 11-14 July.
  • Newstead, A. (2002). Agency, Perception, and Self-Awareness. In European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France, 14-17, July 2002.
  • Newstead, A. (2001). A Minimal Theory of Self-Consciousness. In Towards a Science of Consciousness: Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Skovde, Sweden, 7-11 August, 2001.

Other

  • Newstead, A., Jacobson, M.J., Richards, D., Taylor, M., Porte, J. & Taylor, C.E. (2012). Collaborative Virtual Worlds for Enhanced Collective Scientific Understanding, presented at the Workshop on Distributed Cognition and Distributed Agency, Macquarie University, Sydney, March 16th.
  • Cameron, F., Dibley, B., and Newstead, A. (2011). Australians’ views on climate change policy and processes: quantitative and qualitative research, Parliament House, Canberra.
  • Newstead, A. (2006). Book Note: ‘Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans’ edited by J.L. Bermudez’ , Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 84, March, no. 1, 151.
  • Newstead, A. (2005). Wittgenstein on Saying, Showing, and Knowing, Crows' Nest Community Philosophical Forum, Sydney, Australia.
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