Rate My Professor Aurelia Armstrong

Dr. Armstrong has an extensive publication record, including co-editing Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) with chapters such as 'Editors' Introduction' (2019), 'Affective Therapy: Spinoza’s Approach to Self-Cultivation' in Ethics and Self-Cultivation (Routledge, 2018), and 'Spinoza's Ethics and Politics of Freedom: Active and Passive Power' in Spinoza's Authority (Bloomsbury, 2018). Notable journal articles include 'The Poetic Art of Making Philosophy Practical' (Australasian Philosophical Review, 2023), 'Spinoza: Thoughts on Hope in Our Political Present' (Contemporary Political Theory, 2020, co-authored), 'The Passions, Power, and Practical Philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche contra the Stoics' (Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2013), 'Natural and Unnatural Communities: Spinoza beyond Hobbes' (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009), and 'Autonomy and the Relational Individual: Spinoza and Feminism' (2009). She has secured University of Queensland research funding, including the Early Career Researcher Grant for 'Affective Therapy: Emotion, Freedom and Ethics in Spinoza' (2007-2008) and the New Staff Research Start-Up Fund for 'The Subject, Power and Freedom: Spinoza, Nietzsche, Foucault' (2003-2006). Dr. Armstrong teaches courses including PHIL2500 Philosophy and Art, PHIL2220 Kant and European Philosophy, PHIL2300 Phenomenology and Existentialism, PHIL2310 Continental Philosophy, PHIL2140 Social Ethics, PHIL2013 Rise of Modern Philosophy, PHIL3002 Philosophy Today, PHIL3620 Advanced European Philosophy, and PHIL3630 Advanced Moral and Political Philosophy. She has also contributed to public events, such as the panel discussion 'Patricia Piccinini, Curious Affection' (2018).